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and probably never

faithful chronicled: and probably never
will.
If the true features of that transaction
should ever be faithfully depicted, il.
would stand as an enduring blot-a black
stain on the page of our country's histo-
ry. From their houses and homesseads
that wretched people were expelled by
brute force, sanctioned by the forms of
law, and driven forth into the wilderness
to herd with wild beasts.
Had they even been guilty ofall the
offences which their enemies assigned as
the cause of this treatment, they were
still human beings, and deserved to be
treated as such; but pack of wolves new
er worried a flock of sheep with more
bloody ferocity, than did these volunteers
in the Mormon war of expatriatiou. The
charges against them, if trun, were such
as were cognizable by courts of Justice,
and punishable by law; but even after the
Mormon leader, Smith, had surren 'ered
himselfnp under legal reqvsition, the
organized mob tore him from the very
Jail, and murdered him in cold blood near
that stronghold Of justice. The expul-
sion of his people followed-the shep-
herd disposed Of, the terrified flock were
an easy prey, and the survivors who es-
capped the summary execution of Colts
code and Bowie-knife morality, were al
lowed to carry no other wropeity with
them from the Freesoil of Illinois except
their lives.
Had such scenes been enacted in the
slave States--had the sufferers only been
of different color, or could political caD
ital have been made out of it, the land
would have rung with the recital of theae
deeds, and the halls of Congress have
rc-echoed to the wailings of canting po-
litical Pharisces, mourning over the
wrongs of these men and BRETHREN But
the faces of the victims were, unfortunate
ly, sohitc-thcy welded no political pow
er; and members of Congress could gain
no weight, or influence, or popularity, by
becoming the champions of their cause.
Hence the strong lungs and noisp tongues
from that section, now so busily trumpe-
ting Freesoil doctrines, and the enormity
of Southern misdoings, were as silent on
this topic, then and ever since, as brass
1 SNt'o "AsAi ViSi' NtoPpOio Out.
Moreover, the Mormons professed a
Shocking creed indian unpopular one
and these pious missionaries, whose.
own lives were so strictly in conformity
to the lessons Of scripture, adopting the
doctrine (charged on the Mormons) that
the earth is the saints and the fatness
thereof-and furthermore, that they
were the saints'-endowed themselves
forcibly ofthe property of the Mormons,
even to the jewelry of their women---for-
whicq the people thus robbed have never
as yet been indemnifed.
And yet with these facts (never denied,
so far as we have seen) staring them full
III the face, the Senators from Illinois,
Douglas and Shields, presume to read
moral lectures to the Southern States,
whose escutcheons were never sullied bv
such stains: and the Colonel Bakers and
Wentworths, ct id omne genus, in the
House, from the same section, hold up
hands and eyes in holy horror at our So
cial system, and seek to indoctrinate us
with the peculiar blessings of Freesoil
philosophy.
But it may be said that these outrages
were committed in the infancy of the
State, and that there was palliation for
them in the conduct of the Mormons.
These apologies may be plausible, but
are they true?
The mormon outrage was perpetrated
not ten years ago-and the recent mails
have brought us recital of a repetition of
the same scenes, enacted almost on the
same theatre, against an unoffending Swe-
dish Colony--without even the apology
of religious fanaticism to be set up in ex-
tenuation In this case the outrage has
been pelpetrated on Women and Chill,
dren mainly, as the following statement
taken from the st. Louis Republican of
the 9thinst. will prove. Where are the.
Regiments that the gallant Col. Baker,"
and that Paladin of Militia men "Col.
Bissell," said could be so easily raised tn
the requisition of the Chief Magistrate?
If THEN charity would only begin at Tome
wit would be better far for the reputas
ton Of their constituents. and their own.
A JOLLY LIFE Insects generally
must lead atruly jovial life. Think what
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