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Show liKOKUK AIi Pit K D TOW.NSliSU I Sl'EAltSj. The following, rccoivod by an old acquaintance of Mr. Townscnd, residing re-siding in this city has been courtcou?ly handed to us. It .-peaks for itself and, will be read with interest: M;l Dm Somebody probably the ehap who wrote sends me copies of lean look- , ing papers, calicd the Salt Luke Tribune and Salt Lake Reiiew, expressing ex-pressing dislike of my notions of things iu Utah. I cannot take even as muehas amusement, amuse-ment, however, in animadversions published by a set of chaps without a country, moved up temporarily into a community which is their jum ping-oft-place. iSoints of them have lived in every quarter of the world and never even knew i lie smell of their own hearth-stone lire. I ca:i aiVoni to be named an .Arab by s-ueh; lor an Arab has this ,;o-m1 quality: when you eat of hi? .-alt er he of yours, there is an end of treachery. Those Arabs of Salt Like cat salt an:oiii:t yon, and then stab you with slandersaxd munehausenisms. 1 see that such able eastern organs of opinion as the New Vork yatif:i, the JJoston i'.r-ni ,Salrlo:, the Kttitr.utciii. leading Republican paper of New Hampshire, the Hartford C'onn.) Enniiift W, the Hu'ra'o i ( ""win". and many others, edited by j ihinking people, have assumed my ' poi-iiion: thai the .m'.'d in I "tali is worth dying to av; the tluiliy and patient labor, the experience and ?-ys-icui there, the towing twr)s which humatii" the ' uc.-crt, and the large .- organized euterpri-:s which are a part ot our nation it gl-iy. 1 was mote im-piesed im-piesed with tiling, the tii- u:nphs of twenty -t vo jcai.-. id' sacrifice, ihail with : lie ini?er.;Me pcet:ic!j id a et of bran-new cmi--';:i-hs pi:L!i.-h-vi I'.ipers for limited circulation n V.-y.- iv.vn set, traii:ii;:r !aw to pur.i h eld olicnses, ytting lei irveat c-Tipl to anybody in ilieir motive- or habits, iicing aiKiut a p.nt of their cui;itry-n:en cui;itry-n:en to the rest, aud rcaliy (which to ujy judgment is mo;t deplorable; ro.:y-ie,; ro.:y-ie,; polygamy to a longer vita!irv. li" another Arab i;ues out to I i:ih t ) write up ih ti'.ua.ion lh:re, the rc-alion rc-alion will be irreuter than the contempt already growing stronser in ihe east lor the forward oiiieiais w::o wlii ro: l.t :!-'urp take its coui-n uor wait for the ati'.h '.:: St. The- letters in the 'i!it-:iiii ili ( ""ill.!. i' r' !irr- h "n copied in every eny of t!.i- cmucy will Le eoiltcted iu pinnphiet wiih ad- ditioti!-, aiiiiiidaiiou.-, '-le , to wbiif i away otir 'Arabian N iuhl-.' '1 he i peuplcVif tl;! c:i-t. Infill U Utideit:ind thai perhin '-i is dn.nn:d by the ring to p:i.-s mid.jr the di.-yraecfui yoke prepared bjr the Sooth. There, also, small gangi of plunderers judges amiin'l iliem ami l d almost imana-bly imana-bly by I'rc-ideiiLial app-iutces-urc-ory:iTUZ-V ibo.e mi.opu!ar Slates under the pnl. ne..-s of loyally and morula, 'fhe N'-nli, under a mi-ap-preh.:i!i'n, barLed up the carpet baggers, listened to the legends they wrote in v)rre.-po!ider:e-e and in their 'jv.-n ith.. i-aiil. oii.::n.-, and made hvht of iht: judicial ir. fraction and cros ruiiii.-s. Ridiuid! a part of the South is l j i his day g.ivru-d by in;irti il law aii'l Ku K lux; ppili'.able prodm:! ion to'-pe.l; I'.ulin. k and his like lly with ' miiilom of uVer-ir-.-u. d bond.-; llie 1 medieirn: is wor than the diM-a.-e; the phyMcians wl-k: quacks. So it appealed ap-pealed to mi; in I tali, that. We had -ent. a b. ir;!i of quacks to deal out law i here ami that the riior hope lo dis t'ranehi.e ou all and title your Terri ''?:,,,-JH,Mi,M!,:s ,:,,,! llaJ.k, South pron.,t;y r'-c-g-iiz-d the exttuc tiuii uf slavery it would have been spared uiany u:i evil and Would have Jioileued the years of the carpet b'g rule. Our Teiiiloiinl ..j.-tem is a vicious vi-cious carpet-bug syhtc in any way. It gives two vetoes to every net of I he people, imposes crude, raw and blat ant judges upon tliem, and, in the case of I'tab with h)H,i((U people, it is nothing muia than the rule of a Komau province adminiMtend r;oJ. by soldiers but ulien by the luwet class uf poliii-cians. poliii-cians. Jie wise in time! Take the initiative yo ut' .-.elves, f Seeomc a State! Lei:i!ate tvjlyganiy for tho future out of cxi-teneiJ bv i;ur own act and in good faith, and your revenge upon the whitVets expatriated unionist you will be to see them relieved of occupation I and iidtoiiety by the loss of all their capital, and that is, the general pnju- dice against your plural marriages, j Very truly, Geo. Ai.fitE!! TmvNsEND. Washington, Nov. 10. |