| Show I THE ANIMUS I wo we have surrendered deroda a great deal of our editorial space to give room for tho the speech of lion ifon george Q cannon and other honorable gentlemen who have spoken in defense 11 I of constitutional religious and political liberty today to day elsewhere I in order to show the animus of the opposition wo we publish the remarks of lion hon roswell Roswel lD D horr of michigan michi I which was delivered in ill the I house of representatives april 19 1882 now let the readers of the I HERALD compare the fanatical ravings I of mr horr with the thoughtful well considered well weighed utterances of those other gentlemen who have examined the subject of I this contest in all its phases from legal political religious and moral standpoints if the gentleman from Blich michigan igan and andt those hoso who entertain like views to his own would simply crush out any man whose religious and moral ethics conflict with his while other gentlemen who are equally as much I opposed to polygamy as mr horr I 14 arc are willing nevertheless to accord I to all men in the republic the fullest I religious liberty which is guaranteed them bythe by the constitution which was purchased by the lives of the I fathers and consecrated by the blood odthe of the sires ortho of tho country mr borrs illogical attempt to I show an analogy between plural marriage and murder and cannibalism renders renden him simply ridiculous for whereas plural marriage tends and is entered into for the purpose I of increasing life of multiplying I the human species murder and cannibalism I niba lisin sm literally destroy human I existence and prevents its increase I by annihilating its source murder and cannibalism are in direct contravention I traven tion of the laws of god and of I all civilized nations while plural g marriage was practised practiced by the dearest friends of the deity was ap V p probated and fostered by the god of I abraham isaac and jacob who I I were married but tho the bigoted self righteous michigander li has is declared emphatically that constitution or no constitution ution law or no law lie would I I I vote voto to keep such a man as hon geo Q cannon out of his seat in ill I tho the house of representatives notwithstanding all this th B he lie claims to have received received inspirations inspiration s himself r r while in the house which lie hoped came from the skies and of which tho the following are ai a part 11 in voting to scat seat or unseat members mem beis drop politics and see that only such men receive your support as themselves il received the majority of votes I actually cast at the polls I I mr N ir horr acknowledges that mr I cannon received a vast majority of ka votes polled at the election for delegate t ate august 1880 that ho he received ret in round figures as against 1300 votes cast for his opponent t yet in the face of all these 1111 facts the member from michigan W goes goes back on his own inspirations even and declares that constitution t I or no constitution law air or no A I law and wo we ma may y add majority ma bority or no majority his mind was closed I to reason and right and was fully I made up to vote to keep mr cannon out of his seat in the house to I which he was fully and fairly i I titled by law and anacon condit con right and justice justic ei it was stat 11 during the e consider I I IP SOI this question that one member ber who had killed a man mail in cold blood and another who had been convicted of bribery had been allowed to retain their seats in the k house whether mr horr voted I I for these gentlemen or not we do not P know but certainly we llave no information of his voting against their f being seated |
