Show rhe the lake herald which is mainly owned and edited by gentiles and which like a wolf in said during the last campaign that utah liberalism and re the same now attempts to justify the position taken by president VAN BUHEIT when the cormons mormons driven from missouri applied for assi stence because said position is democratic your cauce is just president but I 1 can do which the herald claims was perfectly in accordance cor dance with the constitution that is of course the democratic interpretation pre tation but there are many reasonable persons who think that if the democrats and president VAN BUREK are right our constitution is at fault the republican interpretation of the constitution would have been that the president had jt causa to interfere this question ia not a now one by auy means in 1814 the prophet JOSEPH SMITH the question very 0 car of south caroline who took the same position then as democrats jo now JOSEPH Hd words are so rand his interpretation BO clear and aid ins proof so conclusive that we prefer in answering an editorial which appeared m abo herald last friday to extracts from a letter which ho wrote to CALHOUN january the prophet took the island that the latter day saints had purchased their la ids from the fed frd ana not missouri hi aico the federal authorities should i that they were permitted to pos ebythe and if the democrat Demo cras were right in their interpretation of ahe constitution he shows what a state might do he davs go on taru missouri after another set of inhabitants as the latter day did bay come two or three hundred dollar worth of lind and made trier cn go on 1 say bonith the occupants or owners or kill tham ad t e did ruamy of the lattur day s aifili and take llido anu and prop erty as a spoil and lot the ai in th case of the ale a couo loof hundred thousand dollars to pay the mob for doial the job for the nad senator from south caro lina mr J J colhoun ahe ROver Dment aro BO specific and lim red that it has no jurisdiction of the case oh I 1 ye who groan under the oppression of tv ranta ye exiled polee who have ir a chunil of ya poor and amonn fall batione nat ione om to lao asylum of the oppressed buy ye iddo athe general government pay in yur money to the treasury to strength an th arcay aad abs tbs navy worship god accordine accor dins to the dictates of your own consciences pay in boar taxes t tup port the gnat head of a glorious gl erious nation but remember a sovereign slate P is 0 o lauch mora powerful power lul than the united states the parent gu that it can exile yon ac pleasure mob you with impunity your band and property have the i ture sanction it yea even murder vou I 1 ai an an and it doea no wrong for the south carolina iya the power of the federal ib eo limited and specific thatis ha no jurisdiction of the awe y of m and let me that all meu who eay that Conr eBs has no power to and alio bighia of her citizens have not the lova of the truth abiding J power protect tho nation foreign and internal broil and whenever body passes an act to ith any power or to restore liht to any portion of pitr cit zeus it is th burrdine law of the land aad bai aid a baute submit ion that sut is guilty or rebellion asad the dut hid 11 10 rc lel it as had to against the v bus of or genarah jackon had to send an armed forca to puppies BUp pies tle rebellion or south carolina 1 to close I 1 would admonish you be oro gocr let you candor von to write upon a subject ceaf aa the salvation tion of man the lidd f the as the ariu aa of eternal arun and valuable as to read in the ath section and ast 1st article of tb con of the united stae the first and specific and not very limited howera of the federal government bs done to protect the jues property aad of tt people when the adminis tra ora f tha and law bakera are by bribed corrupted bv pal ronde d bv alj by desir and by tang linn alliances ever like caesara caesars Cae sars cot boly unspotted but and ged who cooled the heat of a cebu furnace or shut the mouth ons tor the honor of a daaiel will your mind above the narrow no ton that the general has no power to the sublime idea that con alresa with the president RB executor is as almighty m its sphere ai jehovah as in his j |