Show GEORG Q ealos EDITOR AND january jannary 3 1872 tarah H affairs are subject to 10 aeh buob taper discus ion alon in england weir w e as in america just now kow i the liaf fund lund cons cow apparently being pre d ha he strongly strong lyas as dhe the discus bers sers know low tow bow how to ta present themi the nov 27 is iw ini in i dl mal wal weekly paper of T po politics which is alway alvay ably W written atoll I 1 ti there thero erd appeared a few days ago am in attic article ia 0 oh i n the persecution of the hamoui longani long iong and elaborate and evi dantly meant meang to be exhaustive in which american govern government meAt isbeck up to for persecuting the mormons cormons Mor mons are axe told thab that because we not vot only permit but support polygamy in andla we are and the fools of inconsistency when we venture to approve of the suppression of near noar salt balt lake nake witha vitha daa idak character the thus agates its v viem view wa of the cases casba comparatively of britain and india and of the united stat esaud tah j what the united states 0 government 0 ve object tois toja polygamy bly gamy and we maintain that they are perfectly justified in the onree that they have taken ja 4 they tuly belfe belle yeAt to be pe for the pelle gond gd therea aily ally nj analogy between our amrin casat in inis inia and tha the of the washington Govern government molt to tol the settlement tuf of bigham rig ham young when w we went wont arent alent to io india we went first a 3 traders and afterward afterwards s assumed a tude and behme became p s nobody s asked b ullo to go 46 to indea india we ave had no tight right to interfere nier uter fero fere with indian institutions in we found poly polygamy gamy existing as oab of the principal institutions of the den Ten peninsula aud and ud we should have been guilty giuili of revolting tyranny had we tried to tco suppress it the facts are sis altogether different in america sprang up after the american ican constitution bad been founded jt sprang up I 1 after liter and while the law of the land iima declared agamy bigamy was a orime crime in ibe the territories of the tho the united Ei states tates thlire thisie this fc ilaa has ben won attempted to deny but 16 t id nevertheless the phe fact and haining ha chairing iring ining so sprung up it cannot clame blame the executive if it takes the farst first opportunity port unity of carny carry carrying ing lug oat ont out the law it 3 sa y we hd admit ailt allt a question whether the government af pf the united State states shave have edwith ast sated with wisdom to 70 aich which we wd may say that while whilo some people proclaim that plurality of ives wives ivos 4 s the head and front and entire body of of fence other A people ople opie as emphatically declare that E fule file plural marrage marriage marr jage system is neater the least than the greatest of her offenses lenses of true it is IB that president grant rant in iq his hib message merely reters refers to the of plural marriage as obnoxious but the federal judiciary here hete condemn and proscribe the belief in that order of marriage and further in their various decisions ard and rd rulings they leaeno loye lose no opportunity of manifesting that mib asb AIS ft ia mormonism and those wio who believe in ift it that th they eyare are opposed to and not plural marriage alone atone nor are aro they BO so violently opposed to lewd as ast they are to plural marriage age for in the cities whence they came to 9 utah prevails unchecked in its a repulsive fornizy and here hene thebe these sapid judicial gentlemen who snivel n over oven plural parral marriage arp are found virtu virtually U 1 persons charged charge tf wil with h 1 1 connected with houses 4 licentious of repute such sueh tho world over I 1 hes bes farat almat experience that J the dhe the tho bama sama deadly enmity prevailed sam gam ing kag saw irit the before its en enemies em spew ow that phinh plural 1 marria mannia marriage gemas gemal wa braot brao c troed treed oi or even believed an bytha the abor bior mormons cormons Mor mons were ram one ope portion alta aita and pra cuco cUce they would boon be mildd called to give e up another and abid another until it would ba be reduced to toe miserable level of 1 the 86 olma rell relt religions gIons asto tha the statement ehat that slats blata State bare sare are perfectly justified in the course they have taken if therbe they believe belleve ile lie lle iu publio public good 11 ills itla eim elm a ini p pix ply ly a 4 testate restatement estat ement 1 ent bf lof uhe the 0 oad o fd propositions t t tb 0 do evil tha thy good roay way come bl tild and end j natives the hb meang meant 1 p propositions ro which 14 4 the tho eyes of bf the tyrants grants and oppressors r aj be 6 stretch ed and hud talked twisted to bolF doye noye fall full P the 0 tyranny and chii that xer ver ei existed bo so say bay no mora more on that point the independent thinks bri dri britain taia tsia right tight in permitting and eyen em bupp supporting orting polygamy in india indik because e nobody asked britana Bri tona togo thereto was apran cipal capal institution existing in J britons went weilt there thene Brians went avent aa As traders and pud then turned conquerors and therefore hadano tight