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Show 146 3RIGHAM YOUNG, Whether in the pulpit, in public addresses, in official documents, or in. private intercourse, the same Spirit of lofty patriotism seeityed to pervade their whole community. At the same time, it should not « bc. concealed; that a stern determination exists amopg them to submit to BO repetition of the outrages to. which they were subjected in Illinois and Missouri; but, oik the . contrary, to resist by force and to the last extremity, fromwhateyer quarter, atty such interference with what they consider their civil and religious rights, guarantied to them, as to other citizens, by the constitution of the United States. Vainglorious vaunts may indeed have been sometimes made by individuals whose Knowledge and judgoheftt were not equal to their religious zeal,- as to the ability of the community to maintain itself in the fastnesses of the mountains, even against the military forces of the Government; but we know that there are in every society men whose valour is ever great in proportion to the remoteness of the danger. I have no idea that any such collision Was ever seriously anticipated. Upon the action of the Executive in the appointment of the officers within the newly- cfreated Territory, it does not become pie . to offer other than a very diffident opinion. Yet the opportunities of information to which allusion has already been made, may perhaps justify me in; presenting the result of my own observations Upon this subject. With all due deference, then, I feel constrained, to say, that in my opinion the appointment of the president of the ' Mormon church, and head of the Mormon community, in preference * to any other person, to the high offioe of Governor, of the Terri- - , tory, independent^ of its » political bearings, with which I have nothing to do, was a measure dictated alike by justice and by sdui^ d policy. Intimately connected with them from their, exodus from Illinois, < this man has been indeed their Moses, leading them through the wilderness to a remote and unknown land, whert they > have since set up their tabernacle, and where they are now building their temple. Resolute in danger, firm aqd sagacious in eouucil, prompt and energetic in emergency, and'enthusiastically devoted to the honour and interests of his people, he had won. their unlimited desert qur country's cause; never will we be found arrayed by £ h » side of her enemies, although she herself may cherish them in her own bosom. Although site may launch forth the thunderbolts of war, which, may return and spend their fury upon her own head, never, no never, will we permit the weakne/ ss_ of human nature to triumph oyer our love of country, our devotion to her institutions, handed down to us J> y our honoured sires, made dear by a thousand tender recollections*" 6uch, surely, is neither the language1 nor the spirit of a disloyal people. |