Show THE WORK IN THE brat STATES ES tim THE nashville tennessee american lias lihs been publishing some communications concerning litchi signed reporter who has been a trip across the continent they contain many afia inaccuracies t ecar acles perhaps not intentionally made but vit suen as are usual with persons persona paying a flying visit to sait bait lake auy city jand rand and gaining a ning their information from carriage rm g drivers and others who take tako in guying i travel ers and filling the them m up tip wit with r ridiculous i 11 stories ab about 0 af the mormons Mor mons elder john morgan wrote a reply correcting the errors into which Ig reporter had fallen which ch the american was courteous enough to publish the tho editor how however dver felt it necessary to say something about mormonism mormonism I 1 on his own account lest his bis readers might think him too in printing anything from the pen of a mormon the editorial ia is a singular mixture re of opposite opinions while desiring the prosecution of forcible measures against the latter day SaInt saints she sho deyet yet concedes the point that peaceable iu means ns will effect more th than violence for instance he says awhile no mail man can the monstrous vice ot of the tho mormon system without t wishing bof rome some prompt and vigorous policy of suppression it is lely lively that the reformation will come about through advancing light from without and the civilizing influences of new now population ula tion growing intelligence and closer communication with the tho rest of the world while we confess a willingness to see a policy adopted mormon missionary work placed under the ban of severe laws the unclean thing rooted out of its stronghold and its leaders treated to the bitterest penalties les ies of teach that persecution aids rather than retards regards the growth of faise false systems our oar correspondent ia is right a firm and steady application of tle the law the settlement of the territory the education of the people will do more than any effort to violent violently ilyup uproot the tho evil by means of force ii A little e reflection ought to show those persons who needlessly agitate themselves on the thie mormon question that if it calm judgment il endorses the better way of fatel ghent and pacific measures with heterodoxy the desire for a stringent policy and the bitterest pan penalties al ties P proceeds from hasty conclusions bend vend that inflexible bigotry which 4 is truly a relic of barbarism the work in the southern states is proceeding satisfactorily not witti standing the efforts of hireling priests and prejudiced editors brother morgan writes to president tay taylor tailor or f from rom nashville under date of november tha brethren who left home on the october arrived in due season and have all gone to their respective spee spec tive elds of labor feeling well and will doubtless be enabled to 0 o do much reports from the various conferences throughout the mission are encouraging g and we are having quieter times than for the past six eis months baptisms are steadily lak lah ing place in most of tho the di districts canvassed by the eilers ellers and prospects are fair for the future I 1 shall accompany the company of saints to colorado who leave here on the loth dinst and visit with the saints a few days prior i 0 r to my return to the mission ar please 1 1 se to address m me u up toD nt manassa conejos C ce ne lif os county colorado 0 we notice that the st louis republican like other anti antl mormon papers does not keep posted on th the a which frequently engages its i attention in i s issue of nov 8 ath h it says bays the georgia papera are calling fora forn for a rigid enforcement enforce ment mant of the tho antl anti mormon law against the polygamy preachers sent from ball saig bake lake to make converts la in the south they are right for while the state has nothing to do with religion it hab haa a great deal to do with crime the encourager encouragement nent pent of polygamy is a i crime and and aud the officials of the we law IAN I 1 should make vigorous warA war against galust it the republican and th ose obe geor ought to know tha the so called antl mormon law proved 1 bih hib auy ail abortion it did not even eveir pass one house of the Lei lel legislature slature being too anti ahti republican and absurd they ought also to know that the encouragement encouragement of oly gamy is js not a crime in any iny part parl art of the world overt acts ony can be a taken cognizance of by the law every eiery man in this country has the right of free speech on the subject but a little woula would prove to all who are interested in this matter that the elders eiders laboring in in the sou bou them states Stales or eiho elte elsewhere where are not engaged in the encouragement of polygamy poly gamy but in the proclamation of the gospel of or repentance mid and obedience to the ordinances ediab limbed far til the remission of and anil tho the bestowal bf hf the holy gfrost ghosts also aho that ohe the honest liones hearted theart a ers rs of the south are am fast find finding ing out the falsehoods of the attacks made upon them themi by preachers bifid and editors and obtaining that knowledge of the truth aich comes from sion t the laws of the lord izord I 1 one hundred and twenty efthem of them are on their way to our settlements in ip Ut utah abaid abald and colorado onward and will wiil continue 0 |