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Show . Tries to Defend Himself. I Mr. Liveaey of Sykeuvillf, Mil. thinks I he lifts been terribly wronged by the I the criticism we made of his pamphlet, I "War on the Mormons" which he gent I out Romo titneagonnd sends us iirenthy I article in which be tries to defend liim- I telf from this unwarranted attack upon I a people who worship nccording to the I dictatcs"of tlieir conscience. We publish I the article below but its urgumentsdo , I not cause us to change our former I opinion of the man and after reading I what be has to say the large majority of I -our readers will agree with us. A mnn I who wages war upon a peaceable people I Trith no juBt cause is not a truo Ameri- I can and lacks the essentials of true I manhood. I Editor Bannkk: Inyonriflstio of Aug. I 24 you do 'me an unjustice. which I I trust you will allow mo to correct in the I following dialogue : I Editor Baxkick. A fanatic who is I entirely out of place in tho lUth century, I but should have lived in the Dark I A yen. I Livoaoy. The Dark AgeB were those I -of persecution. Tho rack and the I faggot flourished then and the man with I a now idea in philosophy, or a new cx- I perience or revelation in religion was in I -dangor of both, White L am exposing I the fallacies of the Mormon faith, I am I' -at the same time putting mvselfata i considerable trouble to defend them U from the beatings they have had tendered them throughout the south. d , ' 1 bolievo in allowing thoin entire free- J dom of speech and in demolishing their J1"'"' arguments with the same. Of their i ' bodies, I would barm not a hair of their heads, und I would give tlini to eat at y ble, but E would at the same time F adyiso, as I have dene, some of the ignorant mountuin people fo shut their tloors in their faces, as these people are not capable of exercising a proper j discrimination, (lie had better leave ; the Mormons alone and take up a labor With these "ignorant" people. Ed) E. B. He knows but little of the f Mormona and his writing will i-omit for t nothing among intelligent people. L. My knowledge has heen imbibed from it lengthy correspondence with a Mr. A. P. Kesler, of SO Concord St i Brooklyn, and from tho Salt Lake Oily f Mormon papers. Editors and others f have proclaimed my plan of dealing Ewith the Mormons 'lie wisest and bn, and whenever proposed, has had the immediate elV4 of stopping the I persecutions of, the Mormons. They owe ae a debt of thanks for my services in that direction alonn. If they cannot stand betyre my acty and argument in I a religion tin, the,u th?y have pro? en ... to thsmselue that tlttjy are not the poiseasora )f ,the truths they claiui. I E.B. iUfaysf "Let u go tV Utah I- . with the press," as though we' did not already haye the elevating power of the pre here. Tf he come out here we ' can show him some of the brightest and ,, most inteligont eopfe he ever saw. : I,. Yes, i is the power of the ieculr press in Utah that is already driving i the Mornioiif from their church, the f inine as th press everywhere else is driving people from the other churches. Judge C. Ci. Goodwin long ago acknow ledgeij tain in the North American Koviety. When I say go to Utah with the press, J meant to supplement this work already theie by further demou. strati;; Uat the Mormon religion of form, ceveifojy and authority is entirely averse to the intelligent reasoning of the ,, "ii'd I thereby expect to ee it still have an Inert-ami of apostates'- from it. E. B. In auollmr- phu-e he says: "A a proper demoiiHtiatiqn made against' the Mormon elder through the local press and similiHr agencies will he al sufficient to instruct the people of their . . ""I falbicies," etc. L. Exactly. It iu proving so. I 'began in this Carroll county, Md., and notoneMormsn has answered 'any of the newspaper articles that 1 have sei t out all over the country AH intelligent peopjo want to see these arguments answered by the Mormons themselves, and if they fail to do so, the people will conclude they are' impotent and wil' indeed, shun them. E. 1?. Mr. Livceey had better wake up in the lth Century, cast aside his religious fanatacism and beuomo nn American. L. He is already a foremost American, Ameri-can, both by birth and principle. He has been ranked by manyof the leading papers as "an advanced thinker" and in a list of some 50 of tho leading writers of this county, made up in St. Ixniin, bin name figured as one of them. For over 20 years ho has been a correspondent correspond-ent of the Boston Investigator an Ingereoll paper of the most advanced and anti-dark age type. E. B. The Dcseret News says a mobbing of Mormon elders is reported from Sohth Carolina. As tlm allegrd victims of the white cappers have made no report, such as they aro in duty bound to do to their presiding officer?, if ench n thing oconrs.it is not likely than anything of the kind related has happened. L.--H no report of this and similiar affairs has been made, it is certain that tha Mormons are becoming lax iu their duty and aro neglecting one of the most potent agencies for the advancement of their cause. As their religion continues to tako on form for practice, eo will the elderH eeek to make as respectable an appearance as possible and evade thoso painful and bumbling experiences which ever accompany true religion and distinguish it. from the i-ounterllt as held by the churches at larjre. The south h:i been full of instances in which Mormon elders have barely escaped witlrUheir ' lives, and I-arn happy in.th knowledge that my pen has greatly mitigated the damage in this direction. ; Francis B. Livkhkv, : Sykesville, Md. |