Show dors DOES REBELLION EXIST liere HERE NEVER was a it clique reduced to such extremities for want ot of grounds upon which to base action against the citizens of this territory as s the infamous ring in this city to whom we have occasionally referred in these columns for months now the miserable creatures numbered in the ring have been exerting every art and resorting to the most corrupt and illegal proceed proceedings juza to achieve the success which they deh deu ed men alen in authority even judges have unscrupulously lent themselves to these schemes and have in the most highhanded high handed and outrageous manner endeavored to give them the color of legality but though juries have been selected with the view to carry out the machinations devised and ajl all the machinery of the courts has been brought into operation for the same end the ring has found the fruit of all its labors turn like dead sea apples into ashes in its hands the toiling and scheming the plotting and lying the trampling law and deceiving of its members have been followed by barren results their traps and snares have been spread in vain they have caught no game have had no victims and they have almost began to despair yesterday however they thought they had an opportunity the best they had seen too toe good we suppose for them to suffer to pass unimproved the ban band of the 3rd ard regiment ot of the militia of this city has lately bought some new now instruments the members wished to try them in public they having just arrived from the east so they in incited cited chernen th the ernen men of their regiment to turn out to hear them and to have a drill the men with their officers responded to the invitation and met yesterday af afternoon ter at the school house in the ward in which ward the most of the men of the re regiment ament reside thelmet they met without orders from the colonel or other officer and had a very pleasant time together and were all exceeds exceedingly angly pleased with the music of the band an and d probably also with their own evolutions the news was heard down town that the regiment was out and mr secretary black and two other persons one of whom at least was a deputy marshal and we are told colo both were went up to the school house when we say that one or both of these persons were deputy marshals our readers require no further explanations as to their characters our citizens know the class from which deputy marshals have been selected immedi abely after the dismissal of the men a warrant war warrant rant raut was issued by judge hawley to the U S marshal for the arrest of eight of the officers of the regiment regi rilent we are told that a certain personage urged the marshal to go and arrest them without a warrant the marshal replied ra p lied that he had too much respect for his beat seat of honor to go without papers apers if you want them arrested added he R make out the papers we give the conversation as reported to us one of these deputy marshals who was present in the ward was accordingly hunted up to make the affidavit upon which to base the war rant now low as this man may be ahe ia is not utterly lost to all shame he has been here some years and bad as his character might be he did not wish to appear in the despicable capacity of informer this was a depth ot of vileness to which he had no desire to descend but the ring 11 whose tool he is would take no denial its members were inex orabie and he had to make the required affidavit and the warrant was issued yesterday afternoon 0 R savage andrew burt burtt W Q G philips cuamea mames fennamore and charles livingston were arrested and gave bonds of two tho thoi thousand band sand dollars to appear in co court art urt at 10 this morning this morning geo M ottinger archibald livin aston and john Q 0 graham were arrested and all eight made their appearance ap p barance in court at the hour named when the five first named gentlemen were brought into court yesterday the prosecuting attorney appointed by the court we presume in the absence of the territorial prosecuting attorney read section two of an act passed by congress to suppress insurrection to punish treason and rebellion to seize and confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes approved jul jui july 1862 which reads as follows sec SEC 2 and be it further enacted that if any person shall hereafter incite set on foot foot assist or engage in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the united states or the laws thereof or shall give aid or comfort thereto or shall engage in or give aid and comfort to any such existing rebellion or insurrection and be convicted thereof such person shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not elc ex beeding ten ton years or by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars and by the liberation of all his slaves if any he have or by both of said punishments at the discretion of the court he stopped at the word dollars and did not favor the accused with the information that all their slaves if any they have should be liberated he did not read that clause neither iid ild lid did he read to them and the court the treaty of paris made in 1856 concerning the nights rights of the great powers in the sea hea it is surprising that he did not give them a section or two from that they would have been as relevant as what he did read at 10 this morning the accused answered to their names and their coun counsel P el judge Z snow asked for a