Show Wel welcome Coine to we welcome I 1 COM friend greeley Gr celey to our mountain home we greet thee as the friend of all mankind and pray to heaven a thousand such would come the truth of mormon principles to find tia with such men the saints would mould still comm commune alric and speak as if before the great Tri buile arraigned weve weli c plead before the senates tates tar bar for justice and the common rights of man yelp yet condemned nut not knowing what we are and sought and did the purest souls trepan and offered up their sacrifice of ire at Mo lochs shrine to please their blind de sire ea then came the exodus like the dread scattering destruction oer the pat iless wild khile trav trailing ling mid the winters dr drear deetry Etry gloom I 1 death came to may ma y a husband mother child 1 till here at length we found a treating g place A home amongst the savage sav age of our race I 1 and yet et a thousand miles extended length of barren n wilds elds canerot can ot make imke us secure were hunted still while treason adds its strength to all were blamed for everything impure that vice vice ran can name is is laid upon our backs till every lone bone beneath the huge load cracks I 1 to whom we appeal than unto godl god we vie sought to man he spurned our righteous claim and armies followed with their ei civil vil code and men who nho knew not justice but in in name hive have held their courts by military av awe e Despi despising g authority arid ai d civil law I 1 I 1 weve sued tor for freedom as our rightful due not from the constitution nor its laws these we respect as all good subjects do and will maintain but from vile man who draws ills his living by falsehood fraud and barefaced lies which yen I 1 0 you o are the advocate of human ri rights of free liberty to all bears gods image be they hack black oi 01 ehtle wh ite teamed learned or illiterate or great or small dinall and shall the mormons cormons be by you rie neglect elect ed have they not claims anil ana rights to br be respected spec ted the press the living press of burning words has been the scourge of tyranny and wrong it is is the voice of GODS ELECTRIC clio T to despots dinep dire scathing the arm tho strong that dares to wrench from man that freedom given warded by virtue greatest boon of oe heaven we ask no privileges nor favour ed ld claim we ask ash no pardon for weve done no we ask the light of truth the trump of famel fame your pen and press may send to every clime and then the world will know that one man dared to speak the truth of all he saw and heard beard the foregoing is the pome w which bich we lie men mentioned tinned in our last and which the deseret news says sas was written for the occasion sion by mr john lyon we think it ought to lb have baie a general circulation ciri illation as a specimen of mormon literature and to show the stupendous I 1 arrogance of this people one would hi that those who claim so much of divine would be i inspiration helped out a little better in one place godys god people was erased and mormons cormons Mor mons substituted we suppose that was thought to b be too gross an arrogation in the connection perhaps also he tho tight that it might occur to mr greeley that he was one of those m who ho were not gods people and might possibly shock the sensibility even of one who is so BO notoriously fond of all the isms iams y they seem to think it hard that they I 1 should not be allowed to do as they please after traveling tra a thousand miles ought ough t to have added a few more miles to their travels i and got out of the jurisdiction of the united states if they wanted to estable establish sh an independent order of celestial beings we do not know of any persons who mho wito tre panned but think it would do some gome of them good to have that on performed there nere is is much about justice jusli cc but deex we expect P act it is is pretty much such a case as that of ithe the irishman who mho would have teen been very glad clad of justice lad it not been awarded him they did not seek freedom from the con ution because they mere here too good subjects to doubt or dispute that but from vile man ly c now just note the he assurance af of tile the people and the slur cast upon the administration and the people ot of the united states they ney are as a race vile title in distinction from the mormons cormons Mor mons who are S duls what a pity pit that these vile men have the power to make laws laas tor for these poor innocent people who have never done anything rong n who ho acknowledge the laws to be rig right but will nil riot not obey them because vile maa man has the administration of them we ask no pardon for weve done doe no crime they still continue to assert thise this in in the face of all reason and ignoring the fact ot or having accepted a pardon pusillanimously backing out N when lien they had been 8 ticking sticking up for their rights so long it mould bave lare been more consistent if they had resisted to the last extremity we have given this subject more space than it intrinsically merits but it is is the principle we wish to exhibit in it are embodied some of the views of the principal men put forth at mr greeley with what they thought a sufficient eose 0 of f flattery to cause him to swallow the poison we think how however ever the sugar coating on the pill was of itself sufficiently thick to cause a nauseating sensation |