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Show The army which had threatened threat-ened the very existence of the new found colony of the Saints was meekly marking time at Camp Floyd. The plot to arrest Brigham Young had fallen through. The excitement of the 1860 elections had not appeared. There was smoldering resentment, resent-ment, however, toward the reign of the federal judges. To combat them a group of Salt Lake lawyers came out with the "Mountaineer." Its columns took a brave and vigorous stand against the judges. The interesting and inspiring thing about this early paper was its motto "Do What is Right, Let the Consequence Follow." What a vision of the past this motto conjures upl It reveals the very warp and woof of civilization's fabric for these umcompomising hardy pioneers. Their all had been laid on the altar. Some had sacrificed as many as four homes in various parts of the country before they reached this haven. Some didn't make it but had their bodies riddled' by bullets, then mangled by corn-choppers, corn-choppers, and their remains gathered up and thrown into wells which fiends then used as privies. History, ashamed of these dreadful depradations, has hidden them away where only the seeker may ferret them out. Future historians, however, will point to the city built on a hill. They will add even more polish to the luster of our living present. However, we must not forget, it is all based on those who dared to "Do What is Right, and Let the Consequence Follow." |