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Show "PROSCIUPTIVK LEGISLATION." I Theeuperlativo impudence of our morning cotcin-had an ex.-elie.nt .opportunity .op-portunity ofaUplayii'S.itot'lfhi ycHer day's issue, in a notice of "Tin Poland Po-land Bill." Tho .SH.-rlion that "it does away with the wrangta between United Suites marshal' and altornoy, and Territorial mar-bal and attorney," attor-ney," reminded us of the celebrated diplomatic announcement of theKuj-gian theKuj-gian general to hi government that "Peace now reigns in Warsaw." Under Un-der Lho iron heel of tho dopot tho lib-orty lib-orty of Poland was forever extinguished, extinguish-ed, and patriotism was met by imprisonment, im-prisonment, exile and death; theUus-aian theUus-aian soldier could iw well have used the words of our cotcm. anil answor-ed: answor-ed: "it does away with tho wrangle." But vindictive and deceitful aa tho organ of the ring ever U, a half-expressed confession of wrong can bo wrung from it occasionally, and here is something more than we had looked look-ed for from it: The manner of n"!;it thrjioy li.t.i isalso cicnujcd. Im.-Ii-juI ut' tin) eotnily courts putting on tie li.-ts iihitil's wliicli (-an ha IruMecl for thoii iiilclity lo tlie ClniTch unih:r (ill eireumMiuicci:, "if lists will I'cmudc On t? district jud;-', the clerk of the court, and (he marstuf. It may bi obj-.vtcd by tho Mormons that such'Jefiixlatiu)) is pro-irriptire, since it takt-s the selection out of the hnu(U of on.; pnrty and tirc it all li th- viht The italics are ours. Yes; the Mormons do uhjnet to pro -seriptive legislation and so docs every honest man in tho community object ob-ject to it; and partisan and blinded ly , prejudice as are the writers of the: Tribune, they show in tho very ariiele from which we extract the above.tiiat' even they object lo it. Why claim1 for the United States ofHoals named ! ths virtues of impartiality and fidelity ' in t'nis matter of " making up" die-jury die-jury li.-ts, if there was not a realiza-, tiou ot a feeling that to cntnict any three men with the selection of jurors was an unjusiiliable innovation upon ' the rights of the people? Tho further j avowal thai the provision in tho Poland Po-land Bill for the scle'tii):i nf jurors,' takes it "out of the hands of one party and gives it all to the ntiirr,". is a spurt of honest confession, that we scarcely looked lor, but il is there, and we place it on record where it 1 will be seen and read by honest men ' who have interests at et,ikc. ' The citizens of Utah aro hence! forth lo understand that instead of; trusting to the legitimate operation of- the great palladium of rights the, Magna Charta of England, by which1 ever' man is assured of trial by n 1 jury of his peers they arc now to be tried -ly a . jury . scleet- ; ed by a jude, his clerk and the marshal of his court! Thisj Irio "can he trusted to act impirtial- j ly ami render ex act justice to all."; We deny it; it is faUo; they cannot! be trusted, nor should any other three men bo trusted many such position. , The civil rights of any people cannot be trusted in the hands of any puL'e, clerk or marshal, and they' who lutorj to make snch a provinion f r the selection se-lection of jnror.-i the Jaw of Utah, would as soon pick a pocket or iob a hen roost if the same incentives were brought to bear upon them as there are now pressing upon those who; listen to "the Utah ring." We arc, I indeed, surprised to learn that any man who has live 1 in this community communi-ty from boyhood, and who h;ia seen the mis?arb!e clasj of men whom the United States government has from time to time sent here as its representatives, represen-tatives, could bo far forget himself us to take part with an irresponsible clique ofaiubitioua adventurers and ask for such a provicion as the Poland Bill! In no Stale or Territory of the United Stales could such a wrong bo consummated as that for which "the Utah ring" is laboring, without a forcible protect that would awaken the plotters to a realization of tho detestation de-testation of tho pubiic whom they sought to rob; hut our eatUens, accustomed ac-customed to such villainous pi oiling against them, quietly pursue tho even tenor of their way, leaving issues to the control of that Provi-h-nrc who doeth all things well. - " |