| Show expedition against utah f strange as it may seem office holders and edmini administrators stra tors of a republican government have with but few exceptions forgotten the principles so dearly established by our revolutionary sires and are violating 0 the very genius of the free institutions they are sworn to maintain i ta i n and it is a curious fact that the very tyranny thrown off hy by the thirteen original Z states has all the while been measurably fastened te ed upon our territories through taxation without representation through appointing M officers in opposition to the well known choice of the he people and without their being allowed a vote or even voice in the matter and through direct and ind unconstitutional le legislation in organic acts for internal regulations over which they alone have the right to legislate until at length emboldened by success bloated with imaginary ir power rotted by cliques and parties and fired with the spirit of despotism the very government whose constitution absolutely forbids the passage of a law prohibiting the free exercise of religion are designedly 0 prosecuting 0 a movement against their own citizens in oae yone one of the ther territories oIes oles solely with a view to utterly crush out that thab dearest right of all religious freedom who does not wish to enjoy the rights equally guaranteed to all citizens by our constitution but it appears that the government have at last thrown off the mask and are making unmistakable efforts to deprive of that privilege a large class of americans previously dis franchised exiled and now settled amid rocks and deaerts des erts to whose conquest they furnished an inhumanly resu regu required ired excessive quota of troops and where no others would of choice make their homes the term government when whon unqualified in this article is invariably used as synonymous with the exercise of governmental authority or wih with the tile administrators of the government and in contradistinction to the constitution of the united states atef ates which the saints ever have most strictly and cheerfully obeyed and sustained and intend so to td do as also all constitutional laws for they in nowise curtail a single act which a saint desires or expects to perform from the day in which joseph smith the prophet began to receive revelations from J jehovah jp hovah earth and hell have been moved to compass the overthrow and extermination ot of the latter day saints state stafe after state ohio missouri and illinois has mobbed tarred feathered killed and expelled them while the government has chuckled over f such illegal 0 and inhuman tr treatment eat ment and worse still while saying ir your cause is just but we cando can do nothing noling fortoul for you they have actually operated against t us and while suffering im a stat state e to killa kill oppress and expel a part of its its citizens be because cause forsooth neither the legislature nor the executive of that state had applied for protection against domestic violence upon what principle did the government invariably side with the oppressor th that at cursed and suicidal operation the administrators trampling under foot the constitution and laws they were in trusted and sworn to adminis ter did not in manifest itself so plainly while the S saints ai n ts were in ohio for they were then few in number and their enemies entirely 1 ignorant 0 of the power of those pure principles by which the servants of the most high are actuated I 1 fondly imagined that expulsion from that state would effect e their utter overthrow but in missouri all could plainly see that thattie the tha government themselves were openly hostile to the saints aa as will appear most obvious in the he consideration of a few questions who controls the tile united states mails the post oace office department in washington under at authority bority from congress which has the power ato to establish post offices and post roads who stops those mails that same department for no other person has the right and while th the saints were being mobbed in missouri the mails were prohibited from carrying letter lette sto reto them when letters were carried as usual to their enemies thus thug lendin lending governmental aid to mobs eo so far as was then deemed politic and affording t the patriotic spectacle of a majority of the leading 11 men of our nation siding with the oppressor and proving beyond question ti on that a government founded by the blood of our fathers as a sure refu refue refuge e for all lovers of freedom had bad thus thug early and openly began to give stones instead of bread and scorpions in instead a tead of fish through treasonably abetting religious intolerance has not the govern ent ment cut acted with mobs in killing distressing and driving an innocent people yes every time talk about treason nebel rebel rebellion lioni and resistance si to law why with but few exceptions which now scarcely dare to even whisper the very office holders and administrators of our constitution and jaws laws are and for long years have been tearing at the very vitals of our free institutions and corruption has now gained such an ascendancy that thab if any one so much as raises his voice against 1 it though 16 in a style as plain as noon priests editors politicians