| Show testimonial OF LOYALTY ANOTHER refutation OF G A it SLANDERS LEE VALLEY tennessee august 23 1886 editor deseret news so you have had the G A R faulmi utora with you and been afflicted with their upon the mormon problem the only matter of siAr surprise prise to me is that general logan should have allowed himself to be 64 gulled gu 11 d by b such schemers as murray bcbride bickson mcbade dickason et id genus of course I 1 cannot be surprised at gov alger and his species of gud geons 11 they are the sort to bite at any bait when mcbride and dickso i and their kind in their fulminations barged disloyalty td the US U S government upon the latter day saints I 1 am persuaded in my mind that they wilfully il ae 1 ik falsified I 1 speak for the in this neighborhood nearly all the male portion WERE I 1 THE FEDERAL during the civil war those who were not were wei a too young some of them are now drawing pensions for wounds received As io 6 myself I 1 enlisted in an iowa ment april 19 1861 1 I served throughout the war and was in every eve mut engagement abat at my regiment participated in amongst my corps commanders were gens C F smith U 8 grant john A logan and G M dodge others of our little liitle band bandon of saints here were in tennessee regiments and served under the present governor of california some of them doing members of the G AR A R and I 1 must submit that the loyalty of these old soldiers being called into question by b their comrades isa i a glaring insult why way LOYALTY IS 18 AN inspiration wl with thour our mountain people th they 1 drink it in their mothers milk tt it comes 0 om as tco ithem like heavenly music in t the e breezes from the rock ribbed mountains they love so sowell well the theve very water they drauk is wi wita ta loyalty and love of liberty Jib lib eity and we look upon it as a divine right to enjoy the same saime as di dictated stated i by conscience zon science I 1 venture tu e to say y that it would not be healthy to lor M mr r Dicks dickson etc to come down here and ad tell these descendants of the heroes of kings mountain that they a and that they would not fly to arms aims today to day as readily as they did in the late war in defense of the nag flag the 6 A B R seem so prone to prate about i again all the reso of the relief belief corps z not convince the women in this section who have bave embraced the gospel that they are disloyal any more now by accepting the doctrine of the saints than they were during those troublous days of the rebellion when they evinced their loyalty by their Aero devotion tion and deeds of aible noble self sacrifice such as zane dickson dicksen nor others of the morality sh are for a moment capable or of appreciating CONTINUE YOUR DEFENSE OF YOUR I 1 PEOPLE you are Hi akina good one the enemy have the advant advantage of you in the num number berof of the advantage new newspapers ate capets and the grossly perverse pe ignorance of the majority of a ithone reached but the student of the mormon faith sees matters in a different light and accords h hh y sympathies to the saints whom these so called reformers are seeking ta rob of their birthright any Ariyo ore can see that all this furore f tirone about abor th mormon question Is bat an effort lo 10 steal the territory let the saints be of good cheer however as it will not be d done e I 1 have faith that the lord is in 9 over his people and at the proper time will make his power known so be ft occasional |
