Show tine TIME tryes TRIES AI I OLD AD NEW for october contains an ant art article icle lela the church of latter day 11 which is 13 thop thep tho the losIng closing one ot the series the writer is well informed on man many points and treats the subject tj wa with a degree alegree of fairness which a peaks speaks we well weil 11 for his understanding and liberal libera ity there are some incorrect ideas and statements bet set forth but it would be a very remarkable production upon such a subject that did not nok have an alloy of error for we know of no magazine that would publish an ao article upon the latter day saints containing ony guly the thel truth concerning them I 1 I 1 speaking of the settlement of this thia country he makes an argument that id iq worthy the consideration of those who are so rabid about tha 11 mormons cormons Mor mons 11 and the blot which their conduct brings upon the national escutcheon he says by the treaty of guadaloupe hidalgo in 1848 the territory occupied by the mor alor mons had been ceded to the united states with their knowledge so that those who are so anxious to have the government gove rement destroy the peaceful community at salt lake should remember that the same government erni enni ern enn nent ment knowl knowing g they were there voluntarily unta rily took them into its territory with all their heretical doctrines the ring which is trying to get the privilege ot running this territory can read their characters in the des dea crip tion which this writer gives of their predecessors in the following ex extract tract in 1857 58 the in poor persecuted saints were pronounced in a state of rebellion 1 and an army sent to ta reduce them because they drova drove from irom thair their midst a federal judge whose private life was marked by the foulest immor immorality not one officer alo aio alono aiono but many immorality who alita had ad been appointed by the government at washington especially during the administration of r president buchanan had proved to be scoundrels unfit for decent society iut but they were men who unfortunately for our country had influence at washington and by their gross misrepresentation induced the authorities to send troops to salt lake the troops were forbidden to enter the territory and the mormons cormons Mor mons with the memory still fresh odthe of the treatment of their women by the soldiers formerly sent among them determined to resist the threatened incursion and if necessary to bum burn their towns ana and remove beyond the jurisdiction of a government whose few acts of liberality had been overshadowed by many acts of oppression and injustice tice th the e author labors under a wrong impression pre silon in stating that drummond was driven from the territory by the people this is one of the falsehoods which the circulated and which many at the time believed had the people driven him out the action would have been well de served history will take care of such wretches as he and nil all that the people require is time to obtain the justice which their cause deserves it would have been very offensive d dur YF ing james Bucha Buc buchanana hanana bananA nans administration to have said respecting the federal officers whom he sent here that not hot mofid one of them alone but blit many had proved to be scoundrels unfit for decent society this was their true character they were known to be such euch when they were here harb the people of this territory through the columns of the DESERET deseree NEWS and in other ways informed the country of their baseness but it was not convenient then for their statements to be attended to or believed but after the lapse of a few years here comes a writer who tells the world that they were scoundrels unfit for decent society unfortunately but for the country they were men who had influence at washington and by their gross misrepresentations induced the authorities to send troops to salt lake we can publish their characters today without any danger of an indictment from a packed and miserably corrupt grand jury influential outside writers will yet write the characters of the members of the ang hug ring aug in utah they will describe their villainy paint in vigorous and glowing colors the baseness of their conduct coll coli duct and the vile arts to Ito which they resorted to accomplish their atrocious designs they will probably describe I 1 private private vaie vale lives marked by 1 foul immorality may manifest astonishment that such men ever obtained office and express themselves concerning them with a freedom that af if used now would startled some S als in this country we hope to live to idad these criticisms and should occasion ever even require to quote from them to point a moral amoral add arid adom adorn a tale an i AN exchange publishes the estima estimate te oi of the prussian losses from the commena ment of the war to the ed anew york e ut by a distinguished tin unshed 1 burgo burge berlin the list hat loftt of the e killed and woun wounded Aed ac in ih the various battles was as foi fol follows lovis killed prisoners battles und and missing miming wounded reichshoffen hoffen 11 osa forbach aspie ahrn 2204 borney mars marsia la tour A rezonville rez Kez eez Rez onville total 7 the te gentleman furnishing this list says pays it is safe to reckon the losses in the prussian army from vailous various diseases dysentery fever ac at from ten to twelve thousand more to which may also be added the losses by skirmishing and nd the numerous insignificant forays that have occurred between the contending armies as well as the fearful slaughter at sedan on the uit and since that period which will swell the entire loss on the side of germany alone to considerably more than two hundred thousand men it is safe to presume that the losses on the side sida of france have not fallen far ifancy if any short of this besides the actual loss on both sides in life limb and freedom there is the destitution havoc and ruin in which thousands of unoffending pea peasants ants inhabiting the districts through which the prussians have i marched have been burled buried as it 1 t were wen e depriving them in afew hours s of the fru fruits its of years of aqil and reducing them to beggary to this catalogue of horrors may be added the sufferings of women and children and the loss of lifland life and material wealth in strasbourg metz metzi toul an and other dother places which havi havo hav been subjected to si siege e ge maki makl making in an aggregate impossible to comp compute te and a jd increasing the amount of human mis misery ery and suffering to an extent utterly in calculable and inconceivable the history of france and prussia for the last three months illustrates as forcibly as anything can do the evils which result from th the e misuse of power king william and napoleon were werf among the few individuals on earth holding at their disposal the resources of great nations had they been actuated by desires to promote the welfare of their kind as all rulers and states should be and had been equally determined to do good as they have been to gratify their ambition their names would have been clothed with imperishable honor and at the final adjustment of accounts they would have had very strong claims to be numbered among those who will be accounted as having been faithful over a new few things but being responsible response bie ble for the orphanage widowhood pauperism poverty beggary and misery of thousands of their fellow creatures who in the eyes of the creator are equal with themselves one ong may blay suppose pose that the decree pronounced against them by the fiat flat of omniscience as well as the verdict of posterity will be less desirable than that pronounced upon uron thieves murderers and the vilest class of criminals |