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Show THE ROUWAMSAM OUTRAGF. The particulars published yes'erday morning concerning the out mere committed com-mitted on the Jewi.-h population of Eoutirmia by (he so called Christians, though falling short in its horrors of the previously alleged massicre, is bad enough to make one sicken at the bare reflection. They were expelled .from the principality, plundered, and subjected to inhuman and brutal treatment, treat-ment, and Christen lorn is naturally horrified at the barbarous act. And Christendom Ins reason to be horrified at this and other similar outrages perpetrated per-petrated in the name of a religion sanctified by the blood of the Redeem-cr Redeem-cr and professing to follow His precepts. pre-cepts. These besotted Roumanians a-e not alone, nor the first, in this horrid hor-rid work. It is but a short time since the Jews in Russian Bessarabia suffered suf-fered from a somewhat similar inhumanity. inhu-manity. And yet these statements of drivings, plundering and murderiugs sound strangely like a recital of the scenes enacted not many years ago ou the borders of Illinois and Missouri, when the Mormons occupied a similar position and suffered similar barbarities, barbari-ties, because their faith was obnoxious to L'atus of border ruffians, who also styled themselves "ehri.-tians '." And this was in free, enlightened, liberty-1 liberty-1 v'mg America ! Yi'e hope while the indignation of the hour remains against the bigoted a;vl savage Roumanian christians, that a fev wholesome reflections may force themselves into the minds of individuals individu-als who, while expatiating loudly on liberty of conscience and declaiming against such outrages, manifest a disposition dis-position to wish !br the enactment of j 1st such scene- iu I'tah, to carry out the bloody-minded idea of compelling . turn auiPNuimnr .iji. m ,irTriiifiMn-i Kni ti tu . the Mormons to worship as they shall i dictate, believe t'.;e creed endorsed by them, or suffer pains and penalties for j daring to think as free men and women ! in a free country, and to worship the ' Almighty in the way they believe most acceptable. |