| Show AN UNSAVORY AFFAIR dalr bair WE have received as intimated in id yesterdays issue a comm communication uni cation catlon from A Private of company D sixth infantry infantry stationed ancamp douglas it quotes a notice which appeared in tile the salt L lake ake theune tribune a few days ag ago ro of a marriage performed by a methodist clergyman of bf this city the presiding elder of that church in this district the rev mr iliff being out of town at i the time the parties who were wedded were a private soldier of the sixth infantry and a colored prostitute some person sent to us the same notice that appeared in the tribune but we threw it into the waste paper basket our correspondent goes into detail and states beyond uhe the fact of the marriage that the soldier for whom the ceremony was performed was grossly under the influence of strong drink at the time and therefore not I 1 in U his right senses he characterizes trie whole affair us as most disgraceful and passes some severe strictures upon the clergyman who boffl elated and further states that the tiie sixth U b 8 infantry lea tea disgraced by it as it might be consid considered erect a reflection upon that part of the army arm notwithstanding that the men as a body look upon the affair not only with regret but disgust we did not publish the communication in full because 0 of f its severe reflection upon it a mini minister ster stet of a religious denomination and our not having heard anything from the othen other side of the question since then lve lye we have seen the gentleman who officiated at the tile marriage and he states that thal the male principal grin principal cipal in the altair alfair was not so far as he e could conid discover under tue tiie influence ol 01 liquor to any extent ile he also says in further lurther extenuation in reference to the miscegenation genat aon lon part of the matter that he thought the soldier whom he deseri describes es as of dark complexion was a colored imala man in addition the gentleman regrets exceedingly that he per foamed the ceremony he Is sensible of having made a mistake which he would not commit again a aln atu alu under similar circumstances cum stances we consi consider der dbr this ck explanation due to our correspondent in view of our declination cli under the circumstances to publish in full his communication which is forcibly written and extreme ly caustic ca ustle we will I 1 urther further say that no people keople of sense will be so unjust and lacking bicking in the power of discrimination as to condemn a whole regiment or any part of it on account ot of one soldier connected with it being associated with tl a very disreputable affair the sixth infantry need not pay attention to the animadversions of people of such small in judgment who wever however no are in our opinion comparatively few and as the gentl gentleman emala email who performed the ceremony under such improper conditions acknowledges his error we do not consider that it would be e proper to for us to io flaunt his name before f ore are the public in that connection that having h been already done by the paper I 1 in n which the notice appeared As we have stated that no stigma should attach to the sixth infantry try as a body on account of the ill lii conduct of one of its soldiers so dowe do we also in reference to the methodist church no blame should attach to that religious religions rellious coain body on account of an error comin committed bitted by one of its clergymen |
