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Show ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION. In the last issue of the Journal, in an article headed "A Singular Fatality," we described what had overtaken three of the most prominent anti-"Mormons" in the last Congress, since their return home, and the circumstances that led to the conclusion that they had sunk in the political sea to rise no more. A merciful oblivion promises soon to hide them and their deeds from public view and recollection. To these three has been added a fourth. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts is responsible for that precious piece of legislation known as the "Hoar amendment," which was interpolated into the sundry civil appropriation bill, and which, as is claimed, empowers the Governor of Utah to appoint Territorial and county officers to succeed those whose successors would have been elected this month, but for the Edmund's bill. It was a most thoroughly un-republican and un-American piece of legislation, and would never have been proposed nor voted for in Congress by a member who understood its real nature, and was at heart devoted to the principles on which our government is based. But the Senator is receiving recompense for the wrongs he did in Congress. He goes home to the Bay State only to find that he has run his head into a hornet's nest. Some of the leading journals of the state are scoring him severely and in a manner that seriously threatens his political prestige. The text of their criticisms is his action in favoring the river and harbor bill. How Mr. Hoar may come out with his critics remains to be seen, but he will be an exception to the rule if he does not retrograde from this time on. |