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Show PKOFKitSOn. CIIADBOUHNK ON "UTAH AM) TIIU MOKMONS." I'roiesior Chadbournc who spent a considerable portion of last summer in this Territory, and who is well known in mining and other circles, has been lecturing on Utah affairs in Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. Wc clip the following, concerning con-cerning what ho says, from tho Iloosac Valley News, published in North Adams, Mass. : Only a small audience gathered at the M. K. church last Friday evening to hear llie Icclurc upon"Utah and the Mormons." Wc shall exercise all the charily possible, and suppose the inclemency of the weather was the ! principal cause that prevented our citizens from turning out to hear an able lecture to the interests of a most commendable cause. The lecturer was very interesting, giving to his hearers a new view of this strange people, nnd j one quite different from that generally I presented. He believed them to be I the best abused people in the world. They had been persecuted and driven from poiot to point till at length they found rest in Salt Lake valley. Their religious customs and views, though absurd and ludicrous aa viewed from an outside standpoint, he I believed wero sincerely cnicrlainrd . by "th'3 saints' They are the most sober and industrious people in ! tho world, and deserve much credit for I the immense work they have corjsum-'. corjsum-'. mated, in rendering that vast bleak j and barren desert, in the short space I of twenty-four years, one of the most beautiful and perfectly cultivated regions re-gions in this or any other country; and all by their untiring industry and indomitable in-domitable perseverance. The speaker was not an advocate of polygamy; it I was & sin and a curse, and he hoped and believed he should see it done away wilh. He had seen the Mormons . on their farms, in their stores, banks : and churches; had done business with , them; and believed that the only thing that could bo said against them was that they indulged in a plurality of wives. He also gave a fine description descrip-tion of the country, over which he had travelled eight different limes, speaking speak-ing io glowing terms of its grandeur, its extensive mineral wealth, and ihe varied natural features which tended to make the region one of universal interest. |