Show PATRIOTIC expressions misconstrued THE chief anti mormon journal of this city has come across an old copy of the DESERET j which contains an account of the celebration of the fourth of july 1856 at which brigham young was orator of the day our unreason able quotes from the oration and then according to jig its unvarying custom comments upon the utterances utterance ig contained in the speech in order to make it ap pear that the great pioneer and organizer meant something thit that could not be conveyed in his words As the quotations from the oration of governor young make good reading we reproduce them here apart from the sinister and disingenuous comments of his unkind and sophistical detractors what cause has awakened to life and civilized improvement th these desert plains these barren wastes we exist and are sustained by the protecting power of almighty god arnid amid the constant and fierce opposition of those who seem bedni unwilling to recognize his right to rule upon thia planet of his own creation 91 then follows a graphic ably drawn and truth truthful fil picture of the times which in some respects have been by no means improved where shall we look in this niqi our day for foi those great and en obling deeds of deathless fame which in times dinies pas have adorned the pathway of out on illustrious sires not ot in the west wed where the spaniard the chilian them the chinaman and the indian my be e shot down like the prowling colvet and where murder at high booti noon comes an n unbidden though not an dunwel come guest not in kansas where 1 should be brethren are W out each others throats jofs yet in Misso missouri url where clovea tooted footed and hydra headed edba dwy held her feard fearful ua orgies yil in washington where the blud sf geen th the e d deadly dl m missile and revolver eaf atha the hn hands d of so called honor ab able a members not only of the more popular branch but also of the high grave and dignified body the senate t of the united states not when sordid ambition political knavery swindling andi and governmental 91 stock tock jobbing have grown grey in service ice and where the fe cesspool 1 of portical pollution sends I 1 forth its foul streams of stench and E irrupt the fairest domain the richest w herz heritage tage ever vouchsafed to man aji then came a paragraph which g Z exhibited the character of ef this seemon amon before the hand of intelligent industry aided by the blessing of f caused it to blossom as the ww the country suits us because no other well informed people can covet our oar possessions if they do it is be cause they rudge grudge usan us an existence up r on any part a bof of gods footstool there to not nothing here except what is pro dimmed by the most arduous toil and that often unrequited to tempt the al avarice or cupidity of any reasonable exe creature sture it is useless therefore for any y official cliques who never have v N identified e notified their interests with the 1 welfare of this territory and who never intend to to seek to dictate govern and control us in view of these theme facts we fondly anticipate seeing the day when in accordance with the spirit and intent of our i republican government rement we shall be blessed with the full enjoyment of our rights and shave the privilege of electing officers of our own choice and be free from the impositions of those known to be unsolicited and unsought upon our f part and who feel no interest in our prosperity but would much r we see us ns languish and come to naught then follows a sentiment worthy of a great statesman and patriot jaet not the federal government presume upon the same suicidal policy but rather by taking an honorable just and u upright pr ig ht course conciliate ciliate the people and n extend to them the rich blessings of a free government 72 our readers have the enunciations renunciations complained of by our before them they must admit that sio 10 one but a sophistical misanthrope who makes a business of necking to cause virtue to take on the appear ance of vice would attempt to draw from theman them an evil inference the expressions quoted simply give evidence of the greatness of the mau man who uttered them they embody a forcible plea for the prine principles aples of right and of free civil government |