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Show THE NEWS'S MALIOIOTJS TRASH. li in hard to think what good purpose, pur-pose, or what useful purpose, tho Dns-oret Dns-oret News hopes to accomplish by the publication of such maliciously false representations of events as were carried car-ried in its Saturday issue under the headlines. "Threatened War of Extermination Ex-termination to Be Waged Against tho Early Mormon Settlers of Utah." The narrative purported to be an account ac-count of the occurrences aoid vnrjnng statements prior to and 5ii' connection I with the sending hero of Johnston's army, to restore the supremacy of the United Slates. First of all, oven if thoro had been I a battle oompaign with great blood- shod among tho combatants, thore would have been no wnr of extermination. extermi-nation. It is a malcx'olem,, traitorous pen thar. would write such a. gross and scandalous charge against Johnston and his troops. American, soldiers dp noi; wage wars of extermination, through some maJignnnt traitors during dur-ing the War of the "Rebellion attempted at-tempted to blacken the characters of the Union troops by making that charge against them. It was an pt-terh' pt-terh' falBC charge then, made b- cowardly cow-ardly stay-at-homo traitors, and it is cmjalhr false now, and equally malignant malig-nant iu its hostility to the National spirit and tho American flag, by a sneaking traitor who feels safe from being called to account for his malice and treason. J The fads of the case in broad lines are, that U'. S. officials wore insulted and harried so that they were forced to leave the Territory. The Mormon chiefs could not brook anything which was not their own, nor stand tho presence pres-ence of anybody who refused to come under their control. They finally became be-came so bold as to hold an Independence Independ-ence celebration where they ostensibly withdrew from' tho control of the United States, and set up a government govern-ment of their own. They did i.his with immense .iubilatiou, and sustained sus-tained their act with abundant and pretentious demonstrations of contempt con-tempt for the Nation. The installment of Don C. Musser's "Polygamy" which was printed in The Tribune yesterday morning is illuminating il-luminating on all this independence movement, and shows the declarations on that point made by ITebor C. Kimball Kim-ball and others, 1o which Brigham Young gave emphatic assent. "The tics arc severed" between the Saints and the United States. "We will have no Governor but Brigham," are samples of these declarations. When Johnston came with his troops, the local militia was called out lo oppose him, not, as falselj- stated, to prevent the slaughter and extermination extermi-nation of the Mormon people, for nothing noth-ing of tho sort was iu tho least threatened, threat-ened, but to maintain their attitude of independence" of the United States, and make good their act of setting up a government of their own. Thoir feeble efforts at opposition, however, were quickly seen to be abortive, and urgent and private efforts -were made to arrive at an understanding -which would "save the face" of those prominent in the church and in the little rebellion which they had started. These efforts succeeded, Col, Thomas Kane being the intermediary. Brigham Brig-ham Young backed down, consented to receive the Governor that President Presi-dent Buchanan had sent for Utah, and further resistance to the Xarional authority au-thority was called off. The troops had ! nothing further to do. their mission be-I be-I ing merely to overcome resistance to the National authorit3. It was, no doubt, the presence of .lohnstou with his itrmy that compelled Brigham Young to give wa3', recognize the National Na-tional authority, and call off his militia. mil-itia. The independent government of Beseret was subdued without the tiring of a gun. And that was (he tremendous massacre mas-sacre and "war of extermination" to be waged against, the enrl3 Mormon (settlers of Utah. The. whole- 1 rouble arose m the usual way, the aggres- j sivc determination of the Mormon leaders to be a law' unto themselves, regardless of civilization and con-j con-j temptuous of the authorit3' of the United States. And right there- is the secret of all the so-called "persecutions" "persecu-tions" and "drivings" of the "Saints." In every case the3" have by their disregard of law and of the rights of their neighbors, as well as by their contempt of the supreme civil authority, brought all their troubles upon themselves, just as they did in this caFe. . |