| Show till IOHD responsible nervy to Q the ti in the h salt lake heral I he ha old iod diew be non lain head MX I 1 cod eloe TUB tits bunz all and a jadao caroy carey have avo got themselves in a hard row ot of stumps by their no nn fortunate comparison companion of modern and ancient hatcheries that they were looking for some borne adequate motive for the horrible deci dec I at mountain noad moal awit and could find it but i io 0 religious fan addam and aal tant this ibis was presented as ai R sort ort or of palli aaion on behalf a of human nature itule 33 is plain to bo be soon sill the iho companion compana ri a wan wait unfortunate beca tiso it hu has brought 0 a the iho front one of those lul but probably VOL i beaming defenders of christianity from whon it las laa already suffered so go much more it was unfair to the followers ot of moses for they were a barbarous antl wa nar r liko like tribe in a barbarous age their heir way to a looting among similar tri besand and if Jc cating iho too 00 oo jn in battle thoy they tho the women and children there might bo be fo ilia ibe state of the world at ilia time imo tome justification for or the belief on their part that aboy were so eo win oom mantled atif v COL got now ll 11 thon is it anywhere lum they may TO t ti compisi be rum rain or of their victims 7 Mo moreover oa it a certain occasions ocoa ioD wh n some fomo men of one of their tribes hid had perpetrated a loul foul crime aull anil tho ilia tribe triba refilled to RIVO KIVO them up tip to jo idea they auril turned led in and gaited that tribe save mo GW COO men as they hal had the tribe trib ep showing chowing that they possessed essed some gome real ind indignation ignition against crime cs as crime by whomsoever committed although it is true that thai thoy they according to la their own owa record recard till tail ibo sins sina ol of the people they destroyed st tho the point I 1 would mako is aliat noy any comparison of the ibo magri ore cre by the cormons Morsuo nn irk in 1857 and of the Ile brows years ago go guht bo be unfair to tile lutor lator now for A V whom your ira gro bus ln drawn out in tho the iio aja 1 abo I 1 billat of the arit critical 1 I assault of 0 tire tar is that under tho the circumstances 0 ibo he of CI the lie as 03 historically given iro are logically ond and morally wrong in ia not tors forsaking orsa liing aking christianity the tha truth is ia a great many have long fori foristell thit that pirt part of christianity which ia 13 to depend upon tho the or tat int osis ms and for tho renoa reason among etheri that thai ilia connection between the two is ia insi on no me what the world and in chri a danity anity li it if not the derivation of jens jeans christ from Abra liam to 1 not the lis tory of his bu ancestors but bi bis S teach inge which tile aio ia as lar far as can I 1 to 0 from which led to tho the butchery of 0 tho the Carias otris of lete or oc olathe emigrants at mountain meadows Mca dowa line bill A christian argues that bo be caubu motes and joshn enacted QI anil nation td I 1 he moral iowa it ia nil all coon iries ries which by tile tho wy i nt nl true therefore the ex lien of the h tribes w was ft 9 not at tu larder A the self belt of these old I 1 logi 1 0 9 it latoff 2 1 0 rs 1 says A abri tiao it 1 will 1 11 follow 1 11 1 lint their aco onto tho the intolerable driest of their victims was true trac and therefore they berat couely bcd then tho belr belf coneita oncy of the ilia mormons cormons Mor mons it will follow choir account ll 11 tot of abo awful ciok of the th A Arkin fos Is is true nod bed ther therefore eforo that their a ex 1 to tin irai 82 not murder T abia ali a view tiow is 11 further by the 0 well inov a fact that the cormons mormons love hato enacted and ea tho the law against f innocent blood A christian goes on to say bay that tio ilia morality of the prosecution tit nt beaver is prebi ely like hill flait of 0 moses sud aud joshua can would think thick to read this addle pate that it was the ho at deaver beaver who committed ilia iho masa massacre acre the truth is ia mormon eighteen years ago assuming tho the ot of the and tham thereupon pro pre mt a parallel except as 09 above stated to moses loses and joshua lit in tho the SAME USE OS OF whom the parallelism lias between oither cither and a prosecution for murder in an amerian court or of j antico I 1 cont ioas I 1 do not see the prosecution iu is then asked to 0 o explain the bo morality of tho the plague of L london n ami A ris arga merit under tb this n hotd bead amounts to this that because Ieca aBO the iho plague sweeps off human beings it is lightf lr moses or joshua or brighum I 1 OUD or any other laodis to do likewise if he can because death tikes takes a large part of tho the roco race to ia infancy in ncy it 13 for man to do so 10 it if he bo can with wilh impunity lastly A christian draws of hr his parallels between tier our late into civil way war and tho ilia predatory ware ward 61 the iho hebrews and the was acres under flax df of 0 truce of abo ft mormons Mor mons that this lust last occur renco an a hould appear to liin to bo be the act of through ilia his chosen mor mons mono and should lead to hits hia kol 0 THEIR fainn fa ITU would seem to bo be next ia order Is there no difference differ enco between two tio nations or two parts ot of ono nation b 3 h tit ig out 0 ut like li L 0 moa m e a a alib faor r en 0 0 which io h they he y ca cannot n n ot r settle at tle w u anti and a sot of bigoted bandits us ailing like savages cs without provocation at every a little band of moll men woman and thorn them irom from their thi ir arms armi nod monti moats under promise of as safo to convoy and thou iio 0 q thorn them all 11 II down in ia cold blo blood oil ravishing ravi ravis s bing tha ilia women and cutting their throats in one motion their babies as 03 though thoy they were vero IE smashing their little heads to IQ with stones and throwing their bodies to the wolves stripped of all covering and all to gratify entity a bond joh thirst for blood instilled into them hem lor for yens years from a mormon pul pita and ic ia the name damn ol of a bod I 1 that in ia A christians view seems to be a p e tied moral parallel paralle i with the late ci ciril vil war in the goit booted ad states with the plague of london lad and with the largo death of infants and the iho mormons cormons were justified juu lined in this because the llo arkansas emigrants emigrant had polluted the boll boil of utah and wore m than mon men were or coull be and this thia slaughter WM was not noi murder because the mormons cormons aro known to havo have the laws of civilized countries conn against ilia shedding shed of innocent blood if 11 christianity stands in need of much of this style of 0 defense in ID the ninio name of humanity let it go down if the massacre mis sacro of mountain meadows M as dows must bo be justified in order or ilert 1 clear and jochin in ia tho namo dame of common bansa lot moses and joshua go on no cleared cle ired and if god la is to bo be held lor for the outbreaks of roona mons evil passions ions in ia ono one case in ia the nima name of lot let him bo be so ao held in all cases biaca and than lot men got rid ol of choir r booso of jos tico lien presumably implanted in ia them by the davil danl let jat tho the crina criminals iriaN at beanor and elio go TO tract and lay abo perpetration of all crime directly dire otly at the ho door of bod bud and let men generally abando a world thus givon given 0 vor over to ta lelta toem and run rua the he risk rink 0 of fi b bettor ett e r or w 0 r 0 0 0 n e if worse 0 to be 0 i ia 0 blat t b at u nt i is c 0 ve r e d country 0 u a tr y fro from which none return on S |
