Show religious Eelig Zelig ious lous persecution ethe ahe mormons cormons r and the cincinnati gazette I 1 whatever may be the re revolutions that occur to the cincinnati gazette it is worthy of remark that ihal in one ode respect that journal seems incapable of change charge its philosophy tp whatever bran branch brunch i ch of human concerns it is applied continues for ever the same if in religion and morals moral there is is tiie tile same seine cold and narrow big bigotry otly and in n politics and public ubal e economy the tha same seine shallow and old world orl ori conservatism that have for so long a time contributed buted to make tip up and cori corl confirm hirm firm that fossil reputation r gunabe lonabe which it enjoys en joys joss unable to conceive ot anything outside of its church and its caste casie imagines it the whole world to lie within the circle of its ils own vision and with a aielt of intolerance which seems bize like the tiie combined product of impotence and looks Js upon every invasion of its interests as ail an attack upon its principles and every suspicion acion of the correctness of its principles as a wanton blow at its interest lu in fact its sentiments upon anor morals morais als ais and business are such euch as otle one might expect to hear from the lips of the exemplary and pious thomas allibone aiu AlU bone president of tile the bank of pennsylvania sylv inia ania or of the ret rev P B manchester late of this city elty while enga engaged ed in ins his endeavors to j spread the gospel in fit california and if we add j to his this a palpable ignorance of the tha most roost common j things we shall have that compound of superstition cruelty and stupidity which m ilic 1 more than in any other concern we can call think 0 of f is the distinctive feature of the editorial columns of til tile tild cui cul gazette there I 1 is no rece recent ccase case that we remember of in which the gazette has lies been nore more successful in exhibiting the peculiar style learning lea iea ining mid and its piety than in its mormon article of ye yes j morning the knowledge displayed displaced by j the editor of tile the character chu recter and functions f u of our government the i lights bights 0 of citizens and of men mail lii ill in general if not dot very brilliant lias lies other qualities which render U 4 remarkable hy hid religious feelings we haxe haye no doubt have been se seriously outraged by y the he sins of the fatter falter atter day saints he ile is fully convinced that such wicked people ought not to cumber the eurth airth is s greatly really scandalized by their improper cond conduct u c t I 1 and if he had his bis way would doubtless bang iu in c a cross between the mosaic and dd the dispensations and cut out them off from the face of thie the earth lith lors noris tile the editor of the gazette desti destitute tate of the skill will ilc ric necessary essary for a bigot he if a knows how bow by slander to prepare the way for persecution and can call bear false witness in order to secure jusufi 1 cation for a premeditated crime we do not ic ia member to have seen within the sage same same space a larger amoust of macre misrepresentation resen tation than ti i contained in the following paragraph aph misrepresentation which under present circumstances is is no better beiter than cruelty the event to which mormonism was rapidly il tending e ii daig has liag at length ai rivel with insulting language lar lat guage they defy tile hie power of the United state States attack its troops and resist all law lawful itil without owning an agre acre of I 1 lind rid they seize selsa upon ike territory and claim the right to control it they are ilow now in ip the hie attitude altitude of open war and anti an al I 1 arny is isrow now low malch maich nig upon them from rom the commencement of this question we have considered i the mormon colony as alien lo 10 the govern and laws jaws of the ilia union and which must most ultimately be suppressed essed tras this result was inevitable they could not live in nils Alis missouri they could not live in if illinois they cannot live lice in meil utah the cormons may be a very bad people in deedee may safely admit thui that they are so with cubit out cut thereby he reby affording ground for the inference that the t the h e superior intelligence vintie mori morl morality mobility lity or religion of the people of the tile states of itself confers upon the latter the right to cut them ox off at will from tile the face of the earth it lt will not do notwithstanding 11 the gazette to the cont contrary raty to assume the right to kill lili all who i do not come up thour standard stan daid of excellence besides resides it may be that in the controversy be bei ber i tween the mormons cormons and the government we do not net know the whole truth it is neither impossible nor improbable that the administration may have treated utah as it has kansas to a succession of scoundrels phat Tha tsuch uch has ha been the he case ii part we have reason to tel lel leve that similar sumlar causes weld were in operation in both cases i 1 cei cel taid taip and add ar d there is nothing unnatural in tile tiie presumption p llon lion that they have produced like defects it is sa eaid said d that the agents of tha