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Show Give Us a Rast Eiiiors Herald: Is there no way to induce the TVi-bum TVi-bum to "give us a rest?" I came to Utah to remain. While here this Mountain Meadow business comes up. All right! I believe in punishing crime in a legal way, wherever I may happen to be. If old Lee, or any one else Las been guilty ot murder, or B accessory to crime, whether before or alter the fact, in the the uaiuo of Gvxi, say I, hang him or them up as high as Hum mi, or punish th-rin as ihe law direct! But wny prejudge? Now, when I arrived in saii Late I naked my friends to recommend a paper. The Tribune, tluy said, would probably suit. Well, Mr. Editor, 1 1 uud the T xbane does not auit. j I pick up the Ti tbune in ttie news, 1 find a garbled account ot the Lee trial. The Tribuw gives us every word of tne prosecution and a " tix-;d up " letter wuen the evidence for the defence is being taken. Weil, said I, at first, allow tuey are craz? or prcjuoicLd, or I know not want, ou lhi uiHssAcre qimtton; irhapjt the I equilibrium is preserved ou other 1 qutp lions. But no. I fiud couLuil dings at southern people atal soutnem ittl.iirs. Where is there a puper in the length or breadth of this Uniltd Stau-8, north, south, east or west, that would publish the ungenerous the scurrilous article agaiu&t a dead 1 hero, that appeared in the Tribune,' against General John C. Brecken-ridge, Brecken-ridge, alter bis death? Vice President1 Wilson is a radical, dyed in the wool. And yet, vice-President Wilson thought it not too much to travel many mil' s out of his way to bear testimony to ihe worth of ttie con fed that the war rudely toM from his. For the Tribune il was left to throw slurs against one ot the best and greaU'et men confederate though ho was hat America has ever produced. pro-duced. But what I want is a rtst uii the "Mormon" questuio. If the law rinds a 'Moriiiou" leader deserving death, hang bim, say I! But uniii the law does so find, again I say, treat him just as we would any other man who is not proven guilty, and until sucb conviction is h.ui we beseech lid-Trtbune lid-Trtbune to "give us a rtt" oa ihui question, aud give us a little more general news. For expressing such sentiments :.(-.these :.(-.these to a lew ol my friend 1 liau. Mr. Editor, that I am a Jack Mokmon. . |