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Show "THE BATTLE GROUND OF FREEDOM." (t.i!TOH!lt. COHHFdUVl.Cdl'.) Sax Fbaxcisvo, Deo. IS, lS7o. There is nothing sanguinary referred re-ferred to in the heading of this article. Indeed, its object is more to show where a peaceable struggle of the ino.4 importiint character is being conducted. Much as the Mormons have leen accused of rebellious prin- cinli';, it is an incorporated part ol I their belief that they will save the Constitution, the palladium of liberty to the whole people. In the contest which lias been waged in Utah for over three yeans, on the one side directed di-rected against the rights and liberties of the people, on the other in defence of them, already have most valuable decisions heen secured from the highest high-est tribunal of the country, affirming right which apply to all Territories equally with Utah, and have been judicially usurped, I think, in all of them. In faetTone of the great dan gers to the country consists in the silent usurpations of Constitutional rights wli ich is constantly going on in most cases unnoticed, in nearly all uncontested. In I' tah they have been so glaringly excessive and so directly aggressive, that it became a necessity to carry the- points involved from court to court until a final decisiou could be obtained. Other Constitutional questions ques-tions have also to be settled, which originated with this aggressive policy againft the people of Utah, yet which directly or indirectly affect all the cituor.s of the United States.' Is there not rea.-on, therefore, in calling I tab "the lxiltle ground of freedom'.'" Evidently the principles contested must be Ecltlcd by Die Supreme Court, and it is to be hoped that it-high it-high character may be maintained. If, by the appointing power, it should become "packed" to decide on vital points involving the liberties of the people, then the only remedy, if the people were unwilling to submit to usurpations of their rights, would necessarily be the same by which our country's independence was obtained. That soch a result would be a terrible calamity no one can question; and, hence, the better way is to have the ! disputed points quietly fought in the courts of Utah, and before such luminaries lum-inaries of jurisprudence as rendered the decisions already reversed by the Supreme Court. If Utah's "circular combination" can afiord to stand this kind of thing, most assuredly we can. so that they may e'en say "Lay on Macduff," and morally and legal-lv legal-lv meet Macbeth s late! E. L. S. |