Show fa 1 It was In 1855 when Utah was visited by a famine which threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened the destruction of ot tho people and the press of ot the he East had a ag g great geat eat deal to say about the saints One paper japer tho the Women's Advocate in an article bearing on the condition condition condition condi condi- tion of ot the people in Utah lamented lament ed ad the lack of ot sympathy manifested toward the Mormon people The New York Sun contained a bitter editorial In which It referred to the alleged want of ot sympathy and lack of ot appeal for tor aid In reply Apostle Taylor was not chary In his words In defending the people of Utah when this matter matter matter mat mat- ter of ot sympathy was cited Said Apostle Taylor In Tho The Mormon The Tho Sun says there has been po jio appeal from Utah for tor help An appeal too toe help Indeed They have called for their own but their rights have continually been wIthheld withheld withheld with wIth- held though your statesmen owned their cause was just lust And sh shall they now ask charity of ot f those that lobbed fobbed and murdered their best men We Ve have been robbed of ot millions mil mu- lions lons and driven from our own firesides firesides fire fire- sides Into the cold wintry blasts of the desert to starve by your charitable charitable charit chant able institutions and nd sh we now crave your paltry sixpences Talk to us with your hypocritical cant about charity I Pshaw Its It's nauseating nauseating nauseating nause nause- to everyone not eaten up with your corrupt hum buggery and Pharisaical egotism You forgot you were talking to Americans born upon the soil of at freedom suckled d dIn in liberty who have Inhaled It Jt from their fathers father's lips their lips their ears yet tingling with the tales of ot a nations nation's birth sons birth sons of ot fathers who fought for tor rights which you In your bigotry bigotry bigotry big big- otry and self conceit would woula rain wrench from them SYMPATHY SCORNED Intolerance has thrice driven them fo from their homes but the wild burst of at liberty of 76 now reverberates reverberates re- re through the mountain passes of ot Utah bidding defiance to monocracy and its le leaders ders and hurling mock charity and pretended pretend pretend- ed d patriotism back to the fountain of corruption from which It Jt la- la sues The Mormons neither need your sympathy nor your cankered gold Your malicious slanders only excite t contempt for those base enough to utter them Your contemptible contemptible con con- falsehoods fail fall to ruffle a feather in our caps The rhe God of ot Jacob ini in whom the Mormons trust He lIe who brought Up lp p IsraeL e out of Egypt He lIe who sustained sustained sus sus- tamed the Mormons In their tedious tech teal ou ous over the barren deserts and the wild mountain passes ot of this continent continent in In the thedarl dark darl hour of at trl trial I amid all the distresses without friends or home God upheld and sustained them He sustains tl them m still and will wiil cause them to shine forth with the bright radiance of ot eternal truth over the wide world long tong after ater their malicious malicious mali mali- cious clous slanderers shall have sunk Bunk to oblivion In the filth of ot their own Corruptions SEER DIFFERENT This was the tenor ot many matly editorials edi edi- which were written by Apostle Apos Apos- tle tie Taylor and printed in In T The e Mormon The Seer which was printed in Washington Wahington dif differed vred red from tram lne me Mormon The latter was In newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper form torm while The Seer was In the the shape hape of at a Hmo b book ok Copies Copie of ot both have been preserved and when one is found and effort made to purchase It lt the price soars so rapidly that would be the purchaser purchaser purchaser pur pur- chaser abandons the effort A copy of ot the first volume of ot The Seer was found in a local bookstore a afew afew afew few days das ago and the value placed upon the little book was 50 It contained contained con con- tamed th the first six months' months editions of the paper |