Show MORE LAW we are informed by instant acom messenger of jove lightning s that that portion of the branch 11 of our national known a have agreed to a belr for the further rectify of annira an niri tho brief of which laid before indicate the war it to bo carried into africa or utah well tho wisdom of that profound committee in apo well established to permit of cavil ft or dissension by the mass of plebe f ians who inhabit this and the other a f territories it embraces too many names whose records form part of the legal warp interwoven with the woof of our national institutions but we anro constrained to say that not their eminence inferiority alio proposed measure is totally inadequate tn alio matter in hand and something of comprehensiveness and greater calibre should leavo been precipitated upon lie region if inid conclusive work were alie object aimed at wo leavo no disiro to be captious or exacting but an innate feeling on our part eliat whatever i undertaken in tills regard should bo commenced with a determination to make it a prosecution and eliat lie campaign should be carried on with ahe black fieg of annihilation nailed f to alio fore prompter tea few tug the insufficiencies to we object are not so much alie animus of the proceeding as the inadequate method adopted for instance lie committee propose to provide for the pimple excision from trial jury lists of every man who practise or believes in polygamy bro van did not display his usual sagacity in framing legal document in this instance or lie would leavo biad this nicular clause to read every jor who believes in or practices practises polygamy this would have been the technical exactness at which lie aims but like others of his class lie reserves formalities to bo resorted to only when logic and solid law fail using them an a convenient screen at v other times for example lie known that every mormon cither believes in or practices practises the doctrine referred to but to have stated ais meaning in so many word would have been to show lib hand at once knowing full well however eliat but the one class mentioned are alio ones to be prosecuted notwithstanding the fact that penal statutes must literally construed and impartially adminis Ht ered this is not all however ae alio masculine feline slid when a r brickbat cut his midnight serenade much remains unsung we will endeavor to sing a part of it A prosecuting attorney representing the united states gets a i larger fee for a conviction than is the cape when an acquittal re thoo alio live among and sympathize with the class against which thi proposed special legislation is i aimed and denominated in the jury i law of alfred alie great peers can not bo to act in such manner as would the attorney the additional fee aforesaid FO they mut be for jury duty there being nothing in common or statutory law justifying krucli disqualification a new departure must lie taken in order that methods of prosecution more in accordance with that in vogue with the famous council of ten may be adopted in lieu thereof A since nothing in the nature of law is without it gives cn act menti a double force if they bo of two meanings one meaning of alie law of as interpreted by alie court is eliat men may believe aliat they ijac please without annoying quen ces but when their belief into acts alio should interfere tho oilier meaning out tin der tho prop propped wed van ailo bill and it is aliat may neither believe nor practice both are sound dolid law because emanating from alio lawmaking power and recently invested with alio approval of tho sent offus tico and both are exactly because between them the cormons mormons Mor mons to a annn will be completely nicely and gloriously wound up clieo addenda are we fancy lie unwritten portion of mr district attorney van zile i bill but that they anro portion of it in too a fact to brt denied tho T anre to be shown in alio farat place supreme court is against them r and finally that everything else oi them is to be anad e equity humanity and decency favor lucli arrangement r not the tallying cry of the aly campaign wa anything to beat rant eliat of alio present to bo to extirpate mormon im i m but grant WM not beaten because a proceeding having in in view the immolation of aa without reference to principle contain too much that IK obnoxious to flourish on american and the to its extremity L wo feel justified justi fiel sn abing aying that alio mormon will not bo up in alie altar of bate even at the in r iti gation of o Ic arnedo discriminating eaid w impartial ft a rhilip van zile why what would reduce alie country to do abey for mi that tin whick grew ap under the tion of jeffrie and marlborough Mari borough an bu reproduce iu alio of nation to liberty and justice anil that too it an of tho foglu which tle aau to pro portions even in alic feudal monarch ice of europea they seem oblivious to the fact that do not go backward end that a government carved out of despotism and dedicated to humanity and progress must clieve cl Seve the object of it creation or crumble into everlasting ruin even if the promulgations of the legislative and judicial branches of the government that polygamy is a crime be good law can any justification for ite enforcement by fucali means as are totally abhorrent to every principle of justice bo found docs it not savor strongly of a disposition to create crime out of material in which the elements of crime do not a plea foreign to the case is adopted by the court in justification of its adverse and is it not ft trifle suggestive when on the heels of the enunciation by that august tribunal that ats and not belief arc alio objects laws are direct ed alio upper branch of congress deliberately discuses a proposition virtually prohibiting belief it seems at though congress understood that alio court had at last be come but its echio and that it might with impunity enact whatsoever it saw fit knowing that it action bo upheld mr tan zile is doubt leia an hon or ableman ro arc they all all hon to speak and still lie whole proceeding amny fail |