| Show correspondence PAST PRESENT axi axt FUTURE during D u rl n g the ili lil first st years of our association at ion lon with the gentiles who canle came here with merchandise to make their fortunes unes they were treated c cordially lly liy and oudia in turn treated us with d due e respect they were very pleased to associate with the heads of the church aud their numerous households and were not so fastidious as to feel in the least shocked but on the contrary were delighted to have the privilege of attending our social parties to b be entertained at the thu homes of polygamists and to partake of their bal bounty unta this PLURAL ILL ORDER was not by them pronounced a vice until after certain federal officials als ais came here accompanied by unmarried women and lind undertook to introduce their favorite but disreputable practices arnon the ill mormons cormons Mor Ifor mons when they were given oiven given the cold shoulder afterwards some corrupt judges and lawyers were sent out to meddle with our social and religious affairs but they were so soon discouraged as to accept the first occasion to resi resl resign gnand and left the territory rather wise wiser trian when they came but only to be followed by a more hungry swarm they had their PLANS plass ALL ARRANGED the homes of the saints were to be divided and their wives and daughters were among 1 the spoils ant the noted buckl BUCKI ANNAN BLUNDER ended in disgrace and is now a matter of history it was afterwards concluded to send a peace commission I 1 as the wiser and more proper course which though it came rather late in the day soon brought matters to a satisfactory sati is issue I 1 they found the cormons mormons Mor mons were very much like other human beings and that aney intended to be treated as such that they were made of the brou froug 1 kind of material to bow to petty tyrants or to stoop to do a mean act in retaliation neither did they ask any odds of people who had driven them from their midst ana and compelled them for the second time to flee in the dead of winter over bleak and barren wastes and at last seek refuge in these mountains where they soon proved that they could exist without asking their count rys assistance or succor this people had done nothing to deserve huch uc h a fate and the old wounds were still too painful ul to allow the heel atop of op pres slon sion so soon to be set down upon our necks crush crushing lug out ont those cherished rights anu liberties which we considered had been fairly earned at all events WE HAD COIE cole TO STAY we were imbued with the sanle same patriotism which filled the souls of our revolutionary sires and had supposed 0 like them that we had llad escaped the dominion of our persecutors and considered ourselves the rightful lightf ul owners and proprietors of our mountain home horne 11 and had we not fairty fairly won it from savage man and savage ge nature yes we own it all the claims of actual possession by toll and trial by the ordeal of suffering by peril privation and hardships by the baptism of sorrow and the shedding of blood no wonder that patriotism was the child of such travail and discipline no wonder that the men from mountain and sky and river from f roin orchard and valley and forest from the memories of the past the aspirations of the present and aud the hopes of the future had drank in the spirit of liberty until their souls were pervaded with her sublime essence nor that we iles esteemed honor lionor above preferment and truth more than riches without influence we became influential without encouragement great despised aud and mocked and hated we have risen risen above our re vilers in the school of e evil vii vil fortune we gained discipline of patience suffering without cause brought resignation without despair ourselves the tho victims of persecution we became the founders of a colony a common commonwealth wealth a nation we were the children of a adversity and aud the fatherland fathers father sand and mothers of renown our gaze Is turned ever jo to posterity we believe la in the future our affections and hopes aredith are with the coming aces ases for our children we toll toil and sa crit ice with us the outcast found sympathy a our houses were rude and that thatched ched ebed with straw there were energy and thrift within it only sod or wooden chimneys carried up the smoke the tires of th uc hearthstone were kindled with laughter and song if creaking windmills windmill s flung abroad their ungainly arms in the wind etwas it was proof that the people had milies families ta to feed and meant to feed them in spite of I 1 christian I 1 examples examples and mingling with them as Iv we h have e for years we are still so tar far behind in so called civilization 1 as to consider the rearing of a numerous family one of the noblest works dev devolving olvin upon human kind these things were calculated to enrage the feelings of our enemies wa we admits admit particularly the priests and the clergy with certain cliques whose plans lans ians have been so woefully defeated the r e energy and persever ence which they have manifested in trying to stir up not abt only this nation but even foreign powers to assisting assI assist stin in stopping ilg tig the mormon emigration that they might be better able to io wipe put the obnoxious sect whose hos feet have become so firmly set in t hese these rocky mountains would be praiseworthy had they beem directed in illa iila a prop proper erway way d determined to do nothing that could be construed as disloyalty to io our country the latter day saints iid lid have ve submitted graciously to some very extraordinary requirements and have tried to take as philosophical a view of them as possible the lord having dei del ared that ile he would fight our battles we take it that ile he does not require his people to study the art of war and that ile he has something more christian like for them to do then the shedding of mans blood thus we felt as we viewed the step taken by our belligerent erent governor the late J IV shaffer who w was s so eager to immortalize his name that having failed in attack attacking inc inz polygamy the lord suffered the dying hero to execute his vow against the mor mons by forbidding the muster drills or gatherings catherin s of the NAUVOO lemion within the territory of utah this was unlooked unlocked for haying having been so long accustomed to nat national fonal tonai and time honored customs of our forefathers fathers 4 training cratit ng duy day and military dri drills lis its were always looked forward to with an unspeakable delight this was about the las last work R of that would be conqueror J W shaffer SELF sell CONTROL is a rare virtue and has eve ever r us victory where violence has brought the opposite though brigham young and many more who assisted him in carrying out the pads pans p ans of the almighty and in warding off the wicked darts of the enemy have stepped upon another stage their works will follow them and we shall tee hoc zion still roiling rolling on under the watchcase watch care eare of president taylor and his brethren asyet As yet jet we have seen no symptoms of decay but on the cont cout contrary a crr err creator ater degree of vitality y has been exhibited of oblate late than ever before there are certainly some very GREAT absurdities being committed by some of the wise men of our nation but the lord has sid said the wisdom of the wise shall perish I 1 and land the things we witness are well calculated to convince us of this fact we see what is called a free and liberal liberat government employing a against 11 ains us our most bitter foes and traduce traducers rs they who have fanned and are constantly adding fuel to the flames llames of prejudice and hatred already kindled in the hearts of outsiders against a people who have never encroached upon any asins s rights but on the contrary agn have done e good bodd all the day long and when we know that some of the worst are amond those who have been rich by IMor mormon filon traffic and industry and not pot a voice has been raised by them in iii our behalf is it not hl high ii time that we withdraw our patronage instead of encourage encouraging ging such charac character characters terp to remain in our midst it is not only the actors in THIS WICKED crump crumn that are accountable who 1 by silence give consent to these outrages outrage which h might for all they know end in in the slam siam slaughter 1 I liter ilter of thousands of innocent men women bome n and children such will be held responsible for these unconstitutional acts committed against our safety and welfare the lord has told us that those who are not for us are against us their ruling motive is understood not blot only by their intended victims but by soule souie honorable Geu gentiles tiles in our midst who testify that it is not to suppress lna ina liu lin morality defend virtue etc as they pretend but that such buch a claim ly lya iya mere subterfuge c to illde hide their own selfish schemes and hypocrisy gi a nar MAR |
