Show tuy TUX MORMONS EDITOR MISSOURI republican I 1 confess as ari ati an individual as an atten tive reader and admire the republic can for thirty years past to no ordinary surprise at the ants of an editorial in your issue of the eath ath uil ull referring to to a seron beron berton telegraphically announced to have een delivered by orson pratt in salt la lake e city last iasi sunda sunday y week such epithet ri ei as stubborn tool fool bla tali tail tant t ap apostle ostle oatle madness I 1 Imon monstrosity I 1 11 in my judgment are not only ill timed and om of place but also beneath the tone and dignity with which the staid republican la Is wont to treat even its ita opponents Tha Tb atthe tIthe excitement throughout the cou con country n t ry on the subject of polygamy is alre aire already dy high cannot ha he denied allow me to ask you mr editor what caused bp bt excitement in when the handful of cormona Ifor mons there settled were driven rum jackson county missouri it could not have been polygamy for poly polygamy amy was hen then unknown in aal agu n permit me to ask what c caused aused th w excitement at nauvoo in the mae massacre sadre of the smith brothers polygamy was not charged against them the rhe cruel repetition of thebe these outrages by mobs has become history and the dark record reveals the fact startling as it marnoy may now nov sound in our ears that in every instance the leaders of or the mobs offered the alternative ter native of security to all who would renounce their religions mr buchac ad anns aris Is crusade of 1857 8 had iio rio polygamy in its ita catalogue of of fences now to brand polygamy as ad the real rea cause of the present excitement we must utterly ignore the record of the paste past then the inference iss Is the mormons having recuperated to a degree at all enviable or indicative of success there would have been great excitement cit cli ement with its direful accompaniments had bad polygamy formed no integral part of their religion the ir irresistible conclusion from the facts before us Is that jhb excitement Is not against the people 0 of f utah as men and wa women mell meli or thein their practices but against the their religion i now mr editor Is it not clear that compromise would in nowise mend mand the situation were the mormon people even disposed aud competent to make the compromise ise lse or 61 halfway half h f way point you considerately propose prop ose oae you cannot therefore 1 ai justice charge orson Oraon pratt while declaring that the mormons cormons will not abandon polygamy with being anxious to achieve the honors of martyrdom or the pleasures of perse persecution 0 u 11 you would have the mormon mormons a cail cali call a convention and frame aco aeo which shail shall contain a clamae forbidding the further extension of polygamy after a certain date and then ask admission into theUn the union ion lon would you by this imply that con coD congress gress would rather admit a body of perjured hypocrites than utah as bhe ahe is today to day in point of social moral and political purity without reproach if it 16 is nut net it aboul should be well known to the whole world that when the mormons cormons compromise away polygamy they compromise mormonism Mormon iam lam As well weli might you ask of the devou devon teat test christian in the land to surrender his trust in a crucified and risen jesus but sir the mormons cormons have walked the plank of compromise from fayette N Y to hiram thence to kirtland ohio to jackson thence to clay glay caldwell carroll daviess and bay ray mo no thence entirely out of the state across the mississippi to nauvoo ill ili thence through iowa beyond the missouri to winter quarters and to the desert of america uniformly reaping the reward in robbery plunder confiscation and death their forty years in the wilderness of of the american frontiers have furnished irrefragable proofs that their bright canaan does not lie ile in the direction of compromise even with ith the alternative of unqualified submission or wholesale expatriation but the government has committed itself to a line of policy from which it cannot retreat altogether without sac the national honor I 1 solemnly protest that if to vindicate the national honor it be require required dg tp enter the sacred precincts of conscience to combat the marriage of the holy patriarchs and prophets through whom came the word of god to institute the alternative of rejecting gods command or disobeying the authority of the government to recede to the proscription crip tion no of f the priest ridden monarchies of the old world from the tortures of which our puritan sires sought an a asylum lum on american soll soil and to in dorse confirm and intensify the mob bings dr ivings robberies rob nob berles and murders of the tha past by a combined formidable crusade against us in the name and by authority of the government then as a free born american citizen isay ibay I 1 say the national honor is not worth vindicate ing the very means will defeat the end and anarchy will follow proscription the constitution trampled in the dust popular government will appear a huge failure the immediate result of the harsh measures proposed may for the time discommode the mormons cormons Mor mons burthey are not in any degree despondent as to the outcome if to gory graves the conflict beckons them they wi wil ie bce welcomed as the portals to a rapturous paradise and reunion with the blood washed martyrs of jesus who have preceded them and the fires on the altar of liberty rekindled by the shock will wili again begin to burn as in the days ca of purer patriotism I 1 I 1 the mormons Mor mons EB now are soberly informed that if they do nat give up their thein polygamy they must either flee or he be exterminated the truth Is the mor mons do not knot for one moment believe that if by their absent assent they could annul anna the practice it would make tho least perceptible improvement toward them in lit the tho attitude of their enemies if it therefore it be true that our own glorious and magnanimous government hag haa finally determined to assume in utah the generalship in the per persecutions i begun by border ruffians rud ruf fians flans in ohio missouri and illinois unquestionably the work of ot subjugation and recantation will be conducted on a scale of far great er magnificence than that thab of the past but alas aias the deplorable results I 1 haye have already foreshadowed shadowed fore the god of battles has decreed that those who fight tight against zion shall become as the dust of the ba balance lancel when the immortal henry saw tiie the clanking chains of bonda bonds bondage gebo geso so long iong by british minions forging ready to be bound and riveted upon the colo colonists ta he exclaimed as I 1 do this dw UV Is uta ufa so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased with chains and slavery forbid it almighty al m eighty god I 1 I 1 know not what course other take I 1 batlas forme formo forma give me liberty or of give death deatha lt at |