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Show The "King"! ChiA-iun- invariably append to their prognostications of the terrible times that will follow the admission ad-mission of the State of Deseret, and that after that event no Gentile can possibly live here, an expression of their individual, sublimely heroic determination de-termination to remain in Utah eveo after it becomes a State. This heroism ia of the kind that welcomes martyrdom, martyr-dom, or would be if it were not bogus and cheap as wind. Say these spout-ers: spout-ers: "We can't remain here if the Territory Ter-ritory becomes a State; our property will be confiscated; we will 1)3 butchered, butch-ered, hari-karid, to make a Mormon holiday; and our blood will run in rivulets riv-ulets down these streets and incarnadine incarna-dine the river Jordan ! ! As sure as the Eun riea and sets, these dire disasters disas-ters will follow admission; but ladies and gentlemen, notwithstanding that this is manifest and early destiny I intend in-tend to remain. I know that I will be decapitated, drawn and quartered, my flesh be made into soft soap (no use for lye in tho manufacture) and my skeleton skele-ton be hung up among the curiosities in the Mormon museum; but I am ready and anxious to bo thus made a sacrifice for the sako of principle." And thus these mock heroic actors ap peal in silent, tragic attitude, to the audience to say n in all ol their born days they oversaw, or expect to ecc, or ever heard of such samples of unselfish un-selfish martyrs to principle. It is astonishing as-tonishing that men of sense will attempt at-tempt to make an audience of Ameri-, can citizens believe such nonsense 1 nonsense that they do not believe themselves them-selves and it is not creditable to their, ingenuity that they cannot invent more rational speculations with which to puff themselves into notoriety. I |