Show A per ij of persecution is one of tile the athe tile agencies es made use og ol 01 by on I 1 leaders anil and pieces lve ave in the breasts of the honest 4 masses of their sect the eni emi y pa ia lousy I 1 0 ausy ellich chich they not only lils l ils those who do not subscribe 1 it I faatu atea belief but likewise eminent itself chese leaders jia 1 IV illy clyl it f not uniform uniformly lyt devoid of ill I 1 ier a ability bil ity that would be feces pv ate inn inca above their fel felloni loas s bieter ier community than this but jia mich low ell cunning ing and arv are ip S co conversant cou versant with the und kincl of juliat hat they tae to bork wor kupon upon j fit t means mans for keeping alive alire th i 1 ach they ihry have bucce succeeded succeed eda rd in I 1 lii in many weal weak but honest cloning giovi ing in the he 1 first arst place that L is the mother of devotion S of the ibe tenacity rain extreme sensitiveness wilb IV pie and credulous per persons 0 ns i iseli ef once formed forni ei on the aab it b j y gion they make use of this 1 I I 1 by worl birg in every apa pan the and pret t iuca uch to awaken and co I 1 ti I 1 ida ja a feeling of enmity and 1 0 all m abo ho differ v with ith them in prophesies of dread dead ic les es 0 pestilence famine aid yei sf are thundered against all ithe onward march of zion I 1 ue most barefaced and shanie ali itous are to prove brove fannies arnies of the church are a al cing the indignation and it 0 the ibe almighty for opposing 1 of tiie the great latter alter day tas is ivre we not lor lorg since heard f I 1 heaven sa savel he I 1 substance fro fron the tabs I 1 city that the people lathe in the very little to eat that they 1 lils lUnte and nearly famished bolat aaa in some localities the int I 1 ate je reduced to such extreme ext remi tt vaa impossible to procure necessaries of life etith fill I 1 lore of such like stuff which r very cry maji mail of even the corn camj diligence ili gence to be utterly false ye never pore more abundant nor are general throng throughout bout the fearing daring the prophecies of calamities to j of those that do statute sti tute so effective a w atea ea 1 P lating the opposition and as the rry ery of ct I 1 which is iaco consta nataly ly raised I 1 ellard u a 1 l C a tic change is I 1 t cb is constantly i ail la 11 or delusion of the masses in mia alis aois in utah everywhere athe the mormons cormons have ever vat ions in et ei cry shape and ami A ei persecution perse cu ions compared st paul paul states V upon him were merciful merci lul i e prophet joseph was slain t j prophet Brig liam barn has been i 0 least of bryand arpy and N fc his blood the lord only ii rany any other prophets have at untold afflictions they V a the mormon sect have yin am point to until they were finally beyond the bounds of I 1 order to escape from those 1 toem sem with bloodhound blood hound hat e but even in this wilder they fled and which they tao rf rom corn savage v mildness and I 1 n ddn here their pursuers are ly in n their track and thirsting thir sing i J these are only a few variations iria tiong with chich our f scantly regaled here and jtb iad ad simply as aa illustrations affe to which the faith subjected and not as comfit if by any means exhausting i ia save alve endured at the hands bands it ila th object of these v all j digs are palpable to joany an y one blant with the arts arta by which Oi nning impo titers contrive cont rire t r followers and to keep cices and delusions they d jp have bare believe that A all 11 ayr r world are tb ir ene ciemus s sy can confirm be belief cef IF ceded in binding and ana riv to which ch ther would tint fint tina fina a they can thereafter use 1 nt and submissive toola 1 what persecution Is ie way icay 1 t sa or of many other persons fear apar they do we will sp ap apon authority on the meau beof betit words word cow come dom c nash oah crl co come dw down from thai that shelf on oil v w aich ic you have too long moulder arki da 1 ai and enlighten us 3 in in regard to the D t this ld hi t tenn r 1 I well here it ls i the hc in infliction atlan ot pain punishment ent or death on oil others unjustly particularly for adhering to a religious reli poua creed or mode of worship bip either by way of 4 penalty or of compelling them to arte rte their prin aples ples such is noah Webs websters lerPs exposition of what persecution consists and now we ask in all candor and sli carity and rethe mormons cormons were either visited by pain punishment or death on en account of their religious religions beliet belief ifft if it le be answered batlin both in missouri and 1111 illinois nois it will be very easy to prong that the troubles m which aich they experienced la im both those states grew out of causes very i ery different from anhof a religious religions kind hind we are not familiar iab etith the llie difficulties or causes which compelled the mor amono to 0 o leave ohio but we vie have been often told ly by persons