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Show A Sl'UlJtSTIOX. tfii.T Lake City, Aug. 14, '79. i:for Herat :l: AnUiier word co;ic-?rnir.g the Ll. rtj';rtL-1 action of tho Waabicgloi cabinet ia regard lo tt:e Mormons That bod afp.renily id deaircus o jupprtvfcirg tlTe migration of Mormons (rem the old world to the United ritt"Q, ur.d ia rcprteentcd aa proposing propos-ing lo do it cn the ground that every ? Mormon t migrant wao comes to dab dote to with the express intcn-. intcn-. lion of taking moie than one wile. ! The Lultictsd of tbcte premises b notorious, because everybody who knows anything about it kcowu thai cvtry Mormon dues not come here with such express intention, and thai it any Mormons do, the number iB exceedingly lew, so few ibt to found upuu tue intention of that few i lifcueral rule of action prohibiting all Mormon emigration trom tbeold world -vould be no more -ouud statesmanship than it would be tu.cn to prohibit a!i emigration to the United Sititea because be-cause some of the emigrnutd entertained enter-tained criminal inientioasf. But the cabinet c.in scarcely intecd thut one peiaon ohould suiler for the offense of mother, much leis that 50D should ufler equally with another aud !or his oflenoe, and tliMt, loo, without inai or proof iliac the- oue is en blender, aa all.-gcd, Such procedure wouid bs truly extraordmury for the cabinet of this gron republic lo be caught iu pureuiug. It the cabinet is determined to persecute per-secute the Mormons by suppressing Mormon immigration, it would be shrewder to do it on more substantial ground, aud I will proceed to ahoiv now. I do not prejumu that ti Mormon Mor-mon exists who is not a praying man, in greater or less degrae. It miy o' taken fov granted that every Mormon in good standing is a praying man, that is, lie oflers prayers to the Deity. Now let congress pass a law making praying to Clod 8 crime, punishable with fine and imprisonment to begin with. There iB an ancient precedent in this line, but perhaps toe cabinet is not awaro of it, so I will make the reference. In the powerful kingdom of Babylon, Baby-lon, there was a man named Daniel. He was Ibo first of three presidents over one hundred and twenty princeB that ruled in that kingdom, under the authority of Darius the Median. "Tnis Daniel was preferred above the other presidents and the princes because be-cause an excellent spirit was in him." All these princes and the other presidents presi-dents became envious of Daniel and sought occasion against him, "but they could find none occasion nor fault; JoraBOiuch a3 bo was faithful, neither was there anv error or fault found in him." What was to be done? These conspiring presidents and prineea feaid to each other, "wo shall not find any occutiion againet this Diiniel, except we find it against him concerning tho law of his God." Ho they craftily went to the king, Darius, flatteringly told him to live for ever, (ho lived too long for them, iio.Tever,) and besought bim to "es-t-bliah a royal statute, aud to make a firm decreo that whoever shall ask a petition ol any God or man for thirty days, savo of thee, O king, be shall be cast into the den of lions.'. Being requested by so many of his ohiet advisors, ad-visors, Darius unsuspectingly sigised the decree, and tho wily conspirators forthwith procured proof of Daniel's praying to God. Then they sought tho king and asked him if be had uot ' signed such and euch a decree against: prayer. He said he had, "according to tho law of theMedes and Persians, which alterc-lh not." Then said they "That Daniel regardcth not thee, O kiug, nor the decree that thou bast signed, but maketh bis petition threo times a day," just as he bad been accustomed to do beforo the decreo was sigued. The king did not kuow the infernal subtlety of his princely advisers before, but now it came home to him with ail the vividness nnd piercing , sharpnees of a new revelation. Ho was sorely vexed with himself for his lack ol sagacity in signing the decree, and, knowing the integrity and worth of Daniol, sought to save him. But the merciiees conspirators prevented it. They Baid to the king, "Kuow, O king, tnat the law ol the Medea and Persiuuu is, that no decree nor statute which the king established may be changed." The king saw that ho waB caught in a trap aa well as Daniel, from which there was no present escape, indeed no escape at all. The decreo could not be denied nor recalled. So Daniel was thrown into the den of Hons. For tho special information ol the cabinet 1 may say that the entire account of tbis interest ing and instructive epiBcde m-y be : found iu the Bible, sixth chapter of the book of Daniel. Tho cabinet would do well to read the chapter carefully, it is as attractive, entor-tainiug, entor-tainiug, and usoful as the latest novel, and much shorter and niuro factual Now this might prove a capital precedent for 'the cabiuct iu itu action towards the Mormons. It a law was made against prayer, the cabinet could with it catch al! Mormcud coming com-ing to this country by prohibiting their landing lur the reason that they were coming with the express intention of breaking the law, tho law against prayer. For every Mormon does conic to Utah with the express iutention cf praying, and every Mormon who come? hero will pmy, aud he has uced to rloit, but Ecarcely any Mormons, Mor-mons, if any at all, come to Utah with the express intention of becoming becom-ing polygamiats. Tho prayer (est is tho thing, thou, for the admiuialrA-tiou admiuialrA-tiou to u?o towards Mormon emigrants. emi-grants. Ti.at would drive them into a close corner, it would cast them " mto tho lions' den, it would put them . ,vUam Hinv mukl not Lclo themselves. every ono of them who wan of any account. There is ono thing, however, which might result from such a policy. The peuplo of tho old world might come to tho conclusion that, instead of the United States being, as it has loudly i professed to be, a land of liberty, the land of liberty par excellence, it ia ( merely a great Hasbng, of immense pretensions, aud inflated lo extreme tension, but suddenly and disastrously and ignomiuiously collapsing at the prick of a pin. Emigrants from the old world w'U bo likciy to feel in clined to wait awnne, ana sen now the peoplo of this ureal republic Gght out and definitely determine this very important question. By tho by. another happy thought. Is it pojsible that this anli-constitu-tional anti-Mormon, anti-liberal, onii-Christian, unti-n-lifiioua cabinet circular and proposition is put forth merely as ft political partiznn teUer, to ascertain whether it would be likely to make ft sound enoutb p.at-i form phnk for tho republics parly logo before tho country ou in the) forthcoming presidential election . , Who knows? Ht'oo. |