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Show Count Me Out. j Salt Lakh City, June 21, 77. j Editors Herald: This morning's Tribune has a letter (rom one of their own family Bill Hickman. Hear biiu in the last paragraph in his gushing eflusion to his brothers I am and hava bftni pleated with the course you have u!:an with your ratable rat-able paper tlia grontoat sanation uf our country Spmid your pen, while I waif in grievous atiticiation, toge'her wit my friend ami posterity , to sec freedom and rioht rule and reiyi in these valleys of the mountains. Now, what do you think of that 7 Bill Hickman is pleased with the course of that valuable paper I So is a vulture pleased when leeding on the carrion. Bill Hickman Biysthe Tribune is the greatest salvation ol our countryl I have nothing to say. Bill Hickman will wait in grievoiiB anticipation, together with his frieudtt and posterity! tie may have a large circle of friends waiting in such grievous anticipation, but tho "pus terity," to my certain knowledge, are ashamed of the name of Hicttmau, especially Bill Hickman; the " giiev ous anticipation" with some ot them is that they should be known by sucn a name. He wauls "to see freedom and right rule aud reigu in these valleys ot the mouuuine." 11 Bill Hickinau has not had enough of "freedom" in these valleys of the mountains, I tlimk he should be lurnishei with a free pass to Mexico or the Fiji islands, where his apparent natural thirst lor blood would have a much greater chance of being satisfied than in Christendom. It freedom and right ever do rule in these va'leys of the mountains, I hope to live and see it see what? See the sell-conlwsed murderer and assassin, Bill Hickman, and bis bloody relatives the Tribune men who are inciting strife and shedding of bluod receive their deserts? "Birds of a feattier always fljck together!" I may be bad enough as a Gentile hut I do not want auy Bill Hies man Tribuoe relatives in mine. I do not want to be in the tamily when Bill Hickman and tbe Tribune men think "freeuom and right rule in these valleynvol the mountains." ProScan, ProS-can, Lockiey Hamilton, Read, etc., etc., may enjoy Bill Hickman's stem-oscnpical stem-oscnpical v ew of Utah's past and near future, but I tbiuk the honest Gentiles will not want to be classed with such a man as Bill Hickman or b's confreres con-freres in crime, alter the tact, ot be tore the fact. Hickman is a eff-coufessed eff-coufessed thug, murderer and assassin; assas-sin; the Tribune men are his decoders. decod-ers. Others professed Mormons may have been fanatically induced to steep their hands in deads that have brought years of remorse and many grey hairs, but Bill Hickman and bis friends and defenders delight to parade par-ade in the Tribune what they have done and what they have confessed, and they enjoy the greatest immu nity. This appears to he more than partisan parti-san to me, and when Bill Hicam n and bis friends, the Tribune folks, have their dog days, please count me out. I do not profess to be a Bill Hickman defender, and hope I never may be. Give bim and his fellows their deserts, then Utah will grow to be a shining star in the galaxy of our states. From a one sided view this seems to be a day ot preferment of crime in Uiab. The chief criminals can parade their bloody deeds before the public, defending themselves aud making every etTurt, apparently, to surround innocent men with suspicion suspi-cion in order to blind tbe eyes of the people of this nation concerning their own moral deformity. Our republic is greatly changed in Utah it is more like historical Rome, and a few ringites are the blood-thirsty inquisitors. l'heae dayB will not always taut. Honest Mormons Mor-mons will someday be classed as equal, if not superior to these blood sucking traitors murderers and their defenders. Such men as Presi dent Hayes rule the nation now, and we look for cool, deliberate justice to all classes and sects. Wnen that is consummated, where will Bilk Hickman Hick-man and his defenders be? We hope they will have suffered for their crimes. Yours, respectfully, A Gentile, |