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Show Safufdail i'all; .3y ar Ex-Editor. Aal write, the tilograph brings the news from Pulsakl, Tennessee, that two Mormon Lldora have been assassinated assas-sinated by a band of masked men In Lewis county of that stale, a distance nf alout twenty-live mile from Pulaski. Tho news may prove true irnol. More particulars will doubtless doubt-less be learned before this goes to press. Tho dlapatc'i gl'et aa n reason for tho killing that the murdered mur-dered preachers had been repeatedly war ed to leave tho country, and adds that Ihey were shot through a sldu window of a home where they wore holding a meeting and while they were preaching la it small cr 1. No names are given and we are led to conjtcturo aa to who they may be. There havo already been fi ur murders of Mormon In the staloof TenLeaiee Elders John II, Olbba and W. H. Kerry, also Martin Condor and 1. It. Hudson, Hud-son, beeldts Ihe cruel wounding of Mta. Condor, the mother ol the two list-named; and Ibe only offense of-fense with which Ihey could be charged was that they cboso lo worship Uod III a way that oil not lease their murderers. It has not been said Hint they disturbed the lce, that they broke tbu law, that they Incited itoplo lo triaianuioulho rights of their neighbors or commit nny dent of violence. On the contrary, con-trary, when naiaislnated Ihe moil of Ibeni were engaged In holding meet-Inga meet-Inga fur religious trorehlp aud tu teaching teach-ing their hearers the Word of Ood. And yet au Impression fravalU that tbu state wheru these inurdirt havu becu committed Is under the Constitution Constitu-tion of the United Htatos, an 1 tint It Is a state where liberty reigns aud re llgl us freedom prevail'. Toiiucsaeu Is a great slate, and the bat produced mauy emiueut men, whose deeds have rellictel glury un Ihe nation. Tenneis-ant have mauy reaonafor being jroui of Ibtlr elate and Jwople. Hut her greatness la obscured ob-scured by the deeds of mob vloleucu which havu occurred and tasted un--uulehed within lierborJers. llellgioua liberty no longer exists there, nud her escutcheon la atalnei with the blood ol Innocent men. Instead of wluklng at these disgraceful crimes, the authorities authori-ties of the state should not rent until their psrpetratnrs aro brought to the light of day and ale compelled tu nuke full atonement for their guilt. Tlieir masks ehould not long conceal thorn, their organization aaamobsLouldnot irtvent their arrest, Lor lenult them lo secretly glory lu their cowardly and bloody deeds. II Is duo lo tbu honor and reputation of the stato that these deeds of violence lommltted within her borders should Le Investigated nud tliu laws bu enforced. Mob law and true liberty cannot coexist co-exist in the tame atale. A state which lermlls lawless bands of men to utu p thu functions of the courts nnd the efilccrs of lutllcu la no longer n fit place of resldeucu for freu men. A mnh may punish a criminal today who deserves de-serves tho severest nalty which tbu law inflicts lor crime; and tomoirow, Incensed In-censed witli rage aud blinded by prrju-dltu prrju-dltu and tattlon, It may drag some miserable wretch who though guilty cf some wrong may be Innocent ot tbu crime which stirs Hi members to acllou to torturu and to bloody death. When men band themselves together In it mob they are dangerous lo society at large. Dtcdt aru committed which no Itdlvldualof the baud would dare lo do If hu had to bear tho loipontl-blllty loipontl-blllty ol the tit Indtvlduall-,. Bucli an organization le tnscutlally cowardly nnd cruel. A cuuulug, desperate man, whn may wish to wreak revenge upon tome one lo n horn he may feel c umlty can stir up a mob to be thu Instrument of his vengeance. The Latter-day Wain's have learned by bitter excrlciicii how easily is less binds of men can tu aroused by thu luvuntion nud circula tion of falsehood to ocnimlt the moat Inbuilt lu acts of vloleucu and cruelly. Thlasjltltof mob vlolenoo and law-lessneu law-lessneu Is ouu that cannot easily be overcome If it onco takes iwaiessioo ofneople. Many patu ot IhoHoulh arc now sulferlug Irom It. Thu newt-papers newt-papers aru calling attention to the manner lu which It la spreading aud thu dire consequence which It entails. Law Is bulug trimplod upon nud de-fled, de-fled, good order la dlsapi caring and lawless ergiultillons ot men break Into houeei-, bum fences, destroy iropirly aud luuuilt other acta ol vloleucu which mako llfouutafe. It la stated that In consequence of thla reign cf mob violence lu many parts population I decreasing aud thu people peo-ple uro la ting luto n low coudltlou. Ui course where tucli stato of allilis prevail men of capital aud lovers of good order wllluot go, ur if they are therelhey will not remain. Oao of thu cauiea, doubllesi, ot the si read of tills lawlessness It thu fear which men holding olllchit posltlout have of oireudlug voters. They avuld uvery act that would prove unpopular. 