| Show mare HAD Repot reportorial orial rigmarole Eig marole and ana Rm ridiculous caious ms by W U telegraph raph to the lerald NEW YORK jan 24 the tribune D abune bays says editorially of utah the territory of utah lias has no proper legal existence is because its functions and franchises have been seized by men who use list them in hostility to the constitution ution and laws of the united states the institution can only bo be exterminated by sweeping away the organic law creating a self governing territory a law which congress Con Cong gresa enacted an and can at any time repeal there will then remain a portion of the domain of the united states state for which congress can provide a military or any other government and dwelling within that territory territory arc are citizens and subjects of the united cited states of these the law abiding arc are titled to full protection tho the law defying deserve punishment and have no right to anything else under the sun boox an 24 A largely attended meeting last night in ili the ply plymouth out church protested against polygamy in the united states lot avern presided the tile drift of tho the addresses was that tho law which had been a dead letter for 20 years should be enforced the jury system should bo be revised to exclude cormons mormons Mor mons also that tho the law of evide evidence n ce be changed or amended so that I h e difficulties difficult ties in in the ii way ay of proving mormon marriage may bo be obviated and if necessary order a change of denue so that congress may remove these criminals to another location for trial the resolutions were in the same spirit the practice of polygamy toly polygamy gamy lias has for en centuries ent urics been justly branded rand edwith with infamy by the criminal codes of every christian nation is degrading to the woman and destructive to the family it has in all ages been tho tile parent to ig norance weakness and unnatural vice and lias has wrought the tile ruin of every ever people it lias has polluted proving ng itself atseff always and everywhere the deadly enemy of virtue civilization good order a and free government whilo while I its is history for y with ith its treasons trea sons and massacres as well as its moral abominations is a disgrace to the american name and the tile civilization of the tile nineteenth century its present condition gives no premi so feo of improvement bu but t threatens rebellion bellion and nd civil warin war in the near future the temporizing and conciliating policy beginning with the appointment of brigham Brig liam young as is governor of utah in 1850 by fillmore and its contemptible failure admits of na further trifling the time has come for tho the vindication of becci decency ey and tho the majesty of t the he law itis it is shameful that a depraved public sentiment of a band of fanatics Lh should bo be permitted longer to defy the lawfully expressed will of the tile nation |