ti tic ians lans blacklegs and the devil raise a joint howl throughout the length and breadth of our land and it is caught up and repeated by the london times and their other coadjutors throughout the world verily does parson brownlow write most truly when he states and if the present generation of men particularly the majority of office holders and office seekers in our nation could see themselves in th the gospel glass they are as black aa as hell la tk nauvoo illinois the same governmental mail stopping upon the saints was adopted some two or three times and for several weeks at a time during C the dobbings mob bings binga which teronina I 1 ted for a brief period in the fiendish ansas assas of the prophet and patriarch joseph and hyrum smith we have all the time known the des designs ns and plans of the government and now for them to talk about the expedition tion against utah being peaceful fudge if they wish us to eb believe such cursed nonsense why not first reinstate re instate us in those ri nights rights 11 ats and privileges they deprived us of in ohio illinois and missouri and use a little show of effort to bring the assassins of joseph and hyrum to justice have they ever done so all the world know that they have not and all saints know full well that from the beginning they wickedly feared and hated hand joseph joseh and that they did not rest until they had destroyed his life from the earth and that too while he had the pledged L faith of 51 a sovereign state for his protection during 0 an imprisonment to which he had been drag dragged n ed solely under mere color of law for he ha had d committed no crime I 1 but are missouri and illinois the only regions I 1 0 ns in in which the government have most outrageously abused the saints k in regard to mail facilities the post orfice office cc department knows that utah from its first settlement has been imposed upon by mail mall contractors and yet just so 80 soon as the mail for the first time began 0 to be carried speedily regularly and safely between this city and independence that department part ment trumped up a shallow pretext for tal tai taking ing away the contract coti coh tract and topping plopping the mail for no apparent cause except that it was for or once ce being carried speedily speedia Y regularly and safely and likely to be so carried ani and and that the fhe contract was legally in the hands of a mormon does not t that hat afford another positive proof that a government P professing inability to sustain the saints in their equal and ju just st rights can at the same time do all against them that a rotten public opinion will countenance ancel solely through the fault of the department in sending mr kimball a notification of the acceptance of his bid by a route on which they knew the mail was wag not regularly carried that notification did not reach him until last march A newspaper notice of the awarding of tife tire e contract had bad arrived a short time previous and so great was the anxiety that effi clent mail service mutually beneficial to all should be speedily put upon the loute route that steps were at once taken for that purpose and A a mail sent out in february and so energetically were operations prosecuted ahat mr john R murdock took look the july mail to independence pen dence in the nn short period 0 of f FIFTEEN days traveling time and having been only sixteen and a half days on the road the contract price for such arduous prompt reliable safe and heretofore unheard anh eard of speedy mail service was wag only some a year Y ear a miserable pittance for the service being L performed and after thousands upon thousands of dollars had been freely expended in so pla cing men animals and vehicles upon the route as to speedily gain one half upon time with a fair prospect of soon bein being 9 able to perform tb the e trip tripo in twelve or even ten days the post office department was so dastardly da mean as to tyrannically annul the contract wil filly billy f illy reek reel reckless less of the rights and interests of that class of american citizens nicknamed mormons cormons Mor Alor mons the conduct of the post office e department towards the saints has been dwelt upon at some len ien lenth length tb not because it particularly injures us for ices it does not injure us us so much as it does those who indulge in and countenance such unjust and unconstitutional treatment but chief ly because that conduct most unequivocally in dicatos a long continued and persistent system of oppression on the part of the government and by and by when they shout to father abraham to send lazarus with a f few ew drops of water to cool their parched tongues the poor miserable curses will find out that there is no mail running between abraham and them after the saints had paid scores and hundreds of thousands of dollars into the government treasury for public lands did the government ever indicate the least disposition to protect them in the peaceful occupancy of those lands or to reinstate them after af ter they had been ruthlessly driven from their homes on american soil no did they not but rejoiced over their expulsion all the day long we are i now occupying a country settle bettle dby us us when whon save a f few ew rude mountaineers nom rom nought 0 b t but wild