Show WV 1 zd GEORGE EDITOR AND rUB pub PUBLISHER bisher LISHER wednesday f april 24 1872 ix IN another column will be found a dispatch from washington stating that the U 8 Sup bup renoe court has decided in the engelbrecht laiq liquor bor case reve reversing rang judgment the of the MS U 8 supreme court of this his bis territory this decision causes no surprise being a simple simpie matter offus of justice which every rational pason person gup supposed would be rendered as it hab has been in the engelbrecht case as is generally known the supreme court for this territory mulched mulcted the city in nearly 60 being three times the amount of liquor etc stated to have been des dea troyed by bv the eity city officers in abating the engelbrecht gelbrecht Eo liquor selling es for violation of the city ordinances the dec decision lilon appears to be based upon the ille lite illegality gali ty of the court proceedings in trying the casa case 1 jt it is gratifying to live under a high minded government in which partial law aud and evenhanded even handed justice are administered without fear beai or favor and the prejudices of parties and clique are not buffered suffered to swerve the action n of high officials fc i MORSE MESIO menlo buak baak MEE TIKa we have been requested to publish the following communication from the national telegraph memorial asio lonu nu ment mont Assod association lation to mayor D 1 yil wells and the subjoined sub joined eail cail of the latter for a memorial meeting to which our citizens will doubtless respond by b y attending at the representatives hall hali at ata 7 30 tonight to night NATIONAL TELEGRAPH MEMORIAL MONUMENT association washington D 0 1 I 1 J april ai 72 I 1 to tb thonon thenon e ho D b H WELLS mayor of the city of halt hait lake utah sir I 1 have the honor to td transmit to you herewith a resolution adopted by this association inviting the he co co opera tion tiou of bf the friends and admirers of the tha late lato professor samuel F B morse norse throughout the country in holding meetings on tuesday eve evening the dinst simultaneously with a great national memorial meeting to be held in the house of representatives at the national capital ou behalf of this association I 1 res and earnestly request you to take appropriate measure at the earliest moment possible for holding buch kuich a meeting in your city at the time named the telegraph wires will be freely open an n the occasion for an exchange of sentiments between the several meetings and the one heldberg held heid here bere the favor of an early reply isi ibi requested very respectfully yours A B S SOLOMONS chairman of the committee 0 of ar range ments resolution whereas the united states hons bons bone of representatives haa baa placed 18 its hall di at the ohe disposal of the national Tle tie telegraph graph memorial monument association for tile tiie purpose of holding a memorial meeting in honor of the late ssamuel simmuel FB F B morse on tuesday i april and prominent members f both houses of congress and other distinguished speakers have consented to addres the meeting 1 and whereas the telegraph ha hab been freely feely placed a the disposal of thib his association so for tor that evening to secure an sentiments with we the meetings ings held in all portions of the country be it resolved that the municipal authorities of the cities of the united states are hereby invited to call meetings of similar character in their several localities on the same evening in order that the meetings may be in telegraphic communication and thus a simultaneous expression be given to the national griefe the iad occa ocea siou alou of this irreparable I 1 loss 0 BE attest attea t H amidon 1 1 11 secretary MAYORS maybin SALT LAKE nami elty eity CITY aj U T april 1872 to the citizens of salt sait lake olty city the nations s aie are called upon to mourn the loss iosa of a great and good man in the demise of professor samuel FB F B morse morne the tather father of telegraphy abu Asu As a befitting token of respect memorial meetings are io 0 o be simultaneously held hold in the several cities of the united states on tuesday evening april to give expression to the universal feeling of regret at the irreparable loss the people of salt lake distinction are respectfully invited to convene in the representatives hall in the city hall at half past 7 on tuesday this evening to join with their fellow citizens throughout the union in the expression of sympathy for the illustrious dead DANIEL danien H WELLS mayor 1 I 1 TUE the edw york herald heald of april 11 prophesies as sI follows bIlows touching the admission of utah as sis a state with thia this mormon saintly appendage bendage of polygamy the gerl gentiles tiles dor vor of the territory need be under no apprehensions hien hen tensions blons whatever it Is the fixed policy and purpose of the nat national lovat administration to abolish mormon polygamy as the first essential in the preparations pa rations for a state government overn ment for utah and congress wili wiil will assist rather than interfere with general grant in thib thil undertaking because it Is the universal versal wish of the country that mormon polygamy be abolished the salt sait lake conference may resolve to build up zion on the system of a plurality of