Show 80 ws at present there t bea transient lull in the conflict ot 1 i n u parties in utah no doubt the op forces anre silently marshetti ing their and preparing pre for Valiant and brillian fr future campaigns but externally the prea battle is common place and compared with the sensational and stratagems which have charac part izan history in tins r territory every few days during the nasf eight or ten months during the time of an armistice eithern eit heri the political or military ier fre when the individual warrior of each party or army are lying back and resting upun their arms there i always to apprehend the most aeri when nerved by the the hour or engaged to hand struggle men ahten into the of any conflict with individual detorro and usually feel that impulse born only amidst the jury and din of battle which make them heroes and consecrates cheur 10 inear cause and colors nut where th e battle has reached an isue and the opposing forces pause to and a change of heart are diable to creep into the otherwise impervious bosoms of the individual contestants and consummate greater victories or disasters than any furious and fatal calor military ficht could at tain such 1 the nature of the irre pree aible conflict in utah ahat the greatest pos elble danger to is liable to come from mere inertia men w ho poesies the soundest convictions and the utmost zeal in any particular cause are liable to break down and end i their career ingloriously if a period inaction and thoughtlessness followed by a sudden onslaught ind a brief reason of reflection curbed by fear or any other influential fluent ial consideration we have always been a profound believer inthe inspiration of the masses nevertheless there can be no doubt thai popular judgment often erre still if the people can only be encouraged to think for themselves vee earnestly and contin bally and with broad and progress eiva intentions intent iona to reach the bet n ulof they aro usually guided aright by their own minds and their united conclusion are the beet and truest guides by thin time the people of the whole territory of unhappy utah are generally aware of the nature of the late lamentable occurrence a take T ake city they have been furnished by the papers au to enable them ty judge with tolerable accuracy of between collmann Coll mand and hampton Tree eder and jonca aol aal franks each of caama opportunities for partisan exaggeration but exasperation aud luin tat emente and erroneous con elisions elusions elu arc not profitable in the long run for causse or party i in the light of all the facca known collin to have been justified in aho otine mcmurrin the public will have to wait for further infer becore it can change ila this cabe the other are detill under consideration in the anait is proper 0 o de fer renden Dg a popular judgment thereon until all taft known one ver ia thit aa that the will never justify uphold or chuu or the name of party thise who perpetrate these under fm S ab 1 I any pretext whatever buet hopun dished the courts have only to e deliberate 8 in the trials of these cases and they will be universally by all honorable andrit citizens irever attempt to palliate the offense ofia ulle wo boulle assassin a lecher or a biba giver ap taker and we o 0 that the people will ought ti have nothing to do mith th of either popular or judicial judgment in cases and ih so far as popular kopini in at least ie con we believe that ari fealty wall go but a little way in these casts providing the 1 their duty impartial ly when the alleged of lenderd 1 are brought to trial alie mormon people a rule are entirely free iroku the taint of criminality As a body they detest all lawle sue and though in charity and a spirit of forgiveness they might be disposed to pardon any boender oO ender against the laws yet a matter of right and justice they must unsparingly condemn all who violate audis mutably just and righteous lighte ous laws even if bome of kneir own party friends ar among the wrong i doersh the millennium has not yet come and until il does there are to be ostensible cormons mormons who are not cormons mormons in reality and who overreach the bounds of legitimate zeal or resort to crime betimes butin the main the mor mo ns are as we know from personal experience a pure hont st and con clentious people universally op posed to all common crime |