Show A cry for vengeance there seems to be a curious popular misapprehension concerning the tho pie ent status tatus t of the mormon citizens in utah since the frightful revelations of the lee trial have been circulated there has been a general demand for justice unhappily nap this d demand has been construed to lequire require vengeance and confiscation rather than a legal retribution there seems to be a common notion that the mormon people as a community ila iia have ve in B cuned a just ajust punishment and that in some undefined way they hould should be wiped off the face faco of the earth their settlements broken up and the property divided among those who volunteer in this hew MOW holy war it is even said that a ring has been organized in california for the purpose of exciting wrath against the latter day saints sainte and driving them out of their possessions it is added by way of explanation the fo menters of this cru crusado adzi against mormonism have havel had their cupidity excited by the knowledge that the saints have rich lande lands fat cattle and all of the acquisitions of a prosperous pastoral people eople 3 in the distempered fancy of ctr certain tain would be crusaders the Morn mormons igns aredeen aree are een flying with guilty guily gully y haste before the av engers of innocent blood very much as the thop this rough justice should be meted out is the demand clemand of some who are bound to make war whether it be upon mexico the sioux bioux indians or the malevolent spitz dog it is very true that our advent ut ous oua fellow follow citizens on the pacific nii fie are always ready for a filibustering excursion they have a happy faculty for planning invasions of friendy territory and settling local troubles by intervention but these expeditionary p projects c jeb jeh ts usually end in talk the auf inflammatory minatory reports of mormon outrages outrage sand and crime which have lately originated in san ban frail francisco cisco I 1 are ni not A designed We believe to stir up a sudden flood of animosity it is absurd to suppose that any in men i 11 en in els eis ahl e 1 cepro pose to invade utah and dispossess the mormon people the wild talk with which certain newspapers seek to irli 1111 inflame flame public simply mischievous if it ia is designed to have any effect whatever it is an incentive to ta mob violence and if mob violence is expanded to its legitimate and natural bounds in sueh such a case we should have an organized riot a small rebellion against the laws of the land new rew york times |