continuance until two which was granted by the court the prosecuting attorney remarked that he be would require bonds for the appearance of the three gentlemen last jast arrested when the court was courteously informed by counsel that no further bonds would be given and those already given he wished cancelled whereupon the court ordered them into the custody of the marshal and as dinnertime dinner time had arr arrived iv i that gentleman marched them up to the salt lake house where they partook of what in western parlance is styled a good square meal As we go to press the trial is proceeding the public will read with great surprise the section of the law which was read in court by the prosecutor upon which this whole proceeding is based would it be supposed that any man other than an idiot would read such a law in court and expect any judge to pay attention lu it the mere perusal of this section la is sufficient to show the desperate de sperate shifts to which these base and reckless men are reduced in order to create excitement and to provoke difficulty two or three hundred men or probably not so many quietly assemble together for the purpose of amusing add and exercising themselves at the schoolhouse and grounds which their own toil had created and reclaimed and this is construed forsooth into an act of rebellion and eight men arrested do we live in free america orarene or are we residents of downtrodden poland are we the citizens of the united states and is it for us that the federal constitution was created which says that A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed I 1 or are we rebels and serfs the subjects of a nation which has conquered us are the officers which have been sent here endowed with the authority to imprison and punish at pleasure regardless gard less lesa of the constitution the law and the sacred rights of liberty if so go then it ia is time that we understand our position it is time that we know who our masters are and bud upon what grounds they base their claims to be our tyrants if we must wear the collar we badge of servitude and slavery let us at least know the name to be en graven thereon and the price at which we are bought these would be despots of ours would enforce a law here which was passed in the time of the southern rebellion are we rebels the law says exis existing tiU tic rebellion or insurrection does elt eit either elther er of these conditions exist here or is it rebellion to rain train is it insurrection to bear arms Is the provo raid to be repeated and are those who incited that outrage afraid our citizens will be too well prepared to give their blind and misguided instruments the tho proper reception why this fear of men bearing arms why this wonderful anxiety to crush the militia of this territory Is it a crime to have a well regulated militia in a territory like utah constantly exposed to indian attacks and raids jf f those who have used the authority to arrest these eight men for yesterdays proceedings contemplated a repetition in this city of the scenes of bt st barthol earthol day in paris they could not manifest more terror at the training of a company of men than they do such men ought to be watched we bay say to our citizens beware of them they are enemies to the commonwealth their acts acta show more plainly than h an words can do their designs T they h ey would bind you hand and foot had t they h ey the power to do so and leave you a helpless prey to every marauder white or red that might choose to assail you and if the blood of women and children flowed in consequence they would be gratified do we judge too harshly let facts answer already we have heard from many quarters that enlisted men in inu U S uniform have havo uttered frequent threats in this city of a raid similar to that made at provo Pro voIs vols Is a massacre of citizens of this place contemplated the proceedings at court yesterday and today to day favor such an idea we firmly believe that if the training of the people could be prevented and their arms be taken from them a reign of terror would be speedily in dand a fearful despotism despotis tm be exercised here there is a class of persons here who desire to see bee this they would be delighted to tread upon the necks of the citizens of this territory hence their anxiety to prevent men bearing arms to break up the militia to frighten men into submission to their extraordinary tra and i 1 unconstitutional requirements quire ments to hold in terrorem ter over their heads a law which every sane man knows has no more application to the people of utah than the inhabitants of the moon we wish the country to know who it is that is trying to stir up trouble here who it is that is goading the people to commit some overt act in order that they may have a pretext for adopting violent measures against them these persons want to get their hands into uncle sams barns pocket and they endeavor to move earth and hell to have a fuss with a view to the pickings and lings which they hope will follow up to the present all their s to this end have been signal failures we say to our citizens be calm refrain from excitement we are entrenched in a right do not give this miserable cowardly crew a single advantage we can afford to walt wait we live he rethey are as short lived and ephemeral as moths and will soon pass away let this course be pursued as it will baand these tricksters trick will be foiled and soon pass into the oblivion which they have earned arned |