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Show ! I was a "Mormon." If I could only have seen myself, as he saw me. Oh' jwhat a horrible filthy creature (in his eyes) only beeause a "Mormon." ; before !:e knew that, I wa a fit com-' com-' pardon. Hut now, a reprobate, un-i un-i fit only to be what I was. ! Now, it strikes me that some day . these helf righteous, sanctimonious creatures w ill come i:p and when ! weighed in the balances, will be : found wanting. What a blow it i would be if they had to goto hell, ;with the polluted Mormon. Hell would be worse than ever, would it not? Hut occasionly we find a 'broad-minded man, independent, free, who dares assert his honest sentiments, regardless of adverse criticism and hatred of friends. ()ne of these men is a Mr. Fitch, 'once a U. S. Senator from Nevada, ' who thus spoke of the Mormons x "1 say deliberately, with the history of the past behind me, with the signs 'of the present before me, I say with sorrow and humilition, that the Mormon charged with crime, I who now walks into the courts of ! this country, goes not to his deliver-' deliver-' ance, but to his doom; that the ; Mormon who in a civil action seeks ; his right in the courts of this country, count-ry, goes not to his redress, but to ; his spoliation. The Mormons are judged abroad, not by their thou-j thou-j sands of deeds of charity and kindness, kind-ness, but by a few deeds unjustly i accredited to their leaders, i You will never hear how tens of ithousauds of people have been j brought from famine, and hopeless toil to lives of peace and plenty, of the thousands of passing emigrants who have been fed, sheltered and succored." No, Mr. Editor, you never hear of any good thin;? being done by he Mormon;. They are not fit for office of any kind. Senator Ldmunds, tine of the hydra-headed hyena-; of modern times, would turn I hem over to their enemies, to be ruthlessly rolled of every vestage of liberty, and despoiled of their hard and honestly earned property. If there is a just Cod, on the day of eternal judgement, how many mothers, wives, sons and daughters will not rise up in judgment against this inhuman monster? To-day, how many are not suffering from unjust un-just laws, of which he is the father? Ah, methinks, retribution will come and that, swift and sure, upon men who seek to torture people who have never deserved it. May not he be one whom the good old book says will call for the rocks to fall upon them, and hide them from sight? Ted A SOLILOQUY ") wr A ome power the piflie gc us, To ce iurei'ii .t itlwrs-co us It wad fiae tmuiy a binntlcr lice us, Ait-J a (ojli.;n no:kn." ! C.alr;h utcd, Eniro'tt Register: Unfortunately Mr. Editor, for the people called "Mormons" through all the long years of turmoil, tur-moil, strife and persecution that they 1 have patiently endured, very few men of this nation have risen up to speak a good word in their defence. Why is it thus? Because perchance, they are afraid of being dubbed a "Jack Mormon," by their colleagues and friends. "If you are in sympathy sym-pathy with those immoral and bawdy "Mormons," say the world, "then you are as bad as ! they are." A few years ago, having occasion to travel some distance dis-tance by train, on my way to a city in the west, your correspondent was unavoidably thrown into the society so-ciety of a very gentlemanly appearing appear-ing man, who, by the way, had traveled trav-eled over the globe, and was familiar famil-iar with almost every race of its people. lie knew not who I was, having simply asked my destination. destina-tion. On bting told that Salt Lake City was my destination he grew somewhat inquisitive about the people of Utah. He had been gulled gull-ed by Anti-Mormon rubbish and incredible in-credible stories' ' concerning this mucl) maligned people, that he thought, no good could ever come out of Utah.' On learning who i was, heat once refused to talk or be in any wise friendly, as he had hitherto hith-erto been, simply from the fact that 1 |