Show -- 23- continued to cane cared to to Utah In grantor numbers than they had long as Brigham Young tog governor On occaaaiono there was talk of dividing Utah territory between go the several territories bounding her but these plana did not consider the issue The territories that would have oarticioated in the division deemed it dangerous to their 15 welfare Probably the underlying cause ran a fear that population would dominate their respective territorial governments The slowness with which the gentile political machine worked was due in part to the lack the Mormon of a formulated policy to cope with the legal situation There might have been a simpler procedure had it been elegible for jury duty possible to declare only but this was not tho case until the enactment of the K-d16 nunds law of 1SS2 After the passage of this law enforcement bodies could without difficulty find a jury that would find a man guilty of living in a polygamous manner For Such marriages were called "sealings and were secret non-Morm- ons twenty years from l£o2 when the first lav? anti-polyga- my witnesses were without compunction when swearthey knew nothing of a "brother's" plural life was passed ing tint et 15 Albucueraue Morning Journal tins sin lb March 15 1S7& Recent History of the United States (Boston: Hourrhton Jlifflin Co iyH9) P 203 - F-ca- cric!: X Paxson |