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Show THE MORMONS AND THE "HERALD." From nearly every ptr.on we meet, who has recently visited .Salt Like, as-turances as-turances come to us of our pDpularity with the Mormon people. We receive assurances, less frequently to be sure, of our corresponding unpopularity with the Gontile portion of that community. And all because, not having the fear of the Colfax missionaries and peculating pecula-ting swash-bucklers, nor of the empty clamor, which is their chief support, before our eyes, we have dared, while denouncing the Mormon Hide and System, to do justice to the merit and work of t'.iat peculiar people. With Mormon complimciits to. and a ceriain order of Gentile hatred of, our paper, we feel equally complimented, compliment-ed, and we are surprised to notice how small a kindness moves that much persecuted and much more slandered people to gratitude to those who refuse re-fuse to join in the sen.-eiess and useless means that are reported to, to cru.sh and destroy them in their .-hosen homes. The MonjMii people owe us nothing hut the reciprocal g'od will which wu have always had, and have n jver (ailed to express, for them. We would, if we could, Tcrsuade them to reform their leii'jitius .-y.-tom, which v.v have, on more thtu one ceea.-doii, s.o Ireely critieked : hut in defense of their guaranteed guar-anteed right to enjoy i:, and agains.t j icrything like force to prevent it, thi.- j paper will speak its corivielioiM in the i future as it hu.- done in the p.i-t. Omaha Herald. Dr. Miller and the Omaha Ikrnld are popular with the Mormon people, because of the independence displayed in the columns of that paper, and the fact that its editor is willing that they should live and enjoy the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed to all by the Constitution and laws of the TJjjked States. As the advocacy of the extension of this privilege to Mormons by papers not of their own faith is rather unusual, they feel grateful. |
