Show our OUR FRIENDS loi log it Is a notorious fact that the old settlers settler s of this territory have for a length of time been the objects of systematic enmity on the part of a few who have constituted themselves aggressors agres aeres sors of the people their rights faith and religious institutions this enmity has been manifested in in numberless ways which are well known to the entire community as are the authors of those ways every act that could be falsified every word that could be tortured to have a meaning which they imagined would their purposes every circumstance that would afford the most remote prospect of making capital for them thelby by offering a groundwork for their thein slanders have with persistent depravity been eagerly grasped at and employed with ath a view to the accomplishment of their base designs and with the same purpose in view they have concocted the most unblushing falsifications and nd published them as truth it is not pleasing plea piea sing aing to contemplate any portion of mankind so lost to every principle of honesty honor and truth and so sunken in moral degradation but the picture la Is here before us and the eyes of those compelled to look upon it cannot be shut to the fact some have come herewith here eith with cheav the avowed owed determination of destroying mormonism by any and every means they might be able to command others have not been so deeply imbued with the spirit of destruction at their advent but have followed the lead of the more rabid and placed themselves indirect in direct antagonism to every person here who has sought to restrain wrong doers maintain order and practically develop the country and build up the territory these are not vague assertions unsupported by proof the facts which sustain them have been published in our columns again and again the schemes that have had their origin with this class for breaking up society here are not unknown to the people against whom althey have been directed every effort that cunning and unscrupulousness could devi devise seand and br bring ing i into requisition has been attempted and while so laboring to destroy the old settlers of this region and if possible have them driven from the homes w which have been made with unparalleled industry and perseverance they have sought to raise the cry of proscription and tried to make it appear that they were in danger because they differed in faith and views from the great m majority of the people who inhabit this territory no persons better know the falsity of this assertion than those who have m made ade it they know that in no other place on the earth is there more liberty in aters matters of faith and opinion than in the territory of utah we might say that in no place is there as much and they know that they have pursued a system of detraction and enmity against our leaders and the community which has been for the purpose of franchising disfranchising dis the people robbing them of every constitutional right placing them under military rule and reducing them to a condition of serfdom with the alternative of abandoning their homes and again see seeking king shelter and a place of abode away from the presence of those who have continued to follow them up that they might fatten on their labors to accomplish com this we would ask have not combinations been entered into in this city and funds do donated bated freely said funds having been drawn from the people eop here to send agents east to operate against this community stir up the general government and institute a crusade against the inhabitants of utah it is a little interesting to note the peculiar opinions expressed by some who have testified at the seat of the federal government against the mor mons who while here were loud in their declarations of friendship for the mormon people and said they were only opposed to our leaders whose dupes they alleged the people were stover whose name appeared in the d patches dispatches is lately as the author autho of a sensational sat ional assassination story testified before the congressional committee last july that the mormons cormons Mor mons as a whole are an ignorant illiterate and su superstitious people and that military protection tec tion had to be given to many dissenters who desired to leave utah but were liable to assassination if the protection had not been afforded this with a great deal more equally malignant comes from and is sworn to by the tall and pretentiously friendly quartermaster ter who made himself disagreeably polite around this city for some three years mcleod the evangelical of the regenerating clique deposed before the same committee that the mormon system Justi justl justifies nips fips deception theft robbery when the gentiles are the victims it fosters hatred towards all governments and all religions outside of utah and of the mormon religion it devotes its enemies and op posers to perdition it is divested of every element of the divine religion that was sworn to by the I 1 reverend I 1 post chaplain who doubtless had a special revelation to tell him what every element of the divine religion is this sleek and long faced slanderer among many other things says at present the lives of law abiding citizens are threatened even by brig hams police the sanctity of our place of worship is invaded on the peaceful sabbath by armed assassins the life of the speaker who in chaste and fitting terms opposes polygamy is menaced to publish such statements is all the refutation needed here where every soul knows how fiendishly untrue they are this same individual with the post commander under whom hom he flourished would disfranchise poly ga mists station a powerful military force here and said commander of squaw killing notoriety would repeal the organic act I 1 and haye have the governor and united states judges the appointing and lawmaking law making power while nevett late close by would not only go in for disfranchisement but would have a nirm firm military government the commanding officer of the united states forces tto ito to be goter GoNer governor nor of of the territory evidently a nice move that to give the general a lift another friend to the mormon people I 1 is the author of the following telegram which with date and substance explains itself WESTERN UNION Pir CO COMPANY great salt lake city april 8 66 brigadier general P E connor metropolitan hotel new york I 1 married 0 N brassfield toa mormon woman on the ultimo brassfield was assassinated on the ad dinst I 1 have been denounced and threatened publicly government officials have telegraphed the secretary of war to retain troops here until others are sent to relieve them callon call cail on secretary of war learn his conclusions and answer I 1 feel unsafe in person and property without protection H P MCCURDY associate justice supreme court utah territory so much for judge solomon whose i first initial is wrong in the telegram m being S instead of H the mendacity of the clique that 11 have ave been combined to unjustly incense the government against the people of utah is unparallel the their r alms aims are obvious boget troops here and make money out of uncle sam to drive the people of this territory from their homes and enjoy the fruits of their toil toll and labors and prejudice the entire nation if possible that their own misdeeds and cowardly falsifications might not be too closely inquired into and this combination is is composed of the individuals who i whine around here because their course is exposed that the people may know them thoroughly and cease trading with them or lending them aid and patronage which would be used as in the past for the destruction of those who gave it these are some of the reasons which we intimated a week ago we might give for our advocacy of the I 1 let alone severely policy as a community to towards our enemies |