| Show WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HIM A LETTER written by the notorious lis scandalmonger scandal monger and peripatetic anti mormon plate passer E R G a P presbyterian resby terian preacher of this city has been published in the east and was read by joseph cook the boston beanbag bean bag at his closing learn lecture of course it abounds with rn misrepresentations and its purport is abuse of the mormons cormons Mor mons with the object of blinding the public as to the truth and enlisting f further artber aid of a pecuniary nature to put the masses of the mormon people in possession of education etc this is the usual phraseology of the dollar hunters who are about as likely to be sought after bythe masses of the mormon people ff for education as for theology or sympathy or treasures of earth or heaven we do not propose to wade through all the pre versions which it pleased meni ece to write anal ana delighted cook to read but bat will simply to one or two points which will illustrate the whole mess meas referring to the test oath taken by jurors in this district he said the same men who on th the e day before swore they would obey the law of congress condemning conde maing polygamy as a crime did not hesitate on the day following to shearin sw earin substance they believed polygamy to be right and the laws against it should not be obeyed 1 everybody ibie here acquainted with the facts knows that the part we have put pat in italics is a deliberate and wilful falsehood the jurors swore nothing of the kind the statement is the fabrication of the rev kev JR G no juror said or intimated that the laws or any law should not be obeyed they took the oath to obey the law but many of them believed it to be unwise unjust lind inexpedient yet they took the ground that it should be obeyed because it was the law this was why they agreed to observe it not because it was inherent inherently r right ig hubut but because it was part of the ta law w of the land A person who cannot seethe distinction is excessively dull and a parson who intentionally perverts it and substitutes its exact eis eAAs diabolical I 1 are there no laws on the statute book which intelligent people object to and yet obey does every banker sustain the silver law does every free pass preacher approve of the interstate inter state commerce law Ar are there ethere not judges in the land who think certain laws which they rigidly enforce ought to be repealed Is a citizen who obeys the law but yet thinks it wrong disqualified from jury service rather kather is not a man who has sense enough to understand the law and to perceive its defects but is yet willing to obey it because it is the law far better fitted to serve on a jury than one who does not discriminate nor care a cent whether the law is wise or foolish proper or improper 1 said further in his lying 1 letter 6 oae of the excuses given in one of the mormon papers lor for this peculiar and contradictory way of swearing is that congress has the mormon church and hence they are po 40 longer members if it and so do not aid and abet the of polygamy I 1 this is another wilf wilful al and intentional untruth without foundation and without excuse can easily absolve himself from the odium of the charge that he has purposely lied by quoting the article or naming the mormon paper I 1 in which the words or anything resembling them occur he dare it he knows ne lie never read them in a mormon paper p a per or come f from born a mormon mouth month it is not a mormon sentiment there is not a mormon in utah who thinks congress can destroy the church to which he belongs or render him not a member of it we do not net think there is anybody or any sect class or race in this territory pg who is so stupid as to think the po ration of a church effects its actual existence be that as it may never saw the rubbish which was read to a audience in boston as mormon reasoning in any mormon publication or mormon argument the reverend simply lied Is this language too blunt or too severe wait a moment before deciding this his pious defamer speaking of the jes 61 les of utah who pleaded the mormon cause at washington tal talks s of their 61 crocodile tears which he says we have a right to expect the president will not allow himself to be imposed upon by and adds 4 they act their part by presenting I 1 lying but pathetic appeals when some ot them mem are well here to be of the most disreputable and immoral character shar acter when a professed preacher of th the e gospel wilfully tells un truths to deceive the and then accuses aecus es ladles ladies of unblemished reputation of lying and of being of the most disreputable rf pu tible and immoral character should words be used mincingly in reference to his conduct it is not the first time by many that E R G sheltered under the cloth 0 of f the ministry miEl has spoken and published atrocious falsehoods about the mor mer mons he now adds defamation of women to his other of fences alsins against al sins t truth and decency and we think he should be known for what he is a disgrace to his profession a parody on the title of man ban a cowardly slanderer a snuffling sham and a stench in the nostrils ot of jehovah let B R G prove that the falsehoods he wrote for joseph cook to read to a i boston audience are true and we will cheerfully do him I 1 ustice justice but no BO amount of sophistry and prevarication will avail and whatever success he may achieve in poisoning pois onins the public mind on earth he cannot escape the vengeance ot of heaven nor avoid the glare of everlasting liht light and the voice of eternal judgment which in the great day will expose his turpitude before a gazing and indignant universe |
