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Show tieutlemen, I charrro you with the duly of being "in at the death" of that 1 most terrible relie of barbarism, the "blood atonement." The killing ol'an apostate "to save liis -oul," is murtlt-r. .m.e S(yic:!ii!i'l'.i i 'itrtjs. In the grand jut y. This is simply infamous. It assumes the cxi.steuce of a myth; it alleges that men have been murdered to save their souLs, and thin without tin; ghost of a r factor the shadow of truth offered ia support of it. And he charges the jury, with all the mandatory authority of a dictatorial federal judge, "to be in at the death!" Why did ho not pay "in at the death of IMormonisni" as he meant.'' Aud this is tho kind of temperate (! ) and digniticd (!) languago which at present makes tho I 'tab bench a by-word throughout the conn- K . -. |