Show THAT under the pressure of blinding anti mormon malice some creature wrote from this city to a salt lake anth Mormon sheet thursday last vaa follows tribune although an ex confederate from the state of geor ria 1 I am to iday a staunch friend tho union ana shall ever hold myself in to defend its i alons its honor and its emblems and knowing that the tribune breathes like sentiments J write to in form it of another enault that hai been perpetuated by the mormon element of utah it ia a well known incident i our flag manifested by the cormons mormons of rait lake on the by half masting of the stars and stripes on that day a day above all others when they should be allowed to unfurl to the breeze from the highest pinnacle this insult though i lias with the onward course of time been forgotten or over t looked by our law abiding people but only to see another insult of fully as grievous a nature perpetrated by animated ani rated mormon citizen of ogden not to the flag this time but to the american eagle that proud emblem alicae bird of america bhoge liberty stretching wings adorn many of our most valuable ensigns has been wantonly and maliciously alio aforesaid individual for no other reasons than on its unrestrained flighty of liberty aloud its presence and located in the back yard of the cormons mormons Mor mons dwelling where it met with the fate indicated above the eagle was the property of mr geo cashera La shera a hotel keeper of anait mormon who in accordance democratic republican notions allowed the proud eagle bird to shriek out and fly atwil a line of treatment quite diu erent from that which the mormon is wont to accord to his birds MAC CODES august 27 the next day mac as the well known author of the above styles himself found douthat his little anti mormon drivel was nebout to be exposed to impeachment and ridicule and he yesterday hastened to write another letter as follows EDITOR tribune later and more reliable information tends to show that your correspondent was laboring under a misapprehension of facts when he attributed the slaying of the american eagle to n mormon the party who dealt the death dealing blow was not a mormon andi am told he mistook the eagle for a in search of his chickens and it was not a premeditated blow at our bird A conviction that the tribune does not care to do anyone an injustice any more than ita correspondent does prompts the correction MAC august 28 As corroboration of the above the non mormon who killed tho eagle writes alie following EDH OS tribune allow me to correct an item in your fridays issue W ramey who killed the eagle he is a deputy register of the third precinct ogden city and a prominent gentile it was further killed on gentile property as the young man thought it was a hawk and after chickens it was thoroughly a mistake of bis whoever got on his ear to give you that report made a big mistake J W RAMEY young street between first and second OGDEN august As the gentleman who killed the aforesaid majestic bird was a prominent gentile we are told he mistook the eagle for a in search of his chickens and it was not a premeditated blow at our bird no of course not if an anti mormon is guilty of treason or any other thing there is always some excuse but the innocence and loyalty of a mormon has no protection against the grossest aspersions this little eagle anecdote is indeed suggestive ge stive |