government have been men trien who have d thia ilia he mormons cormons with their vices and enraged ulem hiem with their of fences and it is at least equitable to admit that tha blame llama has not been beell all apol the hide side of that unhappy people to one who knows their past history and the crimes that hye been committed against them the allusion no their resi rosi residence dence in all ali and aud nils Alis missouri is especially disingenuous if they were nere bad facts show that they wele surrounded by worse and add if their acts were criminal the treatment which they received was fiendish fieldi h our i I 1 dus bus proceeds to us it has lies seemed strange that any person should think the existence of a separate mormon colony as at all corn coin compatible with tile the religion n laws and institutions of the tho united slates they might live individually as they do anany in any of 06 the states for they would then be field accountable io 10 the laws of the statland state and their crinus be punished puni i aa as they are in other others but for that very re reason ison mormonism is adverse to living in any ally other community it cannot eudore endore tile die law or the light it was as shortsighted short sighted as weak to allow them to seize se ize upon a part of the public domain and occupy it without price anil anu without le i 5 ita to orile ortie one who understands what is constitution oly r lly ily meant by the term united state states there is is kio Aio gothing thing in m the existence of a separate mormon CI Polly upon the tha salpe seme continent at all iacong lacom S with a any y of it rights or functions there is nothing in the constitution that commands uniformity in lie leb ich ligion gion glon laws and institutions even in the members ot of the confederacy to say nothing of communities that are not included therein NO one will contend in theory at least hast that communities wll wil without holit he ile united state states are not entitled to as much indulgence at the hands of the government in in regard to their religion laws and institution as those that are within and any administration Admi nitration that should attempt to dictate by means of an armed force or by oppression under the form of law 0 to o the state of ohio either in respect reject to religion laws or institutions would not dot only y violate express provisions of the constitution ti tuti ution but would be apt to met with an unusual rising of the people our civil cliar cilar character deter the spirit of the constitution from beginning to end is is a protest against such interference it is is not vely surprising ing that tile the Mor mormon mons hai bai haag in 1 institutions differing in n some respects hom those of tile the people of the united states in general should desire to join in separate communities where those institutions can be protected thic this so far from being wrong is in their favor in carrying out this ibis desire they comply with the spirit of that fede federative rathe form of government under wl wilh wll ali ill h we e live hie and which was made fedel fedei alive for just such purposes to adapt it to different conditions modes creeds and institutions nothing but the perverse spirit of a religious bigot could see in in this a cause of complaint such a bigot assuming that all institutions institution 1 creeds and practices that difior differ from lis his its own are because they so differ wrong wicked criminal heu hea en and deservi deserving rig the wrath of an ail angry god is ready to proceed at itce 01 ce with fire ant ani an I stoid to carry extermination to the wrong wrong doers oar our neighbor of the gazette for example does not appear to be aware that lie he is is ast t an ail avenging deity delty deit delt the divinity the ilia seat beat of w hose whose power 0 er and glory is at the corner of fourth and und vine streets does seem to have been sorely tried tiled in in his spirit by the crimes of fences iniquities adul tene sand unclean nesses of the latter day faints saints he has borne with ther then lle ile lie r transgressions until lle lie 1 e call can bear no longer they thes the have sinned away the day of his grace his mercy is exhausted his forbearance tattled to hate and a desire for sudden and bitter retribution they laput must be suppressed P r esse d remember member Ee 0 0 puny dealer dedier in damnation volunteer wielder of the thunder boits bulls of the almighty intruding jud judae judge e juror and executioner into the chancery of heaven heaten remember that thou tilou art mortal try to bow thy til sour and stony spit spat it to the conce conception alion that in in the tiie sight of god thou then too art a sinner and as thou need mercy melcy thyself do not be too severe upon tho the errors of others it was a sublime precept and not unworthy even of thy consideration let him who was without sin sin cast the first stone the closing paragraph of the gazette is is a proper climax to the this mormon question has now come to be one of deep importance the government cannot efford to be defied by a band of pirates it must vindicate its right riat to govern one of two rel re must certainly take place either there will be a mormon war which w inch will require more troops and more er bregy ene egy gy or orwren