Show fe THE polygamy 11 we have received and published several letters from salt lake com batting our views on the action of judge mckean respecting spec ting the hawkins case acour correspondents pon dents admit that if our view ii is right then mckean Is wrong but they undertake to dispute the accuracy of our oun position we are not apologists for polygamy in any sense but we are staunch sticklers klers for justice us and we have held that in the hawain hawking case justice was not administered we see no reason to alter our opinion in that re regard 3rd ard nor does the reference to justice mii marshall at all au weaken our four convictions nothing can be more certain bertain than that in framing a law providing penalties for adultery the mormons cormons dl did not intend to prohibit or to punish brunish polygamy it is not even pretended that kny any buch suca intent exist ed but a parcel of shallow fellows follows an and prejudiced scribblers scribble rs we dp do not allude lude inde thour to our own correspondents appear to think that the united states government has done a very smart thing in turning the table upon the saints we cannot join in this opinion to us it appears that the honor and dignity dignat of the federal government have been dragged in the dirt by judge mckean who has disgraced the administration by saddling it with an action worthy only of or some small conscienceless I 1 peddler it was the duty of the government to attack polygamy but it should have been done in a manly and equitable fashion this pettifogging way of splitting straws and balancing balin cing motives is more befitting some little shyster ridden justices court than the greab great i achl achi nery of bf the federal government and itna we speaking in behalf of every clear sighted and honest man in the country denounce and reprove it as an insult and a reproach to the american people sacramento record bab BAD the Davenpor davenport fr democrat thus describes the grosvenor homicide A government rifle with a fool at one end and a dead citizen at the other to SK the shipton mal mai let eng journal says sarcastically the mormons cormons are to be persecuted in a state that boasts of its religious equality those who bold hold as a matter of conscience certain opinions are to be put down if the united states permits ench euch inconsistency sis bis tency the country will be despised by all real lovers of religious liberty everywhere ANOTHER SOLUTION bishop tuttle according to the new york standard asserts that the completion orthe of the northern pacific railroad rall Eail road will do more than anything else to put down I 1 mormonism I 1 by encouraging emigration the montana new northwest fails I 1 to see the connection 11 never mind put the railroad through whether mormonism is thereby put ut down or not if any hel hei help heip I 1 is s wanted to build build the road send to salt lake tak e people here have got the railroad building spirit no utan UTAH vs IN THE MESSAGE it is intimated that the president will make no re commendation in his forthcoming message with regard to utah he will slin biln simply I 1 set forth what has been done by the united united states judiciary and then leave the whole question open for congressional action large numbers of people are here now in the interest of the mormons cormons Mor mons and also ap posed to them who are endeavoring to force the president to take some decided step in regard to utah washington correspondence st louis democrat BRIGHAM YOUNG os ON STEEL we ive wish to inform the brethren hereabouts that we have hav ejust just received from amro mr C R savage a very capable photographic altisi artist of salt lake like a splendid steel engraving of brig ha ham mYoung young which now occupies a con place on the sanctified walls of the inner sanctum of the herald mr savage could not possibly have paid us a greater compliment the picture is remarkably lifelike and accurate of the extraordinary man who has ruled so long and well over the people of utah and is much prized by us for that reason neighboring editors of the radical teb tem per suasion can have the privilege of making brigham Brig ham bam youngs acquaintance through this counterfeit presentment by taking off their hats in its presence but upon so no other condition distinguished bishop hank hun ter arrived in the city yesterday from salt lake and is stopping over a day of two for rest as also to visit his ils as nephews M D and wm hunter ot thia this city whom he has not sean seen for a score and a half of years he is an aged mans man and ane ono of the early professors of the mormon faith went into the utah valley with the rest in 1847 and with a single exception has bas not re crossed the plain plains since bince he ha took the first gold to the TJ 8 mint that was taken out cut in that region more than twenty years sr ago is reputed to be a man of wealth and high ability he has rooms at the burus rouse house 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