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CHAP. XVI - WESTERN EDITORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

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The attack upon Mormondom has been systematized, and is conducted with military skill, by trench and parallel. The New England papers having called for “facts” whereon to base their homilies, General Connor, of Fenian fame, set up the Union Vedette in Salt Lake City, and publishes on Saturdays a sheet expressly intended for Eastern reading. The mantle of the Sangamo Journal has fallen on the Vedette, and John C. Bennett is effaced by Connor. From this source it is that come the whole of the paragraphs against Brigham and Mormondom which appear in the Eastern papers, and find their way to London. The editor has to fill his paper with peppery leaders, well-spiced telegrams, stinging “facts.” Every week there must be something that can be used and quoted against Brigham. The Eastern remarks upon quotations in turn are quoted at Salt Lake. Under such circumstances, even telegrams can be made to take a flavour. In to-day's Vedette we have one from St. Joseph, describing how above one thousand “of these dirty, filthy dupes of Great Salt Lake iniquity” are now squatting round the packet depôt, awaiting transport. Another from Chicago tells us that the seven thousand European Mormons who have this year passed up the Missouri river “are of the lowest and most ignorant classes.”

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Greater Britain , pp. 157 - 172
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1868

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