Show THE FAILURE OF FORCE rr THE la E memphis news commenting on recent events in utah expresses a doubt as to any good effects from antii mormon le legislation unless milder measures are ae employed and says saya something more is needed than laws and cannon bills balls to make an e end ad of mormonism I 1 the news q quotes u otes as follows fol lowa fro from in an article in the andover review written by a congregational clergyman who has lived tor for some time tima in utah these legislative and judicial movements have acted upon 0 J largely as a centripetal foree force aad through a common sympathy and fear have bound closer toge together thir the hearts of the ts 11 tae news says such is the effect the persecution or governmental government to private opinions will always have these remarks are sound and based upon the lessons of history furnished from all the ages age toleration and kind treatment are greater forces in 1 the extirpation of heresy than all the edicts of ecclesiastical courts the statutes passed in a spirit of oppression and the penalties inflicted to coerce conscience and in this enlightened age honest opinion however mistaken it may seem to be ought not to be assailed by anything more mor than ethan reason and argument unless it is made dangerous oy acts that infringe upon human rights excessive and harsh measures extended beyond the legitimate bounds of law and judicial usage cannot long continue where public sentiment is the prevalent influence in government such efforts to suppress conviction must necessarily be spasmodic and though in the dark ages they may have bave been sustained for a lengthened period yet in these later times they must whenever adopted soon subside before the march of enlightenment and the spirit of justice and lip humanity manity those who demand force for the immolation mo lation of fairband fait falt band hand cry for relentless and coercive comerci measures against the votaries vot aries of ut they deem a false reeda repot among the friends of progress but their sentiments aremel acs ics acs ics of the barbarism which was nas drenched the earth vi with ith the blood of the martyrs and ted fed the fires for human sagi sacrifice fice in days that were dark with bastry bio ry and hate they are now only r restrained es trained oy DY a public opinion which has been changed by the pro i arees of truth troth and would again bring forth the rack and the gibbet abo thumbscrews thumb screws and the fagots fagons if the world at large had not grown too merciful and wise to permit their re bus citation it is bad policy as well as bad morals 0 ai tempt attempt to stamp out principle with the iron hoofs of oppression or to try to batter in a bead because it entertains opinions the testimony of ane cew uries unites as aa to its failure and the exper getce of the present aff ads ample corroboration |