| Show retributive with kindly feeling towards all concerned with nothing further from our purpose than a desire to tan fan into life again any ot of the he embers ember of that fire of ill feeling that burned so no long lag lir in this community with no intention to do aught than point a useful moral shwe we call attention to a prominent feature of the recent political campaign in this territory A discussion ot of who had bad inflicted the injustice from which the mor ismor mona had bad suffered and who had bad done the most moat to make am amandi leads hop baa a great deal of ume upon n the tump stump who the At ormom who took no md wil who 16 r adored the church property who granted amnesty those and a number of simil similar sir questions have been a eked asked by stump ip speakers eakers and answered by their opponents as best the latter could reply while it is true that men who suffered buffered from the injustice referred to have taken part parl in the discussion the latter was not occasioned by any demand for retribution or arraignment of the oppressor coming from the oppressed under an overruling providence a condition of things was wae brought to pass in utah which made individuals who in former years hal hail been harsh and unjust in their treatment of a class of their fellow piti citizens zens exceedingly anxious to exculpate themselves and place in as favorable a a light as possible the wrongful conduct which they could not deny while throwing on others as far as they hey could the responsibility for the injustice blat that had bad be been inflicted at the same time ail concerned were eager to claim credit for such atonement as had been made here hem is exemplified an eternal principle principia the mormons cormons of utah have sull suffered ered the extent of their sufferings has never been uttered nor writ ten tea but they were patient and reviled not damain when their cup was full the flow V was stopped and suddenly there arose among the meu men who helped to it a discussion and charges and counter equator obar charger gep as pa did dad most to make 1 it kovolow Volt without hout ill will towards any y and with charity for all the mamona have bais listened to ao this dl witt wit bone ione supreme desire in 16 their that an the wrongs und hart boors buringa burn h nga gf t he a past might be bi buried Y in ederial et erial anu ana thit that elecy ouse tending to prevent the most cordiali cordials cor cordial dials relations between thoda audAu and their gor felloe citizens might bt be reino veU forever fore avi r but ret justice s ba had a begun do 0 operate the mormon moamoa people will never seek revenge nor nbc dermand retribution qu 00 the contrary heir hope end and effort will bet be to abury bury au the painful Ane memories morles of the past it if for no other reason ulan than to prevent them frow from throwing throw leg a cloud u pop future luse but those memories not die they wol coutin continue ue to he be discussed by tim the very moo men most responsible for their creation stud and by succeeding gone generations rations they are a the eternal history of our time and country and aad as year succeeds year and decade follows jebode the events to which they relate will occasion more and more astonishment and cande demotion mation among mankind retributive justice will grow more and more severe in its censure of the wrongs that have been inflicted upon the mormon people and in the odium it ft will attach to the individuals responsible for them the character of that spirit which long actuated the persecutors of that people will be more and more up ap parent as the landscape of current history in which it stands forth such a prominent figure recedes into the dis tance these truths teace in tones that pierce the very heard bean the need that mth men haip of befog catiti cautious ous in cont their follow fellow men debause of hift 0 of af opinion they teach with an air so lit at ont doe 48 a d le terrible the nod need abat 11 mena have VW to 19 ba b I 1 towards each other in matters matter both of belief and action in pursuance pano anoe thereof up to the very boundary that muki marks the liberties of others othere lot let the lesson lemon be learned by all the citizens of utah let the he wrongfulness and folly ol of prejudice and ill III will that have no foundation except in differences of opinion on religious or political sub universally acknowledged liet let the principle be planted in the hearts hearte of our citizens citizen as well as en grafted on the constitution of our new state that henceforth and forever there shall be liberty of in utah without jet hindrance or penalty of any kind |
