Show the GILEAD grand jury our correspondents views on alio tho im paneling of the grand jury for this district has amounted thus far to almost a burlesque tho question universally put h do you believe in polygamy ai a divine law then follows the question with the kernel in it do you believe tho law of god is higher and to be obeyed in preference to the law of the land this of course is a trap for the unwary juryman who innocently enough supposes eliat in every christian country god is recognized as having some superior rights to bo obeyed and also to bo in reality tho founder of all law and in his relias ious veneration he answers yes tim at cooks his jur orical goose and lio is excused because lie sets up a revelation from god as higher than the laws of the united states government still I doubt whether any christian gentleman in justice to his honest convictions and to his self would feel to ley by replying that lie believed the laws of man were higher alian the laws of god and lie would evade it by saying that ho believes in being subject to tho powers that be which perhaps is a pretty good answer in the case but it decma to be a foregone conclusion that no man possessing believing practicing practising or sympathizing with the mormon religion is to havo any chance to hold the office of juror on cither panel they arake a religious tenet a crime and then make a belief in that tenet the actual test for qualifications as a juror and as a citizen and then call the united states s arco country and boast of religions liberty and freedom of thou glit I tell you mr editor the way alie thing looks now all this buncombe business is a fraud if liberty exists in the states all right but it has fled from the territories A centralized power now rules them with despotic hand no one knows how soon every vestige of a republican form of government will be won from us by what is known as the party republican it is but a name a a cloak and a delusion the republicanism the american fathers fought for and that aliens have sworn to sustain if it cannot or docs not give protection to religious liberty the freedom of conscience and an unbiased jury system Is it any wonder that should sympathize with alie democrats in preference to such cans as those that have held them in their grasp forli years but lam not sure that the democrats would favor tho mormon religion any more than the other party still they have a more correct view of the rights of these territories and by eliat means their accession to power may benefit utah A change is urgently desired nd I think it will come G blead |