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Show A RKPKATEU LIBKL. For c:iu;3 best kuou to r.he New York Herald hiis. fur :Oui( time, uiaiiifustcJ a strong atiimositj agninst the people of T 'tali. It ha-devoted ha-devoted considerable space to lliis Tci ritory, ami liasli.tt-ily referred to ii in terms that would lead one to pun ' pose the members of its editorial stai who at picsetit treat on affairs herr were but little acquainted with the pa.' bi.-toiy of Utah, and knew nothing of current matters except from the uicr-yre uicr-yre information conveyed in distorted telegrams and partisan statements froa unscrupulous pens. Its la-t effort in this direction is an a tiele in the issue of the 2nd inst., ir which it assumes the position that tin laws of Congress were allowed to re miin as dead letters on the statute b) 'ks, until the advent into this Terri-t Terri-t .ry of that combination common!) known as the Colfax carpet-baggers. Wc do not accuse the Herald of originality in the assertion; it is only echoing the slander sent forth from Utah by the men most interested in its successful reception by the nation. But we beg to inform the Herald tha' it repeats and perpetuates a libel 01 brave and good men, insults the liviuj a id outrages the memory of the dead ! Is there a man of the crew of light-feathered light-feathered whiffets and popinj aye, whom accident has placed in office here, and who compose the "ring," that dare raise the name of statesmen like Senator Sena-tor Doty and Senator Durkee.who had served their country well in the halls where the high legislative chamber of the nation meets, and charge them individual in-dividual y with having allowed "the laws of Congress to remain as dead letters let-ters on the statute books?" The implication im-plication conveyed in the Herald1 s assertion is an insult to the memory of these two great and good men, who filled the Executive chair of this Territory Terri-tory until their political career closed with their lives. They were not Mormons, Mor-mons, nor Mormon sympathizers ; but they were statesmen and not political demagogues. Or who would accuse Alfred Cumuiing of lacking the nerve, or the will, to execute the laws as he understood them? When we come to the judiciary, we hive had men here the peers in leal r-jsearch, in judicial acumen, in soundness sound-ness of judgment, in scholarship, in experience, and in bitter prejudice against the Mormons, of any now connected con-nected with the Federal judiciary in this Territory ; men whose rulings aud decisions on the bench were diametrically diamet-rically opposite, on the same points, to those being given by the present judge?. Nay, we sat and listened to one of these judges a Chief Justice, and that man, John Titus on the bench, presiding in the 3rd District Court, express his regret that he could not decide differently, his prejudice preju-dice was so strong; but he held himself him-self bound by the law and his oath, and bis sterling honesty overcame hL, bitter prejudice. We can combat such a man, contend with his prejudices; preju-dices; but we cannot despise him his honesty commands respect, it presents pre-sents the strange admixture of lofty principles with narrow-minded and contracted ideas. We might cite Chief Justice Read, Judge Shaver. Judge Sinclair and other men who have held prominent positions on the bench of this Territory, who righteously right-eously administered the law as they understood it, and who were of as high , reputation in legal circles as the present pres-ent Judiciary, some of whom, previous to their elevation to the bench, were rather weak specimens of the genus attorney, not overloaded withcas23. , Of the present Chief Justice we know nothing, except by report and his rul- ings here; and however much credit we may give him for honestly rendering render-ing the law according to his interpretation interpreta-tion of it, we do not think his judgment is entitled to any more reverence than that of men in every way his equals who have preceded him on the same bench. We will recall to the Herald another little bit of history. There was once a Judge here who was highly lauded by the New York Herald, and other prominent papers. He, too, like some of the "ring" carpetbaggers carpet-baggers now here, used to write back to the east and teli of the awful doings in Utah, until the Government, Gov-ernment, believing hisletters, equipped an army and Bent it forward to straighten out the matters which this Judge represented as crooked. That Judge's name was I'rummoml. When 'lovernor Cummin?, whom the army was sent to su-l".in, arrived here personally, per-sonally, leating the troops behind, he ybtained evidence, and forwarded it to W adiington, which proved that Drum-ujotid Drum-ujotid was a notorious liar, who.io barefaced bare-faced adulterous conduct made him a , disgrace to humanity. Yet he, a con victed liar, an adulterer and a public cheat, viler than an immoral cess pool, was of those whose pniisew the Herald and other papers then sang, even as they now Hnz Ihn praises of'thoCnllux carpot-bage:. With this not yet lead in the memory of the public, what reliance can they place in the state meuts of the New York Herald when it treats of Utah affairs and Federal officials in th; Territory? If the same nen were actively occupying editorial ;haiio on the Herald now that occu oied them then, they surely would not (o stultify themselves as to speak ol :he laws of Congress having been allowed al-lowed "to remain as dead letters on the tatute books" up till within a few irief months ago. We presume the Herald execrates the name of Ilium-uond Ilium-uond as we do; but we beg it not tc ..gain defame the great dead, andinsuil honorable men still living, by a repetition repeti-tion of this libel, to which it has given oublicity for the purpose of lauding a ew miserable tricksters, whom the fates have permitted to be inflicted a curse on a quiet people and a prosperous pros-perous Territory. |
