Show A NOBLE DECISION the manner in which one of brighams Brig hams lawyers talks burky to a nasty polygamist but he is a poor cuss away down in the state of michigan the twin relics model champion draws a beautiful picture the following WIng letter ku has wa awn left kept in haul hand until uio the proper time tat for its ll 11 puah cation should arri arno Is this aces to be t the 0 me morn men cat t 10 1 SA arsAW mien april no 1875 eos I 1 by your paper which cornea comes loto into my hands handi occasionally casio nally that my lay old friend judge J 0 G sutherland is ii making hu murk mark ia izulah utah ilij aiu adhesion to the morman church mo me as aa somewhat singular and his hii defense of the irao tico of polygamy tho divine ditino ordinance I 1 believe you rail call it it is A iok g contrast with the record le he made mada in his hia former homo home perhaps it would bo be interesting to your readers to hoar hear ol of tho the judge before lio he became converted to the llie mormon doo trino and that this satisfaction may be afforded them I 1 enclose the chief portion of an aa address delivered by lis his honor fiodor whorl ithon a prisoner convict oi ill of being too much married mtr ried tho the condensed report I 1 send you is taken from the saginaw ebur courar r of july AJAX mr bath balli yon stand convicted of bi bigamy amy a crimo crime offensive to decency and subversive of social morality madriago Mar riago in ia a holy relation we soil and susceptibilities that fit us uil for or companioni bip with the other sex wo we are arc mado made totter better and happier in that relationship like lika all other human relations and som sessions marriage is not an invariable blessi blessing Dg unmixed with c v T to render it conda condu iva ivo to tho tha greatest eso t goal soil and to exclude the greatest measure of possible chili tho the divine precept capt coinciding with tho the result of ere all 11 human experience is that man maa shall cleave unto his wife and they twain shall bo be ono one flesh liver ever since man has become sufficiently outly civilized civili sed to appreciate his bis moral ties tind and the noble and ennobling qu qualities of woman marriage has bai boon in theory and in tho the best bell ex a hallowed LaLl owed companionship between two parties i companionship to bo be solemnly initiated and chrisc conscientiously i maintained whoever desecrates this thia institution attempts tem by hia individual influence and ad example to revive and aad popularize that relio relic of barbarous times polygamy not only outrages the prevalent sen seno beno o of propriety but manifests a di disposition on inimical to the most moat cherished cirtno ot of womanhood joca does all hii h puny arm on can do to prostrate tho the whole fabric of social brotherhood brother hooi hool your crime his has an intimate relation with and contributes to some borne of 0 the worst vice that affect communities thero there il i nothing to which all right thinking persons persona attach moro more value than womanly virtue its preservation is 13 of the highest importance to the peace and general good of society whoever does docs any act tending to undermine itkor it or sets eota an aa example detrimental to tho the general virtue of the commits a crime of unmitigated wickedness two comin suffer from your crime ono buffers crabl disappointment and desertion the other oilier is deceived and unwittingly drawn into an unlawful cohabitation she suffers an aa injury that no syna sym pithy of friends no charity of tho the world canover can over repair it if you have say any manly feelings loft you but have a deeper sense of your own punishment when you consider that it is shared by ono who Is innocent of your crime the statute against polygamy is but tho the reflex of tho the popular senti mont mant upon the subject it prohibits a apan lom irom hiving two wives J As AA those who any violation li of that statute and against that moral senti moot in the interest of which it was afford affording LUZ an all example tending lending to malco make huoh violation moro more commod commit 4 great publio public wrong you as such n offender ought to bullar p punishment is mont with 1 tiow ill not at only to your own owa reformation 1 but ut also by y way 37 of example to t to dolor tile them rom falling into the same lame gilck wicked pr kioes A to assist all in ia the iho form forma A lion of good habits to inspire dizh and generous aims aima in life andziul add impress them with a sense ol 01 of r sound moral principles abundant abunda ot instruction is ia given t ma are opened to which nono none tire arc denied access I 1 inna morable happy fi resides mide made so by pleasant domestic relations send out oat a cheering injunction that these are ara the tipple apples of gold that the virtuous only me my y pluck 11 uck social which al aro 1 tut ant the aggregate agg rogato voice from these housch households permeate the ibo whole mass of society commanding virtue as their vital breath and warning against ogi tibt vico vice as aa the iho malaria that will surely destroy A person who disregards the lessons leijona so EO taught and enforced and from that lie linn of moral conduct which is so BO asserati ml to ill individual no less thau than the iho general tool good as you have evinces a strength of pinion that requires moro more ro re lot thau than can call come from such euch sources a A Q society will w 1 it I rent receive 1 YO you yoa and treat you Tou Lare hereafter after witia with favor so BO soola ss as you yon give proof that yon ion do acne it when you appreciate the iho coor enormity mitY of your offense you will bo be more severe in your own judgment of your past conduct thin than they will be who may beare after know you yon YOU will never calaco it from your memory nor cease to feel self reproach when your mind recurs to it this painful recollection will form part of your against it repetition of the crime but should you bear your without this moral improvement pro and on being set at liberty relapse into crime you can lava no hope of peace or enjoyment while you live you cannot in buell a state expect to bo be on good terms with yourself or any ADY other being human or divine divinci to produce such auch a salutary lutary ea change in your moral disposition and prospects and to 0 promote it more general love of virtue the law against this thia crime has been enacted and tho judgment agi you will be ba pronounced noun ced the judgment of the ibo cowl is that y you be confined lit at hard labor in tho the state prison at jackson in this state tor for the he period of two wo years from and including this thia day |