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Show KTCHTS CF THE PEOTLF. U.-.e lho people any rights thai Uie carpU-bacgors aro bound to respect re-spect ' This is a grave question, and one that most soouei or later be an-bwcred. an-bwcred. It has been but a short time since, under an cxht.-fi- opinion uttered utter-ed by the officers ecu t ruling the military- aim of the- government, at the instigation of a ring of carpet-luggers, a squad of United States troops was sent into Salt Lake City and by force of arms battered down the prison grates and liberated a man who was tinder arrest by tho civil authorities of the city for a vivlewt assault upon a peaceable citizen, .zhjc the man under arrest was a so'dier : while at other cities in the West, although the same general order prevails, soldiers are arrested and imprisoned with impunity im-punity when found guilty of similar offenses against eity ordinances. And now we have the recoid-.U facts that during the present w.ok several members of the police force ol the city were arretted bv the L. 5. Marh.d .U1a his deputies became they wore cngaSCvl in their dutv ot 1 L-ying to preserve ihc P2ace of"the ' city; and the Mor 01 the citv ao been arrea'.cd by the same pani i and held m bonds for hj app-vraio i before a Vuitod Suies Commiasioutr : cn a charge of resisting a L". S. oilicer' j when it appeal's that he wa aideav. oring to quell . not. is w.s hi? svon duty! 1 It now seems. Ciat so fur as ear pet-. baggers can prevail we are to bo en-! tirciy under their control and in- fluence, and in their power. W"e cccriad a law-abiding spirit or. the part of the people, but while doing to, urgs upon all whose righld and hberues are ascailed by these fellows, 1 to avail themselves of tiie lirst oppor- tunity that may evcur to test the law., '. i which wo believe to be illegal: under which carpet-bag;,- s-,ek to rile and r.v.n the p-yc n;-1-!., i |