Show THE MOEiONCEUSADE r I Yiewsof an Old Resident II 1 COMMUNICATED I From a recent remark from one of the commissioners appointed it appears that the pretended Liberal J party of Utah had adopted that old I war cry of Protestant vs Catholic a cry that originated in the midst of the bitter religious animosity and persecutions about the time Of Henry VIII of pious memory and his daughters the sanguinary Mary and illustrious Queen Bess The resurrection of this almost obsolete and Antiquated religious war cry by the selfstyled Liberal party is but the venomous expression of vindictiveness vindict-iveness and chagrin of a very small minority against a very large majority ma-jority and is but a flimsy covering to hide the treasonable designs of the leaders of that party that deserve de-serve only the name of a clique of unprincipled conspirators for since the arrival of the depraved and desperate des-perate camp followers of that famous fam-ous Buchanan army of 1858 this clique of conspirators have pursued an undeviating course of most infamous in-famous corruption and low intrigue that would be a disgrace to any political party of the age that has any claim to respectibility and they have served as supple and willing tools T am iat drbut ambitious political leaders who like straws to the drowning man have hoped to save themselves from utter political fcankruptcyhave invariably reached out to grasp at Mormon capital in hopes of a crusfto save them from starvation This religious war cry of church and state when raised either in Europe or America has ever indicated a bitter contest in process Detween the two great religious re-ligious bodies of Christendom and was always designed to act upon the minds of the ignorant of either party with rancor and the worst passions pas-sions of bigotry and superstition And this aforesaid clique ha adopted this mode of appeal to the religious frenzy of the country to cover its most unhallowed course against the welfare and peace of many thousands of native born American citizens dwelling in Utah This cruel league and mendaeious clique are in every sense the same as the murderous border ruffian mobs of Missouri and Illinois They prowl around Utah sending forth their foul abuse and vile slanders slan-ders close up every possible avenue by which the great public could get at the truth and would now if they could inveigle the governor of Utah topr issue another exterminating order against the Mormons like that of the infamous Boggs of Missouri Mis-souri The scene is somewhat changed however since then At j that time there were some 15000 in cl he several counties of Missouri all of whom were native born white American citizens though Mormons Mor-mons Now there are more than 100ObO American citizens in Utah so the liberal mob of Utah has to pursue a more cautious and much more assassinlike course against the people ot Utah and pull the underground wires from Washington Washing-ton with a little more care and circumspection cir-cumspection But with them the hopedfor result is the same and that is that they may glut their brutish souls with the sight of another an-other St Bartholomew on American soil The banner borne aloft by this clique in former crusades has ever been emblazoned in glaring capitals Mormon Rebellion Mountain Meadow Massacre Danite Bands Dark and Mysterious Myste-rious Drillings of Insurgent Bauds Disloyalty and Treason etc Here let us respectfully inquire of this Liberal and patriotic party why in the present crusade have you so suddenly dropped from your veracious programme of the past those rare and precious relics of Mormon iniquity It is because they have become stale throughout I Christendom V Not altogether from i that fact but for the wellknown I fact thpt your wholesale lies I and slanders were exploded and I your duplicity exposed by thousands of intelligent and honorable visitors and travelers who have looked upon with admiring eyes a grand scenery of earnest industry good order morality arid uprightness of this much slandered community a scene unsurpassed in all the world and that view totally annihilated all the anticipated effect of your vile slang upon the public minds The question then was what new device of his satanic majesty can we invoke in-voke to aid us in this last desperate crusade of extermination All our former assaults have proved a failure fail-ure let us change our card and stir up the bitterness and animosity of the religious bigotry and superstition supersti-tion of the country against the Mor mons Let the old Catholic and Protestant war cry go forth to the country The Catholics were in I majority in France on St Barthelo mew day the Protestants Tlere in I the majority in the patriotic Old Bay State when the mob burned the nunnery in Charlestown Times are changed Let these patriotic Liberals of Utah beware lest their venimus animosity against Mormons Mor-mons stir up by thefcold religious war cry the dormant but ever existant antagonisms and animosities between these two great leligious bodies of Christendom and ifjresulting in anarchy and revolution over our glorious Union ould not the leaders of this vile clique bear the brand of traitors to our country and laws It must be confessed that this clique haveplayed their cards in some respects re-spects with exceeding ingenuity for in th eir attacks upon the Mormons they have partially succeeded in 1 shattering our glorious heavenborn Constitution particularly that portion por-tion of it relating to the freedom of conscience and right to worship God which was inserted by its noble framers especially as a protection of the weaker religious bodies against the oppressive powers of the stronger At the first organizatiti of this grand democratic republic it was A very doubtful question whether he Catholics would outnumber out-number the Protestants or the Pro testauts outnumber the Catholics So the wisest men of the age both Catholic and Protestant remembering remember-ing the former dogmatic zeal of both parties with prophetic foresight determined I de-termined to introduce into the sacred Constitution of our country for the benefit and protection of their posterity a special clause to protect the rights of all religious societies of whatever name they might be called Undoubtedly expected that sacred charter obtained ob-tained through the blood of our revolutionary fathers would ever be revered and cherished by all future fu-ture generations they could not believe be-lieve that that sacred instrument of human rights would ever witness the degeneracy of their children chil-dren so far that they would ever permit either religious cr political demagogues to attempt to undermine and destroy it It was never dreamed that there could bean be-an American so insane as to attempt it Yet it is remarkable and humiliating humil-iating te every one in this enlight ened age who has one spark ot patriotism burning in his bosom to observe in this crusade against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints that this same special clause has been the main object of attack and that even the chief magistrate of this great republic its noble and hfghminded Senators and Representatives and secretaries secre-taries of State have permitted their heaviest batteres to be planted I aga nst this otherwise impregnable barrier he Constitution to make a breach through that special clause to admit greedy political and pious adventurers to get access to and rob and exterminate the Mormons j and still more remarkable and deplorable de-plorable indeed it is to see the supreme judicial bench bow obsequiously obse-quiously before theficticious evanescent evan-escent popular prejudice of the hour When the decision was passed upon the Reynolds case of was virtually an endorsement it tie acts of Congress in violation of the Con jtilutionas is very apparent in the law of 1882 and the Edmunds bill 1SS2 vioating not ouly Sec 1st of amendments Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment estab-lishment of religion nor prohibiting prohibit-ing the free exercise thereof but the clause in See 0 of the Consti sution No bill of attainder or rx post facto law shall be passed j and last but not least is the present shameful and open violation in Utah of Art 6 tButno religious test shall everbe required etc se It was vitally necessary to the success of the conspiracy that the Supreme Court ofthe United States should unbend from its dignity t o make these Congressional violations to appear to the heedless public at least plausible j but the covering is too thin to deceive the sound reflecting reflect-ing mind either in Europe or America Ame-rica It is thus however they have widened the breach in the Constitution Constitu-tion made by Congress so that now any piratical craft that choose may pass > freely through to rob and if possible exterminate the Mormons I without fear of molestation from the strong arm of the general government govern-ment But how long may it be before for the black flagged crafts will appear ap-pear in other than Mormon waters Perhaps it may be in Catholic perhaps per-haps in Methodist or in Baptist or Swedenfcorgian or Campbellites Who knows Who can tell But notwithstanding these dark clouds may hang a dismally around the horizon we can tell that God reigns and Zion shall arise and shine and Gentiles will yet come to her light and even kings to the brightness of her rising and who can prevent it if God reigns F |