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Show An Epistle from Brlfiham Young. While tho Herald has been, sending ita commissioners to Africa and to Cuba, and has its representatives in every civilized nation of. the earth, seeking to gather up the facts of cur-. cur-. rent daily history, it has at no time been indiffierent to passing events at , home, acd where energy and bravery have been called for it has had willing messengers ready at a moment's notice . to go whither duty called. The deep prejudices existing in Utah between the Gentile and the Mormon have rendered it difficult to receive from tbat Territory at any time a perfectly unbiassed report from either side in the controversy that has so long continued con-tinued to threaten the peaco of the people and the stability of its best commercial interests. With a realizing sense of our obligations, obli-gations, as an independent journal to spare no effort or expense in placing before the world the facts of all controversies con-troversies that interest our people, we thought it Due lair ana just come Mormon prophet that he should be heard at this time, when thero is so muoh rumored and so little understood about his purposes and designs that seem calculated to disturb tho commercial com-mercial relations of thu Mormon people peo-ple with the rest of tho world. We offered to ex governor Young tho use of our columns to explain. Ho has done bo in his own way and 6tylo, and we give his dispatch verbatim, it is not fitting that we should at the present moment comment at any length upon his Bentiments and the judgment judg-ment that he passes upon bis own labors and the purposes of his life, but we may properly enough suggest that if the same liberality of sentiment expressed expres-sed in this epistleero borne out in the sermons in the Tabernacle and in tho Mormon press at Salt Lake city there would be little foundation for quarrel between the Saints and the sinners. At tho ripe old age of seventy-two we oan well imagine his desire for peaco, and we would be glad, indeed, that the world-wide publicity whioh the Herald cives to the utterances of the Mormon Prophet this morning rould be the ushering in of the millennium in Utah. We are, however, given to somo cyni-oism cyni-oism in face of Bngham's magnificent prospectus of his own and his Saints' little commercial games. He is prophetic pro-phetic in his dispatch, probably the tirst instance of prophesying by telegraph tele-graph on record. Time alone tests these things. N. Y. Herald. |
