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Show LK'l'TICR FROM IMXAfCA, j Vonr inlere.ling paper coinci rejiu- ' larly tu hand, and my appreciation of it i.i manifested by a I borough perusal of its contents, 1'erhaps its readers , would be interested in a few ideas from land of fertility and b:u renness, ! this net work of rocky mountain peaks, . of deep gorucM and extensive table land?, of jii'ecn meadows and blowing 1 sanda, of erysial lakes emhoftomed in reeky cmiueuccs and fairy caves, where tho wind never rtillles nor the .-uq-beanid warm I heir placid water."; where a few of that patient and per- sistcnt people, who have ever been the pioneer,? of civilization in these moun- - tain solitudes, aro struggling to make homes for them.'.elvcfl and those wdio will succeed thorn, and redeem another ' portion of the Ureal American Desert to civilization and lo progress. I fancy there are few countries, of similar extent, which furnish so many , line landscape views as tho portion of "tab mid Arizona lying between tin; southern rim of ibo Great liasin and the I 'olorado. The grand and sublime 1 ' are wonderfully intermingled wilh the mo.-t beautiful linta of sunshine, and ' shadow, on the variegated rocks and . ; evergreen forcn(- on t lie mountain j sides and table lands. ' Such a land , J must ever be Hacrcd to freedom. 1 ! Usurpers may annoy i(a people for a . ; time, but they can obiain no permanent perma-nent looting, for tho spirit of freedom pervades the atmosphere, and nature, lias amply provided tho bulwarks nf her defence. The edicts of l he Kngli:-h Star Chamber and ihe legal decisions which have made tho name of JefiVics infamous in the annals of jurisprudence, juris-prudence, vrcrc the efforts of a naniug feudal despotism lo maintain v - power against thegrowihofliberal principles. These events occurred wiiu freedom shone with but a glimmering light out of the darkness ofagod, and the minds 1 of men only discerned the right of the : people to sovereignly through I lie , vistas oi centuries1, as developed in the ! n fancy of tirceee and Koine. I I lias been reserved for the judiciary of I'tah, under the matured republican institutions of the enlightened nineteenth nine-teenth eeufury, when tho impulses of humanity tend ictUo greatest individ- . ua! liberiy consonant with t;e' public j .ftood, lo ignoro well established cOi(s;i-. cOi(s;i-. tntir.nal rights, io set. aside every i principle of justice, lo make lechery, i profanity and vulgarity the attendants 1 of judicial dignity, Hi endeavor to make vice appear lo be virtue and ; virtue vice, that ehastiiy might be at a , discount, thai, the hcavthaones of a - hundro-d thousand people might be made do-elatc by iorcing inio their habitation the Iomsjjiuc phantom of a ' denwrajized ehiisiianity, l)ifti ihous-I ihous-I ands ofchiidren, born in sacred wed-i wed-i lock, miirht be bastardized, and hun i dreds of honorable mothers eons-igned to dishonor. Notiviflisfaiiding the .sneer.- oi' judge I Mckean with regard lo ihe "Lord's j providences," lie slill holds in His I hand the balance" of justice, in which to weigh sinner jh well as :-ainK and I .1 tear ihe ''ring" will lind Lot little to. their credit-, on the side of virtu1, i Th'-re i- a d.ivk .-pot on the judiciary ' annals of j.S7l, thai will make the I names of j-ome men inlamously immor-J immor-J tal tbroimh all lime to come. It is a I singular fad, significant of the degon-I degon-I eraey of our Rronf republic, thr.t the man whose eminent virtues have j made hi.i mmoiy dear lo the he irts of ! a great ieoilf , whose wisdrun uiiil pitii.irchai e-oe hae L'aucd the fyuufaiiia of water to ferliluo the earth, and citie-:.nd fruitful fields to i .-orin.' up in lb."1 d.-ort, l;oaid be I falsely aocu--i nf low aed debasing ' crime by a rin? of pilitioal trnmcslers. . I headed by a I'nited Slates judg1, in order to sacrifice him f-r the accomplishment accom-plishment of corrupt political design:. Is it not GQOugh to make the bones of the worthy sires of our countey, who , '-.ught to lay dr ep (he found-ifion oi ( I herli!erly, ivst unjtis-Hy in tlirir grrv.'s, ' and their -t-pitiis, in unrest, wamb-r i over this uobic land thus cunupied by its degener.ire . f Jf, beeait --e w ate Ijaiier-d iy .S.u'n1, if, bi-e.ni.ft we beli-'ve that tied reU'ns;, t!iat He duvet- and controls the all'nirs lot' men. that lio revcaU His will lo those who Af willing to obey Him, if , Lei'au;C v.e h'lh've in apo.-ile.- aud, j prophctf, in a hi rug priesthood, in keeping wives iu-lcad of mi.-l res-CJ, in 1 owning and piovhihig for our children ' . in.-teai.l oi' k.iivitrg th'iu to wander al-.tar liitherle--, hoiueh -s uud unpro-te unpro-te -ir d, ve a0 10 he oittbltved, let it eoi:--' Ii'."-,ue ( Ite deb.ined the priv'l',LV.s oi Am.-rii:in citizen-hip, the :;'-i,;i,'r we icjILj liiO fj?'. lue better.. iiut tiie Lord iciu.-. and wcvju al'ford to p.iiLu.uiy abidi. iL-j time, when lie wi.l pu; his h'juk.- in ihe jaw.i of our euemi.'S, "and lead iheiu away to the ; regions of contempt to the shades oJ . L.iivioii when they will fully realize :;eir ov. n i::tiiinent:3, JAi' A. Lirr.-i:. |