animals and untamed savages roamed over dreary drear wastes then theli under the dominion of mexico did we come here of choice ii no loy lop the tender mercies of the civilization of the lath century backed by the support of the tae government disfranchised franchised dis and exiled us to seek new homes where best we could or to perish in the attempt a result which would have been the more highly b gratifying to our enemies and after it is widely known that we have almost miraculously improved a region hitherto rejected and avoided supplant supplanting iD c wild beasts and tamin taming 0 wilder savages by a Iopu population lation peaceful orderly industrious virtuous and patriotic above all others has congress had the justice to extend to us those preemption pre emption laws so invariably enacted for all other territories N notwithstanding we have improved american boil soil that no others would subdue after having furnished a far larger quota of troops for its conquest than did an any y other state or territory and that too under a most inhuman requisition Is such usage equal Is it constitutional tut ional the government know that it is neither but what do they care so it but serve serves to oppress the Alor mons and the government were eo miserably corrupt that they even refused to fairly pay the I 1 mormon battalion which so promptly comp complied liea with so illegal a requisition and rendered service highly comin commended ended by the united states stales officers in command talk about treason in utah where the constitution ution and every applicable constitutional and territorial law has been besa honored and where the rights and privileges of all have been invariably respected and maintained regardless gard less of sect or party such talk comes with an ill grace from our enemies for they had better look a little nearer home homa where statesmen and priests cry out that there is a b higher her law to be observed sup superior brior to the con atit ution where here party after party and state after state have openly condemned a decini decision 0 of the supreme court of the united states severely commented upon the majority odthe of the judges in in that court and promised and advocated resistance to their decisions where the governor of a state utterly and with impunity mp unity disregarded a decision of that court where civil war has raged in a territory and a vigilance committee held sway in a state where one state is threatening war upon another where lynch law executed ten victims in a new state between april and july last where a speaker of the house of representatives exclaimed let the union slide where dein dern demagogues ag priests and lying editors are lashing the people beyond all legal restraint where influential speakers and writers are striving to violently array the people of a populous city against those of the state in which it is located and so forth and BO so on for the detail is so discreditable to the privileged citizens of our proud republic and is also so thoroughly understood by readers and thinkers thin keis keie that it is not cot pleasing 0 to go into minute specifications of the many abominations ab ih practiced by our enemies under all man ner nen of cloaks garbs and pretexts to the th almost utter of justice freedom and truth to utah where governor young and the people have at great expense pursued a kind and pacific pol poi policy icy lcy towards the indians a few thousand dollars hive have have been grudgingly doled out by the indian department in Washington to keep up an outward show of fairness when refractory indians have at times disregarded 0 the most humane treatment and destroyed the property and lives of her citizens utah has fought her own battles at her own expense though hundreds of thousands of dollars are wantonly appropriated for and expended in territories and at least in one state for the suppression of indian hostilities wherein b by y the admission of the whites themselves the th e indians are more sinned against al ainest than sinning and often when indian ag agents in an drafts upon government in baym ei i tsoi labor lator labor employed farming utensils purchased other officially legitimate and proper expenditures and even for their own salaries those drafts are recklessly dishonored by the department and become of no more worth than paper rags what other territory has ever received anything I 1 like such cursed abuse and deprivation of just rights and dues not one such treatment is not here mentioned because utah desires the public funds and patronage lavished by government to favoritism oppression rottenness and the speedy destruction truc tion of the union for right thriftily kas bas has utah flourished in this molt most isolated and barren region notwithstanding the neglect 0 I 1 oppression and hatred of those who should have hava been her warmest friend friends 3 butsch treatment is noticed notice d to show to the world that our government with here and ther here a few feli excel rendered no assistance n to Utah except to destroy her inhabitants and but little to the tho indians within her borders and haseker ha sever sought bought every opportunity and clutched at ayery unhallowed pretext for doing all against her that public opinion would war warrant ranu radu such has most |
