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Show A I'EW WXSTIOXS. j 6alt Lake, May G, 1S70. ' t:dU;n Herald: 1 May I auk a ftw queslioua for in j formation ? j II a man can be excluded from the ijnry box because lie ia supposed to s he a 11 ieud to tho defyiidant, can not 'another man be excluded therefrom j because he is known to be rqually an ienumy tc the def--r.dant ? fl a man can be excluded from the jury box he-cause- ue btlievs in the morality of a ctrtain act, cannot another man be excluded bjcauEO be believes in the- immorality of that act ? It a man cati be excluded from the jury box because he believes in the moraliiy, acd another man because he believes iu the immorality ol a certain act, how can au impartial court obtain an impartial jury, unlets it uccepta ouly meu who have no be lief in eithur the morality or tho immorality im-morality ol the act? And, furthermore, further-more, where are Bucii naught-believing uir-ii to bo found? If a man can be excluded from the jury box because he it of the name re ligion as the defendant, cannot another man be excluded bec.iuce ho ia of unolhor religion than that of ttie defendant? II a man can bo excluded from the jury box because he ia a "Murmon," cannot another man be excluded be-cau be-cau to be is a Methodist, or a Baptist, or a Roman Catholic? If a man cau bo excluded from the jury box because ho prolces a particular par-ticular kind of religion, cannot another man bo excluded because he professes no religion at all? If a man cau be excluded from the jury box bocausa he professes religiou, and another because he does not prolcea religion, how are juries to be obtaiucd in an impartial court? II a man cm bo excluded from tho jury box because he ia biased towards the defendant, cannot another man be excluded because ho ia biased against the defendant? When thero are two prominent parties in a community, and the law provides for tho drawiug of jurors equally from thoBe two parties, in a court ju.itilicd iu allowing the iin-panelmeut iin-panelmeut of a jury wholly from one ol Uinae parlied, aud when that party coiiati;ut'.a only a tnih of the entire community, while the defendant he-lungs he-lungs to tlio uiuo-tent us maj ority puny in the community? I3 fucli 11 jury a jury ol iin peerrf ll a well known gentleman ol ihe bar is reportorially represented as tay-im.:, tay-im.:, in trie Tnird district court ihe other day, "In all my lifts never eaw a trial in which the deltmdsut had not a single I'rieud, acquaintance, or fellow-believer upon Uu jury, until the present time," is that a cio iit to any court? li a will-known gentleman of Iho bar ia reportorially roprcfleuted ac saying, in ths Third diatrict court the oilier day: ' I have aeeu mon brought into inio cjnrl, their hands dripping with blood, with tolerably strong proof aii'inst them, and been convicted and sentenced, and I have seen a man tried and committed for stealing a crooked eld horse, sentenced to a longer term in the penitentiary than the one whose hand was imbrued in tra brother's blood; and this becf.uBe ot the prevailing prejudice,." is this creditable or discreditable to the ermini-? II a public prosecutor indulges in the old MeKean v. gary that tho case iu hand is not the United Stated n r.-iu J.u-k Rubinann, but the United Slates verms tho "Mormon" church, m it tho right sort of a thing iu a United b;ales court? Arc packed juries loal and consti-tntiouai? consti-tntiouai? Is thera anything admirable iu a fed oral oiTi;-ial trimming his sails no-toriouoly no-toriouoly to mollily a rabid clique or an iudrceut newspaper ? Is it iueumbaat 0:1 a fedenU officer to exceed hia lop.ititwate authority, throw away what little sense he is en-dowtd en-dowtd witli, and mats an unmis-t unmis-t ikable ass of himself when a "Mormon "Mor-mon " comes before him ? .. Vi by oliould a fed oral officer gratuitously soil his pants in hia rlrairiPil ttljrts to conatiue " Mor-ii'.lii Mor-ii'.lii " coiiscieutiousm 63 into a 11 ig-raul ig-raul ifT-nse against the law ? INQUIRER. |