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Show APPEALS TOTHE SUPREME COURT. On our timt page will Lo tumid the cl-iic of an ejicc;ilinjly inu-ro.itinfj de-hntc de-hntc in Cunif.re.irf, ou tlio liill still further fur-ther regulating the appellate juri.-dic-tirjn of the Hupmiiic court of the 1'ni-ted 1'ni-ted States. As the law Htands, unle.iM this hill has pxi.-cd the Senate and received re-ceived executive approval, no appeal c;in be taken from any Territory to the hupreme court of the United States io any criminal ease. The individual charged with crime is virtually at the mercy of "judicial tiiUsKmarios," as tieneral liuller aptly designates them, who, comparatively ignorant of law, and often nwayed by vindictive or partisan par-tisan motives, wield the fearful power of life and death committed to them with a recklessness that outrages justice jus-tice and shocks humanity. Consistently enough the supporters ami endorsers of the Utah crusade are bitterly opposed to this measure Evidently Evi-dently they are afraid to have the acts of the judicial missionaries of Utah investigated in-vestigated by the court of last resort, which they know they cannot control or sway. They aro anxious to keep judicial tyranny from such an investigation; investi-gation; but should tho bill become luw, and we believe it will if it has not already dono so, such acts of infamous wrong will be brought to light, in more than ono Territory, aa will startle the nation. It is of record that in ono Territory an cavcnonicd, prejudiced judge hurried a man from the bar at which he had been sentenced to the plaeo of execution in fivo days, and had him hanged without even the chaneo of an appeal to the supreme court of tho Territory. And wo might suy, had tho bill, allowing appeals in criminal easea from tho Territories Terri-tories to tho highest oourt of tho country, been law for the past year, not ono of tho so-called Mormon trials would yet havo disturbed the repose of tho United States, It is already known that tho judges of tho supremo court of the Uuited States havo expressed themselves on the manner in which juries have lately been empaneled in this Territory, and when tho question comes beforo them in proper form of law, their decision will prevent any further revolutionary proceedings of the same kind. Those who continue to sustain anything and everything done by the chief justieo of Utah, may tako this fact to (heir souls and bo patislied with it. Tho noisy clamor of bitter partisans, frothy demagogues de-magogues and thoir unscrupulous following, fol-lowing, must not be considered as good reasoning and truthful statements of facts; nor the deoisiona of judicial missionaries mis-sionaries as sound interpretations of law. |
