| Show u swear not at all scripture ip ture miton milton inowe sin an erratic individual of poetic instincts and paternal itice has voided hinis himself cir into ft a passion pis sion and nd like a good many other folks w when lien lie he gets in a passion he be takes to sn swearing caring now most men when ben they at aie e laboring under tinder betl bout 1 these bad habits babits to wit passion and sivea swearing ring talk at random and shoot wide of the mark burat our attention has been profoundly livett cd by the publication of an affidavit from howe relative to the restoration of an infant child to its mother from whom he rudely wrested it employing first artifice and then force bro howe is a good evidently and putting on the face of a martyr and ol of an ini injured individual makes outa out a most doleful complaint whether his poetic temperament find and fervent imagination are arc the result of liis his clai christening or whether in view of his characteristics in tile imaginative line the milton was added to his name in later y cars wo know not but that it is ap appropriate prop none can doubt after readill reading his hh affidavit not to put too fine a point on it ir pa milton stretches the thing considerably ho dont stick to tile the truth at all times in fact he be exaggerates most wonderfully and some folks more harsh in judgment or rather in the expression than oui selves do say that ho he falsifies in a many important particulars A eaarl charitable construction construct ign of the whole thin thing 0 is that milton was laboring under tinder a good deal of excitement cit ement and has allowed his imagination to ruh run away with him in another column n nill ill lo be found a belef card irom from lt al mathewson atlie wRon who was in coin command mandof of tile the cavalie expedition w hen it made the infantry raid the other night and lie ho pronounces the statements of laoo absolutely and unqualifiedly untrue we have us its counter affidavits which fully rebut most of tile st statements ate ments of amic britne but wo do not care to cumber climber our columns with so much unnecessary discussion set forth are arc sUb stanli illy as we stated them in our paper of the he alth dinst including the violence of howe and his friends at farmington and his brutality which was not to his first wife before she N was as compelled to seek shelter from his unmanly violence wo IVO have a word bo however wever to say about the presumed legal rights of lion e c and the action of the probate judge in granting the divorce act of tho the territorial legislature relating to divorces approved march ath 1852 1832 pro pre sc illies the manner of obtaining a decice decicc from the judge 1 after rehearsing the specific causes which will entitle the petitioner to a decree sec 5 pago page 11 iga devised I 1 laws alvs of utah declares that the defendant unless in case of absence provided lor for on his or her part shall have the right to appear and shall receive proper and timely warning aca nin 9 thereto etc now we undertake to say that itkis upright judge this daniel yea this second daniel come to judgment nv who ho would if ile he could separate tho the mother from the fuching babe violated not only the ho spirit but the express letter of the 1 law ain in granting tile the decree in the absence of tile the defendant an and without notifying her to appear as was bi his 8 bounden duty we are arc told in the he sworn petition of giov 0 lie he stated tint lie he did not know tho the of his absent ni wife ire if he did that he be stated an untruth ii irbin the ehno vl edge of the editor of this piper paper in ill the month of may last the now editor of tho happened to bo be in barmington when thi this 6 11 fmc 1101 0 came with judge grover stated the flet fact that his w ife was then at camp douglas and asked us its to write out a dinoi cc or claim caim to the said sarah frances rances we thought gi t tit the time it was a novel procedure anddore and so remarked but the abo judge lear learned fled in tho the law said ho he would maker that all il light bt and N bould oula grant the bill and ana so tho the document was written by us sat at lebn As dictation i renouncing fill all claim to sarah francos frances and that he wall wa if site she was lie ile moreover stated that ho would lender her assistance at any anytime time iben she ho wanted it this note at his bis request was delivered b by us to sarah frances from nil all which it appears not only that howe but also the probate judge grover know knew per well NN ell the whereabouts of sarah fiancee fiances Fi IF lances ances under such circumstances judge trover grover has prostitutes prostituted his judicial poI position tion and i if f his bit term of office has not already expired as we ue aie told it has lie would be a cioper subject of impeachment so far as the decree concerning the guardianship of tile the children is concerned it would on other grounds bo be legally null and void it itis is a well ell settled rule of law fiam the earliest english decisions down to the present lay day that a suckling sug kling infant cannot even in case of divorce be torn from its mothers breast except under tinder tho the most remarkable circumstances and that she has by tho the law of nature as well as of man the right lo 10 her child during its tender years but all this has nothing to do dewith with the question the fact appeared appo arcil manifest that io lence had bad boon been used by a private citizen against again sta a de fenceless woman entitled to protection and only so much force was ii as used as was necessary no to restore the statu quo qua ante helium bellum and as wo we hare ha vc sald before mr howe and his sympathizers if lie he have any mv may rest assured that whenever lie he or they thus transgress the laws and tho the rights of others they may expect the same sort of violence vio fence whereat they are now so wroth an eye for an eye ind and a tooth for a tooth was the old jewish law and its application in modern times las has been found to v work ork very well on just such occasions as this and on precisely such coves as mr idoft e of Farmington if lie bad thought that the decree of the court would tho the test of an honest judiciary he had bad his course open to enforce it legally but he be chose to make himself himsel fth the executioner ofilio outrageous decree and wo we trust he be will abide patiently the ho consequences which his own rashness brought upon him lie ile says lie he never wrote a note to mrs hyson mall as alleged eged by im u now this is the merest subterfuge mrs hyson received the anonymous note printed below and both she and her husband ay siy that it is in tho the well known handwriting of S mil milton ton howe As he have hare to swear ear to the body of the note lie he perhaps did not doom deem it necessary to sign it but sent it in a roundabout round a bout way it was 11 strategy my boy but such subterfuge is is unworthy of samuel milton whose conscience conscience dont usually halt at either cither signatures or affidavits wo we fear we have given too much importance to this decidedly obscure individual 1 I but thought his affidavit deserved at least this passing notice |
