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Show (J HA NT'S NEW DILEMMA. IfBrigham Young and his fellow Mormons should be convicted of the offences charged against them. President Presi-dent Grant will find himself placed in an awkward dilemma; for a conviotion would naturally be followed by a sentence sen-tence to imprisonment, and a sentence in all probability by an application to the president for pardon. Now, gen. Grant made what many consider indecent inde-cent hasle to extend a free pardon to congressman Bowen, who had been found guilty of practising polygamy somewhat extensively in a part of tlio country where such practices wcro not only plainly against the law, but also against public sentiment and tho , icuuuiug.H ur un religious creeus. llav-I llav-I ing established this precedent, tho S resident certainly oould not with any egree of consistency refuse to use his prerogative of mercy in behalf of the misguided Mormons, who can justly urge in palliation ol their guilt that polygamous marriages have been toler-! toler-! atcd for years in Utah by general : usage, without interference by the United States government, and that 1 plurality of wives is permitted by the ! tenets of their religious faith. It is quite possible that Bowen may ; be eleotcd governor of South Carolina by the adherents of Grant; and it : would certainly seem shockingly unjust un-just that whilo, through tho direct action ac-tion of the president in rescuing him from the penitentiary, one unrepentant polygamist should be elevated to a position of high honor, the less guilty Mormons should, through Grant's re .fucial to estend the same clemency to them, be doomed to disgraceful iuear-: iuear-: f0'10-1-,' a lirisou- the other hand, ii President Grant should extend the same degree of support lo Brig-ham Brig-ham loung and his friends that he ; has to Bowen, alt the trouble and cx- pease of the legal proceeding against : them and tho cost of blreugthenin" tho military iorco iu Utah will havo been entirely wasted. Under these perplexing circumstances, Gen. Grant j would be entitled to the profound commiseration com-miseration of his friends. New York |