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Show Last Sunday morning Thomas , Hawkins was nobody; this morning ; he has been elevated to the compara- i tive dignity of a martyr, lie and his i family squabbles miht have continued in oblivion, had tho third distriot court not given him and hia acts a dignity they never before had, in dragging in a. religious rjuostion jn tho -shape of polygamy, which was dono in every stago of tho proceedings from the day of thccprcliminary examination until the man was convicted by a carefully selected jury. Instead of his being viewed as guilty of a crime, tho trial will pas3 out into tho world as an arraignment ar-raignment for practicing a principle of religious belief, and sympathy for a man anu a people wno win tace oppro- ( brium and penalties for their religious ' fuith will be the dominant sentiment.'' |