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Show !: j I LAST NIGHT'S DASTARDLY WORK. ' ' 'j ' A dastardly assault on the person of V'l'ji ' United States District Attorney W. II. I, I ' Dickson was committed last evening by j . ; t. four cowardly wretches two sons and a I 1 i ; . nephew of George Q. Cannon, and a vil- I - ! lain named Hughes. Under pretense of ' j ! having information to impart to Mr. J ' Dickson in his capacity as a United States I ' official, two of these wretches.after night- ; l fall, sought the gentleman at the Con- li ' tenental Hotel and begged him to accom- !vi pany them to the sidewalk, where they could talk out of earshot of any one who might feel disposed' to act i ; the eavesdropper. No suspicion of foul j; play crossed the mind of tho gentleman 1 ; so importuned, and in compliance with 1 their request he accompanied them to the I j sidewalk. Here the two accomplices in If waiting made their appearance, and ; . almost at the moment the unsuspecting man's foot crossed the threshold of the ' door, one of the misbegotten wretches j dealt him two terrific blows in the face, : ! while his cowardly accomplices sought to ' help on the brutal work by hampering I the assaileu man so that lie couia not ::' defend himself. In the scuffle that , ; ensued a window was broken, and the I ' crash of falling glass attracting the alten- ' tionof gentlemen near by, the scurvy '" wretches -ceased their cowardly attack and sought to escape in the darkness. So, it has come to this at last, that in Utah officers of the United States Gov-: Gov-: ernment who seek only to well and truly perform the duties devolving upon them ; ; in pursuance of their oaths, can no longer ' f go on with their work, or live in their own houses, without running the risk of being set upon and brutally beaten, if not murdered outright, by ill-conditioned scoundrels who, measuring the popular sentiment in Utah by their own fiendish feelings, imagine that it would be a glori-: glori-: '. ous thing to maim or kill a deputy mar shal or two, or wound unto death those faithful officers of the courts to whom is ; ; entrusted the important work of en- ! . forcing the law against all violators thereof. ' To saV that this brutal work has the approval ot the entire Mormon people, would be to basely libel them. But that , there is, all over Utah, a strong under current of animosity at work against the officials who are now bravely doing their ; duty that and nothing more is to put it mildly. For years and years the : . people here have been taught to regard United States officials as their sworn ene-' ene-' mies, whose mission was and is to harass, oppress and imprison them for their religion's sake; who look with greedy eye upon the posses-j posses-j sions of the people, and whose highest ' : ambition is to bring on a conflict here j which Bhall result in a renewal of the ex- ' pulsion scenes experienced at Kirtland : . ' and Nauvoo, the better that they may ( seize upon the property of the Saints. . The legitimate results of such teachings ! are what? Why, only a few short ' weeks ago an unnameable outrage was v perpetrated at the residences of three United States officials in this city ; a few weeks later a deputy United States Mar-Bhal, Mar-Bhal, while on his way home, was waylaid in a dark alley and an attempt made to murder him ; now come a quartett of ruffians who, under pretense of giving such information in-formation as will assist the United States District Attorney to more effectually perform per-form the duties of his office, decoy him ' out into the dark and attempt to ) disfigure him for life, if not to murder him in cold blood. These outrages are the legitimate outcome of evil teachings, . traceable directly to the men here who - assume to control the people of this Ter ritory in all things, both spiritual and temporal, in the latter caseeven to the setting up of a stocking. ; The line is now reached ! Halt must ( be the word ! Another such outrage as that of last night and woe to the wretches by whom it may be perpetrated. |