to interfere with indian indgin institutions q fact would have been W guilty y of f revolting tyra tyranny ilby ziby had they thoy tried to suppress itu ity nau but the independent says that the tye fact blare sare af altogether together different in amera ca that thab mormonism J AP sprang p i up after the constitution and while ibe the law of be hb land lind declared bigamy k a crima crime in the territories pendent admits that it is an open question whether the un united atod states stated government has acted with wisdom in this utah persecution i bo so far as the davk kavi javi government indent has a authorized prized or ok sanctioned the against satisfied thab that it has acted w wilh with itil anything any thing ral ralliegh lien lieg than tham with wisdom or statesmanship j the facts facia in lit america are aro not nohh BO so ferent to the facts in india as ltha tho aad J nde pi pendent represents trim true io in thel tho PP pro vl denoe dence of god mormonism sprang d aa ap bu pt the ohp rn dependent independent makes an egregious bratke if it supposes that the thero there zo is A ono one word in that that thai condemns cond emna plurality of that thap ia Is inc incompatible C lm with the Oda existence tenee tence of af that system of marriage tn in and torr torn territory gry pry in the union there thene are no greater sticklers klers fori fop the federal cor cox t than hire lire tha of thi this s an ali equally c egregious mistake derp dos the 1 I independent pendent ma make lle lie when hen it bays say s that mormonism aprano up whilo the law of the land declared bigamy wa was 13 a cri crl crimmin crime mein in the ter territories i attlio of the united states bigamy might be c considered ap pp and legislated against as a crime in some of the states and terr territories but those thosa lawal were loca local J ip their oper operation atlon and there v was wag no ja law of the united states either bigamy or boly gamy in the territories until the claral plural system of had bad been yearb years in lexi stence here and hak ana had been baen well and generally understood ito to be eo so there Ss is no mo law of thib tha territory tor against that formoe form of marriage no now w and the united states law a against i a i nat it it was wad not made biado as against agai nAt lic iio 0 n bious in the interest of general morality but solely and wholly ap ard I 1 pur pos pol ely with tho tha idea of attacking and e extinguishing an h mormonism 11 arain again a as s to the de denied nied analogy of the two cabes cases when the mormons cormons Mor mons set tied this region it was wai mexican terri terni tory brid arid they practiced practised the plu piu plural raLfe naife torm term rin of marriage go from their in the territory the united sates spates had nothing to do with the country when the cormons mormons Mor mons settled it to Ameri amerl americana cand it was a fortion country the americans came to mexico first as traders then as conquerors nobody asked ibena them to come and when they became came conque conquerors rora plural marriage was existing g as s one of the principal institutions of the country this part of it at least and they had no right interfere with the institutions of the country indeed they did not interfere with it nor make any law against it until more tham than a dozen earb bears ears after the country came into their possession posses blon aion by con von conquest quest and according to the independents own admission they would ave bee hee guilty of revolting tyranny had they tried to suppress it and consequently they are none the ther less lesa guilty of revolting tyranny i now th they eyare are trying to bupp suppress Tess it either by wresting and perverting local laws that have no legitimate ap to it oc or by executing a fed ecallaw of bf an unconstitutional character these are two horns of the dilemma in which the unit united ed stated states find themselves with regard to their thein present attitude towards utah the federal judiciary apparently preen the farst first named horn while others prefer the tha latter 1 abut but rk elther neither thi the united states nor can attack readily mormonism niam and escape both horns the independent continues at present there la s d inger danger oi of gilno giving a fictitious strength to mormonism bel baa regarded as by many wilif JA ilot 06 W abil instances in U col coi religionists int into inta nea zda zealous lods devotees cf MV fl ilca sla iia IA prosecuting rb foz toz for lewd practices thoy th ey are nob not isor BO as ah haa hm been iferd Idslet insisted bd conj on though we wd think the charge la too easily suggested suggest kand and M nide made not to have deterred a wlad man mafi from orom taking thib this course coarse nevertheless the fact remains that though immoral ity extitus exists to new york vork though the same bame lawis gf eri eti eded against nobody udy proclaims thia this trana trans gaeb lon ion arnd arid proof would be difficult to get bave save tinder under a system fat social nud pud domestic 1 police sw hose hobe bowd be worse than anything which now es ista fits xo hio unprejudiced man who wiio understands unde stan dathe the auba subject eph ept c crusade against I 1 in A any wan than ho however wever creat gre great atthe the exertion