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Show COMMUNICATIONS. WBn Taught rerun join Principles ? EnrroK Times: Having read an article in the Bmid accusing Julin Henry Smith of mixing politics with religion, I thought, be-in-; a member of tliu mormon church ami having been one for forty-live years, I would write n reply. I may not have paid so niueh out as my deinoeratie friend, an my poi ket may not be so deep, but 1 have always been on band w lieu wauled. 1 have been on the frontier since '40; 1 have stood guard in the storms of winter anil have never been taught asleep. 1 wui a soldier iu the L'tah war, when President Buchanan, Bu-chanan, under dewoeratle rules sent the (lower of the American army, with guns and muuitions of war, against a handful of peo-pie peo-pie WlttfpUt wealth and without strength, but not without courage. When Governor Young was Informed thai there was an army ordered to I'tah for war purposes, lie Wrapped the stars unci stripes around the territory ter-ritory and declared martial law, and called upon every man to (all into the ranks and defend their home, against an invading foe. From that day until now the democratic party hat been trying to block the wheels of progress. But to return to the subject: why John Henry Smith is advocating republican principles. At a meeting ot the central territorial committee to select two speakers to advocate republican Principle, Princi-ple, John Henry Smith was one. ilo da. I lined mi account of the position he held in the church, but the motion wal sustained unanimously, and be could not object and remain iu harmony w ith his parly. I will iisiv n few question of my democrat friend. Has John Henry Smith' ever nig. Ir led any ecclesiastical duties:' What are the pernicious doctrines of the republican pari) 1 I have known John Henry for many years and have thought him Incapable of bringing fr l,ls large heart anything hut what would raise his fellow man in the scale or Intelligence. As for his seducing the people by republican arguments, how did he Soli? Did be tell them that there was a time when four millions of human beings were governed by the la Ii; that we have seen them bound hand and foot; that we have heard the strokes of the cruel whip? Did he tell them that bloodhounds wore raised to track men and women through swamps, and that we have seen babes sold from mothers' breasts? If this is pernicious, perni-cious, it is true. if he told you that four million bodies were in chains, four million souls in fetters, all, all the sacred i elation of wife, mother, father and child, trampled beneath the brutal feet of mtght. All this was don- unJr:- our own beautiful banner of freedom, and that the democratic part; was responsible for all this, and when the republicans wanted il stopped iu the territory, the democrats said that wo could not stop it, but the republicans did stop It. The democrats nest talked about seccdin-,' and said you can't force us to stay in the union, lint (he republican party said they could lie kept iu, and they were kept iu, and when the war was over "and slavery abolished, abol-ished, we look where heroes fell, and look, ami instead of slaves we see men, women, women, and children, the wand of progress touches the auction block, the slave pen, and the whipdin post. And we see homes and ttreshles and school houses, and books, and where nil was want and crime and cruelty and fear, wo see the faces of the tree that smile upon the republican party as saviors, while the democratic parly hus to carry the blood of 1.000,00(1 fallen heroes, and the tears of tMO.Ocn widows and l.'JOO.OOO orphans, and now, my democratic demo-cratic friend, whose side is those pernicious principles on, have you belonged to the important trust, nr the slave trust, or did you lo.-c all jour w ayes V If you have I can sympalhtze with you, for 1 have lost in my business every tia'io that there has been u prospect of ii democratic president. It seems to me that we are brothers In atllic-tion. atllic-tion. You seen to be a hide bound democrat demo-crat and I am a red nut republican. A. E. Shields. Lake View, Jan. 2, 1SSW. |