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Show NOW AND THEN. Id another column will be found the account of a most interesting ceremony yesterday, in the third judicial ju-dicial district court of this Territory, chief justice McKean presiding, in which two young ladies of great talent, marvellous industry, and great personal per-sonal beauty, were admitted to the bar of Utah, to practice law ' in its most unlimited sense:" common law, chancery law, ecclesiastical law, civil law, criminal law, and what not. In no Stato in this Union could Miss Suow, tho accomplished daughter of J the attorney general of Utah, or the brilliant Miss Fhccbo Couzins, of St. . Louis, bo admitted to these time-honored privileges; and yet we warmly oongratulato them on tho position they havo woo. Like Portia, the "learned dootor who oamo from Padua," wo doubt not that with a woman's wit added to the shrewdness and sharpness begotten of study of the law, they will soon win all their oauMS, captivate all clients, and carry off all the honors of the bar. Were we in need of oounsel, to appeal to the wisdom of the judgo, or to arouso the heartfelt sympathy of the jury, of course we would certainly employ one or other of those gifted, youthful, brilliant tyros of the law, and leavo the old fogies of the profession to "batten on tho moor." Black-stone says that "the law is a jealous mistress;" mis-tress;" but here are two young ladies of whom the law even will never be jealous. But there is philosophy, thero is statesmanship, there is wisdom wis-dom in this proceeding, at which we can only hint to-day, reserving the matter for a more extended examination examina-tion hereafter. For the past two years the abilities of the oarpet-baggers of this Territory Terri-tory have been employed, the telegraph tele-graph has been subsidized day by day, aod the press suborned, to denounce de-nounce the condition of affairs in Utah as a "vile theocracy," a "despotic power by which poor Mormon women were bound in manacles," and delivered deliv-ered over to "the horrid lusts and the fiendish tyranny" of President Young and "his obsequious myrmidons." Laws were perverted and trampled under foot ; congress was besieged and buttonholed to put down forever this "fearful despotism" of which poor Mormon women were the victims. Bigamists here, and the keepers of plural mistresses, have howled over "that fearful despotism" which would suppress houses of ill-fame and drive prostitutes to, at least, decent privacy. Yet to-day the world may learn that here in Utah every woman holds in her right hand the ballot ; that she is eligible to every office, that she may plead her own oanse before chief-justice McKean ; that if her husband ill-treat her, she may prosecute him ; that one-half of all his earnings is hers; that she is his absolute peer ; that she may sit on juries and find him guilty of bigamy; cruelty to her, Deglect of his children, or other crime', and that she, poor woman, under this "fearful despotism despot-ism " can be her own law executor and judicial expounder. The place occupied occu-pied by governor Woods, under our law, might be filled by an accom pushed, push-ed, pare and honest woman-: for women wo-men are enfranchised citizens here ; and chief justice McKean but for the law of congress, might be compelled com-pelled to surrender the ermine which he wears so gracefully to Miss Couzins or Miss Snow ; or to any other lady who might study law as they have done and be admitted to the bar. And yet these libellers, these Blanderers of Utah and her people by telegraph, through the press, to congress, and to the President aod people of the United States, still cry that in Utah the women are "slaves," that tho theocracy theo-cracy own them, govern them and trample upon them. If the women here are slaves, then they make and biod their own manacles, and wear them lovingly, for they have the power to cast them off. What a "fearful despotism" the women of Utah live under I They may make and do make their own laws; they may select se-lect and do select their own officers; they can be their own lawyers; they own the one half of all their husband's property, and may keep all of their own; they may do every thiDg but train in the Territorial militia, and that is high treason, according to the illustrious illus-trious Black aod the heroic governor. Since ail women here may vote, may practice law, may Bit on juries, and may hold office, why should the executive here demand the interposition of United Uni-ted States troops to protect and shield houses of ill-fame from abatement, or oyprians from punishment? Magna Veritas tt prcvaliliL Let us rejoice that here woman is enfranchised, the architect of her own destiny, the companion, com-panion, the peer, the equal of man; that here, by law, made by the Legislature Legis-lature of Utah, perfeot democracy exists. |