Show OF THE CRUSADE YESTERDAY the session of congress was resumed tile the holiday interim bein belu being over cover shortly wo we may expect to hear of further moves in connection with and in that body by the enemies of utah with a iview view vica to subjugate the people thelo theio of reduce them to the serf like con 4 of a conquered people virtu ally dis franchised solely on account of their religion virtually de deprived prid af pf of the right to sit ait oa on a jury and to be tried by a jury of their peers virtually deprived of all choice of civil cirii officers and of all power of or local government virtually to forced acea to pay exorbitant taxes without a single voice in their disbursement virtually deprived of eve every ry distinctive right privilege and element of american citizenship and virtually placed as low as on a par with mexican peonage or russian serfdom these may be hard words but such is the object of bf those who are continually goading Congress to special proscriptive prescriptive legislation affecting this territory and who in order to effect such lucli legislation are continually and moc most t shamefully mis coloring and misrepresenting local facts uttering the foulest slanders concerning oi our r prominent citizens and telling the tiie blackest lies that the ingenuity of fiends could invent such is tile tilo scope of the bills presented in congress under the pretext of aidin aldin aiding alding in tho the execution of the laws in akis this territory lly by the by a washington dispatch dated dec 31 in the cin ci n cinnoti times says the opponents of af polygamy are endeavoring to unite the friends of the dif dlf different bills already introduced in favor of one bill we have been thinking several times that surely the crusaders were able to concoct more than four bills to further their crus crusading adill business rhoy chey have llave venom enough enough and sufficient unscrupulousness to do anything aua and according ing to the extract alove above they are trying to hatch a fifth bill of course to comprise the principal repulsive features of the four or to reconstruct one of them so as to fully represent the tho others and thus con cen con to push one bill through in instead tead of dividing their strength among the four the generalship of this movement is far more to be commended than the spirit and chief object ther thereof eor which are truly despicable being to destroy the constitutional rights of the people of an important section of the union whose sole of flonce in reality is the constitutional act of endeavoring to worship god according to the dictates of their consciences because they honestly persist in this endeavor their enemies among them some U S officials who certainly ought to know and do better malignantly persist in endeavoring to procure t the e passage of laws of an indubitably and extremely character unconstitutional antl anti lican and anti american the in diters of these measures would evidently be glad to see the valleys of this fair and prosperous territory despoiled by lawlessness overrun with thieves murderers and aud all sorts of desperadoes and ast best citizens completely at nercy and that of a very tery few worn put and unscrupulous politicians dolot clothed hed bed with a little litte brief federal authority about the real color of things desired by the crusaders s d ers a circumstance which nobody b a dy can deny if he is really conversant with the situation of here and the animus of the crusade v |