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Show j GOOD AND BAD ADVICE. j The Ogden Herald of yesterday con-j con-j tained the following in an editorial: ! TvA?co,Tim" to a11 the m11 of the ;imea in I L tah' tue n?r future is big with momentous j events-events -which will try men's souls and tend to unsettle the brains of even the i most prudent and conservative people. Tn I view of this patent fact, we admonish the j pabbo against hasty exhibitions of passion j or popular tumults. The conwgion of a . wholesale not in this Territory at the pre-I pre-I sent time considering the inflamed condition ! of public opinion would beBimply horrible beyond description. All levl-beaded men I of every creed or political faith must acknowledge that this is true and use their best endeavor against such a- frightful calamity. Prudent men should measure their words! also on all occasions. No individual can tell j bow soon he may be called upon to account for his seditious or bitter utterances with I his life. Remember this and act wiselv is ; our advice. " In this there is a true realization of the ' situation in Utah, and the advice therein : given is good, and should be heeded by all readers of that paper and by all others, too. This is good advice, as we have said, but in the Herald of day before yesterday there appeared an editorial containing the following highly, inflammatory language, lan-guage, and which utters sentiments the very opposite of those above quoted : If this sort of thing continues; if the courts here persist in convicting Mormons on flimsy charges originated by Federal officials and prosecuted with vindictive zeal with the aid of packed juries; and if these same Utah Federal courts insist in shielding Federal moral lepers, whoremongers and murderers from just restraint and punishment, punish-ment, the Mormon people will be compelled to defend their lives, their liberty, their property and the chastity of their daughters from anti-Mormon Federal malefactors, ravishers, robbers and judicial assassins, bv necessary force. Human nature, even when controlled by the greatest and firmest desires de-sires of peace and tranquility, has its limits of endurance, and the Mormons, "notwithstanding "notwith-standing their wonderful patience and fore-bearance, fore-bearance, are still human. Even Mormons cannot always submit peacefully to Federal murderers and judicial assassinations, robberies and false incarcerations, incarcera-tions, screened from all hope of justice, by wholesale lies and atrocious caluminations. We repeat again, there is a limit to the utmost human endurance, and when that Jim it is reached in Utah, let the anti-Mormon assassins, aspersers, judicial malefactors and robbers beware.! ' Let the law take its course in the case of Deputy Collin; but if justice miscarries through the connivance of Federal officials in dealing with him, the safety of the lives of the community demand de-mand an appeal to a higher tribunal where justice may be obtained and criminals overawed in an hour. . |