Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-12-17
"DISLGYALTY" N UTAH AND
THE SOUTH.

JEFFERSON DAVIS was the en-
boIimeut Of the views Of the South
cru people respecting certain sub
jccJs pertaining to government. He
was this in 1850; when the war
began he had become such in
more intense degree; Lees surreu-
der had NO effect in changing his
stltus in this regard, and he re-
manned till death unaltered and
uHalte-abls in the conviction that
the States have the right to regulate
their own social concerns, and that
tine general government had no
riEi. y interfere with slavery.
Riiicule has been heaped upon him
for repeating in his old age the
fsvorite theories Of his prime.
Tine rebellion was suppressed at
an iurouceivabls cost Of blood.
treasure aud misery. The South
was conquered and reconstructed.
The vauquished accepted their
fate, and the Union became one
again. The States which iarticfpat-
ell in the rebellion bowel u the
authority Of the general govern
ment, and honorcd its laws. The
soldiers Of tine blue and grey became
brothers again, auI FOR two decades
/. has been accepted that treason
and disloyalty have no existence in /
the confines Of the late Confeieracy.
But The death OF jefferson Davis
has brought forth a5undInt proof
that he was stin the apostle Of politi.
cal science from a faith in whose
teachings the South mas never been I
converted. Men 10 net honor a |
leader in whom they have ceased |
TO believe, ana from whose doctrine I
lhey have apostatized, as the people /
OF the Southern States hauoreI I
him 10y concentrating his death
i'm the manner they did. and by aa-
piaulins the praises that we're lavish |
81 upon him ami the labor ofhis life. |
Surh manifestations come from the I
masses only when they are in the /
closest sympathy with she man who !
is ;he object Of them. (
I'm short, it is the relief Of The /
Southern people today that this na- |
lion has departed from the theory /
upon which It was foundsd-the /.
Northern States Voluntarily. those /
o.the Confederacy through coercion. |
Their political scientists teach them /
that our government ms he
come centralized far beyond what
IT, founders intended. that the people /
have been robbed Of powers that
rightfully belonged 20 taem. AMI I
that the political trend now being
pursued tends 10 tine destruction Of
popular liberty AMI the rights Of
man. These teachings the people /
receive and believe implicitly. hence |
the solid South
But no one seriously charges the I
southern people with di-loyalty 10 I
the United States Government be-
eause Of the school Of political phil
osophy TO which they adhere. The
South has as good a right TO make
such a charge against the North. rs
the North has against the South.
This fact Is realized and il is further
conceded that oneness of POLITICAL
belief is unattainable: hence the
necessity Of preserving the constitu-
tionll right Of every man To enter
tain and express such opinions rs he |
may choose. Hence also the rule
that treason and disloyalty consist
in acts, not in opinions nor words
this rule being the outgrowth Of
specific language in the Constitution
itself.
This rule is necessarily violated
in Utah. Here opinions are made
treason, and theological views are
distorted into disloyalty, feats i'm
possible 70 accomplish in any other
part Of the United States. In Utah.
ideas respecting the science Of ha-
man government which DO not ac-
cord with those Of q certain clique ;
are denounced As treason. Ideas are
never treason elsewhere in the
Union. Religious doctrines Of a
lctero1Ox nature are held to be dis
loyalty; but nowhere else on the j
American continent was it ever
held that religious belief and disloy-
,lty could possibly be the same
hing. The rules Of human reason,
Is well rs the definitions Of the
Constitution, are overthrown by the ,
landerers Of the s'8formons.s' I
Why should not opinion and |
Peech be as free in Utah as in the :
south? Why should belief be here {
as treason, and there as '
natural right? Why should criti- !
ism Of public men and measures he =
ED the privilege ani duty Of the 1
ress and people elsewhere, but dis i