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Show NEW duty bound to protect him in his rights within its own domain and everywhere else on earth. There is a religious aspect to this subject which ought not o be ignored by a Latter-daI refer to the belief of Saint. the Church, founded on revelation, that the Constitution was inspired by God. Upon this point I will quote from a revelation given to Joseph Smith on Dec. y 16th, 1S33: YEAR'S, 1893. and the founder of the my Church of which I am a member, as he did, Your cause is just, but I can do I hope that no connothing for you. sideration would have been sufficient to induce me to take a position so clearly at variance with my conception of human rights. John Nicholson. THe Modern Ishmaelite. And again I say unto you, those who have been scattered by their enemies, it is my will that they should continue to importune for rewas settling down dress and redemption, by the hands of those little town of Norton. who are placed as rulers, and are in authority who had been over you, according to the laws and Constituhis papers all day on the thinly crying tion of the people which I have suffered to be crowded thoroughfares of the little town, established, and should be maintained for the to give up his task and start for rights and protection of all flesh, according to prepared He had And for the little home across the river. just and holy principles. little to complain of in regard to the days this purpose I have established the Constitution of this land by the hands of wise men business, for of the large stock of papers with which he had set forth in the mornwhom I raised up unto this purpose." fARKNESS Here the people are directed by revelation to importune for redress of wrongs according to the laws and Now we can readily Constitution. reach a clear understanding of the Divine construction placed upon the Constitution by quoting further. After citing the parable of the widow and the unjust judge, the revelation says: ing, only two remained and in his pocket jingled the twenty dimes which made up what was, in Syds eyes at least, the fabulous wages of his days labor. The day had been a red letter one in Syds life, not only because he had earned money himself which would add to his mothers scanty store now almost at lowest ebb but that it also promised a change of fortune and circumstances to " Let them importune at the feet of the judge; himself for the future. A stroke of unand if he heed them not, let them importune at expected luck had brought about the the feet of the Governor, and if the Governor happy and fortuitous event of the day. heed them not, lei them importune at the feet of It happened that Colonel Balford, owner the President; and if the President heed them of the famous iron works in Norton, and not, then will the Lord arise and come forth out chief magnate of the town, had given in of Hts hiding place, and in His fury vex the na- New York, two days before, a royal bantion. Joseph Smith uttered several prophecies regarding the disastrous results that would flow to the nation in consequence of the refusal to redress the wrongs comIf mitted against the Saints in Missouri. the responsibility were not national the consequences could not be justly made so. To regard these predictions as uninspired, amounts to placing the founder of the 'Church in the light of a false prophet. I believe that God inspired the Constitution and in the Divine construction placed upon that sacred instrument by the voice of revelation. Not only do I take the ground that the Almighty made no mistake on the subject, but also that the Prophet and his people committed no error in petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. This being my view I necessarily and emphatically hold that Mr. Van Burens refusal to act favorably upon the prayer of the people who were driven from Missouri, was akin to the wrongs for which they sought redress. If I were to sustain the position taken by him, it might be reasonably assumed that if I had been in his place, as chief executive of the nation, I should have said to quet in honor of the English capitalists who were connected with him lin certain business trusts, and the affair had been of such marked elegance that the metropolitan ewspapers had devoted the better part of two columns to a description of the display. Norton itself boasted of but one newspaper, and that published only at the end of each week, so that the residents of the Colonels native town had not as yet heard the details of the affair, though rumors had reached them in an indefinite way of the extravagant display. It happened that among the newsboys who gained a livelihood by selling papers in the streets of New York, was Dick Slade, a native of Norton, and who had been able to assist his mother and her helpless brood of children considerably, by devoting himself to the trade. Dick was an urchin whose nature and experience had rendered him keenly alive to all the business chances offered in the line of his profession, and seeing the account of his former townsmans banquet in the metropolitan papers, which constituted his stock in trade for the day, he had instantly hit upon a clever and ingenious plan, by which he might be 11 able to reap some extra profit. Knowing the importance which the Colonels wealth and position had endowed him with in the eyes of the inhabitants of his native town, and which would ensure a certain amount of curiosity and interest attaching to the recent remarkable affair in which their magnate had taken part, he had bought up a large stock of the papers confining the description counting on the curiosity of the townspeople to furnish him with a market for the news, for the details of which they would otherwise be kept waiting for nearly a week. With this in view he made a flying trip to Norton; but on the way down he had fallen upon another business chance which promised even treble the profit to be gained by his present enterprise, and the former demanding his immediate attention, he had compromised with the two inducements by gaining the of Syd Armstrong, his former playmate, agreeing to give his friend half the profits of the sale in case he should work faithfully to dispose of the large stock of papers, before the news in them should become stale. Syd had gladly closed with the bargain, and the result of the first day spent in crying the startling headlines of the article concerning the local dignitary through the streets had resulted in success, the people paying without murmur the advanced price which Dicks sagacious mind had suggested for the sake of reading the metropolitan view of the proceedings at first hand. From the sum which had been received, Syd's share would be one dollar, just double the amount his mother received for her long days work with the needle, and Syd could picture hgr delighted surprise when he should show her the result of his first da s labor It would be a splendid argument, too, Syd thought, for the scheme which Dick Slade had suggested to him and which he intended to propose to his mother when he reached home. in New Dick had been York two years, and had been able to make as he triumphantly asserted to Syd a boss living at his newspaper business in the great city, and he offered, if Syd would come to New York, to make him a partner in his trade for the space of two or three weeks, till he should get started in business, showing him beside the certain profit to be made in selling papers, the advantage also to be gained in shakand coming to live in ing the hayseeds, y a town that was alive. It was the dazzling allurement of these pictures which were flitting in Syds mind, as well as the thought of the surprise in store for his mother, which made his steps fairly fly over the long distance to the suburbs where was the little home in which his mother and baby Ethel were waiting. The room in the poor little house w.as half-wa- |