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Show STILL DENOUNCING. The News continues to heap its abuse upon all who are arraigned before the courts for unlawful cohabitation and when brought up to plead, plead guilty and promise to obey the law in future, Mr. John Daynes, of this city, is the last per: son chosen as the object of the News' denunciation. de-nunciation. He was before the Court yesterday and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation and asked leave to read a statement to the Court, which leave was - granted. The statement, which was published in last night's Democrat, was straightforward, honest and frank, but the News speaks of Mr. Daynes and his statement in these terms : "Another case of recantation from religious and family obligations occurred in, the District Court to-day. In this latest instance of moral cowardice John Daynes was the leading figure. His written statement, read to the Court, is a enriosity, and leaves nothing to be added to render his attitude abject in the com-pletest com-pletest sense." Now what was Mr. Daynes' great crime? Simply this, he promised to obey the laws of his adopted country in the future, and in his statement state-ment he said that the reason for his having hav-ing formed his polygamous marriage, which he said he believed in as a part of his religion, was that, he had a right to do so, and he thought that when the law which forbade him to continue that relationship should be tested in the courts of last resort, re-sort, that the law would be declared null and void. The court of last resort, upon whose decision he had so anxiously waited, declared the law valid, and now he accepted the inevitable and promised obedience to that law. Mr. Daynes when he abjured allegiance to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland swore it to this Government, and as an adopted citizen of the United States, the benefits of whose institutions he has accepted, and the protection pro-tection of whose laws has been extended to him, could he do less than promise obedience to the laws of the United States? He could not have done otherwise other-wise if he desired to remain a worthv citizen in a country which had become, be-come, his. by choice and adoption. And for this he is abused and villified, abused and villified by a paper that is the official organ of a church which claims to be the veritable Kingdom of God on earth. It is rather a strange thing that the first' requirement of that church is disobedience and defiance-of the laws of the country in which it is sought to be established. It is something new in theology that the first requisite to be a saint in heaven is to he a sinner on earth. Mr. Daynes' example is far more worthy to be followed than the advice ad-vice of the News. The News has assumed to play the part of divine bulldozer. |