The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-14


no right, for citizen. or stranger, to
plot and plan against others and
thus destroy the harmony existing
among nations.
When, therefore, Booth or
Guitteau, took upon himself the
trade of an assassin, the whole ma
ton was profoundly shocked. Ir-
respective of the high position filed
by the victims, it was crime con-
trary to all the chivalry of our race
1t was underhanded and cowardly
1t gave no possible chance for re-
sistance, or avoidance. The spirit
of fair play, every EngliSh-speaking
people cherish. was rudely assaulted.
There was nothing manly about it,
mystery shrouding its workings and
a treacherous, cowardly love of no
toriety melted its commission; and
when the victim of this stupen-
dnouS crime, of this treacherous,
cowardly attack, was the highest in
the land, u thrill of horror was felt
from Maine to Texas and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Foreign agitatorS seem to mistake
the spirit and sympathies of the
American people. Because they
successfully resisted tyranny IN
their own case, and have generously
offered, by the liberality of their
laws of naturalization, a home to
the poor, dOWn-trodden and the
suffering of other lands, they have
cause to look upon it as a land
wherein they can securely dwell
and carry on their plots and their
secret schemes against the peace
of, and for the overthrow Of
foreign governments. Extremists
of all kinds and shades Of be-
lief seem to think themselves
secure from molestation, even while
advocating tiendish schemes of des-
tructiOn and bloOdShed. That they
can manufacture and send forth
their torpedoes and internal ma
chimes and that the government and
people will look on with supinenesS,
indifference and, perhaps, with APP
plause, while scores of innocent hui
man beings are unshriven, without
warning, launched into eternity.
That in the bright light of day they
dare and can safely advocate burn
ings and maimings and murders,
that terror might be struck to the
minds and hearts of the rulers Of
other lands. And for what Though
suffering and sin exist, though OPP
preston and tyranny overshadow
and bind down many lands, would
the misrule and confusion, sure to
follow the subverting Of the estab-
lished institutions enhance the wis
dom, or increase the happiness and
comforts of the commonalty of those
lands? The terrible revolution in
France of 1889, was the overthrow
of all time-hOnorad and revered GUS
toms and institutions, together with
the doing away with many wrongs.
The religious feelings of the good
were outraged and believers in
Christ were hunted like wild beasts,
to establish a deity, miscalled reason,
whose garments and garlands were
deep dyed in human blood, and
whose followers were continually
offering up fresh holocauStS of I'M
offending victims TO the MolOch of
infdelity. When the bands of au-,
thority were once burst asunder the
rebound caused men to lose their
judgments and to take refuge in the
extremes of excess and cruelty. The
reason they boosted of and wor
SHIPPED was the darkest and dead
Hest of unreason; and, regardless of
all ties, human and divine, passion
held high carnival in the woes, the
suffering and the destruction OF
thousands. A sort of phrenZy gov
erned all their deliberations and, and
a fiery, unreasoning eloquence
swayed the feelings of their legisla-
tors and rivalry, lost to all generous
impulses of emulation, was satisfied
only in the death of an opponent.
Unlike the revolution in England,
though each cost the life of a king,
that of France began by innovation
and ended by the total overthrow of
existing institutions and the eStab-
lishment of tyranny more active
and oppressive than the previous
one had been. Unlike the calm de-
liberation and constitutional pro-
ceedings of her Hampdens, her
Russels and her Pyms, whose
virtues were the pride and
boast of Englishmen, her Dan
tons, her MuratS and her Robe
spheres were a shame to France and
a disgrace to human nature in their
cruelties and savage bntcheries. The
former claimed but the inalienable
rights won by the best and purest
blood of their ancestors on many a
sanguinary field-those rights won
from the cowardly tyrant John at
Runnymeade and granted by Magma
Charitable latter arrOgated to
themselves the virtues of a god and
displayed the ingenuity and cruelty
of tiends.
Patriotism is noble and god-like
virtue when upheld by purity and
singleness of purpose, such as was
exhibited by Washington. But
patriotism itself is no excuse, nOI
Shield, for treachsry, cruelty and
crime. We can regret the untimely
fate of an Emmett, even while we
see and acknowledge his lack of
Judgment; we can mourn the un-
timely closing of that promising and
bright career he once had before
him, for no vulgar crime, no cruelty
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