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Show !rO m:& EDJ!I.'OB Oll' THB DAILY POST, Sm,-Tbe Echc of the 29th ult. and the l1111t issue of the Daily Po&t oontamed a scandalous article about the Mormons, copied from the New York Sun, which I truat you will grant me the ~:"f: ~~d:.~b: :~=off~~~= any statement therein made. No such condition s~~ns!e~~o.Fs:!'~ha:~e t::u!n;t:~:r. It is a base fabrication, and. like the play of " The Danite.," which is now being performed here in Liverpool, was written with the vilest of motives. The object of the writers is to create a public sentiment in opposition to a people and a religion, and bring down upon the same the 'Vengeance of the populace. The effect of such villainous writings is illustrated in a brief article which appeared in the same issue of your papers already referre:i to entitled " The Massr.cro of MonoonElders." Incensed by the lying re!f:rtafuu. ~n~:b~~ =k~d~~~f:!;~:~~!n~~. a1:':i a private bouse in Tennessee, in which a "Mormon" meeting was being held, on a Sabbath day, r.nd f!f t~~u~~~o~fJ:s af:»U'~h~ Tbfs ~ but one of the numerous ontragea of a 1imilr.r character of wbi~h the "Mormon~" have been the 'Victims, r.nd which have resulted from the falae reports that have been circlllated about them, If ~~:! !hrcE~~~r:~echa.~e~u!;'h;f a!!eth!;~': punished in acoordanoe with law f They are amenat.le to the laws of the land in Utah and elaewber:: I and hold theiDBelvea in readiness to be t~~!e t!!;t f~~!:J>i~p;~~on:~en:~ie~~! the suppreaaion of their religion. The courts in Utah are and have beon for more than a quarter of a oentury c~ntrolled entirely by G<>vernment appointees h011ti113 to the Mormons. No man or woman who does now or ever did, even in the distsnt past, practice polygamy is allowed to vote, bold office, or serve on juries, and in the prosecution of Mormons it is usual to exclude men of their own creed, or even sympathisers with them, from the jury. What more, in the name of conaoience, can be asked for in the shape of facilities to prosecute and oonvict that proscribed people 1 If convictions are not obtained, who are to blame ? Surely not the Mormons, They have nothing to do with the execution of the laws. If Mrs. Paddock knows of the existence of auch thinga as abe writes about, why does abe not go before the grand jury and teatify to the facta? She, and thonsanda of others, in their anxiety to destroy Mormonism, would be too glad to do so if tht>y bad any such facts of. It is to suppose that the union existing among the Latter Day Saints is the result of a system of terrorism exercised by the Ohnrch officials. Such a thing would be impoaaible. Utah is not isolated, Eleve11 different railroads traverse it, and extend to other. pam east, weat, and north, Any person can come and go on th01e railroads with as much freedom as one can travel in any ]l6l't of England. Or any person can abandon the Mormon fr.itb, and even oppose it, and still remain in Utah, in the enjoyme:tt of perfeot liberty-even more liberty than the llormons tht>IDBelves po81168S ; for, as before intimated, they are under disabilities on account of their religion. People of various creeda, and infidels alao, live in perfect fre-edom-never interfered with by ; and many of them hold oat induce-to Mormons to relinquish their religion. No.w, if the wives among that despised people were as unhappy as Mrs..Paddook represents them to be, the courts would not be under the necessity, as they have been in their zeal to convict the Mormons, of imprisoning women in the Penitentiary for montha in a vain endeavour to e:r.tort from them teaiimony tb&C woald criminate their husbands. The failare of the oourta to find dissatisfied wives among the Mormons willing to complain of their husbanda, ia a strong proof that they are contented r.nd happy, The truth. ia tb.e Mormon~ are not only miare~ eaented, hut vezy generally millucderatood. ~~ y~:.-t~~:~~~~r~·i:~h:u~~~ Century, " that the Mormon~ r.re the subjects of a greater amount of misrepresentation and unjnst abase \b.an ~ny other community with which I ~u~u""••uu with the IIWIY other lUu.,•u••an"• who are now acattered I am prepared to give concerning U tab and its people, tne11r ~loot:nn,ea practice.., and I will not ask the accept bare assertions, but will furnish all desire to learn the truth on the subject evidence that cannot be controverted.-Yours, &c.., JOIDl HENRY Sl'IUTH, President of the Ob.urcb of Jeans Ohriat of Latter Day Saints throughout Europe. 42, Ialington, Liverpool, Sept. 2,!._884. ---- C.Lif'PIN~ I J-. . ~ l;z., J |
