| Show ARREST OF rig mol moi YOUNG FOR POLYGAMY E ever ver since bince B ace we w as a people were driven from ou our r homes bomes llomis in jil illinois trav traversed arsea an almost trackless desert and settled it in these distant valleys a constant effort has been made by wicked and designing men to disturb our peace and interfere with wilh those religious rights secured to us by the federal constitution we have neither time space nor inclination to review the wrongs 0 1 and insults that our bodies and we as a belp geiple le have sul sui suffered T ered they are all matte matters rs of history hf story delineating them will present one pages ever I 1 recorded of any religious peo people T te it is well knoon kno cn that the L litter latter atter day sainta have publicly proclaimed for many years yearb through their discourses discoursed and published volum volumes si the darme divna right of polygamy it rests upon the sacred scriptures for its foundation I 1 I 1 I 1 aa As a prin principle ciplet it is ing inc Q r and forms forma part oe of our rel cel religious iIo llo ial lal faith falth th oun Oud our athers fathers in f forming the federal constitution wisely guarded ilar tiar ded aed and protected the re ivious or of the citizen left lett free tree to adopt such raith faith ani and mode of worship as the subject might ought choose be he was secured from all intolerance and in ter ference by law or otherwise well aware as the late congress 0 of owlie the united states must have been ahat abat hat plurality was as much a part of our religious a faith as iab the crucifixion of tle the savior for the redemption I 1 of man still I 1 true to that same persecutor g spirit which has been too painfully manifest ever since bince our religion ion lon was established upon the earty earth they passed a law ank making gg this part I 1 ot 0 our faith penal and criminal i we have b bleu bieu en aware for a number of daya days that the issuance of writs against president 1 young was wag in contemplation bas bag been an unusual 1 stir at camp douglas tle the most ampe preparations made forthe for the purpose of f making a descent wih an armed force upon the president whenever those writs should be placed in the hands of the marshal marshai it was waa vainly and ana foo dahly supposed that he would resist the th bervice service of a evrit writ as under r the act referred 0 o persons desiring collision were make the pretext of an armed I 1 military force in executing this proc ss 38 he the excuse e toi for gratifying lir mir their locked lucked ikid laid purposes but in this they have been abben disappointed kiis ilis appointed aa AS a people we believe in and have ever taught obed obedience lence and submission to the ladof law of the land and no one has more earnestly tau taught this than tile the pre president lidert of ot this church it is well known that in bis his priva e ani 4 public t teachings each ings he be iia lia hab has s taken tabea ion jon of obedie te c ce e to any legal writ emanating from proper authority whether against himor him or any of the udder t tvs nes t tr any ether oth er I 1 law aw f pg pat the loh lob t an ci davit lavit v vvo yvo nade raade before ris ilia honor flonor chief justice J F kinney charging brigham ouia young g with having the act of congress b by y taking ano another ther wife judge rinney kinney promptly issued a writ fot tot his bis arrest and pl ced it in the hands of dit mr gibbs united states marshai marshal afar Alar sal sai the marshal marsh at adopted the very prudent course of servina ser vint yint the writ himself without calling for a posse t and waitea waited upon the president only fortified b by the process nir pir C ess and wit I 1 such i 1 civil authority as the law invested him zal imme datt r response q was made to the writ by the prompt appearance of the defendant before judge kinney at the state house I 1 accompanied by two or three of his immediate friends an investigation hive five ta on was made of tha facts charged cha ged in the affidavit by b the intro auction of evidence resulting in the judge i i ho ding the defendant to bali bail bail ball in the sum of 0 two th thousand dollar dollars for his aphea ance at the next term t e r m of 0 f the united states C urt for the third jull Juli judicial cial clai distich 1 the sureties suret guret les ies wele were required require il to justify un uner ier oath when it ap pearel appeared that they were worth some twenty thousand dollars we ve have no fau t to find with judge kinney for issuing a the process or his determination upon the testimony As the judge ludge oe of this district he can make no distinction and it is bis duty to m all constitutional law as we ir trust it will ever be the pleasure of the people to submit to and obey the authority f with wibb which such law invests him |
