Show THE SUPREME COURT DE olsion REVIEWED iron george Q cannon utah air conre conrey y has issued a pamphlet of inge en titled A renew of the precision of the supreme court of alie united states in reynolds vr the united state a ropy of which i bedorr u an fn a lengthy introductory article giam a history of the celebrated cne and m of hia purpose in n deshion emanating front o august and learn learnia wa claiming in that high as is my respect for tribunal of respect for the constitution and my reverence for god arc higher he then proceeds with his review proper taking at his thesis that portion of the constitution ution which reads congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise ex erciso thereof this raises tho point abich we discussed at some length in these colu inna dortly after thu decision in the key case WAS given as to what constitutes utes religion imi how far the citizen may go in the practice ot a peculiar faith without coming under the prohibition of law the author quotes copiously from aon and other great and ex law to show aliat the spirit of the provision really i and wha is meant by the term religion in aliat connection allowing eliat it is iia exercise of a belief bao dupon tho existence of a divine ruler whose laws wo may not disregard and upon the consequent etith in a state of rewards and punishments hereafter and in thus pursuing the path of duly it was the the founders of our political system that no abridgments or infringements should bo made english law in relation to this subject is quoted frequently pitted au thors as blackstone Black slone vittel and many others byln g cited in support of the position of the author we here duoto in full a paragraph in relation to the absurd position taken by the supreme court by numer oiw of prominence and by some few newspapers that to excuse polygamy upon alie groaned of ats being a religious tice would be to open the doors to crimes of nil kinds so long as the perpetrators claimed them as baing parts of their religion but itaman or tho claying of an infant for its blood is n crime atia murder against which all nature without the enactment of human statute cries out in abhorrence jt is a against liu inanity J t is the destruction of life ho surely w u most illogical reasoner however who will assert eliat because murder is a crime and cannot be permitted by alie law even a body of thugs should perpetrate it under the of religion plural marriage M religious ordinance must be interfered with by law or that becque the burgins of widows upon the funeral ayro cannot ba permitted in this country en though the victim might claim her right to buike a sacrifice of a pirt of her religion women hall not be at liberty to marry one man according to th requirement of their religion in the name of common sense what can here be botn een the of lifland the solemnization niza tion of rna niage between practices which extinguish life and an ordinance prepared the way for life to be kindled perpetuated the practice of if carried out would blot man existence would convert the earth into a wil aernt tr would in tact destroy lie work of the groat creator marriage as an old Engli sli writer Je reroy taylor beautifully and truthfully mayx is the mother of the and pres orvea kingdoms and fills cities and and heaven itself like the useful bee it builds a couo and gathers aiom avery flower and labors and into societies and republics and sends out colonie and feeds the world with delicacies and abeya and keeps order and anany virtues and promoter tho interest of mankind and is that state of good to which god hath designed the present constitution of the world tho publication is one of the most logical argumentative and conclusive documents in support of roli gous freedom and in opposition to tho intolerance und bigotry of mankind which the same number of ever contained thero li no sophistry no straining nt no lii bored language ii ik imply ward array of arguments citations reasoning proof ond deductions which all can and which all bave who are beeped in prejudice and fanatic um could rend with profit and pleasure let and doubtless doubt lesi will be scattered broadcast th rough lit land for though the decree of tho su premo tribunal i are other of opposition with which tho mormon contend impression in tho minds of men regarding our doctrines being among them such impressions ore not as a rule ineradicable and might b removed and this production of mr cannon will be found a powerful lever in the hands of our people for lle accomplishment of that object |