to disguise f it t and allia cause canse it to pass pasa a ass able abie giamei be e morein consistent than prosecution of plural marriage aa as le i f for fon 0 py every p ry simpleton M iha tha a pran man who ia is to Jed jeaness nebs ness cin can nind find abundance af pf opportunities of agram grif 1 vicious propensity in wery city without takina taking upon himself abo abe be 64 0 marriage especially af plural marriage this thia charge there therefore foie fole of lewdness ls one remarkably itkin incapable isable of 1141 1161 A ili ill nj water and aud ohp 0 of f orom arom B noh roh tc hargo bargo ar ors orb against mo M or J mon mod monism lomi lomP aj a nov not no anly in inconsistent firsts e nii hut but id opeil to gre are aenious 0 0 91 an arld alil it jib has bean seriously fuesti questioned i d and ind nn denounced by daany 1 gentl gent writers I 1 tho the system e Q domestic that the In independent depond et wouldga would ba nece neoe necessary essry jq ineva york 6 to 0 immar and irid bo than any other othor evil Is aa rop lop 10 the P r 0 etu stu C cu il eions of this persecuting crusade ailed W made ade to convict us not not of 0 what is everywhere be Jew doogs but of plural pineal hj n of mani always be believed it ir rhe he ider pendent may well weil d doubt erf the ehe wisdom 0 o pi J the course adopted joy y the crusaders and say twe ve edep even re regret elt abe aha ton fon adopted by the bevi new kew york vork york vork press it 16 ind indecent cent to sio sloat gloat t over oven the p prosecution of ota ofa any nyman malli may live have bren been his bis cri crl crime melzi and com consequently it isaar Is la r more i than athan indecent it is brutal A K b is Js barbar barbaraus pus rub it 16 Is infamous to gloat bv the tho prosecution aaion of a 4 man 49 has tas not committed any crime 31 f I 1 v the independent ahns concludes cone conc lades dea des ahat khat we wish to 6 point is this thi mormonism it allowed openly boehly to exist would endanger liberty r for what wha Is s mormonism what did brigham young proclaim to be hig his mission the restoration bf f the patriarchal state kwof of things whit does this mean wo we have seen been that only very lery few could fiord to have a lurge num nub number berot berof of wives the result therefore of the spread bf f mormonism would be e to creste create a chats class of tich rich men nen with efnor motis families and there therefore tore fore enor enormous moud powers whose aspirations wod vod would yd be the same and an d whose interests in teresta would be identical in the course of a few fety years we should fin hind find d amongst tiie the american people a number of men with ith the tho wealth of our beere arla arid each with an army at his geere back ack bound to him by ties stronger than any of the means bychich by which boid bold soldiers fers lers are induced to serre serve the state when thib this class was opposed or br cheri it chose to be aggressive a difficulty truly far formidable would arise and freedom would be seriously imperil imperilled led great families would woula ruie rule the gereht grea t republic and it a rae race e of 0 quasi quaal s slaves ves would woula exist oppressed by a tyranny as the history of italy shows than that of an isolated despot to sneer at ht the Amerl ameri american gall dazi tenderness for slavery aad its severity with mormonism Is to 0 mistake the real issue even with the slavery of a half savage bavage jaee jace the fro freedom of hundreds of thousands was waa compatible but once let mormonism spread and in the cou course neof of ik abw jew few y yearb years eake the land and home and hope of the free would become a continent 0 ot slaves the great I 1 pont here made lb a specious one that can caa be used by every tyrant to justify the p putting ming of bia bla toot foot upon the necks of a people and that is that thab he hv doas doea it not for what the people are but for what they may secede mormonism if allowed openly to exist would endanger ger get libei li bertyl tyll therefore lot let us abuse and ou outrage iago liberty novy nog in attempting to put Mormon mormonism lom down les ies at s some 0 me umra tinia it should endanger li bertyl bartyl such acl Is the logic of the independent though n ts tam taw py q that thai J li siti sifi j lii iii ik 4 1 paw J i if I 1 aquas ril nil I 1 11 hii As A to which oto plural WA vmay imay bay say that we do 40 not I 1 think t that system kig vig lain la in tended forab foray for men who desire to live hon honestly eatty nd god godly I 1 y all their days ao are ane any other men fit candidate for marriages of any it if those choso who engage in ip epla a yai ral marriage usel ubel t the 6 po r p ra m lH ib prosecution wair waln krab ambitious itibus sir sif or fia ila any mar mam war u AW orther purposes DO sod by him hip hi pro will wili not hot condemn marriage honorable thereof bubb bub wil wll abua effectually to edg ment tin lin hia bia awa own way and time but no rio anana anan no government nara cali pa 0 justified in punishing a what wiil wili burely surely d oil ott u A can coaly tonly pe epla evla jn actions dimmed im med no nolor of w g u r hya hyt 1 ti igi iti 11 daid dald apa r sf f EA wc t of the burp suro bei sei 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