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Show TUK LATE LKUISLA'IUIIK j Col. lliillistvv liasoly Assails tho Assembly, And MiiTit'ioiilv MisrciitoMMtls Its Arlion. Tlie following; was uillinhil in yesteilay's Ms Knin: Ens, Tkiiu'nk: Is it not a tilth-singular tilth-singular that a legislative usttrmhly ot an American territory has hold it.t seion ot torly days, pet lormed itn work, adiourucd and gone home, and noKOy knows what it has dune? 'I tie prens of one party stays it 1ms Imleil to j;ivo any intelhgonee on the subject because Hie membera of tho assembly rel'usni to give it any. lint the pre.NS ot the other parti' has done no tvtter, anil the pnblio has not soon even a nynophi-.if nynophi-.if a single bill introduced or passed by its logilauuv. e presume that we huv been savti from outrage and wrong by the vigilance ot Governor Kmeiy. llul was there ever a niorf striking com ineut on tho non-American way things are done iu I'tati on tha arbitrary arbi-trary and high-haiukd policy of the dominant elnuch, in u wxl. (hi mooting, the lej-isl iture liit onsteil the only non-Mormon member elect, eil, and" by aibitrarily, witliout law or justice, ro.won or sense, distran-cliiHing distran-cliiHing a tbousand or so of American eitueus. It then seta out its time in secret conclave, refusing acoi&s to its doings to the opposition pros, ami keeping its own press mum with regard re-gard to tho iame. Now, suppose that the governor ol Utah bad not the absolute veto power, or &up pose that a jack-Mormon gov-ernor gov-ernor hail been in otUce, and certainly certain-ly the church has spared uo ellorl ui secure one or both of these eontsngon eie?, what show would tne public have hud? What might not have been done? What has the church left undone to secure a secret session of its legislature Can ft state ot things which renders such an occur-r occur-r nee possible bo expected to exist much longer within tho United States? U is true that the territorial legisla-1 turo his held a secret srssion. anil i mre ins ne.u a seem srssion, anu the only assurance the territory has that its secular interests have not been BuUn-dina'.ed to the supposed interests it tii" most lij;otel, in tolerant, bloody and beatiy church known to modern history, is its Debet De-bet in the ability ot Governor Emery to rightly api-rehen I, and in his disposition dis-position to laithfully guard those interests. in-terests. But is this an altogether safe dependence in a popular govern men:.' Suppose it h.ul boenGovernor Ax-tell inuad o! Governor Emery? No more striking jus itieai ion of the Utah opp-vuion has ever been iilorded than ti:e action of the M ir-mon ir-mon church touching the late se.-sion of the territorial legislature. O. J. Holustei:. Salt Lake, March o, 17d. The above is perhaps sufficient comment on iUell and its author; but a few words may not bo considered out of place. No matter how bitter and vindictivo towards tho "dominant "domin-ant church" and tho late legislators Col. Hollister may be, there is no excuse for him to wilfully and basely misrepresent the assembly. He should at least possess the manhood to speak the truth, even of thoe he deems his enemies. He is an intel'i gent gentleman, and as such his communication is unworthy of him. During the many years that Col. HollUter baa stood id the front rank of leaders in the anli-Mormon crusade, cru-sade, he has not before been guilty of making so contemptible an attack as this, which is wholly unjustifiable. We regret that be should have knowingly know-ingly placed himself in go unenviable a position when there was neither occasion nor cause for it; as he has, by stating that which he knew to bo untrue, lost, even among bis friends, much of the respect which he before commanied. Tnere are gentlemen on his side who are too high toned and who have too much self-respect and regard for the truth and honor, to resort to falsehood to accomplish their purpose. Col. Hollister has heretofore been regarded as o.ie of these, but when he so intentionally misstates fccts he seems to invite the contempt of honest people. No legislative assembly in state or territory performed its labor more openly than the one whose session recently closed in this city. Invitations Invita-tions to attend the sittings were widely given, and the public were freely admitted on every occasion. The