Show i I p r It SonIC Are Born to rclltncss Sonic Achieve Greatness AVliilc Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them Below we give an extract from the Ogden Herald on Mr Pratts conduct It is complimentary to Mr Pratt and shows that his conduct is approved by his fel lony religionists However much one may differ from Mr Pratt in his practices prac-tices yet it musU be acknowledged that he was no craveiTcur when brought face to face with the law All honor to Parley P Pratt He has been tried as by fire and not found wanting want-ing In obedience to the spirit of the Edmunds act and out of defference to the purpose of Congress and the laws of the land when it was made a crime to cohabit co-habit with more than one woman he scrupulously abstained from holding sexual intercourse with his plural wives but he was neither cowardly nor base and consequently he did not cast out the women whom he had wedded in good faith nor throw them homeless dishonored and forlorn upon the cold charities of a cruel Bohemian world Believing that he was complying with the Edmunds act and at the same time maintaining me first principles of honorable manhood he supported sup-ported the wives he had espoused and did not shamefully deny them the sheller of his roof And now when accused of violating the law as it is maliciously construed con-strued by a Court from which there is virtually no appeal he bravely and honorably hon-orably comes forward and pleads guilty in the hope that he may save the Government some useless expense and that possibly perverse i judge may be inclined towards a considerate leniency on account of his poverty but when the monomaniac on the judicial seat wants to make him turn traitor when he is asked to bow the Knee to the vanity 01 a judicial despothe tranquilly and modestly refuses to be bulldosed braves the fury of the maddened judge and chooses to suffer the severest possible possi-ble penalties wrongfully inflicted rather than t to play the part of an ignoble i coward This is an act of heroism which vindicates Mormon sincerity itis a spontaneous exhibition of courage and noble consistency con-sistency to principle which shall be treasured in the archives of history while it furnishes a theme for song and story to repeat down through the remotest ages of the future |