The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-24
THE MORMON CRUSADE.
Views of an Old Resident.
COMMUNICATED

war cry of Protestant u.s. Catholic
a cry that originated in the midst
Of the bitter religious luminosity
and prosecutions about the time Of
Henry VIII, of pious memory, aud
his daughters, the sanguinary Mary
and illustrious fQueen Bess." The
resurrection of this almost obsolete
and Anticipated religious war cry by
the self-styled Liberal party, is but
the YenomOus expression of Vindict-
iYeness and chagrin of very small
minority against a very large ma
iority, and is bHt fiimsy covering
to hide the reasonable designs Of
the leaders of that party, that de-
serve only the name of a clique Of
unprincipled conspirators, for since
the arrival Of the depraVed and des-
perate camp followers Of that fam
Gus Buchanan army of 1855, this
clique of conspirators have pursued
an undertaking course of most in
famous corruption and low intrigue
that would be a disgrace to any
political party of the age that has
any claim to responsibility and they
have served as supple and willing
tools Of annotated but ambitious
political leaders, who. like straws
TO the drowning man, have hoped to
save themselves from utter political
bankruptcy, have Invariably reached
out to grasp at Mormon capital, in
hopes of a crust to save them from
starvation. This religious war cry
i of church and state, when raised
either in Europe or America, has
lever indicated a bitter contest in
process between the two great re-
| liglouS bodies of Christendom, and
was always designed to act upon
the minds of the ignorant of either
party with rancor and the worst pas
sions of bigotry and superstition.
And this aforesaid clique has
adopted this mode of appeal to the
religious frenzy Of the. country to
cover its most unhaIlowed course
against the welfare and peace OF
many thousands of native born
American citizens dwelling in Utah
This cruel league and mendaeious
clique are in every sense the same
as the murderous border rutfiaI
mobs of Missouri and Illinois
They prowl around Utah, sending
forth their foul abuse and vile Sian
lders, close up every possible avenue
by which The great public could get
at the truth, and would now, if the.
lconld, inYeigle the governor of Utal
to issue another eXterminatiny
order against the Mormons, Xix
that of the Infamous Boggs of Mis-
lsouri. The scene is somewha
ichanged, however, since then. A
that time there were some $4,000 il
the several counties. of Missouri, al
of whom were native born whit
American citizens, Though Nor
mons. Now there are more thai
100000 American citizens in Utah
Iso the liberal mob of Utah has t,
pursue more cautious and mucl
more assassin-like course agains
the people OF Utah. and pull tn
I underground wires from Washing
l ton with a little more care and Gil
cumspection. But with them til
Il thoped-for result is the same, an
that is that they may glut thei
!, british souls with the sight Of al
Il lother St. Bartholomew on America
isoil. The banner borne aloft b
7 this clique in former crusades, ha
ever been cmblazoned in glarin
capitals, "Mormon Rebellion
"Mountain Meadow Massacre
'Danite Bands" Ozark and Mystt
rious DTillings Of InSurgent Bands
"Disloyalty and Treason" ct
Here, let US respectfully inquire {
this Liberal and patriotic part,
why, in the present crusade, hav
: you so suddenly dropped from you
veracious programme of the past
. those rare and precious relics {
q Mormon iniquity? 1t is becaus
81 they have become stale throughoU
"a christendom Not altogether frel
that fact, but for the Well-knowl
fact that your wholesale lie
land ISLANDERS were exploded an
your duplicity exposed by Thousand
of intelligent and honorable visitor
and travellers, who have locke
upon with admiring eyes a gran
scenery of earnest industry, GOO
order, morality and uprightness, {
this much slandered community,
scene unsurpassed in all the worlt
and that view totally annihilate
lall the anticipated effect of your vi
slang upon the public minds. II
question then was what new devit
of his satanic majesty can we i
woke to aid us in this last despera
crusade of determination? All Oh
- former assaults have proved fai
e ure, let US change our card, and st
81 up the bitterness and animosiGy
81 the religious bigotry and superst
n ton of the country against the Nc
mons. Let the old Catholic az
Protestant war cry go forth to Il
coun!ry. The Catholics were
majority Ia France on st. Barthel
new day; the ProtesLants we're
the majority in the patriotic 0
Bay State when the mob burned t
nunnery in Charlestown. Tim
are changed? Let these patriot
Liberals Of Utah, beware lest the
Yenimus animosity against Nc
mons stir up by theeold religior
war cry, the dormant b
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