Show ITHE IT HE NATIONS LE LEGACY GACY AND Y TRUST tho the people of this nation and their delegated representatives have a trust reposed in them the magnitude of which it is difficult if not impossible to overestimate it would be no stretch of imagination agi nation nor exaggeration of the simple truth to say that the liberty of the world had been placed within their 11 power republics have fallen into the grasp of ambitious and designing men with whom personal aggrandizement took precedence over tho the public weal autocracies have been tyrannical or humane according to the whim or pe personal character of the despots who governed monarchies have Maintain maintained edthe the right divine I 1 of a few to lo 10 lord rd it over the many but in this nation the budding flower e r of fresh grown freedom and true liberty gave promise of blooming with a beauty and fragrance ahat hat would never fade yet while the names of the fathers of our country are venerated and respected spec ted their successors seem to be forgetting if they have not already forgotten that the liberty and freedom bequeathed thel thea thed to the nation by those great men is but a legacy a trust reposed for the use of which they will have to ren deran account at the tribunal of posterity and the bar bur of god they do not act as if the glorious career of the nation was the result of that which our fathers purchased with their best blood and bequeathed to their children but as if they themselves were the authors of the nations glory and had a right to act their pleasure with the fruits of their own labors they do today to day that which the great statesmen who gave ua us our constitution and laid the foundation of our national greatness would not dare to have done in their day they could not have dared to do it for their strong sense of right and their clear conception of that policy necessary to maintain the nations growth and increasing dr prosperity would not have permitted them to do so they bequeathed to the nation in trust and as a glorious heritage principles which if honestly adhered to and faithfully administered would have met the wants of the nation under all circumstances cum stances this nation can never grow so nor extend its dominion mi U lonc so wide that thos those e principles would not meet its wants as a nation but one of the greatest curses that ever afflicted any people a cause of the decadence of some of the mightiest powers that have ever borne sway on the earth is class legislation and in this coun try under a constitution which guarantees t the e fullest liberty berty to every eadry citizen a people inhabiting a territory which with unexampled perseverance and unparallel industry they have i wrested from the desert wil wll wilderness wilberne derne ss are made the subjects and objects of class legislation on ex parac parte statements and slanders the most vile and untrue do the statesmen of the nation forget that in striking at our liberties they are striking at their own that if the trust reposed in them is betrayed when the mormons cormons Mor mons are the subject of co consideration there may arise another pharoah who knew not joseph 2 thattie thau that the growth of parties or sects antagonistic to them 1 may throw into the councils of the nation natio n a majority opposed to io them who following their example and giving the constitution a wide interpretation I 1 ma declare by y act of congress that they can ean cannot go to io heaven except somebody else shall point out the way or prescribe th the e means by which that much desired ill ili julais aa is expected to be reached dhow ghow often during the last thirty six years have our honest and most common rights been denied to us how often during the f he past eighteen years have we been refused with acrimony the same rights that have been granted to others legs qualified to claim them how often airiA during the same time have we deen been tried and condemned upon evidence evidence not one iota of which had fun foundation dation in truth have we not had judges and other federal officers here sent to utah to stop their for office who when they could norget not get their depraved and libidinous desires gratified have lied about the mor monsa by the book these things 1 are gito so notoriously true that our most bitter enemies do not try to gainsay them was it not upon the false alle rations of one of those men a disgrace to na country a slur upon humanity and anda a foul blot on the honorable position x I 1 awag called to occupy that an arry army wasse vasse was sent nt up here to destroy us and when government at last did the thing have done at first sent serit com missioners ners here did not those commis find the charges that were made untrue did not that rotten and contemptible temp A tibie tible i apology for a man who bo outraged the commonest decency and disgusted aen even the lea led least wyt itt fastidious by seating a prostitute beside rim him on the bench ch write his allegation of law books being beang burned in this city and other like infamous slanders from california dat ing his letters from great salt lake city and when the subject was care frilly fully investigated by men appointed expressly by government for the purpose was vas iras not pot every one of the charges made taa faa to be malicious and untrue Z this as an open record before iffe ifft ka statesmen of the nation and the at large is a similar course not min win heing being 0 pursued now men ilen who are openly and avowedly our enemies who cannot even speak of the mormons cormons Mor mons betraying their animosity who I 1 have striven to goad our people into some act that might be construed against a 1 arnst them volunteer or are required to give evidence against a daple lej whom they hate upon which evidence reasoning from the past it is i presumed this people will be judged and 1 i condemned amne d without the poor privilege I 1 accorded a to the vilest criminal of introducing luein lucin testimony in their own behalf when we see such a course taken we note it with sorrow it requires no Iro prophet phet to foretell what will be the final result I 1 if persisted in its result is ala aia written in the history of nations if the legacy left us by the fathers of our country is thus cast aside and despised 1 if it the trust which they reposed in the nation Is thus betrayed we can read in thein their recorded sayings what they theofore fore saw would v ouid eventually be the result aeiry e would invite the representatives bf f the people to pause and reflect before they tear away the foundation of their n liberty and freedom in attempting lestroy 0 destroy ours |