1'or Instance, Mormon Llders may tie shot down. They are lingular aud friendless. To hold men who havu been guilty of their murder to a strict aceou ntablllty before tlio law Long boforo tbl article a received for publication the shocking rumor to wlil'h mo ei-l'.litor allude, haul been hit Militated an I proved to hounloundod. '1 hla removal ol Ibe linmcdlato liar, for hu remark fwi not, howovor, destroy tlio taller' appropriateness and Interest. A he ob-erve. ''Ihe news may prove true or not." Happily In ihla natauee li waa 'noli" buta prevloua report of like aubsunco waa.lo the grief and horror of iho people ol Uiah, loo truel-l.u. .Sims. .BBBBBBBBWJi troull therefore not te arp'audec', Hucha prrcerilg would bo very apt to arouse prejutice and anger nnd to kilt Iho cfllcvrt' chances for rt-eleclloo; alleait theMrheteare likely to think to. It may be Mormon ono day, but It may be oilier unpopular persona Ihe next. The retull It, the violators ol the law eacape runlahuient, and are emboldened to repeat such acta whenever when-ever an occasion lo do so appears to tbem necessary. Ti e example becomes be-comes contagious. The non junlsli-ment junlsli-ment of the lawle'e violence of one nub encoungea others la feel secure lu the forming of ether nub', which takothn law Into tlieir own hands aud brush aside thu ofllcera who may try lo Interfere with their proceedings. Arid thu disorder and hwlnanes Increase and spread1, thu laws and constitutional con-stitutional guarantees cease lo be re-tj re-tj ectod, and all the ra ejusrds which u good government throws arounl Ihe citizen to protect his llfe.lils lllerly and lils right of property are overturned and trampled upon whenever they Inte rfere with tho car lleeannd past lone of the multitude. In thla connection It may not be Inappropriate to recall n prediction contained lu a revelation which the Church received nearly sixty -Iwuyeara ago. Hpeiklog abetit Ziou tea It will be, the Lord aald. And It shall come lo jas, among Iho wicked, that every man that still nut take bis sword a-lut hi neighbor luuil needs lleo un o .ion or safely. And Iboroaball bogllbeted unto tt out of every union under heaven; and li aba'.I bo the only Hioplu that shall not bo at war one vtltli another. Tlio redlction lias bteti a long lime, as men count time, ou record, and It fulfilment may jet ap,tr very distant. dis-tant. Hut it will curnu to J ass. 'I hen. will necessarily I o great changes before that lime ol trouble. Hut II inabvli-leniu inabvli-leniu shall continue lu sprea I as It baa done In tomequarte.-aot late ears, It will not bulouir until men there will bo am oiled, for telf.piotectlon, to tiku up woKiue to defend thtmselvc against their neighbors; mil if they will not do ao, Ihey must II ie. Anarchy An-archy In uciu former uuother la spreading, spread-ing, aod auurchlita nre Increasing. It Is not the men whu alvocate the division of protiy the taking from tliu rich and the giving lo thuioor who aloiiu aro ouarchistr; but every mall who J ilna a mob, every man whu trespasses upon thu rights of hla fellow-man, fellow-man, every rnau win tucouiagee vloleucoand by tho mil use or abuse or the overriding ol law oppresses Ins neighbor, I an anarchist; all such are dau,eroulu aoclet); and If they are not checked the vvuratof conatijueece wllllollow. It la not well to takes gloomy view of affaire or of Iho future; but onu need Hot be gloomy to bo conq tiled lo consider con-sider It u most serious condition If two eaceablo mou, whose only oflenie, as stated, Is that Ihey did not leave Iho country u land wliere freedom le sufiiosed to prevail when they were wsrnedtodo ao, could bu shot down while lu Ihe act of worshiping, with other citizens, Almighty Uod. Ut.umiK ), CtN.soN, |
