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Show HE WOCLI CELEBRATE, !:.eti IT He Had to Take nis HhUf-Tail HhUf-Tail For n Flutf. "The treassn-pre'.ching Mormon Cionian, in referring to the Beaver City Independence celebration, tells us that there were a few who felt almost al-most inclined, and, perhaps, some did not celebrate on account of the federal encroachment upon the constitutional lights of the citizens of Utah. It then continues as follows: "But the fact should be borne v mind tliat it is not. oppressions that we celebrate, but the venerable acts of our praiseworthy praise-worthy ancestors aud the liberal Constitution Con-stitution they gave-, Whatever injustice we may sni:tr should not cause, us to forget the brave and noble deeds of our worthy sires." "The Utonian always admired the evidences of th patriotism of Apostle Parley P. Pratt, whi st unjustly incarcerated in-carcerated in Liberty jail, Missouri, 0:1 the Fourth of July, 13!. His soul panted for liberty, and the desire was intensified by a mock celebration outside. He had neither the red or blue, but it occurred to him that his undershirt was white. Quick as thought one of the Haps was torn off and placed upon a stick and hoisted near the top f the outer door of the jail, nnd an appropriate poem composed com-posed by himself who, with his fellow prisoners hud their celebration all to themselves. That day, as the glorious su:i descended below the wesUri horizon, himself and associates decided de-cided to have "liberty or death." They obtained the former and made good their csmpc ta Illinois. For the painfully interesting particulars of this heroic transaction; our readers are referred to his own narrative. He did not celebrate the unjust oppression he was suffering, but the glorious institutions in-stitutions and brate deeds of our worthy ancestors, ho secured for bi;u all the rights of a free man, of which he had been so wrongfully deprived." de-prived." The Utonian is right. It is not oppressions (i. e., w law's by which all citizens,. bi they .f jrmmt. Jew or Gentile, must be governed) that the patriotic polyg. celebrates for political politi-cal ellect. It is his interpretation of "the venerable acts of our praiseworthy praise-worthy ancestors" ujxm which he has coucoctcd a crimiial, conn'ibial-co;-ruption creed, that our polygamous patriot Dnu'cl Tyler celebrates. It is true tliat Daniel a id companions in crime are living under terrible (?) Gavernmeiit-imposal political disabilities, disa-bilities, though still at liberty to preach and praetbw disloyalty before tue growing generation. In Prussia, Bavaria, Sweden or the country of the Danes, they would justly be banished ban-ished from their homes even if they had made a thousand deerts blossom as the rose. Is it. then, preposterous that such a cringing hypocrite should prate about "federal encroachment upon the rights'f the criminals of Utah, or express admiration for a prison-bird patriot, panting for freedom? free-dom? The truth of the matter is that Daniel doesn't care a continental for the American Constitution except so far as it protects him ia his barn yard proiuiscuousness, and his right to pull the wolf wool over the optics of poverty-pi nchjtd payers of hush money. Americans ought lo feel' humiliated at having placed criminal eiti.ens under constraint that prc- eludes participation in patriotic pro-I pro-I fession.-. . We lnuvt admit, upon our j own part, a past !uk warmness in the j bijoinmg olwrvaiice of the Fourth of I July, but the Mormon bombast w have quoted wilT fjrevcr.be to us a reason why 'Hn' loyal Americans j should loudly ecledrate the national birthday. |