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Show "The Mormon people do not mean war. No, we guess not. Schuyler Register." "Oh, no ! The Mormons do not mean war." Of conrso they don't. They mean, and will make any reasonable, reason-able, and almost any unreasonable sacrifice, for peace. This they proved three years ago. But now, as senator sena-tor Morton plainly saw and frankly said then, on his visit to Utah, that pushed to extremities by Federal Fede-ral tyranny and tho lawless exercise exer-cise of power threatening their right to their lives and property1 that people peo-ple would resort to war in earnest. Wrhat senator Morton said in 1871 of the Mormons at tho opening of tho federal Pandora's box in the hands of chief justice McKean, the Omaha Herald Her-ald says now. No one doubts the power of tho government to destroy the Mormons by its armed forces, and least of all the Mormons. A selfish motive will lead them to bear much at tho hands of their enemies. But whenever, when-ever, if ever, the time shall come that, under unconstitutional enactments, packed and sectarian juries shall undertake un-dertake to oonviot leading Mormons of high crimes, and take their lives under such verdicts, there will be a kind of war in Utah of which this war-making people never saw an example. Omaha Herald. |