| Show biot democrats of utah are growing quite firm in the belief that the federal government is a weak little power that can do nothing when comes to the lawlessness of a state or as a local democratic clotem cotem says the idea being that the states are the power and the federal government simply the machinery agreed upon for mutual convenience from this standpoint many are of the opia that nothing could bo done for the cormons mormons when they were driven from missouri to any one who believes this the closing words of a letter from the prophet SMITH written january to JOHN 0 may be refreshing for perusal to close I 1 would admonish you before you let your candor compel you again to write upon a subject great as the salvation aal of man consequential as the life of the savior broad aa the principles of eternal truth and valuable as the jewels of eternity to read in the eighth section and first article of the constitution of the united states the first fourteenth and seventeenth specific aud not very limited powers of the federal government what can be doue to protect the lives property and righta of a virtuous people when the administrators of the law and lawmakers are by bribes un corrupted by patronage by gold by fear and uncontaminated by tangling alliances even like C asars wife not only unspotted but unsuspected and god who cooled the heat of a furnace or shut the mouths of lions for the honar of a daniel will raise your mind above the narrow notion that tho general government has no power to the sublime idea that congress with the president as executor is as almighty in ita sphere as jehovah is in hia |