wien spring comes the fie cormons mormons will mill bleak bieak up their settlement at great salt lake city and move inove to the bortl in a more secluded position oi on or perhaps the br british possessions T the he iet let latter iatter ter is not altogether marob able the exploring expedition of BRIGHAM xoung last summer will be recollected it probably had i le ef reference ference arence to some souie such contingency if such a movement is is not made then thela theia thele must be e a war var which will be by no means trifling or unimportant if we e Lnders understand tand this tins we do not remember to have seen anything more wicked in in print nor to have read ail all anything y more des testable even in in the annal annals of mat that meanest and most horrid of human mimes dimes religious persecution the tile editor of the gazette wants the mormons cormons to be exterminated upon the ground where they ate he ile is is afraid they will fly beyond the reach of judicial or military murder and find refuge from death in in some unknown and inaccessible legion where the gospel according to gunpowder will be of no do avail tor their conversion he is is therefore in favor ot of energetic measures his cry is is push oil on the col lol column collenn tinn Linn he would give them a little more grape and purge the iniquity in the valley of the great salt lake washing it out with tile the blood of its inhabitant inhabitants lest peradventure in some dreary region of the vast northwest north west a persecuted people shall shail find sul still a refuge from laughter slaught ef and a safe though desolate home for their wives and little ones in gods goals name what next we aie ale no apologists etther elther for the institutions the bierd or the tiie practices of the latter day saints they I 1 hey are a poor deluded people and if we differ from others in the sentiments which we entertain toward them it is is because we regard a poor deluded people as proper objects of pity lather t than lan jan ol 01 hatred of sympathy rather than of or persecution if they have sinned it is undeniable that they have hue been sadly bitterly sinned against ibey they have incurred tha double misfortune of having for their enemies the party part ill in power r I 1 in in the tile government which ii is ready to us use e any means however wrong to prevent the enar entry y of another northern Noi nol hern thern member into the confederate confederacy and the professedly religious who see in their domes ie institutions what they look upon as a flag flagrant rapt violation of one of the precepts of the decalogue the one is is cruel from false faise views of irl terest mt brent erent the other from perverted religious sentiment seiti ment thus opposed by the tte tt tie e south from political and by the north from moral considerations there is no party to which they can appe eppe appeal ill ili for justice either in word or deed in the mean oe ahne their own counsels are unwise and guided by fanatical rashness rather than sober sobel reason some of them perhaps have been guilty gi alty of crimes the union but in fit the midst of the cloud of falsehoods that tha tare are told it is immoss 1 ble bie to determine deter mlle mire ei where hrs hes tho truth the pac 1 sent acts of resistance against the power of the united states aia are wrong and injudicious and will mill be bitter bittel enough 0 their consequences without any cries for their extermination coming from other quarters that they are men aia ala alo aio women human flesh and blood creatures made in gods image inage for whom christ died is a sufficient reason why mail man should withhold from them his hand band to persecute p if they have sinned is this great nation guiltless in the sight of inanity infinite purity that it may without offense assume leavens heavens high bloh prerogative to exterminate a guilty people if they are fanatical llave have all the rest bee been been bec n distinguished by coolness of head and meekness of spiris spirit if they have been violent shall we because we have the tile power distinguish ourselves by being more violent than they have they tiley been lawbreakers law breakers must we a our eagerness to punish them trample under foot the great paramo paramount put statutes of humanity even suppose they are adulterers is licentiousness amon among 9 us so uncommon that we may be permitted to neglect the beam in our own eye from the superior claims claim of the mote in fit our brothers let us 49 reflect who made us to differ god is just t he will not free the ibe guilty why chy not leave ve til ill them em it in his liia hands cincinnati daily commercial nov 24 sam cowit now it is 19 no not t our purpose to defend the tho mormons cormons Mor mons or to screen theol thein from censure chero crosure sho should uld fall but this wedo we do say day ahey they are ara bitterly arid and cruelly persecuted and arid that too without any just cause or provocation the mor nor mormon mons as a class are not so base as many represent them rhey vhey like us il axe are ye human with human s llo iio with likes and and dislikes and because ty they differ aromus from us in sentiment is is it a reason sufficient to warrant us in in sending an all armed force and 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