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Show A DESPICABLE SLANDERER. It was matlor for nuri-rim during the Franco-German war, to j.uoplc who did no t uuderntaoJ the utter uuro liability lia-bility of rouio new.HjiUjer ojnesporid-entd, ojnesporid-entd, wiiy different reports i'rom tlio same baulu-tielti whould so directly contradict each other. Juat now there. in an excellent opportunity i-r people in thU region to understand how and why it wad, and that it was oft on the result of what in plain mountain language lan-guage !a called downright lying. The Nuw Vork Utmld of the tith contains a double-leaded column uud u half, telegraph bed I'rom thU city, with regard to tho Fourth, whiuh w ulso published by other papers of the Associated Asso-ciated Vitta in New York. c could not find space to notice it yu.-teiday morning, but rauuot pass it longer in silence. It is true, the.puduu who could telegraph to leading caatcrn pa-pern pa-pern (Oieh bare-faced and malicious falsehoods ia unworthy tho notice of any honedt, honorable man ; but the journals iu whioh he finds spaco should be corrected. This contemptible slanderer starts out by saying that General Wells, of tho Nauvoo Legion, had ordered out his troops in contravention of acting" Govoruor Black's orders. In this sentence, sen-tence, short as it is, are thieo falsehoods false-hoods two direct and one by implication. impli-cation. No troops were ordered out iu contravention ot acriug-Governor Black's order, for tlio live companies of militia were called lor days belbro Black's proclamation like tho silly mandate of a juvenile tyraui was issued. is-sued. Tho militia are uot Gcuoral Wells' troops; they arc United States militia of the Territory of Utah, of which D. II. Wells in tho lawful Liouton-ant Liouton-ant General, having been elected to his office by vote in conformity with law. The implication is that tho whole militia were ordered out, which ia as glaring a falsehood as any of the others, five companies only being called for. When this telegraphist can compress so much that is grossly untrue into ono of his opening sentences, what may be looked for in a column and a half? General Wells is represented as acting in violation viola-tion of tho laws in issuing bis order. What laws? Where is tho cunning casuiBt who can point to them? Or has a Territory sunk so low in tho depths of serfdom, that the illegal and unconstitutional mandate of any small-pattorned small-pattorned acting-Governor, or Governor, Gov-ernor, made so by the graco of a President Pres-ident and the importunities of politiciansmost politi-ciansmost likely to get rid of him becomes law to it? If this be republican republi-can government in the Territories, then tho sooner tho curtain is raised and the petty, despotic drama is fairly produced, the better, for it is time tho prologuo wero over. Shaffer's proclamation was both illegal and un-1 constitutional. We said so while he I lived; wo have said so since he passed to the grave; and wo tell his then legal le-gal advisors that they are to-day the laughing stock of every jurist in the United StateB who is acquainted with the facts. There is only one thing in their favor like some of our judges, they have no legal reputation at stake, never having bad the article to lose. This despicable tool of an unscrupulous unscru-pulous and dishonest "ring," then draws upon hia imagination lor the details of an interview at which only gentlemen wero present, and where he, consequently, would not have been permitted. Being accommodated accom-modated with an easy-going memory he evidently has failed to remember what ho heard at Becond hand, and Ties to supply the dehciency in the interest in-terest of his mastera of the '"ring." There was no "rebellion," as there was no "backing-down." The militia wero ordered out to celebrate the National Anniversary and they came. As the acting-Governor "backed-down" and concluded to make no arrests on that day generous man so to avoid the appearance of trouble the militia marched without their arms; but they marched in their alloted places eicept ono company, whose commander failed to appear in time, though the men were on the ground. The artillery were out and fired their salutes. W hy were they not arrested ? The whole thing is worse than a farce; it is playing with power; boys aping the parts of men; fools claiming to be sages; contemptible nobodies essaying the role of the fox aimin? to1 become large as an ox; and these men represent a great Government like that of the United States, and have to employ a miserable, contemptible apology apol-ogy for a journalist to telegraph such infamous stuff east to bolster up their imaginary reputations? This same individual aunounccs that there were between two and three thousand miners ready to aid in a tight against the Mormon?; and that Marshal Mar-shal Patrick had a large number of deputies ready. If the deputies were liko the notable hundred and odd, they weren't likely to hurt anybody but themselves, as we never heard of more than half a dozen of that crowd who would not have shut their eyes when cocking their own pistols and 6ed scared at the sound. But in the name of the miners thus belied and slandered, we fling back to New York the most positive and emphatic denial of this that could be given. Thrce-iburtbs Thrce-iburtbs of the miners in town that day; oared nothing about the difficulty and. would in no way have interfered. ThU fellow's thrco thousand miners eager for a fight dwindles down ia hu ' .'losing sentences to two thousand persons per-sons in the 'Insumte," a building that will scarcely seat one thousand, ! ! and where there were, by actual couat, four hundred men and a number of! ladies! We aiuio.it regret Laving devuttd 6" t much space to this telegraphic report, even though it did appear in the lead-; iug New York paper.. Much asn: certain cWs of reader delight in puiv-fabricationa puiv-fabricationa aain.-t the Mormoni. after a while the public, finding out their falsity, became di-:guslcd with 'them, and the dishone-t correspondent j haa to go eUewbere for material. So I will it be here and thii time. Mark it. |