Show hi twive e airs YeaT y SAgo ra go all J t we publish public lithe the following IGI lowing extract ex arct f fr ro om m an edi editorial to lat a article bicle athy athe tey talley tan th n of december de ce hiber 1859 it I 1 t is a truthful tr picture many ot of the evils and wrongs IF mentioned in ill this article are in existence now and the same arguments aye are yet employed by church leaders the article is presented to our readers without any further comment at this time r two year sago utah was ivas in belfiori bel liori against he laws and ot or trie united states she had bad alsic carded and au d set at defiance flance fi officers ceis appointed pointed by the government to administer and execute the law of the territory peaceful and law abiding citi citizens who dwelt here had bad been some of them murdered d a and nd others driven out of the territory terr tarr erelt r i to y by 1 y a hoida hot do of miscreants and traitors who had usurped the reins of government govon here on oil the plains the amohr in ing ashes of loaded with wih government stores attested the houlne lo ulness ss of the treason that ran rankled kled hero here in eano canon dykes and battle ments erected to oppose the passage of C troops ti coops of the ilia united states bucio sucio sue b ae th 11 11 1 V wr X 1 or of utah a gove inin nt the mildest and roost most liberal ol of any inyl on earth and which only denia demanded tided of q utah the same and L to law which is required or of any other state and territory of which it is composed what was its ita internal condition durin during the 1 same timea large major ty y of the people dwelling it ceic hot a then us as now were loreign ero who were ignorant ot of the very lorm form ot of government under tinder which they dwell and knew nothing of its designs and policy beyond what their leaders told them aai and d on oil these they unfortunately tuna tely placed h irid relience as ai they alsoP yielded mu ah implicit obedience diance di ence every art conceivable and means mean 5 were used balth se badela la dela to iiii impress p I 1 on the minds oi of eded beings the belief that t the L ae government ot the united states s was seeking s llah g to oppress oparee them suing t 1 m I with ith persecutions on account of their religion they were told that if thy the army came here their wives would be ravished lavished ravi shed by a brutal soldierly that their homes donld disappear beneath the torch ot the ilia or what was worse become the abodes i ot of their oppressors pres preb sors that their property would be given over to pillage and confiscation witha with a thousand other lies were told to to stimulate illa m opposition of em the 7 x fiort L 4 gu tl which then as now was far more considerate si of their lights than those who erected themselves into anlo the professed and special champions pt of them it is id n ab nb 0 bonu tr t r that tha 1 t by such adli means such persons were deceived we find them consequently neglecting the pur pill baits bulls ui of quiet a add ild ordinary industry in dusti y for which abe boy y ane I 1 edly eril fai and spending ill their el fortell c cilious Ci ta lions and anden in the exercise of military ev i libis t fa tp ip oppose die idal t SS I 1 0 f theil supposed enemies 1 into the Territory course I 1 brought brou glit no rewards r ewards their t were lutt left without aitho it thil the usual MAs M As of bf sup support pori ami ada or course V were deprived of afi the comforts and necessaries or elifet lite so aha fil at by the ibe time they 1 hey were addred by their imperious dictators togo to ga south many of L re ji 4 a 5 filid d anfu st titu it litzou liou anil and w aai 1 was tho co edition of dirsie dir ld 0 clars years ago treason aird reb r ebal eb al ellion li 6 n livit eriv apiou h and h d w wint ant within et ct thase amethe times ithael thae awaken 1 sighs that cannot be chok led ild t I fL naoi TIC INO A ditl L taj Y f 0 no noy W and w wha h at are ui they now bauo by means abbi as bielat agh t acca and calm im athey il ill e y might be anta but a vast improvement certainly tainy on what j the lowering and aln cloud 1 which tuen then ove pl 13 d se seemed died charged v alth jg tl n and an a tempest st badere tb e horizon it 0 riz 0 n andino a u d alv w 1 display theire wrath in di tant tan taud andar muttered i thunders treason which then stalked openly anil abroad now seeks same som rc littre lif tre e disguise the snake shake has bieti lb vh s child but killed t qi 1 t i cipres of an army ilij i M yitoi some little cecur security ethan t they h ey could coul I 1 two years ago f true their rights ure are stil violated in some respects but their treatment ment is I 1 u p mp area with whai R 0 B They Tb eyare nce some times timea aw now v as ansas assas dai in le bifid of course no 0 rl n aln find d out whence the blow camo ablat I 1 destroyed dest joyed them b ut ahry y ae a n ot open lyt oldin in acourt ard ba b a E ar bof laii i an 1 a t alibi will be bc thida ven tuio 0 tr hisert sert air their rights against aimor be and federal j luty duty without int f fromi ram ati iban rowdies idd and bullie but I 1 it AM M juries are not coin rp c convict avirt ono one of abir ir t f committed against aj they i ilari indeed inde dJ try r oliv one ot of their bembera for any this kind in ili sonic some cases no effort abate whatever v er 1 is S made to io find out thi pei perpetrators petra tors of crime as aa was the case wit with h the drown arnold find and vincent in ili ot others hers where the crime performed in iii open day and in the sight of hundreds hun dreda of citizens the murderer was quietly permitted to make his bis escape bittic any of them c even aca abe they are arc not brought to trial f 6 I 1 F a grand jury interposes and 11 ignores inore any bill against them as was the ane c case with the man who killed the leaf deaf and dumb boy a year ago but wily why enumerate particular instances when it is believed on cooil evidence that over wo two linn hundred died murders have been in this territory within the tha past abr three p year that were incited incite dand and participated ajit ici in by cormons mormons Mor cormons mormons Mor mons and yet nota single offender lias has been bro brought tight to trial and punishment ther elor this fact alone proves low how much respect is bad bedfor for life here andon and on what basis the good order and quietude which prevails prevail sin in jtb 1 1 rests |