persona fj fd millar with tile the facts artl anti vi no ho could have no mothe e in rais is stating thein that abe i the mor mons on first settled in jacskon county mo AID there 1 as if rot actual ty for then them at least a general sympathy felt towards them inasmuch as they were booked ajon as a prescribed class who libo lad had been compelled to ab abandon alleon their homes on account of their religion tais i sympathy continued as long as the cormons mormons respected the rights inch belonged ion ged to others as well as to them ivesa but when they assumed I al license for appropriating to themselves hat belonged to others ot liers and began to make forays upon tile stock and other oilier property belonging to other citizens not of their own sect they became justly indignant and their partiality was vely naturally changed into haried and opposition ion and this was vaa the primary cause that led to their expulsion from jackson jacl son Cout bounly ity they next fettled in caldw calda ell and all d davis counties ties in missouri and the ibe people of these countley comities Comi Count ties leg likewise tt wel el coined them to i their midst as a class against whom lom had barred the door doer of justice put without Nit hout profiting by the th experience u chich hichi they had paired gained in in jack jackson son county they alie soon Te resorted sorted to their old tricks again od and eather d her furgit or diere carded the rights of melvi arid and the consequence ce was that they were expelled I 1 aiom these counties c ti as thy hod had ben been from jaclson but not till after force was resorted to to compel them hem to leave lae ai abio till some had been shed on both sides their exL laUon was at na arid we bave been I 1 that they were received ived as an all oppress oppressed ea and persecuted band ban 8 but pity there as aa elsewhere soon gave way nay to resentments presentments resent ments tor for injuries received and after the loss of their loading leading prophet lus his successor with his followers after stopping for a short time in in iowa mbeni e they escaped from the trea trient which they had met with elsewhere only because there were v ere few 11 inhabitants habitants ln in ike vici alty nt where here they settled mho whose a e ri his they the could avade i vade or property apar appropriate the saints finally filially left the borders of civilization and settled in tb this thaley aley what bat has been their course since they casebere caia cam ebere elsewhere Elsea here of fences were such as mark low and depraved natures that are incited more by avarice acance than by deep depravity or guilt dut but here they have improved upon their first practices licea and have added murder to the pe ty vices and crimes before indulged indulge din in yet because the govern government me at of the United states seeks to maintain its authority aut hrit and punish j unish infractions of the constitution and laws the same howl of that has been to often repeated ara against irist the people of missouri and because they sought to preserve their stock and other proper ty from rapine and confiscation the cry in both cases is false and unfounded the people of missouri and illinois were not hostile to the mormons cormons on account p le ligion nor is the government of the united states seeking in any way to oppress them besa tise of it and whenever marmoll leaders state to lo the contra rys ry they state what is balse and do it as aa has been said aard for UK tile purpose of ef confirming their own power over the 0 simple and credulous masses who com pose a majority of the I 1 mormon church neither the government of the united states nor of any separate state or ter j rito in this union except utah that we are of has haa ever sought to in or in any way interfere with the tights rights of conscience or of any mans I 1 belief on the subject of religion true here was a long time ago away down east a where ler most of the mormon dignitaries ta r ie ca came in from rom a persecution carried on by a self righteous and bigoted sect a against abut uch such as ventured 1 to differ lilt with th them 1 in b belief el cf but this was discontinue d long before the tea adoption of our present system of government and ana wa wag nowhere e practised practiced beyond newen new england d A and thank haneta 9 to the tbt liber liberal al and en jed raci ert of cf pur our the right to 6 establish ny religion je ligion or to prohibit I 1 abit the free iree strictly forbidden in that ins t t abut the to which we vre have b ave referred in ill new Eli englard Engl giand aad are not to be likened to those chose carried on by the mor mons mon here shere the puritans banished good old od roger williamh 11 lilians from massachusetts because lie be was vas a quaker and ad they affixed the penalty of death to all Qua quakers abo ho returned to the abe colony after abeln bansley bans lej this was waa most unjust ind and a most moet unwarranted usurpation on the