| Show BE STILL NATURALLY enough there is considerable feeling among the people of utah in relation to us plots and schemes formu formulae lAW and conducted by a nest of designing knaves and hypocrites to rob them of their rights and liberties that there should be indignation more or less sharp and intense is not to be wondered at considering the enormity of the exciting causes in that direction but it must be held under complete restraint it must no go no farther than a pacific though deter determined mined struggle for the maintenance of the rights of the people it must not develop into overt proceedings a against adust the contemptible sell self se seekers ekers whose acts of tyranny and efforts to extirpate popular rule under the cloak of the vilest hypocrisy are the cause of considerable warmth of feeling while lethe the mormon people or the bulk of them may not have reached that point in the higher law of the gospel that will enable them to love their enemies and do good to those who use them t they hey can at least retrain refrain from a recourse to any carnal process of retaliation in fact retaliation may not be the proper ter in m to use in such a struggle eyle as the efforts of the people to resist the encroachment of the canting hypocrites who constantly carry the sacred name of liberty on their lips while the spirit of tyranny and lust for place and power are deeply lm bedded in their hearts are and necessarily should be of a deafen bave character they must also be pacific the element of violence vi Kence having no place in the contro controversy veroy so far a as s the people who are ale wronged are concerned except it might inight be in ease of a repulsion of that kind of treatment in case it be resorted to those who do not feel as conservative as we do on this subject are liable to argue that such characters would not be allowed to pursue their infernal course in any other community the truth of this proposition may not be properly denied but when the plane occupied oy by the saints As compared with that of communities in general its force is destroyed the people here hare have a noble mission to perform and it is necessarily necessary necess ari ly peaceful W hile it is their imperative duty to contend for their rights inch by inch not from a selfish standpoint but as a matter of principle that liberty may be let left as a legacy to future generations and truth be preserved and perpetuated carnal force is not a factor in ia this process therefore what would obtain among other peoples under similar wrongs does not apply among those who coffi compose the overwhelming majority of the citizens ol of utah I 1 it is the duty of all the people interested to think to scan things as they are that they may intelligently grasp the situation those who do so will not find it difficult to apprehend the probable consequences besides the infraction of a prominent principle of our faith that would accrue f roni from people undertaking the task of visiting ng punishment upon any of the prominent individuals of the nest of conspirators spira tors whose inhumanity is only equaled by their hypocrisy and who make it a business to spread the most infamous lies concerning this com inua gubity ity that under cover of the popular prejudice created by the web ol of falsification they may carry out with impunity their infernal schemes such a recourse would be a great injury to the cause of right and in all probability increase the intensity and scope of the wrongs of which the people have so much just reason to complain besides if there should be any act of the description against the commission of which we take occasion to utter latter a note of warning there I 1 is no knowing what such a circumstance might lead to as popular indignation long suppressed is by no means easy to stop human passion is like a whirlwind increasing in force and volume from the initial point onward until its fury is spent I 1 to one and all we say let all our efforts to prevent the encroachments encroach ments 0 of tyrants and tyranny be peaceful but none the less leas resolute this course is suggested by ordinary prudence as well as being required by the religious p principles ot of the people the balance can C an be properly left in the hands of a j just god who las has promised it they are f faithful and true to fight the battles of the saints |
