The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-07-27

ance from serfdom to promised
land. They crossed little stretch of
country and their achievements were
great Their schooling was long
one In the desert, and divine Provi
dence preserved them with mamma
from heaven and gushing rills from
the solid rock.
Again we read of chastened peo
pie whose love for liberty and free
dom Of worship brought down upon
their heads the persecution of their
friends and the Puritan fathers set
sail in a shell bark on the Atlantic
wilderness of sea.
But there is no parallel in the
worlds history to the Mormon migra.
ton from Nanvoo. The exodus from
Egypt was from a heather land, a
land of idolaters to a fertile region
designated by the Lord for his chosen
people, the land OF Canaan. The pill.
grim fathers in fleeing to America
came from a bigoted and despotic
people, people making few preten.
tions to civil and religious liberty.
1t was from these same people who
had fled from Old World prosecutions
that they might enjoy liberty of con-
science in the wllds of America, from
their descendants and associates, that
other of their descendants, who
claimed to differ from them in opin-
ion and practice, were now fleeing.
The Mormon people had cause to
raise like magic the largest city to
that date in Illinois-Nauvoo, the city
beautiful-upon the swamp site OF
Commerce, Ill. They came hither on
promised protection by the governor
of the state, after being mobbed, rob.
bed and driven by the citizens OF
Missouri Hay could men schooled in
American freedom and fair play en-.
dure such injustice? Why didn't the
government whose independence was
gained. and whose union kept secure
by the arms of these same men and
their fathers, stay such dastardly
treatment of its loyal citizens and de.
tenders? Who ask naught but the con.
in the light He had given them eyes
to see it?
The father of lies and prince of
darkness knew truth had burst up
on his kingdoms of the earth and
through it many souls would be lead
to seek God Alright He marshaled his
misguided forces to crush 1t; but the
author of the light had decreed other
wise, and these followers of the pro,
phet of the nineteenth century knew
it and they were willing like Christ
ians of old to sacrifice all but the
principles enunciated by their in
spired leader that the heavens are
not brazen, that verify a personal
God our father indeed, lives, and
did speak to worthy men whom He
had authorized to build up an insti
tuition on earth by which through
Christ our elder brother, we may in
herit the Kingdom of God.
Twenty thousand citizens of the
United States, now thoroughly tried
in the school of adversely, were ruth
lessly thrust from their land and
houses and the nation they loved and
for which they had bled to seek re
fuge in the UNEMPLOYED territory Of
nation at war with the home land
Why didn't the Mormons build a state
of their own on the stones of the
Pacific and float their own flag, al
suggested by Governor Ford? Not so
they hoisted the stars and stripes or
the unenviting prairie and answered
most Loyalty the Federal call for vol
unteers, and met the supremest ties
by sending battalion Of men to serv,
their country from which they ha,
been banished