wives wives in spite brite of the thel government but within the next six mo months its we adam dare bay sat bat the prophet brigham and his adulterous hierarchy will have no cholee choice but the abandonment phan of poleg sany or a depar departure tuko fuKe from utah AlTo touching the tho admission of utah as a state 11 however the Gentile gentilee Gen tilea ail alf may be too toe mormons cormons Mor mons are under no dreadful apprehensions whatever that matter whichever ellever way it shall turn will be subject to the over overruling rifling of divine providence and will be made ito iio lio to his grand and glorious purposes and band to be conducive e to the ultimate atrium ph of the thu ti uth and of those who wha who abide in the truth the merald berdo is not supposed to be the official ial lal organ and exponent of either the administration congress or the country but whatever is the fixed purpose of the administration co congress 1 and khe country towards the bior bion mor alor mons the administration congressi congress and the country will be held responsible ible for while to the 4 cormons mormons Mor mons such purpose can only be a secondary consideration their prime bu business siness diness is ia to ive according to that which they are well convinced is right fight in the hight bight of god leaving the result with him will justify s and 1 ud vin vindicate dicato them thoroughly in hisom his own n way y and time it is i the privilege of every person perron to i entertain his own private opinion con eon 1 Joern illg the belief and practices of hn another other but nut it is ih not any persons right kight to interfere with his hia neigh bord bora belief or practices unless such belief or practices are indubitably indu bitA bly unwarrantable nt infringements upon life ilfe and liberty and the luat just rights and privileges of others vve ve make no complaints in regard tf ftp what others think of the creed and practices of the cormons mormons Mor mons 11 as every person has a right to his hid owl 0 opinion P in ion lon upon those and al eiber elber other subjects bubo J C t a but we do say that no person no community no government n no country has a right to interfere ill lii illegally egal ly constitution un unconstitutionally ally nily and in violation of the fundamental principles of t the he government with the creed and practices r of any auy one deved even the thie very h humblest u mb pleat of its citizens or sub jepta ideta that esthe is the ground upon which we take our stand and we may bay say that ground round is not sand but solid rock firm g solid ild iid lid I 1 trustworthy immutable iv it is good it la Is gear ous oui eit it is great grest 1 hearted it is hable borah for ah lu individual or a government to be more liberal and large ma than th thi law hw strictly r requires quare qu lre but it is ungenerous bairow narrow ignoble and indeed expressly wicked and culpable to bigotedly or selfishly or passionately interfere where the law and the constitution and the fondd fundamental principles of the government ment prohibit such interference and can not esca esea escape pe condemnation the ultimate ultima le results will not fall to prove disastrous badt sait rous to them and their abettors abet tors it is the e privilege of any ady ny person to fis fib lis believe m 11 it Is ia the lege of any person to abolished it is the privilege of any person to oppose and endeavor to abolish mormonism Mormon iam fam 11 if he conscientiously thinks it ought t to be abolished but it ia not his privilege to endeavor to abolish i mormonism illegally unjustly Justly in utter disregard or of the broad reading leading principles upon which the government was founded what we understand by mormonism is 18 the religion of the people termed cormons mormons Mor mons as sincerely believed in by them as is any religion b by 7 any other body of people on oh earh earth the constitution and the fundamental ldes ides s of american liberty and principles of american government expressly prohibit any individual or governmental interference interfere ucb neb in matters of religion it cannot safely be done and in a friendly and solemn manner we warn all men not to attempt such buch a thing in this republic for most moat asu assuredly those who do will suffer loss and true principle will prevail triumphantly over their execrable expediency there are some things done in high places some institutions patronized lu lb high places which we think ought to be abolished things and institutions which are universally acknowledged uc to be dreadfully evil 1 so tso far as our out a and nd influence may go they will be abol abdi dished as fast as reasonably can be this is our fixed inflexible thought and purpose but we n never ever entertain the thought of carrying out this purpose or advocating the carrying of it out illegally unconstitutionally or in contravention of the great principles of american Americ hn liberty us as la Is so BO frequently urged in procedures against urle urie mormons cormons Mor mons no not at all two wrongs wil wll not make on one dright right if wickedness prevails in the land it ought to be abolished but it should be abolished in hla a legitimate I 1 and constitutional manner a manner consonant with the principles of american liberty indeed