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Show SEW3IJX Ttrmi CONSISTENCY. Salt Lake City, August 18, 1S70. Editor Halt Lake Herald: The liberality of the Mormons is proverbial. pro-verbial. Indeed, from the high moral sphere we occupy, we can afford to be liberal, and that we are is patent from the l'act that any man of good moral character is permitted to address our public assemblies. Dr. Newman, surcharged sur-charged with the parliamentary spirit of debate, losing sight of the greatest of ail Christian principles, charity, took undue and unwarrantable advantage of our liberalism to broadly, u'.ichristianly, ungentlemanly and unjustly in.-ult a whole community, and outrage their ho.-pitality, who were deprived of the power to resent it by a rule of the debate. de-bate. Sir, from that ten thousand intelligent in-telligent and honorable men and women one shout of disapprobation should have thundered through the dome of that great temple, and have silenced the Doctor for ever. But, perhaps, the quiet view taken by that vast assembly as-sembly was, titter all, the most rational. " S'.-undiug bia.-s and a tinkling c tubal" tu-bal" was the prcvailim: sentiment as the debater sat down and roiled up hi.-prepare hi.-prepare 1 harangue. "A fool is known by his folly ;" "A prudent man f'ore.-eeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pa-s on and are punished ;" "Pride goeth before a fall, and a haughty spirit before be-fore destruction !" We can still afford to be liberal. Declaration is not argu incut; opinion is not gospel. OXK OK Til K MANV. |
