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Show THE GEORGIAN ANTI-"MORMON BILL." We learn from a letter written by Elder John Morgan, in charge of the Southern States Mission, that the anti-"Mormon" bill, introduced in the Georgia Senate and which was reported by the papers to have passed the Legislature, failed to become a law. The vote of 35 to 1 with which it was said to have passed was only the vote on its first reading. It was never called up again. The anti-"Mormon" fanatics may now moderate their exultation a little. The measure was too extreme for a body of sane legislators to enact. It was also in strong antagonism to the Constitutional guarantee of free speech, and was altogether anti-republican and unreasonable. But then these are the characteristics of all the plans devised by the "crank" [?] who want "Mormonism" suppressed by law or violence. We are gratified to learn that the Georgian lawmakers had better sense and more tolerance than to lend themselves to an irrational and intolerant scheme in aid of sectarianism which finds itself unable to meet "Mormonism" on fair grounds in the south. |
