The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-16
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT
HAYES.
Letter XIETRat Unjust Deed.
SALT LAKE CRY, Jan. II, 81.
(In very blank verse, mostly.)

To HIS ErceIIeney, r. B. Hayes, P-esi
dent of the United States:
Oar gooa-for-nothing Governor has
done,
With vicious and most dsmnable design,
a deed of vast enormity and wrong,
Which honorsb men could never do.
= deed unjustifsble's the word
| By which such deeds are known mot &
| decent men.
According to a preconcerted scheme,
A most strCcious, bold conspiracy,
To make the peoples votes OF none effect,
With, ut the slightest shadow Of q right,
he's given that Campbell g certificate
That he has been e.ected delegate
To sit in Congress as of Utah's choice,
as sent there by the legal voters voice.
Has certified as fair and true what be
knows we'll
Is absolutely foul as sin and false as hell.
And having done this mean and wicked
thing,
Done what he could to steal the peoples
rights,
Like midnight prowler for illegal ends,
So self-convieted and afraid TO meet
The honest public indignation, he
| Stole far away by earliest morning light
With spouse and baggage skunk In haste
away,
By railroad train, and express train at
that,
Back to his home, his old Kentucky
home.
A thousand pities, sir, indeed it was,
You ever babe him leave 1t. But he's
fed,
Gone bsck again, as holy scripture says,
1 Ihn uyInknH fna urhnO nnpa
A conscience-stricken man is never
brave,
Though he may desperate and reckless
be.
He came handsome" brainless man,
but now
Returns with infamy stamped on his
brow.
Branded ss visibly as God marked Gain.
The brand is deep, indelIble the stain
Upon his character, such as h3 had,
Which now, whate'er before, is bad, bad,
bad,
Superlatigely bad,
And nothing else than bad.
II he had not departed in hot haste,
And had not ia en- counsel of his fears
He might have left with music 10 his
Music that would have made the welkiu
ring
THE Rogue's March" would have been
the very thing.
Now every honorable man must feel
Within his Utmost soul, of this bad man,
This miserable thing in shape Of man,
Whatever may be said Or thought Of
him,
No one can say or think thing too bad.
So far as 1 may judge, I think he is
The most dishonoraOle governor
That ever cursed this territory fair
With mis- foul presence and ignoble deeds.
1t was well known that he was preju-
diced,
But it was hard beforehand to believe
That he would write himself down such
an ass,
Or that 10 such disgraceful lengths he'd
60.
A msn like him, sir, surely ought to be
An outcast from all good society.
would suggest, wheo Murray is around,
That you keep sharp eye on him, for,
air,
He may not prove so honest as you
think.
On close acquaintance you may find that
out.
Such are the men who pirate about the
law.
And make great virtue of LEGALITY,
so far as it will suit their purposes;
who thank their stars they're not IS
other men,
Above all things not as these Mormons
are;
Who lecture and pl esumptuously exhort,
III, ~ Tf y 20 hrA, bn In,
Such rotten-hearted hypocri,es as he
Breathe forth their threatenings that the
country Is
Full big enough to grow in plenitude
| The hemp ana trees to hang all traitors
on.
The silly man has notthe sense to see
He has had rope enough 10 hang himself
Stone dead to every honorable desire,
70 every good and righteous sentiment,
To every generous and liberal thought.
That be should learn this thing, it is full
time
That Observation-Disclosures meant is crime.
| And his 8 crime of highest magnitude,
OF blacklist guilt, most nonstrous tur
pitude
Fe ought to learn 1t also in s way
To flI his wicked soul with blank dismay.
He ought to promptly meet that justice
which
Would strike such rank injustice down at
once.
Would b asst it as with lightning's vivid
flash,
Would crush it as with heavens own
| thuaderbolt.
Such infamy as his may best be reached
By having him Immediately impeached.
| If this cannot be contaminated, then
He still will have the scorn Of all just
men.
For men who wink at such gigantic fraud
Show that with villsiny they're In &C
cord.
If he is not impeaehed and punished, yet
| There is q way to cure him. may state
He is q nuisance which you might abste.
This should be done, for don't the scrip
lures say,
That when the wicked rule the people
mourn7
But put the righteous in authority,
And then the people will rejoice and be
More likely to beprosperous, happy, free.
When you officially take off his head,
He will, as he deserves, be doubly dead,
Nor doubly dead alone, but doubly
damned.
SALT LAKER.