The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-03-31

from the rich mans table. Many i fan
form and manly young heart are hurryinp
Eto destruction and despair, whom 4 kind
word and friendly hand might rescue from
the horfid preeipice before them
Ishe apreacheF q morality2 Obi let
him search around the capital, and see I
be cannot find text there2 y there not
! there many d giIdcd palace whose Inside
frottenness should BE- exposcdi are there
mot there 10 be found many Dcad-Sea
apples whose painted rinds cover Che cold
ashes n deaths
Beginat homel Purge your own soul
And then talk morality and virtue 70
those nfar on!
Whether ii Dc viewed Iii tie form of q
secular or religions question, Mornonislr
/ .has been Che hobby-horse for years 81 that
particular class 81 politicians who wanted
something 10 ride and prate about. Their
minds were too marrow 10 embrace the
N as II
great interests Of tic nation; nor had
they hearts honest Or big enough 70 study
her general veal, Or seek to guard her
against ON evil destiny They were com
PEELED @ loealike their thoughts and pcf
Iitics; and Id Mormonism their selfish
3intrignes found 4 rich field ID revel III.
q ~ y *
Here was the grand chance to 'traficfor
Ilnere and emoIument. And, To- give
| ieslesil bis due, Mcll have they played
their part They have abused the Nor
mons, hnmbugged the nation, and win
retire rich with the common spells to their
estates and plantations
But 70 recnr back little. Suppose
TINT Mr. Morrill's bill should pass; that
Congress should put such q climax 10
tllefr many folIies. How Is such an event,
lis he would bring about, to be CONSUMING
ted? He Processes friendship NC nre
told Would he manifest that friendship
BY putting all Utah to lire and swordg
BY those means alone could the grand
work % accomplished. The law, However,
would be unconstitutional, and could not
BE- enforced And such We think win BE-
the opinion and decision of tile committee
on the Judiciary towllom his bill was
referred.
After wrestling from the Territories an
Others Of their constitutional privileges,
and dcprising thenof the greater portion
% their elective franchise, surely they win.
not wiring rnaely FROM them The last.
right Of freenen, their focal and domestic
This would II lenst be d dar,
gcrous experiment.
q Wedo not speak for Utah alone, AlII
the Trrritories are equally Interested hi
the question. II such should ever be tic
case, when they shall have fully disfranch-
ised Utah, will the despotic prerogatiyeI
stop there? No. each territory, one Ly
one. will feel on its neck the weight Of the
iron heel; until. finally over the
whole land, the might Of arms and nun
bers will be theonly right acknowledged.
AERtyaf on TIE DKcEAHER Man.
With . lack Of patience known, We trust,
only TO EDITORS, we waited and watched
hourly during Tuesday last, for the arri-
val Of the eastern mail; we laid ourselves
aownto rest, filed with thought Of what
toMrite about, until d mail should arrive.
AT sunrise. on "Wednesday morning, We
ound that the mail had got in; to tho
Mice We FASTENED, we glanced with fever.
81 gaze over ON exchanges ID order To-
'atch glimpse Of the latest news -
December December, November dates
we're before ust There must be some
mistake here, not d sentence nor a line Of
ate news? No. The December inailsI
md other buck mails that we wrote about
iome weeks since, and which were SO
;toutly denied by the agents or their
friends, have been brought IN. We felt,
,onfonnd the old stuff, and could not help
asking, Why the deuce they did not leave
4, and bring il The mail due March 2Sth,
1862 This question we should be glad
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