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Show an e.ncol'i:u.'im; chance. We are surprised to see In Uie New York Independent any words of toleration and sentiments of justice jus-tice toward the Latter-day Saints. That religious Journal has been bitter bit-ter and bigoted in its utterances on "Mormon" atfjirs, exhibiting gross ignorance as to facts, as well as extreme ex-treme hostility to tlie Church whose principles It has never fairly represented. repre-sented. Hut in the Ind!jndsnt of August nth we find a summary of Uie opinion of the Supreme Court of Ihe United States on Uie confl'-cat confl'-cat on of the "Mormon" Church property, with the annexed com ments Tlie decision of the Supreme Coart, of course, settles the "jues'lon of law. and 3 ct, as it seems to us. the argument argu-ment is carried to its extremes! length, and comes very sear tho con-tines con-tines of injustice, if it does not actually actu-ally involve this result. The taking of private property from its owners without ast compensation, at is done in an act of confiscation, is, except In very extraordinary circumstances, usually regarded as an act of robbery. Mormon po'ygamy we abouilnate,aml earnestly favor every'just measure for itssnpp-ession, but we would not at the same time forgt that Mormons are- liumin beings and the most of them citizens of the United Statesnd that, as such, they have civil rights whi?h on put to ba respected. Just and righteous ends ought always to be sought by last and righteous means." When so pronounced an antl-"Mormon" antl-"Mormon" taper as Uie Independent regards tlie act of escheating Uie property of the "Mormon" Church as UDju-tand unrighteous, it cannot can-not be reasonably claime I that the "Mormons" are "factious," or "rebellious," "re-bellious," or "seditious" for viewing view-ing it in the same light. If the whole country could onl be brought to understand Uie truUi of the matter, and the moUves that lie hidden behind Uie confiscation movement, there would be such a storm of indignation aroused, that it would shake Uie Capitol to its very foundations and stir up both Judges and legislators to at least a little equity and fairness In regard to the '-Mormon" quesUon. We ho the Xew York Indepen-ifcufwill Indepen-ifcufwill investigate a litUe further anJ, Uie polygamy bugliear apart, lecome a litUe more reasonable on the sulject of "Mormonism" and the believers In Christ who have adopted Uie principles of that system of faith and practice. |
