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Show 0 lllUM Al FAIRS. Tjtn Itaton aTx-f of Xovernber oth contained an interesting correspondence corres-pondence from Silt Like City on the result or the Declaration and the manner In which it has been re-eeived. re-eeived. The writer says: 'TheGentilo pressor Sail Like City, especially, questions the genuiue character char-acter of this movement. It staggers under tbe blow it has received, depriving de-priving it of tbe object of iu attack, while it still kicks at the air that has escaped from tho collapsed football which has heretofore been its grand jntee de rwtrtance. When thegovern-ment thegovern-ment and people of the United States become thoroughly convinced of tbo aincciity ot this acloa of tho Church il ill turn its attention mora exclusively exclus-ively to theaccusatlonsagainstitorthe tmjienurain inj-Tro,',dislojalty."and the influence or tho Priesthood on elections. ' In various letters and articles I have taken occasion to demonstrate. tbe utter absurdity of the first two charges." The difference bet eon Pj-eldent BrighanA'oung.auJ big successors in office is discussed and the letter concludes as follows "It is sad to record tbe comments of a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of Sal; Lake City upon tho manifesto, lie joins with the Gentile, newspapers In discrediting It, xlihough tbo Governor Gov-ernor and Judge Zine accept it as genuine Tbe occupation of this Othello of the pulpit, like that of tb Olhrllo ot th press. Is gone Their spiritual and secular teachings have been lor years bated by tba Mor-r raons, and they aro both loth to let Ic go. Sow they prate or their disloyalty lo tbe government they bad solemnly sworn to obey when they knew, as every man who lives in the Territory knew, that the charge is unqualifiedly" false. Undoubtedly they are both correct ln the assertion that the priesthood priest-hood can if it chooses Infljenco the votes of the people in elections, bbt Congress will not be likely to Hslerrto this appeal for disfranchisement. There Is nothing in the Constitution that prevents lhe exercise or tbe acceptance ac-ceptance of such Influence. It was only tbe other day in our neighboring Territory of New Mexico that it was annonDced by the Associated PrCSSt without any comment upon the enormity of tbe offense, that the blAta constitution was defeated de-feated by lha influence of tbe Roman Catholic priesthood becausqthe common schools were to be condao'ed by the Legislature. I can remember bow ln the days of ray youth In Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts the minister virtually con trolled the vote of tbo parish, and to their credit It may be said theycon- -l-siMWUMBf - - " trolled it generally ln the rl;V "llrso tfoh. It was la that memorable eon-test eon-test when Henry Clay was the Whig candidate, that my1 good father took occasion oa the Sunday before election to preach a discourse upon tba duties of citizens. It was Impartial throughout. through-out. He enlarged upon tbs study of politics, the discernment ot right and wrong and the character of candidates, and at the closo be mada this Ingenuous Ingenu-ous appeal: 'Do-not allow any thing that I nave said to lead you from your own "proper eourso of duty, but go to tbe polls tomorrow and vote honestly and conscientiously for the man of your choice, as I myself shall vote for Uonry Clay. It so happened that nearly every vote of tho second parish in Dorchester was registered tor Henry Clay, but there was no challenge chal-lenge of the rotes because of priestly domination." |