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Show OUR MISSION JURISTS. If any one imaincH that prominent men throughout tho country are i-orant i-orant of tljo character and procedure of tho judiciary of thin Territory, the following extract from a bpeeeh hy aenator Carpenter, before tlic Hcnateoi tho (joited BtalOH, during the consideration consider-ation of the I'Velinxhuyben hill, ouifht to remove imh an opinion, tiaid Mr. Carpenter during hia hpecch : And yet, Mr. President, we do knew the fact that the jud(CH of that Territory Terri-tory to day arc under tho impression that tlmy are couiminniuned, 1 do not Hay by tho government uf tho Ignited StateH, but by that higher Power which ruled tho iinivtr-e, to extirpate Mormonism and polygamy in that Territory. Tho chief justice of that court entered upon tins ciu.itidc and wan hnniL'ht up htamliiig by the de-ciniuD de-ciniuD of the huprenio court, wLL-h wiped out everything that he had don-'. Application i now made to u.i for the purpOHC of Htrcngthemntf tlieui in that purpowe; and while tho judiciary committee com-mittee have drawn a bill un carefully guarded aw it a possiLlo to be, a biil wliioh on itti f'aee iw entirely lair, which, if it could ho administered by high-minded, high-minded, impartial judges, would be unexceptional in every particular, yet wo oannot hut our eyed to the fact that thin law empowurn that court an it in constituted and with the theoricb and opinions which Uh judges entertain, enter-tain, to go on administering tho law upon tho condition of things there existing, ex-isting, aud that injustice may ho done. Wo aro not awaro of over having said anything more severe on the oourfio of tho Judges hero than the kbovo; but wo might add to it a remark re-mark made by a member of tho very committio which reported tho Frc-Unghuysen Frc-Unghuysen bill to tho senate, relative to ono of tho Utah judges, with whoso judicial and legal status tho honorable member had suddenly and somewhat rudely been maeSo acquainted, llc-fluoting llc-fluoting a moment, ho queried with more omphams than elcganco, "How did such a d d fool over get on to tho bench anywhero ?" |