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Show A Reply to Mr. Hollister. j Salt Lake City, April 8, 1S75. Editors Herald; Having read two lengthy communications commu-nications which have recently appeared ap-peared in the Herald, from the pen of 6. J. Hollister, In which the writer persistently labors, and with a xeal WOrtny OI a ueuer tuuae.w nuiremiau and juetify the acts oi ex-Judge Mc-Kean, Mc-Kean, und also to condemn the "Mormon" "Mor-mon" people, and polygamy in particular, par-ticular, I aak for space in the Herald to enter my protest and unqualified! denial of some of the statements which appear in those letters. This sage defender of tbo McKean dynasty and prominent federal officer, asserts that the Mormons, two years ago, proposed to abandon polygamy in exchange for admission into the union as a state. This statement of the learned federal official is incorrect. The rolygamisls among the I tter-day tter-day Saints never made any such proposition, pro-position, and I trust never will. What may have been said, or what may have been tbo feelings of some few weak-kneed persons who were not practically polygamista, lean notsay. Another untruth, by implication, I will notice. H. says, " have they (meaning McKan and his party) resorted to, or have they attempted to resort to, more violent measures to overthrow polygamy, than ita supporters sup-porters have to extend, to enforce and uphold it ? Impartial history will hardly say that they have." I would like to know what violent measure have ever been resorted to to enforce or extend polygamy ? Another question : What is the character morally, etc., of those who , are loudest in their denunciations and most bitter in vituperation and abuse of polygamy and those who practice it '! As to Mr. Hollister's prediction that polygamy will soon come to an end, by being overthrown, or aban- doued by its adherents, we have ' heard such bosh by falso prophets 1 and enemies, until it does not startle true Latter-day Saint at all. Yours, etc, Citizen. |