Show MISTAKES AND fanin corrections r A Very large ali iii incorrect correct ideas keep il floating around concerning ca the people of this territory As we have had occasion more than once onee ohice to tv ji st hhite fitte tto ito alte unscrupulous parties who thought they could thus accomplish objects productive t of pecuniary benefit to themselves and detrimental to the 11 mormon 11 with a few narrow mewed and bitterly prejudiced people who would wipe out everything opposed to their own contracted opinions have industriously to give such incorrect statements circulation hence journalists at a distance disi I 1 who have no Ierson lerson personal al acquaintance with our community are misled by placing credence in them and thus we sometimes nind find the mormons cormons Mor mons alluded to by some of them in a moderate spirit of fairness but with an evident lack of knowledge of facts which if understood der stood would give to their strictures a diffie different rent tone and coloring we have been led jed to these thebe remarks by an article in a late number of the is larys V ville ille cai cal appeal under the caption our aur mormon neighbours 11 the theal lp peal peat says that the I 1 Mor mormon mon mor question is a difficult one to solve and puts it that the query what is to become of this obstinate state or community is cert antly an important political question 11 admitting that ai mormonism is growing larger and stronger every day it asks what is to be the end of this s spiritual p community ity growing and increasing within thin our government I 1 flourishing nourishing within the limits of our territory Terri fory but foreign 10 and hostile to tile the principle pia pla of republicanism and with a r religious elig ious lous creed baleful hateful and odious in the eyes of christianity 1 atter after quoting at some ien ion length th from an article in the NEWS of october ad the appeal admits that the mormons cormons Mor mons have lone done a grea here and that it appears they ought 0 in justice to be let alone that mormonism as a religious faith is a question for mormons cormons Mor mons consciences that the constitution ution guarantees religious liberty but that the mormons cormons Morn Mor ions mons have squatted on public lands landd belonging to the united states stafe and ana cannot be protected in their rights of property and person unless 5 they acknowledge now ledge allegiance to the government it says further on utah is sooner or latel to become one of the states of the union but whether wh ethern ethera a territory er or a state her people must acknowledge tile the sovereignty of the fedral federal Government 1 11 that our religious 0 creed is neither hateful nor odious in the eyes of chris ti anity a careful revision of the principles taught by the savior and his apostles whom lie he commissioned to preach christian christianity ty would amply show they have been taught by our elders in nearly every nation anthe on the globe divines and theologians have searched the tho scriptures with unremitting zeal to show their falsity and have hate been compelled through lack of sue success ci ess to fall fali back upon the pitiable loudmouthed loud mouthed e exclamations of I 1 false doctrines damnable heresy false prophets ac c 11 against them and their defenders to tak take tahe e up the principles in which wo we believe that are called balled I 1 odi ausin in the eyes of christianity and prove their perfect harmony with tho the principles taught in Scriptures the would bo to recapitulate agu arguments ments monts which have been presented to the world hundreds of times an and d remain reikai n apt unanswered llis itis it is not often that the conductor ofa of a political journal is a theologian theol 6 gi an well versed in bible nible literature and we there therefore fore foTe presume Pre ume that many people j journalists included depend ion on what is said of r any aby or all religions by the men 1 whom 0 t they h y pa pay y to attend to matter of religion religious iou lon for them this wili will jn most ost like lik 04 ly account for the manner in which our out faith is sometimes referred to by men well w who ho without due thought imagine 0 1 1 the gospel to what they are often told it is our creed is the everlasting gospel that thai which was inculcated by christ by bs his apostles and nd by v holy men in every dispensation when god deigned to reveal himself to mankind and commit the gospel in in purity to them if it be bd hateful and odious it in in the eyes of conflicting ani and perverted faiths fattlis erroneously called caged christianity that is a matter that lies between those thos e to whom it may be odious and the god whom they profess to worship and to whom we render obedience our faith teaches us to do good to all mankind to be charitable towards them and to labor unceasingly 0 for tor the salvation of the human family but the other point embraced in the quotations we have made is one on which there should not be such a want of correct information if any lerson ierson person will tell us how or when we refused to recognize the legitimate 0 authority of th the 0 F federal government we will conness confess to 0 o being elligh enlightened toned our devotion to the constitution of our country jias has been dearly and severely tested and ald in no hour of trial triai has that devotion faltered instead of ourselves or our faith being foreign 0 and hostile to the principle of republicanism we cherish it vitha depth of feeling equal in intensity to that which animates the breast of any one in the nation I 1 and the constitution which is paramount to which cabinets and ana congresses a must declare their allegiance is and has ever been viewed by us as a divinely given instrument ment its fra trainers bel bei being ing ZD inspired by him who goldeth the nations in the hollow ok 0 his land hand nence hence we nye look up upon i I 1 it t not simply as the highest manifestation of human wisdom but as an emanation from divine wisdom 1 itself we are a part of i this great republic ite lle public fully al alive ivd to t that ila iia t fact ever ready to perform tho the duty of good law ialy abidin abiding 11 constitution i zens simply cekic to claim inalienable our rights gu guaranteed tran granteed fran teed to us by that constitution the laws of or din dim this thib territory are I 1 virtually laws of or congress 0 for they have been becu enacted by a legislative assembly elected under provisions prescribed by congress have been submitted to that body and have not been disapprove disapproved il we would lie lle ii lice ilce e to learn orsome of some more law lav abiding community state territory or people in the nation I 1 than that which is composed of bf the people of or this territory we should feel that thel prospects of the nation for true peace prosperity and multiplied blessings were brighter and nearer at hand than they now appear to be but the intimation that we cannot bo be protected in our rights of person and property unless we acknowledge allegiance to the government though apparently an unimportant one s seeing eing that w wo e have hiv edo done i n e and do acknowledge to thip government is liable to a sohie sobie somewhat what curious an and aar rather gr grave ave it insinuates ins inmates that we do not acknowledge such allegiance that we are aie liable to be charged wih ii not acknowledging ow ledding it when we in the present case and thai that N we e gean lean cann notIe otJe protected in our rights offer of person on or property when when such an ent Is s falsely made against us for theat the presumption is accepted in the intimation 1 I 1 that we are disloyal dislow ai and starting on that false presumption we are thus threatened with deprivation of olour aur dur rights the declaration says ag yg tnt life liberty and an the pursuit lt of oi ii happiness are 1 the tu 1 inalienable rights aall all nil men 1 to and ta the Constitution which it at heartily and nd unhesitatingly subscribe the principles inculcated in them we believe to be sacred the fathers of many of the citizens of tha thi territory rl were amon among the heroes who maintained those principles ainee al the hazard of eife and all they po all tui we ire claim all we baveas bayeas ilare asked iced I 1 Is s that for which bled may mity be benj enjoyed oyed by us their child ren wish to see every m man an enjoy inglis ing his dinall inalienable genable rights wes we seek seok eek feek for i them ourselves and we vb will C continue trying to perpetuate this to future generations n s S 1 |