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Show HOW IT IS VIEWED. Thi; iUCaiiun of tin'; hour, more particularly in I 'tali, is the ill-ailvUud ami I'aiiatically-ljiKOtuil course of llie .;omU Lore; and tlioiiirli ilium has been scarcely time lor fiuiii.-nnH newspaper couiiiionLsto reach in m tho vonliut in (he IfiLivItin: ca.4if, wfl upp'.-nd a low. The Sai'raui'.'nro l'nint utie of the aVest. and mo-it on-ii.Tvativc papers in tlie country Inn the following article, wliicli err.:, how:vi'i', in supposing he case can I'1 tarried to th-j Supreme C'jun nl tin: Cnili-d Hiale.-.; lad MH;b u-i app ;al I'-: op :n t lie ruiuU ill llie court liii-e would undoubtedly have been materially dilV-Tfiit. 'Mm l'ni.,i May.-: The i'oiivi'-ti-iii of Hawkins, at Hull f'r illicit cohabitation with worn. in olIut than Ins lir.-tt wile, means the conviction of the whole polygamou ; M't of Mormons iron, lirighum Vounif down t.o the lowest in anthorily who U uMe Io keej) mere than, one woman. No il-mbi. srtch i.-t the object of the pro.-ceuiion by llietovernmeiit oUicial.J. 'flu: end of (lit ahair is not, huwver, with the doei-ion of a -jurt in L'talu The cane will rn to the supremo court . id' the I Initod States for final .settlement, I f the reports have been correct, the prosecution of the Mormons for pokK- , amy for that h what it means i-sun- ; dertaken, not under a .statute of tlio United States, but a law of Utah, i .signed by Itrigham i'oung himself in 1x11, and which was not designed to cover a ease- liko that which the polyga-inouH polyga-inouH elders of tlio Mormon chureh present. How they can be held , amenable undor a statute of their own not intended to bo applicable in caacs of plural marriages has not been ex- ; plained. The intention of the act must bo known to know it.s meaning. If there is any other law by which theso sultans of the American desert can bo punished, it would seem that tho United States courts ought to resort to that as sure to bring conviction and punishmont. Tho 1 arraignment under a law that was clearly not intended to strike at polygamy polyg-amy is a vital admission that there is nothing bettor iu law to which the authorities can go. The proposition is not disputed that the Territorial law was not intended to forbid or punish polygamy, and how it can be used in such cases as. that of Brigliam YouDg has not been elucidated, except that the prosecution is only attempted as an annoyance, or to provoko hostilities, knowing well that tho weaker and the despised will be the sufferers in the end. As we have eaul m dinner articles, we have no sympathy with the peculiar institutions of the Mormons, nor much respect for their pretended faith. But laws are laws, and should be executed according to their real iutcnt and meaning, mean-ing, and if there is no bettor law than the one under which tho Mormons are held, and under which one has been found guilty, it is time to make ono, and cease what will certainly be regarded regard-ed as a persecution, which always promotes pro-motes the growth of the sect persecuted. Ve very much fear that ihis raid on the institutions of the Mormons is die- 1 latcd more by popular hale than ' springing from an honest desire to rid the Territory of Utah of an institution 1 that has not the .sanction of the civilized civil-ized world. All evils are best removed ' by legitimate means, without taking counsel of passion or prejudice. If means do not exist to destroy polygamy in Utah, let tho means be provided from headquarters and in a way that shall be beyond dispute legitimate, ' that the punished may have no excuse : to cry persecution, and increase tho ; adherents to a miserable dogma that ought Io perish from the list of ahsur- . ditics. The Carson Jicgixerol' I he .same date reviews the Hawkins trial. It falls into tho same very natural mistake as the Sacramento Wm'ou iu reference to an appeal of the ease being taken to the suprome court for the solution of some of the interesting points developed devel-oped by the counsel; but it adds, tho strongest point that can be made, is the question of intent. Reviewing the circumstances attending the passage of the Territorial law agaiust adultery, the rulers of the church and tho condition of society here, the Register adds: To convict Hawkins, therefore, it was necessary to give a statute a ditier-cut ditier-cut meaning from that intended by ita authors, and to impute an evil intention inten-tion where the reverse was known to exist. Tho presiding judge in excluding exclud-ing all Mormons from tho grand and petit jury, cited California authorities to show that courts are bound to take judicial cognizance of the politioal and social condition of the country which they judicially rule. If this was true in empaneling the jury, it is : difficult to perceivo by what logio the judge refused to take cognizanco of the political and social condition of the country when Hawkins married his .ceoud wile. Whatever opinion one may entertain respecting the Mormons", or polygamy, no unbiased observer can read the proceedings of this trial as detailed by the journals of Salt Lake, without feeling that the court was organized or-ganized to convict, without much regard re-gard to law. If tho verdict, and the rulings of the court are sustained, this caso is likely to mark the beginning of a social i-- revolution in Utah, and the breaking up of this extraordinary society ! but l" even this result will scarcely offsot the judicial usurpations by which it is ' brought about. The Corinne R porta', one of the most violent anti-Mormon papers ever published, sees dauger in the proceedings proceed-ings of "the court organized to convict." con-vict." Under the caption, "There is L'angcr in it," the issue of Tuesday lost says : The fcjalt Like L1i:iiai.l of this morning gives a r-eries of questions and answers from the examination of a juror iu a civil case before the district 1 court yesterday, and if ihc report be a eornvt one, there are very few professing profess-ing CluNtian or Jews whose privileges may nut be impaired by tho same style of inquiry. Wo are in hopes that the chief j u.-tiee did not permit questions to be propounded in the manner quoted below. Here wo patent the tirauge 1 dialogue: 'To you believe Brigliam Young to be a prophet of tied 'Vei.'' I '"Do you believe him to be JuJ.'" "No, 1 am not sueh a fool as iL.it." l'l'o you believe him to be iu the line of promotion to become a Uod ?" ;o. ' "Do you Udicvc, being a prophet of God,. that Lj ii liable to err?" . ' les, as likely as other men. all are liable to err." ' ' "Believing him to be a prophet of God, would that affect your verdict in this eate .JM "o, not iu the slightest degree; I would do justice in the ca-." The juror wm challenged peremptorily, peremp-torily, which ini'ht have been dono without an examination. Many things are snoued by overdoing, and this looks tike one of them. There can be j no crime in believing that Young is a ' prophet, or even a god, so long as the devotee obeys the taw of the land. Tt were 13 well to question the JbJpisco- t palian's theory of apostolic succession, the Baptist on immersion or the Catholic's Cath-olic's unalterable belief in Papal infallibility. infal-libility. Heneo w ay l0 everybody. ! Do not blunder into worse evils than those wkich are cow in existence, Wednwdy'itiu of theme paper adds: |