pirt of those who enacted enact ei such laws but they are not eual in usurpation or in in to the assumption ss by a body of men calling I 1 themselves them a church of the power and duty of cutting a maii mans s head off because 1 he be sees proper to renounce ther creed lie has professed yet this pow poll er is 13 not only assumed in by the mormon leaders leader but has been openly proclaimed from pulpits and there is every reason to believe has been pat into execution in in the case of many an unfortunate apostate persecutions ons like ile this eans find a parallel onry in the lie bordors 0 the spanish sli inquisition two ago every eiery ell and semi civilized nation on erth earth have ions iong since since bards banished hij all such barbarous rites and practices practice and it Is at once jhc thc the reproach of our oura age and nation that they have haie been reu 4 ved in a land boasting above others of its enlightenment lighten ment and perfect toleration in it al matters of conscience and religion A large portion of our paper this week w cek is li di devoted d to a an it account of it the ie ici eilt riots at harpers fary the statement stat emert lereggen lere guen iven is as a distinct ai we have seen in addition to the facts contained in in it we ive should state that brown and the other conspirators aho vho were mere not no killed hove have since been tried at charles tov town n va the county seat of jefferson coull county ty and they have been severally found guilty or of murder treason treaso and art d the attempt to incite insurrection they have all been sentenced to deah dea h and the second at d day of december last friday was the day filed by the court for the tion of old brown bronn the ringleader in the plot biot 11 a tl in sonie quarters that gov ov wise will commute isis bis sentence to imprisonment for life so far is as brown zelf is concerned tins this would be no doubt oil a greater punish mei t e elution cc ec ution as lie he no doubt croul nonia p prefer r efer death to imprisonment e that he would u then lien be looked upon as a martyr r to liberty but such a crazy and desperate fat atle should be made ap an example or and tile die fleet upon other W nm will no doubt be greater bint sw fj and notto a as s a bergland once didi rebel mho tried to still up sedition and treason lit ili the kingdom for the alic sale sake putto death and being thought L a martyr As lie he seema to libor hard ar d to dieth die eking determined that heth no have hate the pleasa or the glory glary is aich lie thought would result aid accordingly spare spared d ilia his lite life although deserving descry atle death th cook one of the leading accomplices III ii the barriers harriers Harri ers ferry emette made his 41 ea 4 1 cape ca pe athirst at first but was i as subsequently arrested at Chambers cha bury pa and subsequently delivered over on a requisition from froin the governor a ol vernor 0 of virginia Virgi iua ilia bial had not taken place atille at the time of our latest ad vices fen ID D are ringing all 11 tho tb will 0 there this alie tb letl to t pay abin A man roes gt out m 11 yes we have done III we havet have yes tes erday we had the delightful delight fitl pleasure of a good old fashioned sleigh ride january and may went out together and returned all the better for the trip knot not the january and may that lately latel married in new york and sung abo about ut by y I 1 mr it S biroan Bd roan walkabout talk about the excitement odthe of the chase the spirit stirring fife and drum the baying of hounds houmis treed cootie the distilling business practicing law or editing a newspaper what are they all when compared to a seat in a sleighs sleigh wrapped in buffalo robes beside a bunch of 0 live calico drawn b by y four spirited d john horses arid and a go good od J jehu and up ali but it glorious plumb cake and candy ori on christmas christinas never raised half the th happy thoughts it in the he mind of a child bild that rushed up through car hat on j yesterday it reminded us of times long it past ast when a crowd of boys and giri girls use d to be packed in a sleigh together when we all eat spoon fashion to keep ke ep war nian d thinking of doughnuts dough nuts nuta mince pies hand band all round and aas V as tle the one that you lake hoei best this may all be wrong bu mit t w we e is cant nt help it we do like ike alien 1 a our toes did dia g get et cold and ad our nose noea a little redde would be willing I 1 n g to endure ten times imes the inconvenience felt and the detriment to good looks for our a repetition af if the plea sure awe felt and we give noti notice ce now that as soon as our paper is is onto out we will be found standing the on corner walt walten ln for some gome oe to ask aak us to pitch 1 in an and d tai tat e another ride I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 flie territorial legislature le gl ir will me meet ot in this city on 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