Show the mormon church that the mountain meadow mas ruas sacree of poor emigrants men iuen women me and children done in cold blood some twenty years since was a terrible terri blo bio event that bishop john D lee was fairly tried tiled and properly convicted and executed and that such execution was a just retribution trib ution for the horrible crime no one disputes but that on this account the fana fann lical lieal followers of brigham young should be persecuted and put to now so clamorously demanded by popular indignation does not follow and if done under color ol 01 law jaw will be to have the law di do precisely what it condemned in bishop john D lee such a crusade as this called for only demonstrates that in S pite spite of our boasted civilization with its widespread educational system and our claimed reli rellious religious lous Ious toleration tolt ration we are scarcely one degree removed from the dark agap when unbelief was taught to be b e a crime and arc propagandists gan diets went forth with the bible in one band and the sword 11 in the other the fact that there is a popular desire to apply fire and sword to brigham youngs polygamous followers is evidence enough that the old adam is in us the advocates of the crusade seem to have a dim perce perception eption of these thise truths for they are fond of asserting that brighams Brig liams hams teachings are not a religion but a crime and that the motive for polygamy is not a service of god but u gratification D of lust we fear however that this persecution se cution is not stimulated GO so much by a love of god as a hatred for and so far as the borders are concerned with their ring in washington the of the latter day SaInts especially the mines lately developed in utah are more attractive than the teachings of our saviour were these deluded people poor they the might be i I 1 friendless but no one would think it would pay to either prosecute or persecute them it is well for us to look with j judicial calmness at all sides of this vexed question and render exact justice J ustice if passion and prejudice brej udice will admit of buch euch treatment the devil is never so black ad ho he is painted and if the lord can bear with these stupid fanatics ablong as long iong as he has bai certainly wo we sinners can survive their existe existence neb wicked as they are represented to be they have been instrumental ill in doing some good their territory for example ia is a model of decent erder order and a regard for law the traveler in that part of the country can tell when lie he has passed the boundary line between our christian settlements and this heathen 1 community he pas passes ses from wild lawlessness ess from the rule of the revolver and bowie bowle knife to a quiet industrious law jaw abiding land where he can sleep with both eyes closed and no hand upon his this is som gom something i ethl dg not much it is true when accod danied pan led by the practice of polygamy P oly i gamy bo so horrid to the border men of or the he revolver and bowie bowle knife and BO so law jaw of washington then again these stupid fanatics fana faoa tica were the first to open a highway ay across tho the continent and long be ioie luio oie ole gum yum ui luu luo racina coast brought over the wave of civilize tion that peopled thai that part of our country the pilgrims led by another the way vay wath the bones of their dead vini animals mals mais and find the graves of their exhausted ted fed followers lowers they made of a desert spot I 1 at t b salt sait I 1 tt lake lakes garden and the bet set bement e m e 0 of f the pacific coast a possibility lity for without this place of rest reet in which to recruit the way across the continent would have been as unavailing as one over the desert of or africa with these facts before us in behalf halfon of the defendant would it not be well to wait patiently for the lord to work aut out ahr ugh the laws of our nature a correction of the evil washington glon capital apy april ij 1 |