| Show THAT AMNESTY ANNESTY OATH if it were necessary to supply any further evidence that the noted ed munds munda law is ia unconstitutional and in reality a direct violation of the principles olour of aur Govern government men t that evidence is found in the clause on amnesty and the prescribed oath lately formulated by the united shat stat states A vorney adorney of utah and in a nio form approved by the at torney general of the united states in section line lino of the constitution congress Is expressly forbidden jr J x claim and am prepare prepared to prove provo by argument too lengthy length and ela eia elaborate borate borato for your columns that the edmunds law Js Is declared to be export facco facto in ia its direct provi provisions along and established as such by its retroactive effects but I 1 wish briefly to call attention to the sixth clause of the said bald act relating to the amnesty part of this congressional blunder 49 the president is hereby authorized zed to graat amnesty to such classes of offenders guilty before the tho paes passage age of this act of bigamy polygamy I 1 or unlawful cohabitation on such euch conditions and under such limitations as he shall i think proper but no such amnesty shall hall have unless the conditions thereof shall be complied with by the very wording of this ibis clause the united states congress Con gresa informs tho the residents of if the territories that those who comply with such conditions as the person to whom they have delegated this authority 99 shall think proper shall be pardoned for what they commuted committed of what this law forbids before the act was waa passed thus also informing us by implication that those who do not comply with the conditions pre pro ascribed scribed by y will be punished lor for their of fences as though committed since bince the passage of bald baid act true it may be argued that this amnesty is intended to relieve those who violated the anti polygamy lw law of 1862 but it was before congress that the law of limitations had already relieved a large number and waa was working towards the same sam 0 end with the remaining few hen hence ce if the amnesty question referred re erred only to the violations of the previous law 11 i wab was next to useless again the course of the commissioners acting under this statute shows that they construed its intent in the ex facto light for theydon they ddn dd d d not ot wait to inflict mhd disfranchisement penalty for which thib this unconstitutional law provided on those who should violate the edmunds law but bat by rulings of th the e most moat sweeping and technical char character acter extended its retroactive provisions over all persons who ever had married more than one wife regardless of the limitation act and even going so fa as to include those who had don thin before at ali pil all ali existed 0 the subject thus radons who never nev e r broke the law of 1882 whig which provides the penalty of disfranchise ment for violation of its ita are subjected by the operations gil oil of this thia act to its worst and most hu ha militating milia mil mii lating ting penally namely disara chi unless they coment consent to take the oath above referred to fa which they are compelled by tia tin 1 legal gentlemen in question to that they are not bigamists biga mists or poll poil galiste gamis ga mists te regardless of when they tle tie entered that relation ito bro I to or clause is inserted to indicate aj lation of the law under which tiel tiei are being punished and in to this they have to swear that ahey UK do not believe in the practice thus with two strokes the government of kl rhe united states sella seila to the earth fin eee principles of political and liberty and tramples them ends the iron feet of party power bal gri this wicked oath roes goes f further farther n rt h cr IV 4 la Is not only ciket 1 on which it was founded it abol only a ban on religious freedo it i I 1 contains another and ifa ita alfs imps more inore vindictive and hanefa hateful W elon camp damply y that the y i for pardon bhail shall covenant with ile tiu united states that ho he will 0 he can to oppose the church in its efforts to oppose the laws and end obstruct the due counse will rill vote the illiberal liberal l ticket ter tev down own the people chosa doctrines he once neo believed and practiced devoti devo hill buil dubots to harassing ha them t e home and thes then broad abroad and in fact adapting lud sai carry carny g into effect all the A chemel schemes devised and practiced b by the if anti mormon element here tk detler cether v first round found a footing Uta utahan hAr r must he be desert his own kli kly he has married perhaps years ago ao who in their at before any law existed against a rito rite in utah en entrusted trusted their lives and future to his hia keep heep iniz butte must now help lo in bringing the bame disaster on all others of his formu torme brethren and sisters consigning thi men to prison and political diaga and abud the women to destitution al ad destruction it is said by one of olk that in the last days the wisdom of the wise vlee should perish perl peni slig and I 1 think we have a vette verte ct of this great prediction in ia the lis B dional folly now being perpetrated r rastel rasten w iino maue msue we ohe ballete bt I 1 ets with the molten lead of unprecedented stupidity and the Go government verent by ita emm efm maova makra la in wildly alrina A va at random with wilh the dexterity dexter Hy ull eti dangerous danger oas results result of a fourth 0 of igl itt co patriot who his iced wicked little toy toj pistol into his hia own hant hand for buch ruch unconstitutional ad acil must revert on the raton sooner or later and Bo meday even if we have to wait for posterity to read our national history the i blush of shame will vill mantie mantle the cheek of youth for the folly ot bf tle tib men of 1883 even as the Chrlot has bas of bofto today to day mourn for servetus Ber vetus by calvin and by the Cat catholics holica 1 I 1 iam lam am not a polygamist aa MY never be fortunate enough to lo bg loved by two women at once duh dah cut I 1 wab was situated as some of bla bia men are who are thus thua temm temp to desert hein their friends and forpah their loved ones I 1 would ga gather thein ml little circle about me and sur bur euffer burrer ferto thi death of servetus Berve tas taa or y preference to the base act of accepting such clemency as Is ia couch couched ed in the edmunds Ed provisions eld mid t oath of a amnesty anes ty bl |
