Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature Political
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Hoge, Democrat, and Cyrus Walker, Whig, both lawyers of distinction. The latter had been counsel for Smith in the Habeas Corpus proceedings last mentioned. Grateful for the services then rendered, Smith openly espoused the candidacy of Walker in the pending contest. That there were tricks in politics even more than sixty years ago, will now appear. One Backinstos, a politician of Hancock County, declared upon his return from the State capital that he had assurances from the Governor that the Mo...rmons would be amply protected as long as they voted the Democratic ticket. It is hardly necessary to say that the Governor denied 206 SOMETHING OF MEN I HAVE KNOWN having given any such assurance. However, the campaign lie of Backinstos, like many of its kind before and since, proved a " good enough Morgan till after the election. " This, it will be remembered, was before the days of railroads and tele- graphs, and the Mormon settlement was far remote from the seat of government. A partisan jumble, in which the " saints " were the participants, and the low arts of the demagogues and pretended revelations from God the chief ingredients, is thus described by the historian just quoted: "The mission of Backinstos produced an entire change in the minds of the Mormon leaders.
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