The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-30

from Missourians;" processing fear that
if the Saints were not interfered with
the day would not be far
distant when the civil government
of the county would be in their hands, |
when the officers would be Mormons, or |
persons wishing to court their favor, they |
asked with great show of solemnity: |
"What would be the fate of our lives and
property in the hands of jurors and wit
nesses who do not blush to declare, and |
would not upon occasion hesitate to swear
that they have wrought miracles, and have
been the subject of miraculous and super
natural cures, have conversed with God
and angels and possess and exercise the
gifts of divination and unknown tongues,
and fired with the prospects of obtaining
inheritances without money and without
price, may be better imagined than
described" Concerning the latter SANDER,
propagated by inscriptions men who
feared the political strength of the Saints,
it may be said that it was in vain that the
Mormons pointed to the fact that they had
uniformly purchased their real estate; that
the Lord, while expressing his determine
ton that the Saints should yet have Jack
son county as an inheritance, commanded
them to purchase the land.
Upon such an Indictment the
people of Jackson county resolved
that ''the civil law did not afford them a uf
fcient guarantee against threatening
evils,n and they determined to get rid Of
the Mormons ''peacably if they could, for
chilly if they must" Governor Dunklin, of
Missouri, said: "a more clear and indis-
putable right does not exist than that the
Mormon people, who were expelled from
their homes in Jackson county, should re-
turn and live on their lands, and if they
cannot be persuaded to give up that right,
or to qualify it, my course as the chief ex
ecutive of the state is plain one"
The citizens of Clay county afterwards
set forth in their enumeration of reasons
why the Mormons should leave the county,
the objection that their religious tenets
are so different that deep prejudice would
always result" and Governor Dunklin, in
confirmation, says: 81 am fully persuaded
that the eccentricity of the religious opin-
ions and practices of the Mormons is at the
bottom of the outrages committed upon
them"
Governor FORD, of Illinois, says that the
early settlers Of Hancock county, among
whom the Mormons settled in Illinois were
hard cases. In Illinois, as in Missouri,
there was an almost total absence of Nor
mon crimes; and again reappears the mar
row-minded hatred of despotic and secta-
rian minds Governor FORD outlines the
nature of Mormon persecution in Illinois
when he says in his history of Illinois that:
Scattered through the country they might
have lived in peace, but they insisted on
their right to congregate in one great city.
The people were determined that they
should not exercise that right, and the
government was powerless against such
combinations
The evidence is irresistible that the sole
causes of the persecution of Mormons ir
their early years, and the chief cause, ii
their later years, has been because they
were exercising what they believed to BIZ
their inalienable privilege under our insti
+ buttons of being peculiar and exclusive if
they saw fit, and that the Mormons wer,
, not driven, robbed and murdered because
they were in any true sense deserving Of
SuCu
We therefore reassert that the only con
sistent attitude for Mormons is to oppose
united front to those who seek to rob then
of their liberties, and that the fact tina
, Mormons unite here and did unite in Mis-
o souri, and Illinois is largely due to the bar
barous and inhuman conduct of selt-pro
. Tossing philanthropists of the Tribun
q stripe. and we say, moreover, that tn
o proof is quite as conclusive that Judg
~ GOODWIN, who never voted any ticket blu
q a Republican ticket, where he got the
chance, because of his devotion to protec
ton and the memories of the war; is
a slave, as it is that any Mormon is slav
:, because for reasons which could not wei
be Of less consequence or relevancy, h
&c votes the Peoples ticket. And we woul
- say, if Mormon unity were not rendere
% imperative by Liberal vendictiveness, tina
g they still possess the right to vote just ez
actly as they please for reasons that seer
best to them and that in doing so they ar
exercising the rights for which Ihei
patriot fathers fought We will graz
pretty much ali that the Tribune urge
re against the Mormons, asking only the cor
N cession that they are law-abiding, and W
S shall still insist that it affords no adequa-
to ground for disfranchising them that the
N are united. The judges defeat doth NJ
Of rest easily on him.
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