Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-28
The True Spirit.

The new editor of the Valley Tan, Gen.
tilepaper published at Salt Lake. following in
the footsteps of his predecessor Kirk Ander-
son, declares and reiterates his intention to
express his sentiments regarding Mormonism
freely and unreservedly He says, heroical-
ly:
Knowing well, Notwithstanding the traitorous
sentiment which we hear uttered on the streets
daily, and preached in Church weekly, that we
are still under the ag IS of the American flag
that the flag carries protection for its advocates
and subjects even to the very dungeon-doors of
constitutional despotisms-it is not at all proba-
BILE that here, in the ry centre of our mmOn
country. we will relinqulsh one ota of our indi-
vidual rights. Our opinions we will write and
the laws of our native land we will uphold,
'Nor heed the Storm that howls along the skyl"
This the proper language to use in that
hell hole of rebellion, Salt Lake City. Dai
ly, almost hourly have the Mormon people,
under the lead of their Apostles, violated and
trampled under foot the laws of the United
States Grand Juries, composed of Mormons
or Gentiles afraid of Mormons, have refused
to bring indictments against known offend
ers against the Federal laws. Territorial
officers elected by Mormons have refused or
neglected 10 carry out the mandates of the
courts in making arrests, and petit jurors,
summoned by Mormon sheriffs have failed
to convict in plain cases of the violation OF
the Federal and even Territorial enactments.
All Mormondom hangs together, and its
priests and apostles inculcate disobedience to
the laws of the Union. They take good care,
like set of cowardly hounds that they are,
to make no open and plain resistance to the
Federal authority, such as resisting the mill
tary arm of the Government or anything of
that sort, but by all species of evasion, sullen
non action, and under-hand maneuvering,
they manage to thwart nearly all the efforts
OF the Government officers whether judicial
or Executive, in carrying out the proper ends
OF justice in the Territory. This is effected
by continually clustering to the people in
the tabernaeles and all places public of instrue
ton, about the immaculateness of the true
Saints of the Lord, the inmlibility of the
. i-NNt WI anu ItNcldLOF. brigham
Young, and the reflected infallibiHtv of his
satellites. The Government of the United
States is publicly denounced with loud
mouthed declarations of divine authority for
the treason, and, while the minds of the n, o.
pie are wrought up to the utmost intensity
ofrebellious feelingth leaders take good care
that no positive resistance shall be made, and
especially to the army of the United States
sent into their limits The heated fury of
the popular mind and the strong spirit of
fanaticism are turned into safe channels. and
thus the end is secured without the danger
which would be incurred were they to follow
out their grandly sounding manifestoes in the
tabernacles
To be fearless in the exposure of this era
ven course of trickery and raseality, treason
and rebellion, is worthy of all praise in a
journal which is located in the midst of it.
and we hope to see the Valley Tan well sus-
tanned by the "Gentiles" both in and out of
the Salt Lake Territory.