Show IN THE SOUTH YX IN the york world of november appears a dispatch of the previous days date from calera alabama As it relates to the persecution of the elders in that state and on the georgia border it Is of special interest to the people of utah it is as follows for the past three months a party of six mormon elders have been pros eluting in this section and also at several small towns across the georgia border several converts were made ut at the latter places and the indignation and wrath of the people could hardly be suppressed when on last sunday tour four married women and aad two men left their homes and made public their intention of going to utah the rue people then all rose up at once and gave the elders notice motice to move on instantly they refused at first but monday night two of them were taken out and tarred and nd feathered and the next night two others were chased into the woods by hounds and kept in tile the trees all night the elders left the next day and the converts are missing also leaving six forsaken horses homes it if the elders ever return there they blaey will be shot at sight the mormons cormons then moved into alabama land began their work in the be lower part of this county among the Agn ignorant orant country people they were more imore successful there and have already baptized a dozen or more yesterday while elders mower an and sea were conducting a meeting at a IQ log 9 school house fifty armed men dragged them from f rom the pulpit they were carried into the woods tie the mot mol threatening to hang them at every eve ry tep step but on the intercession of frie friends nd they were released on their written promise to leave the county in twenty four hours death was the alternative if they returned both left last night but without their converts escorted a portion of the way by an armed band of nearly one hundred men armed patrols are now on guard wad and publicly announce their hi intention tenion of ef killing the first elder who returns there A rumor was current that elder masters was kil killed led this morning near the georgia line by bloodhound A but bat it cannot be substantiated the foregoing reads as if it might relate to an incident connected with abe treatment of reformers in europe in the dai ages press dispatches al most invariably palliate the conduct of those who abuse others that are unpopular this peculiarity is evinced in the statement herewith presented an attempt being made to show that the elders were engaged in breaking up homes and make it appear that there the re has been a special effort to convert women the plain and unvarnished fact face in relation to the mission of the elders is that they from an overpowering sense of duty autv go into the world and preach the gospel of faith in the atonement of christ repentance of sin baptism by immersion for the remission of siu sin and the laying on of hands for the imparting of the holy ghost and the gathe gathering of the saints with the main body of the church people hear bear their testimonies believe and obey they use no undue influence simply explaining the principles they are commissioned to preach those who hear being left to exercise their volition by reception or rejection the horrible treatment with which many of the missionaries are confronted and an the fact of their labor being performed at a sacrifice and aad entirely without the incentive of an earthly reward a are ra an earnest of their sincerity erity and the purity of the motives by which they are actuated dragging men from the pulpit tarring and feathering them pursuing them thein with bloodhounds and thus corn com pelting them to resort to tree climbing to ro avoid being torn to p pieces feces leces constitute a species of violene violence e that almost curdles the blood with w ith horror it takes the mind backward to the methods employed 1800 years ago to stamp out the early christians who were engaged in a similar cause to that in which out missionaries saries are employed the cowardice of those who resort to such enormities is a striking evidence of the wickedness of manner of dealing with inoffensive people two un armed and men man escorted by f from rom afif fifty ty to a hundred armed threatening at every step to hang bang their victims is not an attractive spectacle it shows to what degraded depths men may fall when they set bet reason aside and are governed by their baser passions it Is a redeem redee m ing feature however that amid sla such ch scenes are found persons who have not laid aside every spark of manhood and who dare intercede in belia behalf if of a the weak as against the assaults of the strong such comparatively noble individuals convince us that the old time bravery and the grand chivalrous spirit tor for which southerners were formerly noted have not completely died out when we learn of the good offices of such in times of extremity and peril we feel like blessing them forever and have only pity for those who are their antipodes and wish they could be brought to a sense of tle the wrong they inflict which will ultimately redound upon themselves although there is doubtless some foundation in fact connected with the statement regarding the directed against the elders in alabama and on the georgia border it is probably incorrect in some particulars AS there is no continuation confirmation of toe the horrible rumor that one of ahe be brethren had bad been killed by bloodhounds there is evidently nothing in that part of the dispatch elder mower is from fairview sanpete C 0 U noy a and n I 1 only recently recently arrived in t the ai e south S u t tk having left ua utah for that part of the th e country as late as the early part of last month there is no elder eider named sea in the southern states mission but there is one named richard lee of oakley idaho and another named arthur 0 lee of panacea lincoln county nevada there is no missionary in that field wy by the name of masters but it might have been mis taken tor for that of ammon mercer of american fork had the life of any one of the brethren been taken the telegraph would doubtless have brouett broucht brou eat us the intelligence direct before this time |