rather mole moie than less liberal than they are but first be thoroughly and rightfully assured that what you propose to abolish is really wicked and aught to be abolished first be sure you are right and then go ahead right in bothi nothing ilg is this pithy policy more appropriate than thair as touching thib this matter of mor bior bldr mon monism lain as recent events judicial amply demonstrate the berat Beral heralds geralds ds six months prophecy welve we ulve give for what it is worth those who live long enough will sae see gee what they will se bee see 1 e As lothal malgai papers advocacy of sweeping measures against the mormons cormons Mor mons it amounts to little everybody knows that the new I 1 york herald is ia so BO that thatis if the cormons mormons Mor mons nall cereto were to leap into national popularity tomorrow to morrow they would have no more strenuous advocate than bennetts paper it h has its price and that price is the heft of current opinion THE bill presented presed ted in cang congress i ress ty lay R representative voorhees thoroughly subversive of republican principles so BO utterly despotic tuat we may well be excused for noticing it a little in tie ele detail detsil tail isil the bill is entitled isa A bill till to aid the enforcement tu of theL the laws awo aws in the territory of utah this title is a misnomer and sh ah insult to this territory to congress and to the whole nation because everybody evers evorS body knows the laws are better observed oy ay the body pody of our citizens than by any other community in the nation the notorious oto lawbreakers in utah as ha has s just J that been I 1 neon dem demonstrated t a by the highest tribunal in the union zire are not the great bulk of this cOmm community no our prom prominent luen inen and anci respected citizens Iti zens zeus some of whom have been falsely charged with cri crimes and arenow illegally detained in 16 custody but the very federal oil officers leers who were officially bent beut here hore under solemn oath to law and justice 1 toe voorhees rhees rheed bill gift has bas haa been got up and pressed before congress J wha the view of oai omi cajoling thad that bio bho fiu honorable brable body into the enactment of a law authorizing such very illegally illegalities and violations 0 ot I 1 republican principles plo pio a lave bave aa been reen jurucia 1 l perpetrated in id utah ulah abe tas lma laa lin 14 14 molt hs ild iad and aud which have just juat the unequal vocal and condemnation ot of the supreme Court the ninal final Judicial arbiter of the united states what must bb thought of df such a bill what must be thought of an endeavor to make immediately legal a course qt of judicial procedure that nus las been beell illegally practiced for months abid andaas lias be been bien erl eri irrevocably declared t 0 ber Il illegal legall one come to any othen ather conclusion than that certain unworthy ends arv arp urt art desired and that the nation exists to accomplish those hose ends whether legally or illegally it matters mattera not BO ad that they be accomplished pil shed what kind dof of at statesmanship A teon anshie Is lathis this The there relano la no statesmanship in ae the matter it is the lowest most disgraceful most scandalous lous ious kind of petti forgery and political trIcks tery the very advocates of the bill acknowledge that it is unjust and bd tyrannical that la it would be if applied to any other othen erpa ped peg pie oie than the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 a metho dt which could oury onry beJ employ ed by persons who consider r the aror aron mort alor f conall mons as virtually outlaws having no do rights or privileges which other people are inder finder any obliga obligation tiou tion t respect no other consideration could indeed any american to frame adv advocate deate goate or kane kanc sanction such sueh a yero ferocious clousi burl buri burlesque esquiV upon republican law and republican liberty we ve ahall shall be loth to believe lle lie e that congress will prove so BO re to every principle of american freedom freedoms as tapasa to pass such an all outrageous bili bijl the first section provides that the 17 8 marshal shall shail do legally if not con what abat hohas he has been doing ilfe life illegally gally for months past that is act as the only marshal in the territory and execute all processes of the courts a monopolization by the Federal appointive I 1 va the popular i elective rights which we bb believe belleve lieve has never been authoritatively sanctioned in adlof any of the territories and which though practiced here has just bially and authoritatively declared to be legally unknown 1 I the resting of such sl a monopoly of power in the hands of one man in wham the people have not the privilege of choice and in a manner so BO thoroughly with the principles of ame Awe american rican government and legal judi judt cial usage would not only be unprecedented and be it a very bad precedent but would be likely to lead to disastrous c consequences 0 13 sequence stor to the interests of law lawa 0 and rid tid ju justice s tice and we the rights and liberties of the people td place so much power in n the hands af men ohp have delno deino demonstrated their readiness to and uee uhe that very power |