Show from th rally ol 01 A TIMELY TRUMPET SOUND it the 1 the belt earthly government ever waa groined hy man and the true and avealone are alone worthy of it it can not lone he by n haidn teben the wicked rule the people mourn the foregoing is not the only preat utterance of the Keve reDd dr J lin hall ot new york the great light of the presbyterian church ilia ringing worda have carried ammy useful truths beside th B home to his eager listeners a worthy example of whom is no lesa a personage than the present executive 0 the nation ft ho also ia a cut we doubt if any other thing he ever many startling monies of its truth it is a fruitful theme tor freemen to reflect upon follow this mighty truth to ita source and it will the majority of all the aea sufferings this world has endured it is a piquant modify aaion of that ancient proverb as with the king eo with the people aich its inspiration doubtless before the dawn of history how many times most of all ancient peoples the greeks under the most progressive of old time rulers had occasion to pour ferth in their own way that piteous lament when the wicked rule aba people mourn has rung like a trumpet note through ages it haa been taught and preached and eung by every kindred and grade froin the enslaved bondman to the king the thrace at the cradle side in field and forum by peaceful precept and battle cry all have had a way ct sounding that stirring alarm when the wicked rule the people mourn think of those early devones devo ees of the christ eyeing out a life ot slow starvation and disease how many times and ia how many ways this legend must have occupied their minds I 1 the huguenots Huguen the reformers Reform era the victims of political hate M their bodies were consumed day by day ia the dungeons of the awne and the sealed prisons of the venetian daae with what a process of torture and despair that potent thought was burned into their hearts but it has not been alone the selfishness of kings not always tred by which the world has mourned observe the force of what edmund burke once said of an act of a peoples hosen in the freest on earth b fore our own the text mil amply explain the lw the party I 1 speak of like some who would disparage the best friends of their country resolved to make the king either violate bis toleration or incur the odium of protecting ts they therefore brought in this bill and made it purposely waked and absurd that it might be rejected the then court party dit covering their game turned the tabes on them and returned their bill to them stuffed with detill greater absurdities that ita loss might lie upon its original authors they finding their own bill thrown back to them kicked it back to their adversaries and thus this act loaded with the doable injustice of both parties neither of whom intended to pass what they hoped the other would be persuaded to reject went through the legislature contrary to the real of au parts of it and of all the parties that composed it in this manner these insolent and profligate factions as it they were playing with balls and counters made a aport 0 the fortuned fort unea and liberties of their fellow creatures other acts of per lie cution have been acts of malice this was a subversion of justice from wantonness and petulance look in to the history of ishop Burne fc lie is a witness without exception ringing thoughts come with bach a superb finess to present conditions we cannot forbear quoting fubber bhough the text may not appear so exactly in line gentlemen bad laws are the worst eort of tyranny in such a country as this they are of all bad things the worst worst by far than anything else and hey derive a particular malignity even from the wisdom and soundness of the rest of our institutions for very obvious reasons yon cannot trust the crown with a dispensing power over any of our laws however government be it as bad aa it may will in the exert fe f e of a discretionary power discriminate times and persons and will not ordinarily fersne any man when its own safety is cot concerns conc ernd A mercenary informer kiowa no distinction under such a system the obnoxious laople are slaves not only to the government ern ment but they live at the mercy of every individual they are at once slaves of the whole and of every part of it and the worst and most unmerciful men are those on whose goodness they must depend la this situation men not only shrink from the frowns of a stern magistrate but they are obliged to fly from alier very species the seeds of destruction are sown in ahn civil intercourse in docial habitudes habit udes alie blood of wholesome kindred is infected their tables and ads are eur rounded with snares all the means given by providence to make life safe and comfortable are perverted into instruments of terror and torment what a splendid enace to a free government are noble men like the one for example who in the foregoing language eo clearly and pointedly set forth that exalted legend when the wicked rule the people mourn and here let na say that the aub heritage which god his granted lie great nation since washington and jefferson is that grandeur of soul and that patriotism which prompt mea at this timely hour to batse their voices ia admonition tho country is safe athile such sentiments govern and it is appropriate and necessary that men like john hall abail plead rom heir pulpits for the sanctity of political power that the wicked may not again rule but that righteousness may bear sway in the grandest kation on earth in the name of humanity law ami the universal freedom which every good pariot hopes to see let every teacher 0 hia fellow men take up the echo and resound it to the enda 0 the earth put what have we been sad to relate we have mada a dread al mistake in naming the anthor of the sentiment it was brigham young the mormon and not doctor john hall the presbyterian who said it the sattes 1 the tifft earthly gorn ment that ever B by nn anil the true and arc lone ol 01 it it lone ba by hanl shen the rule me people mourn with the change in the name of the author how changed is the sense ot the utterance mr dickason read it last friday in alio third district coart room at salt lake small wonder that his auditors blanched with terrified amazement that mortal man could such a fierce treason it is simply diabolical breathing rebellion in every line and murder in every word look how it avails with malignant puarose pu rrose the very foundation ot this government 1 what condemnation for its author before its antul the blasphemous act of lucifer must pale its ineffectual fire treachery canker infection contumacy revolt mutiny ee killiany vil liany perfidy noting homicide manslaughter murder nat on gore carnage butchery mas biche and ensanguined dynamite bombs lurk in its very syllable it la the verbal essence of liquid hell die and thus we see dear fellow citizens the difference between an utterance from a presbyterian pulpit and the utterance 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