Show tins ia a FIDELITY time which griea abo mettle of mens souls in all the territory of utah there ia at work fi system of legal and social proceeding intended to make traitors trai tora of euch of the people as forc weak aud to punish directly or indirectly all tho rest no human fore eight can show what and when will be the end there haye been of lat extraordinary enactments so many strange judicial proceed inge auch arbitrary cx erciso of unjust authority by the executive and other federal power of tho territory fand such a whirlwind paper abuse that shallow minda have been tossed like the leaves in for their awu sake the ew betra yera of truth arc to be 4 T abc go to the protection some time 4 all past theiu 0 to ettfer in the of conscience but thero has been there will be general thousands of citizens in utah have the tempering fire than rages today of worse persecution whilo tens of thousands of a younger generation without having bad the same strengthening exper ienco have faith of their fathers BO staunchly planted in their hearts that the boes woes of life and the agonies of death will ful to root it out today to day it bears the tender blossoms the rains of oppression the breeze of ridicule the sunshine of divine promise fulfilled will raalte the hardy fruit an unprincipled paper in salt lake has for some years been filled with its wicked advice for young utah its editor ia brillian tand cultured ceiaa rare master of high sounding phrases but wit is too often false aud scholarship but a mark for depraved sentiment judging by his columns his philosophy is the worlds sophistry his principle is expediency when his specious reasoning has failed to convince he has insidious ly suggested the manliness he declaims against servile political yet he would carry captive the bodies and souls of his victims this is the man and bia ia the journal for whose momentary applause half a score of young men in utah have lost their loyalty what a sacrifice for what re bardl today to day they are more the slaves of his capricious will than he ever accused them of being seris to the authority which they have rejected the salt lake writer and his sheet have their imitators these valleys some few the weak ones the men of ignoble ambitions the men of false pride the men of mercenary views the men who have cowardice in their hearts will kiss and betray for their thirty pieces of counterfeit silver but the thousands of young and old who have pledged their fidelity to a righteous oua cause will hold to the rod of iron no seditious advice no insincere praise no sordid jealousy no personal grievance will tempt them to aid a disunion which must prove fatal to themselves they will prove true to their country their people and their god against the breastplate of their unselfish loyalty and unshrinking courage the lance of the foe will vainly strike |