Show utaji UTAH AND THE dr parry who wh 9 paid a visit last year in the interests of or botany to this territory and spent some months in the southern part bently delivered a lecture at davenport iowa upon what he had bad seen in utah the following are extracts irom from a report of his lecture in the davenport gazette ot febra nty ary aty 21 in ign the pursuit of his vocation as a botanist the doctor had bad lately visited utah traveled through its line of remote settlements visited at its homes experienced kindness kind nes and hospitality everywhere never was insulted never cheated he could say eay at least this much to any who feel dh disposed dispes posed ed to through this interesting country you need no weapons of defense will not be wise to rail rall at polygamy or denounce prest young as a murderer a thief or a libertine which would not only he be unsafe but untrue no unprejudiced traveler can pass through their country without carr earr carrying y away ay an impression highly fhe favorable 0 r ala two to t their h ei r m morality 0 ral rai 1 ty h honesty 0 n es ty 1 I 1 and persevering industry no people seem so completely to live out their religion in daily ilfe life by no modern church are duties of a religious life more strictly inculcated in no dwelling however poor is a meal partaken partaker par taken of without first invoking divine bles bies blessitt blessing siti g dancing and all assemblies 0 of r amusement and instruction are opened and closed with prayer that such a community now thoroughly organized iz od cemented by persecution bo bound u d together by the strongest social and religious ties can be broken up by off omm leial official or legal instrumentalities mentalities past history shows to be untenable the lecture closed with a vivid picture of the desolation that will follow a military invasion of utah nauvoo the beautiful city after a lapse of nearly thirty years has not yet recovered from the desolation following the mormon expulsion of 1849 A Ga gamaliel mallel policy is the part of wisdom in dealing with the mormon problem |