Show r jip J abi t birj cobl the f affo laici ha yo bacu daily li arping upon call the flag outrage iu utah lu all the discussion journals jour nala leave b aeu leoro violent and in their than siw francisco these sheets have about the morian hoda treason and until they havo become perfectly tiresome even the cou vc fart lias aad its little nang and the cowardly call which was never known to bayo air outspoken opinion uton any other subject lias chosen his opportunity of making its weakly criticism all that san frau cisco papers have fraid may sound very high and dignified and loyal but from some of them it is sadly inconsistent twenty eight years ago during the time that the western standard was published in san francisco by george Q cannon that paper and the mormon whom it represented were made the objects of ie Altas most vicious attacks while some of the other sheets followed the cry then as now the words treason and by military foice fairly crowded the columns mr cannon silenced the altas twaddle very emphatically by quoting from its own editorial columns tho following sentences which were published by the alia in the summer of 1856 during ahe social and political upheaval in the federal administration will commit no such folly aa to tangibly respond to the demands and representations of the state executive should the general government view the movement here in tho light of insurrection if aoud not repress it it ever so much inclined the standing army is stationed at extreme distances and were it deemed expedient to gather it for shipment to this bay its arrival would bo its the standing army with all its skillful appurtenances is not strong enough to capture san francisco and subdue it citizens an d as for calling upon the militia of the other states there is no such absurd thing A proclamation to this would prove a comical episode and the president would be burned in fiby in every city and village here in san francisco a great many thousand men leave united themselves together each one determined and all determined to aid in the completion of hie work which they have laid out eacle one lias a musket and bayonet and ea chone has been instructed in of the weapon which ho carries some thirty cannon with men to man them are under the control of the committee should they be attacked the first principle of human nature the law of self preservation would incite them to stand upon the defensive we warn the united states authorities ties and we caution them not to go beyond their mere duly in heir interference u ich our local difficulties the alia is like many people it gets at a good eafe distance of time and space in order to criticize its own columns haye contained open defiance of the government but at that time the alia doubtless i J th ought that its treason was courage now when an oppressed people who endure more wrong at the r lands of the r coye rement in any average week than jfe y has buffered in the past generation express their sorrowful but loyal feelings by gauging their flags at half papers aro thrown into convulsions no one else is so immaculately virtuous as an aged reformed cyprian no one else ia so loyal as a reformed traitor abandoned prostitution and treason they devote their entire time to a search for cither real or fancied violations of their new code 1 l 1 1 d it |