Show MORMON disloyalty it was waa on the veranda of the ho was tell the evening was extremely peasant nt most of the guests had fifth ered there the moon shone la 18 brightest and the breeze from the alao mountain u cooled the hot air I 1 joll joined al the company and sat listen HS to the conversation as it drifted bonx M one subject to another I 1 learned ned from their talk that most of wan had been in the late civil war the major would relate an incident then n the colonel would tell one the ahe captain had just finished a remarkable kable account when the general eral exclaimed claimed ithac that reminds s me ot of an incident which occurred 14 salt lake city last fourth of july when the mormons cormons f masted their flags 11 1 1 and then fol awed an account R of deeds which ebaid should have been punished by y shot and shell this seemed a appy theme for nearly every one nad W something to say about the morona and their disloyalty disloyally when the subjects subject as I 1 thought had M been nearly exhausted a pleas looking grey headed old gentle who had been an attentive attenni listener ener moved his chair a little little e boass to the group and remarked lemen nt I 1 am also acquainted with an example of mormon dis which I 1 would like to re aate te cries of yes ago go on feted voted this thia so BO he quietly began about fifty years ago a comy puny of mormons cormons settled in a small pace called commerce on the mis api river biver in the state of IW illi uw three times before they had tried to make settlements in other a states ates but about the time they paid kaid fac bof their lands and made comfort elble w homes their kind neighbors ded that they would like the cormons mormons Mor mons land themselves so they ent to work and drove them off where these good citizens were not ang enough to do this the state caw militia would help them well ve toe the little hamlet of mmerle grew to a city of iy ay thousand inhabitants the th in largest and most prosperous city we he state but aga again inthey they were daven from heir homes and in the berof of 1846 they might have tale unseen making their way across then n unsettled territories of and nebraska seeking a home an bulone the mountains and deserts of je the west most of them were alor they had but the teams con ys SIOU av oftentimes mes of oxen and cow ich drew their rude wagons and the provisions rO visions they could carry d men I 1 am powerless to bribe eribe to 0 you the scenes that tha were ena fam on oa that exodus or the sut suf fp that were endured you c 41 perhaps imagine what their theli the ti tiou was waa when you reflect on ed stances rt ances which surround con them 11 in a wild unsettled surrounded by hostile dam 1 ly and going they hari bar I 1 athla ale knew kaew into what dangers and wrany childre om y of nn men women i n called by was upon y tale n ta lofti fah T united states government five hundred able bodied to 10 fight the he battles of their own y did they refuse did the recollection of their past abuses when that selfsame government refused to protect them in their most common rights come up before them and set their hearts against such a call no the men were raised gentlemen I 1 was there and one of them I 1 left an aged father and mother many a young man left his young sister or w wife ife to drive with weary 8 steps the unruly team which d drew 1 their worldly all amid all the privations of that wild country the aged toiled with their younger help the wife without the lius husband band the mother without her son not many days after this act of mormon disloyalty a remnant of their helpless wo women and children that was left behind was driven out to wander on the prairie and in the woods by the guns and bayonets of soldiers the old man paused the emphasis he placed on each word the bright aright sparkle in his eye put the imprint of truth on his words no one spoke so he continued what you gentlemen have been narrating may be true but your loyalty sinks into insignificance when compared with the patriotism of the very people whom you say should vez be slaughtered by shot and shell C N A |