Show ecru Eri r i iB 11 in reviewing an article which appear ed d in m our last weeks issue issue over the above signature sigua signature ture although written by an ac anon lodged ledged champion in in point of intelligence li gence in in the mormon church and dine too in in a style stile and manner which does him credito credit n e are not convinced colv meed that we v e have hav e w wronged gouged either liim him or his church people ty by placing them in in a false p position 0 sitio a before the public and we are therefore un unwilling willin illing to retract our argument in in favor of a separate territorial organization w aich seems to have hav e touched erin in in a sensitive spot in the article which has so offended him we made no allusion to the mormon religion or the church but simply referred to the distracted condition of public affairs brou brought ht about by the disobedience of the cormons Morr mormons Mor mons as a people to the laws of the united states state if the federal officers in in utah disgraced their positions and invaded with impunity the rights right cf erin eria ana his bis people eople why did they not apply to the parent source and seek to obtain redress irom from the halls balls of the federal capitol in instead of open rebellion erin says that we ue have failed to particularize ticul arize and to tell wherein the condition of utah is is deplorable we ask why are the courts federal or territorial powerless in in this terri lern toimi tory why IV hy cannot juries be found to indict criminals unless parties arraigned are adjudged judged id guilty by the peculiar notions notion entertained by erin and his religious associates 2 why has provision not been made for the adequate palmer t of judges for the conviction co and punishment of criminals we might go on and particularize and give gi e reasons almost buhy by we ive regard her condition as deplorable and show what has caused this condition but a brief glance at the history of the origin of what is is properly known know n throughout the united states as the utah ic ie hellion bellion will furnish sufficient data from which any unprejudiced mind can arrive at a correct conclusion as to the causes of the difficulties which brought the army ot of the united states slates into this Terri territory tiry again he says 1 I could have told tod you ou that our citizens here w were ere loyal and true to our government we would mould inform him thit that we are not ignorant of the nature of that loyalty lo 10 ally and we w e have hai e not forgotten that pi oro 01 0 kanyon kan on was vias fortified against the authority auth only ot of the United States and that the cannons mouth was prepared a long time aiace since tu to speak in in tones of thunder the boalt loyalty of the saints to the guil government erin complains compla ins of the existence exist nce among thern them the of the army of robbers and gamblers and in in treasonable language says they are legalized we ask what american citizen who ao is is a lover of our country with its glorious institutions institution of liberty and equality could intimate that the general government or any of its branches had legalized and sustained a band of marauders and gamblers to rob and plunder their fellow citizens we acknowledge ledge that gamblers and plunderers often accompany an arm army but we w e have too much respect farour for our laws and too much confidence in in tho the honesty and integrity of our ministers of law to charge them with being under federal authority participators participatory in in the crime crime of robbery and plunder we are asked to inform our american readers in ia his own lan language aage why I 1 myself was indicted by the hangers on of an army and trie tried d before a jury of whom a portion were homeless wanderers butlers sut lers clerks and why to complete the persecution against me the federal judge lent himself to be my persecutor and aided indis in his own courato court 10 bring about my mv own conviction we will inform our american readers iffe if we are arc properly informed ande believe we are that erins own biscon miscon duct led to his indictment and that the federal judge lent himself not to be his persecutor but to mete meta unto him detri autive botn e justice that he did not prostitute himself to a groveling desire to persecute and that if the jury for the hearing of his case had bad not been composed of f 0 congenial spirits he w would now be suffering in thebus the just penalty of his crime crime there lare are por portions of erins article to which J we have not replied for the want wan of space EnIe Trise carson valle valley |