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Show THE PRES OS L i AH. Wu publish tliis uioniiug a couple of articles on Utah affairs, which commend com-mend themselves to fiiir-inindeJ men everywhere. 1'ho writers differ materially, ma-terially, on many points, from most of the people who live in thU Territory; just as men differ from each other iu other places iu matters of religion and polities. But they give utterance to i-cusib'.e, liberal thoughts, which we are irraiiiied to see arc inc-re-i-in where Utah is the topic of conversation. T.'.e New - 01 k Urrald al-o has ai ediiovial touching the same fuhject. wriur-n nstrnsihiy conoevnin? a correspondence corres-pondence from this city noticed by us a lew days ago. W'e ay ostensibly, for the correspondence is the merest apoloey for an article evidently thrown out u a i'eeler to test public sentiment, which the Herald probably imagines is somewhat changed, ft wishes the .Mormon question handled very carefully, care-fully, and hesitates and surmises, while it conjures up the crudest suppositions on which to hang its suggestions. Oue thing strikes us in the various efforts of tha Herald, when treating on Utah matters, as no less inconsistent than out of place. The idea of New York preaching morality to Utah is a ludicrous picture of the absurd. How pious and moral and pure, and all that, New York must have become, when its leading papers find so much time to flagellate Utah on her sins real and imaginary! The horrible things which are often quoted by the papers as having hav-ing occurred in Utah, are the offspring of mendacious minds that find delight or profit in calumniations and slanders. But the pictures of New York are drawn by itself. Would the New York Herald cleanse its own Augean stable first, attend to the little free-love matters mat-ters at its own doors, stir up with a long pole that Oneida community affair, clear its streets of the "soiled doves" that flaunt under the windows of its office, and present a model of purity and republican worth for Utah to pattern pat-tern after, before exciting itself into fits of pious rage about immorality at so long a distance from it. while there is so much room fir its zcaiou- labors at home? |