Show r f p n SQ am T TM mill ond J 3 y I 1 aln in astei days day s alnette appeared aiom fi om gitlic riichi iston 1 I T age headed beaded a 11 I isaid customer ll 11 31 thurmond lately banished ficia beaver head by the vigilance Vigila committee by a mischance the article appeared ii without the comments we no dashed to append to them the gravamen of the charge against mr T was that lie was banished from froin bannack for being a notorious secessionist sonic some months since relying on what we ino heard flom a passerby passer by we unwittingly gave gaio currency to a similar report shortly afterwards early in the ii v inter mr thurmond with v ith others arrived in salt ake lake city where he be has been all winter from him and others in whom we nye think we can rely we were and are arc satis sath tied fied that injustice has been done him ile he presented ted credentials which proved that he be was banished simply sim ply because in pursuing his hh profession as a law yer in be defended some of tile the men hung bung by the committee and ad not for being a secessionist on the contrary we have abundant c ci i donee that he be is a staunch loyalist ai he be certai certainly claims to be moreover we are arc informed that the question of loyalty or disloyalty never came the committee and that miny of its most prominent members member 3 are notorious mr thurmond fell under the ban of tile tho committee for defending criminals we lino banc known of such thin things before we vc reni ember in the stormy times 0 of f the vigilantes in tile the celebrated colonel bilker baker ml fell under just such a ban for defending chas cora com afterwards bull hung by the committee and bame very near being banished aiom the country A lawyers ha duty duly sometimes leads liim him into strange fc company and under tinder iiii oath lie ii bound boun d to defend those w who ho may demand als liT is services hou however ever repugnant ii it may be to his feeling s slid we hive e little doubt was nas the case cage NN with mr thurmond ile he has bag been with n ith us its all winter and wo have heard of no woid of ic ie against him din dining ing iiii his fairy here iio he is ia a young voun man or of intelligence biank open and and candid condid ind and biorn aiom abat we have seen of him and headd filin aiom we nic believe it he has been dented we take tac plea buic in making mah ilg this th IS statement nt and hope boale the aye age ii ill copy it mr T h N now wo vve believe in nei nevada ada teri atory attending to his legitimate business |