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Show EV.1R1S' Clltt I L1K llow II Sirilies Souic Nt-w VarU t.uiioif. Xtw York, 14 tj;enk;r.i,' of Evartci' lettL-r cn polygamy, tQe Tt Hunt: says: It id iii tilici iriencily remiDdcr that li;e comity of lutioud baa beeu vioiateii, but now tnat it baa beeu Bent, more vigorous acticn U juslifieij; and JIorDiou miefciunariee who briutj back to our ehorca these del tided converts con-verts mn be arresttd at our uor!.s acd returned with their victims ua lelona The directness and justice of this peculiar mode of prccedure are evident evi-dent from tbe fact luat poiyamidts of TJtab are foreigners. Five yeary ago, tbe population ol Silt Lake City contained literally not a . hiugle American convert. They wero English, Eng-lish, S:olch, Norwegians and Danes, with their children born in this country, reared and educated to the faith and practices of the most degrading de-grading ot ail social conditions, It ie ha'fdly (air I hilt ximerica should bear the obloquy and moral degradation from this plague Epol of brutality and vice which of rigiit btJonga to other nations. Whenever tho ii-Uux of foreign bij;ftmidtd is checked government govern-ment cm deal succe-ifuUy with those at hnmu The Tunes eays: We have not much laith iu the elhciency ol tbe diplomatic diplo-matic circulars eeot lurlh U invoke the aid of foreign governments iu drying tbe cbauuels by which Mor-ruouism Mor-ruouism ia largely fed from uhraad. Tho aeeassiinntion ol the Mortnon miasiouary by Georgia rufliana and the impiisonment ot a Mormon dig nitary in a civil suit have uothiug whatever to do with the attitude ol government toward insolent bigamists ot Utah Territory, Bin the laws ol the United Stated must bs enforced in that territory just aa they arc in Arizona Ari-zona and Idaho. The law of 18G2 is merely the reiSnactment into a United Stateii statute of ft common law acainat bigamy. To aay that iia enforcement en-forcement iB persecution is the wildest lolly, and to plead that religious be-liei be-liei EimcLions concubinage and, therefore, there-fore, exempts the ofTender, ia to put an argument iu tho mouth of any who may object to the laws of any civilized commurjity, and who urge the righta oi conocicnce in extenuation. extenua-tion. The fiht against the practicfo of Mormonism ia not a new o.nc. Tho complaint thiil the MormotjB will be compelled to abiindou one ieature of the reli yinn, oi to fight is well grounded. They must accept the alternative sooner or later. The Ueraid's Washington correspondent corres-pondent stales th;it cabinet officer apprehends tronbln growing out of the Mormon question. It appears as if government would have to put its feet down with emphases. There are sis companies ol the Fourteenth infantry at Fort Douelaa, and more could be readily concentrated there. The tenor of tho dispatches from Utah show tho iiritatc-d condition ot the people, and now that the intentions of the administration are known- they are not calculated to soothe the feelings feel-ings ol Mormon elders. |