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Show IlY tilling up a slnglo sentenco from his speech at l'rovo on Wcdueslay last and making oomments ujien n strained construction of It, a country cotempo-rary cotempo-rary did Hon. Franklin H. ltlchards a growi Injustice, au 1 the New a In quoting quot-ing the paragraph ravo wider publicity publi-city to, though In no aense endorsing or ace epllng responsibility for It. lu expressing ex-pressing regret for our 4tt of tho offense, of-fense, thla aper feels It a duty to say that the gentleman's remerksas jub-llshid jub-llshid aud us reoalle 1 by all who heard them, give no warrant for the strictures our coteniporary uttered. The context thowa lhat uo fair luterpretatlau would permit the Inference In-ference that ho branded "Mormon-hm "Mormon-hm as tho lunik of shame on the forehead fore-head of Utah," which ho hoped and belloved the nominee of his larly al Provo would be able to romove. His allusion waa to the humbled aud unjust un-just poslllou this Territory bad had lo occupy, and thli was Ihe Infamy he desired to see, und belloved he woull see, extinguished through the placing nf thu crown of statehood upon Utah's brow. The distinction belHuu Iho evldmt meaning of his language aud Ihnteuggiated for It by Iho i aper from which wequnted Is so wldu lhat toovery Intelligent reader the explanation Is eureilluou. |
