Show canil S dacre 8 the ciak press tot 1 lift life whole a appears p io wo b been een very y reticent on the late diabolical deeds in tennessee when ministers of the gospel were assaulted wounded wound td and slain by y the emissaries of the old ivha waged war with the children of god ever since since one third of the hosts of bf heaven was hurled burled down into perdition by the valiant 11 ilist almighty this land of the free and the homo home of the brave has been drenched with streams or ot blood time and time a and nd again the blood of the martyrs has reddened the soil of ohio 10 illinois in 0 is and mis a generation ago and at present e hl abe t q d of f lov lovera eis I 1 of the lord foid is diio moistening the aroun I 1 d of georgia and the the turf of tennessee wherever the servants of the almighty went to scatter the of the gospel of truth and salvation eal the enemy has succeeded in drop ping some germs of villainy y vituperation 1 itaf pe ration sprang up in a harvest of homicide in a crop of crime crime such we have experienced of late in one of the southern states where moon shiners were succeed 11 K ux ancl anal they were followed by methodist murderers of mormon formon missionaries the details of which wo we have given to our rr r r i I 1 rea readers r ia io several everal xe issues we have looked through our exchanges carefully and solicitously to find expressions on the tile criales crimes of cane creek little we found the largest journals of the continent contine vt content themselves with furnishing the telegraphic news but asto as to edi to rial comments coin ments A we havo have found 1 them liew few and far between still agie here a are r e jo journals rn als e f editors believe in fairn fairness even to kithil who think that under unde r the bro broad ad fold folds of the stars and stripes men must be permitted to worship their maker according to the dictates of their own consciences among these voices vin di dilating 11 v virtue we are pleased to echo to our readers the them words oath of the winnemucca nev silver state by profession and ana an principle an anti mormon paper papier but otherwise a fair and j just observer of public occurrences curren ces speaking of the ahe cane creek murders mu L ideis aie saher stale in its issue N of agust August spoke as jt it ia is not ch charged arged that the cormons mormons were any j I 1 or were in i any ny manner violating the laglye law yet t they were allot shot doun do n in cold blood while wor worshiping god presumably according to the T dictates elates of their own consciences they were exercising a right guarante edby the constitution of the united states to every citizen but because their manner of doing BO so was not satisfactory copen to men who most likely do biot not worship god in any form they were ahot shot down like so ad many rany wild beasts and probably very little attention will vill bo be paid to the matter by the autho authorities because the victims aers were cormons mormons Mor Mo Ymon mons it about time that the 31 mormon ormon question should discussed and tr treated i rationally by the public and the lawmakers law makers if a person violates no law of theland the land by bein being 1 a mort mor t monis mon is he not entitled to t the e same protection as dem members birs of other rellious t ivious denominations 7 thero there is is no national national or slate state road to heaven in in the united states which people are compelled to travel and a mormon has just aa as much right to worship god in his own way as a ble methodist theodist th odist Presby presbyterian teriah or any other sectarian apro aided ho lie violates no law and does not interfere with the Is ts of others in BO so doing it ia is not pretended ended that mannona 3 in idaho nevada illinois ohio or elsewhere outside of utah practise or preach poly polygamy garny or in ili any manner violate the laws of the state or Terri territory tork in which they re side yet tet a prejudice exists against theil them in in many places which would almost justify their annihilation people should remember that similar feelings were entertained by the pu pa bitans of new england toward catholics baptists Quaker sand abid in fact all other denominations who did not believe in their peculiar teneta tenets though thae is no roer and othere who were driven out of massachusetts for consciences ealce sake were as sincere in in their rel religious leipus conviction aa as and morally and intellectually the equals of their puritan persecutors this ls a afree free fair and friendly word from a section of country whence euch such sentiments were scarcely jya expected S tate ia is a small paper depre representing benting a small community p but its iti a spirit aa as indicated in the extract above re produced characterizes it as a paper of a large soul and a broad mind than re yorio wg paragraph par graph i X on m tho t h 0 A ha I 1 at sa fran db adf aug I 1 depth an chic which wS 47 read as folio SW the murder of four mormon missionaries sion slon aries in tennessee was a dastardly crime and if the the masked assassins can be discovered every one of them should be it is euch such out y ranea rages as this that negative the tile bene legislation and keep the tile fanaticism of the church alive one such act as this is enough to 9 lve the institution a new lea lease se of life for five years E every very opponent of polygamy and mormon despotism despotis in in the ha has s ti 4 liht to feel that lib e haa received an n injury at the handsol hands hand of guidana ru iDana and to desire to see their crime punished t k that the tile murder of two not four I 1 mormon missionaries sion aries in tennessee was a dastardly crime t and we also agree blat that if the masked assassins can be dis P ede one I 1 of them ought to be 5 hanged I 1 adt ali alta deplores these violent attacks on mormon elders simply because they may have a tendency to arouse sympathy fda the mormon peo i rewe wish to denounce theroso dile tears of hypocritical sympathy we feel to spurn with our feet the precarious ous sympathy of honeyed eloquence at 1 if agthe alta admits wl wa candor the extent of which t it evidently has not measured cor re cly i every opponent of polygamy and mormon despotism in the country has a to feel that he has received an injury at the hands of these tennessee ruffians this truly interpreted means that every opponent of polygamy and mormon the stain stan of the blood of uie the martyrs on the hem pt his garment kar ments yea yes on the th 0 chambers of his dis heart on the pores of bis his lips but all scribes and hypocrites are known to him who says isaiah 1 I have long time since holden my peace peace I 1 have bave been veen still and refrained myself now will I 1 cry like a tr availing woman I 1 will destroy and find defour at once |