| Show nill BILL ann AAD and ITS AUTHORS aci ATi THROUGH gli Gir the courtesy of judge hawley who had received a copy from washington of the cullom bill in aid of the execution of the laws in the territory of utah etc we are en abbed to lay a copy of that precious realous document before our readers today to day like its ita infamous predecessor the cragin bill this bill was framed in utai utah carried or sent to washington and adopted by mr cullom chairman of the House Committee on territories and introduced by b him bim im to the house of representatives trie the man who has the credit of being the principal framer of this bill has been a pettifog pettifogger gerin in this city he is but little known but if once seen he is not soon forgotten we have heard various reasons assigned for his bis taking up his bis residence in this territory none of them creditable however but they may have been exaggerated ag A man mad with such a face and manner might easily be charged with being a fugitive and yet the charge not be wholly true avigil A vigilance committee in search of a criminal might make the mistake of hanging the owner of such a countenance and yet think they had done no wrong every peaceable citizen would instinctively shun the companionship of buch such a person and during the two or three years ears of his residence in this ke he has never been seen in respectable society whatever the prompted him to take up his residence here his appearance gave evidence that he had bieu seen hard nines timea where he had been for a more sorry looking vagabond ia is seldom seen than he was waa ragged rad rao ed and nearly shoeless and as umble 11 as very umble as dickens uriah beep heep 4 our ob object jee jec in lol aul luding alluding to this person at all ia Is to show the character of the men who are anxious to lo inaugurate a crusade against the people of utah adventurers as they are their anxiety to rob the government cannot be concealed even in the bill as may be seen by a perusal of section five the people of utah have been persevering and industrious dust rious they came here stripped of all they had through the machinations and violence of just such scoundrels as the reputed author of this bill and his contreres confreres con freres but they have struggled with nature and the forbidding circumstances which have sur rounded them and have created fal peaceful homes and accumulated wealth men like the one we have described and he is but one of a clas class cannot bear to see them enjoy this thia wealth they lust after alter it themselves they cannot promote litigation and strip them of their hard earnings in that manner they cannot get office and steal from the treasury they will not cultivate the earth or pursue any other othen vocation that requires work they cannot conveniently organize a mob to come corns and drive the people away under the old pretense of their being bad citizens and how shall they obtain that which they covet there ls is is 13 the old plan open to them write the mormons nor Mor mons down in the newspapers create public opinion against them tell all alt the lies that wl wicked brains can fabricate urge and beg the government to enact laws against them and then send ali ail an army t to 0 enforce those laws polygamy is the cry but the property of the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons is the booty they only hate 1 polygamy oly my BO so far as it interferes with their pa pleasures pleasures lla lea what they want is money if the mormons cormons Mor mons would give it to them they would be a very clever fine people but they do not and hence this outcry about the wickedness of the cormons mormons Mor mons it is the old tuse ruse to which the robbers had recourse twenty five thirty and thirty five years ago but this time if our enemies call can have their way the mob is to be legalized in the chicago tribune appears a communication signed salt lake written by the reputed author of the bill at least we judge so from the prominence which he gives himself and acts in which after telling several lies about occurrences here he gi give vests vesta sia sua synopsis of the bill and then askowith ask assumed innocence Is there anything unjust or unconstitutional in it the bill or that ia is not required and en forced everywhere on earth under the shadow of a civilized flag utah only I 1 excepted by such means are the public hoodwinked and deceived as to the real intentions of these plotters if god did not reign the people of utah would be ids ida pitiable condition they might reasonably calculate on being gobbled up the trap is being arranged and if it they do not walk into it 1 they are to be driven in but there is 8 a french proverb the truth of which h has his fis been repeatedly established thal tha t thase these men should remember man proposes but god disposes thin this bill may pass or it may not but whether it does or not makes but little difference the decrees of destiny will be enemies are determined that her people shall be famous they thrust greatness upon them if they could get the influence they want with congress they would have that body the representatives of upwards of thirty five millions of people bestow notice and world i wide fame upon a community which at the highest computation does not number more than two hundred thousand despite the modesty and numerical insignificance of the latter day saints their enemies have persisted persisted from the beginning in treating ino ing thein them as an important power and e giving them a fame which they could n not ot obtain in any other way personally we have no objection to the passage of this or any othet bill the more obnoxious the better but for the sake of the government for the reputation of the country we would be better pleased to see senators and representatives prompted by higher wisdom and broader states statesmanship mans t than an the passage of this bill would evince we wo firmly believe ye most assuredly know that they can adopt no measure that wila injure the people of utah they may give us trouble that our enemies have frequently done but we shall emerge from it better strong stron gerand lerand every way greater and more powerful there is one resolve however that we have heard expressed which we trust will never be forgotten no mob sanctioned by law or otherwise shall aver ever enjoy undisturbed the fruits of our toll toil we would rather see this land converted again into a wilderness and the labors of twenty five years swept away in a few hours than that our enemies shall find that reward for their villainy in gur possessions |
