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Show UTAH'S BEST CROP. In other days Utah's best crop was said to be children ; to-day Utah's best crop is martyrs. The. latest addition to this already long list is Editor Hemenway, of the Ogden Herald. In last night's issue of his paper was a genuine martyr article, from which we extract as follows : His primary object was to establish, upon a granite foundation, a journalistic ooncern that might add to the sifmifinnr.nB tmrt im- portanoa of Ogden and lead the van of social, intellectual and commercial progress in the Junction City of far-famed Utah. His profoundly sympathetic nature led him to ' feel warmly for the oppressed, wronged, I aspersed and subjugated Mormon people, ! and he took upon himself the precarious and laborious task of defending their rights and liberties, and denounced in scathing criti- ' cisms the miserable and petty minions of tyranny who were and are seeking to rivet the chains of bitter Blavery upon them. They have attempted to crush him and for this purpose have resurrected the hitherto obsolete law of criminal libel and drawn its cold toils with the animus of unusual malice around him. But already their qperations have virtually defeated the very purpose they had in view. Convicted by the spasmodic spas-modic execution of the libel law and overwhelmed over-whelmed with a tide of villainous abuse, i Editor Hemenway finds that the very estab- I lishment of his guilt, though " legal, was ai measure of persecutive hatred rather than the equal enforcement of a just law,' and while he admits the commission of a technical offence, he deplores the inequality ine-quality of Utah justice and faces prison with the consciousness of triumph, even amid the ruin of his fortune and nobler ambitions. The secret of his overthrow and punishment for he has already been cruelly punished by aspersive publicvilliliers may be discovered discov-ered in the fact that he ably, warmly, fearlessly, fear-lessly, and perhaps over-zealonsly, espoused the cause of I the abused, the down-trodden and the -oppressed the cause of the Mormons. Mor-mons. Had he uttered ten thousand libels against them, the carpet-bag statesmen of Utah and their abject satellites would never j have dreamed of enforcing the libel law i against him. ! But in order to be a complete success, every cause must have its martyrs its heroic defenders, who are destined to perish per-ish that the cause may live on forever. And Editor Hemenway has been and is still ready for the sacrificial altar. He did not wilfully err maliciously, but his great labors, vigorous measures, laudable enterprise, and constant anxiety have worn him out physically and mentally, and who will be surprised if the prospect of the "new distress of justice" to be heaped upon him and the consequent disruption of his family shall shatter his once bright, versatile and active mind and. reduce him to the pitiable condition of a dismantled ship, stranded on the rocks of prejudice and passion, while the. hurricane of malice, hatred and abuse screams through the debris of broken masts, torn sails and shattered shrouds, as if singing sing-ing with diabolical glee over the woe and ruin they have caused? |