| Show disloyalty disloyalty IN UTAH ANI AND THE SOUTH JEFFER jefferson Sox DAVIS davics was the embodiment of the views of the southern people respecting certain subjects pertaining to government he was this in 1850 when the war began he had become such in a more intense degree leos lees surrender had no effect in changing his status in this regard and he remained till death unaltered and unalterable in the conviction that the states have the right to regulate their own social concerns and that the general government had no right to interfere with slavery ridicule has been heaped upon him for repeating in his old age the favorite theories of his prime the rebellion was suppressed at an inconceivable cost of blood i treasure and auais misery ery the south was conquered and reconstructed the vanquished accepted their fate and the union onion became one again the states which participated in the rebellion bowed to the authority of the general government and honored its laws the soldiers of the blue and grey became brothers again and for two decades it has been accepted that treason and disloyalty have no existence in ila the confines of the late confederacy but the death of jefferson davis da vis has brought forth abundant proof that he was still the apostle of political science from a faith in whose teachings the south has never been converted men do not honor a leader in whom they have ceased to believe and from whose docar doctrines I 1 ties they have apostatized as the people of tha tb southern states tote honored him by commemorating his death in the manner they did and by applauding pla the praises that were vere lavished upon iii him m and the labor of his life such manifestations come from the muses masses only when they are in thee the closest sympathy with the man who is the object of them I 1 in short it is the belief of the southern people today that title this nation has departed from the theory upon which it was founded the Nor north thren ren states voluntarily those of the confederacy through coe coercion relon their political scientists teach them that our government has become centralized far beyond what its founders intended that the people have been robbed of powers that rightfully belonged to them and that the political trend now being pursued tends to the destruction of popular liberty and the rights of man these teachings teaching the people receive and believe the sold south but no one seriously charges the southern people with disloyalty to the united states government because of the sf hool of political philosophy to which they adhere the south has as good a right to make such a charge against the north as the north has against the south this fact is realized aud and it is further conceded that oneness of political belief is unattainable hence the necessity of preserving the constitutional ti 1 right of every man mai to uter 9 tain and express puch opinions as he may choose hew hen e also the rule that reason and dist loyalty consist in acts not in opinions nor words this rule being the outgrowth of specific language in the constitution itself this rule is incessantly violated in utah here opinions axe are made treason and theological views are distorted into disloyalty feats impossible to accomplish in any other part of the united states in utah ideas respecting the science of human government which do not accord with those of a certain clique are denounced as treason Ide ideas asare are never treason elsewhere iu in the union religious doctrines of a heterodox nature are held to be disloyalty but nowhere else on the american continent was it ever held that religious belief and disloyalty could possibly be the same thing the rules of human reason as well as the definitions of the constitution are overthrown by the slanderers slander ers of the mormons cormons Mor mons why should not opinion and speech be as free in utah as in the south why should belief be here her recognized as aa treason and there as a natural right why should criticism of public men and measures be held the privilege and duty of the press and people elsewhere but disloyalty here Beca because a clique here believe that by abusing the mor imor mons sufficiently they will be able to create a sentiment in congress and the country that will back them up in their schemes for plundering the territory |