members never for a moment sat with closed doors. Tables and accommodations ac-commodations were provided for1 newspaper reporters, and no discrimination discrim-ination was made in favor of any journal. All the papers were represented, repre-sented, and every reporter had no more, no les3 facilities than hi3 fellow, fel-low, for obtaining reports. The bills presented were openly read and freely discussed, and it was the reporter's fault if he did not knov? what was going on. Newspaper editors and proprietors usually publish such matters mat-ters as they deem will prove most beneficial to themselves and readers. Every now and again some fellow like Colonel Hollister will rise up and tell an editerhow to "run" his paper; but it is rarely that this gratuitous advice is taken. The editor assumes that be understands his business, and is as ready with his counsel to tho Hollisters to start papers of their own if they do not like those in existence. If any Salt Lake editor had thought that a publication of a synopsis or the whole of any hill presented in the last legisl:turo would have been more interesting or useful than the matter which was printed, he could easily have obtained either. Tho legislators were not to blame for what a paper did or did not publish. And now, if the editor should deem it proper to publish a law passed at the last session or at any other, wo presume pre-sume he would havo no difficulty in obtaining copies. Certain it is. that we have been offered, by Mr. Secretary Black, the privilege of copying and publishing any law that was passed; and wo do nut doubt that other jour rials have been or would readily he accorded the same courtesy. We admit that the laws should be published, but it seems since they have had the full privilege todos t the newspaper people d.) not care to eruwd out other matter lor the law.--, nor do they deem it profitable to incur the additional expense for the gratifi cation of Col. lloHuloi. And here comes up a question which wo, lol lowing the colonel's utyle, might ask why have the taws not been pub lishe 1 Tnat is iv duty winch ha always devolved on the goimral government, gov-ernment, and in previous yours the secretary has had print nl a certain numl r of copies nl the laws at government gov-ernment expense. It cannot be claimed that the diveision ol the perdiein nl tho legislators to another purpase, is excuse for the secretary's failure to publish tho laws. The us-icinhly ma le provision for codifying and publishing li.tKXl copies of the .statute-), and it is probable the work will bo done in due time, but wo doubt if the committee in charge ol the work will listen the matter so as to enlighten Col. llolii-ter as to whether he is in danger uf losing any of his right- as a wordy quarrel-hunter, quarrel-hunter, whose groat faults are "talking "talk-ing too much with his mouth" and j spreading hiiiHelf too thinly on paper. As regards the wonderful fears expressed ex-pressed by Col. Hollister, an I bis other blab aUmt being "aavid from outrage and wrong by tho vigilance of the governor," and all that, it is Ixvsh and unworthy of notice. Gov. Emory did what he considered his duty; no more, no leu. If we remember re-member rightly he approved every , important bill that was passed by tlm "secret conclave" (lor bhanu Cvil j llolli.-ter, for applying the expression) with two exceptions. The rejected bdls he thought contained unwise measures; tho legislators, who were , to live in the community where thosu j Wws were in fore., and who wuro to submit in hi ir perm-ns and propeity U the laws, thought otherwise. j We have hoeu through Col. Hol-lialer's Hol-lialer's object in his communication, and we are only sorry that ho should resort to such unmanly means to aj- cmipliidi his purpose. He has oflended many of his radical con-j con-j freros by his able cards against Mj- j Keauism. Now he sorry for the 'independent course taken, and fear-' iug the rupture in the republican party will work disa-trously to the ring intercs'J, he wishes to whine his way back into the railed ranks and agaiu unite the forces for war on the : people. He thinks to blind the factions fac-tions as to thoir own misunderstand-, ! ings and di ilieulties, ny an onslaught agaiu3t the Mormons, and as no real cause of complaint presents itself, he resorts to misrepresentation and falsi- licatiou. |