Show A VIGOROUS PROTEST I 1 A PLEA rima FOR FOP amr AND RELIGIONS RIGHTS BIGHTS AND erde erbe institutions THE following pungent articles are from the of the spirit of hart hari michigan madness seems to rule the hour 1 11 coupled with humbug and inconsistency one ine of the latest exhibitions comes in the clamor for congress to abolish a republican form of government rhe fhe excuse now is the mormon question but under whatever garb or guise it may come up it is still the same question can our supposed free government establish a monarchy if it can under der that pretext it can make another pretext un elext to establish it in other places under other pretexts the staid senators edmunds and aloar hoar have brought forward bills to do that very thin thing people can do a great many things ua under a religious intolerance and a popular clamor clama r that would look heinous stripped naked of its deformity and oppression for instance in the land of hoar and edmunds once tn in its short history it could bum burn witches and quakers with as much gusto and in as great a sense of right as it can now assume to tear up free government root and branch in the far west under the plea of god and and morality we do not believe any sect in the universe is right and all of the rest wrong we believe there is some good in nearly all of them and much error prejudice pye judice and unrealized superstition supers titon but we believe that all have the inalienable right to worship god to the dictates of their own consciences we do not except any where there is no violence or force if you ou except any from the rule except a all ali 11 1 be no re specters of persons or sects the arguments in favoron favor of the punishment and destruction of witches and quakers in former new england times were just as potent then as the arguments now are lor for the proposed trampling of the constitution ution of the united states und under u foot and establishing a kingly or g r viceroy despotism in the western territories |