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Show .Fanning the Flame. Governor Emery places himself in a very unenviable position when ho lends his official position to forward the ends of the rascally radical clues who aro seeking the destruction of Utah's business aud prosperity. We are unwilling to believe the governor is a knave, and cannot consider him a fool; yet we are told by his organ, and it h.is been telegraphed to the New York Herald doubtleea with his knowledge, if not by his authorization that he has aaked the war department depart-ment to send more troops to Utah to preserve the peace, and protect the lives aud property of citizens. Governor Emery knows there is not the slightest occudion for fear from a Mornun uprising, and has so expressed biimelf within the week; yjl wa fin! him acting directly contrary to his own knowledge knowl-edge of the facts and against his better bet-ter judgment. He realizes the situation, situ-ation, understands the un justness of the inconsiderate paper war being waged against the Mormons, comprehends com-prehends the injury to the territory that is being wrought by this clamor, and is knowing to the deeper ate height to which popular excitement cast and west is beiug raised; and with all this knowledge, he wittingly uddd his might to mako matters worse anl tan the name Btarteu by wicked and unscrupulous men. As his excellency is neither knavt nor fool, we can only consider him as one who has been whipped of his manhood, by a blackguard editor whose aim and effort is to get beneath his thumb all federal officials who come to Utah, and then play upon them at will. The governor gave promiao of withstanding the lash of this renegade Kansan, and holding to (he dignity of manhood; but of late ho exhibited evidences of weakness, and has at last fallen into line of official I tools of the Tribune. He must know , that in bo doing he loregoes all , claim to the large respect in which t he was held by the law abiding and j peace loving portions of the community. commu-nity. We tail to see upon what he can baae his action or how he can justify his course. If Governor Emery i were asked by the war department - if there was not peace in Utah, he would be obliged to perjure himself or answer in the affirmative;, if he were called upon to state whether any law , abiding citizen were in danger of bodily injury or loss of property, he could on y answer that he knew of none. He would be bound to state that the courts are in uninterrupted operation, and that life and property of all citizens and resident are aa safe in Utah as in New York or any other state of the Union. This Gjvernor Emery knows to ba a fact; but he dare not proclaim it lest he should be denounced by the Tribune, and pro bably lose his official positiou. Bah ! such tender feet ! No one here, who is obeying the laws, fears the troopt. Ten thousand soldiers would be a benefit to the territory, because they would bring money here, aud spend it. The objection ob-jection does not lis to the troops coming, but in the manner of their being called. No one rogrdU the weakening of his excellency more than we. We hoped that he would assist, as it wai hia duty, to allay this senaeU-ss excitement, and try aud restore fast failing confidence confi-dence in Utah. Merchants and business busi-ness men had expressed faith in him, and lookel to him to deny, by hia conduct at least, the base lies which were so rapidly destroying all kinds ol ' business. Now that his excellency has failed them and can no longer be relied upon to stand by the right, we again appeal to leading citizens to act for themselves. It is to their in t tereat and the interest of the ! country to do so. Call a mass , meeting and, setting forth the real facts as they exist, respectfully aud earnestly protest against this unwarranted unwar-ranted raid on unfortuuate Utah. Call for an investigation, and let the truth be known, and o0set and thwart, if possible, the eflect of the lies. In the meantime we advise the people to observe caution in all they do. We know, aa alt do, that theie is no danger, but in the present state of excitement an utterance or demonstration, which in itself had no significance, might lead to trouble and serious consequences. Let the howlers, the falsifiers and the sensationalists sensa-tionalists defeat themdelves, by hav- ing to swallow their own base calumnies calum-nies and falsehoods. |