Show LIBERTY IN UTAH i judge blacks utterly denunciation wild edmunds mil till against human haman rights f faw saw the f M N in I I i I u J i I harrr I tf I I u ni ui UL john T caine the U aly admit I ted delegate eg a t e fr from itil ira utah and abd other s seu t to Waa hington f from the convention i i fr framed amed the constitution under which they hope that utah i it ifield the tile union as i Stat tat making strong opposition to the system ot of mea meau au res chic beginning ginning with the edmunds edmun d s L act odthe J last congress a and od followed up tip by the tile new now antii bi bigamy anly bills jiow now pending g they insist AT Ode the people of their constitutional securities for life albarty aha afta prop arty put them under the I complete I I dom dominion hilon of their MA r fa rapacious enemies I and cut die raup root and ind brn branch cli ahas already been mentioned more I laa than once in these col columns timm jeremiah fihs S black blacka m a counsel gelfor for the adverse interests above buve V I I A made aai an drate aam t 61 disc judicial ry corn matteo of alig first week iu in fe february ruari and alli tal the e following synopsis of hid his able argument appears I I in the new york lorld of I V i I ir p k in this argument he be took the I ground that the to which i these laws divorce legitimacy of children and arid succession to property were averd in their nature morp corp purely domestic private and local than iny others w which human legis legislation lati on up ap I lea les I if f they have not a right to make their on own laws on J these subjects then they bava ait oit alit t to self government at al all but bui f they i had that right tho tito right belonged by natu natural nature rad and as a great principle of law to every separate community ly ron pub nia ni I U L v bent en ieso people aie colonized themselves beyond the limits of the states tt they did not leave their liberties aind them the freedom of the community results necessarily Oia rily from ti the e arcedo i jivu that corri compose pose it il this was the very principle that triumphed in the success of our revolution no one can cin deny it now except which would have made him bini a tory in 1776 the right of local self I goi government rement is reservedly reser reserved vedDy th the constitution ution to the people of the tile territories na distinctly and anti clearly as to the states asu A subject jecht upon which I eel congress digress an amate in a state is manifestly beyond its power in a tei territory riter jud judge jude 11 e black asserts that what 18 is called the edmunds bill but which th benator of that name certainly did not draw up expressly put ta fondl constitutionality atu lion al ai the exclusive ac IVO jurisdiction of the united st states stites ites in the territories 11 he denounced this I as simply false no such euch jurisdiction is is given nor any jurisdiction at all over local affairs in the ter aitor ps r anor mora tl thair aap in taci th states row I ot mner I usurpation r att a i I A gross i violation of the constitution which v ich if wilfully committed ia h aj al hideous crime judge black don contended tended that these acts as its passed and proposed wt were not only unconstitutional but the edmunds bill Fare carefully fully provides a mode of packing juries and not tati satisfied fied with that it inflicts the pani of total disfranchise litif without but any atry trial or conviction at all what is worse if worse be po possible it operates besides the enemies amies of free government think I themselves justified t by the hoar amendment ing f au all the local offices and their public money another provision is is now proposed which will infallibly destroy the tile existence of the IA Legg pla lature turc still another dis franchises es all female voter though their rights arc are ad clearly vested aa as those of male citi zen sand abid though they ars are admitted i to of every ge except that of casting their ballots iu in favor of honest abid and freo fre government it is a a bill of pains and penalties ies not noe to pual lill phily polygamy dandy but to strike the whole of the people e 01 of a territory with tho the blasting hi curac of slavery the coils I alit of the act to regulate marriage marriage end d divorce borce has he been on ciuch ques tinned aa an invasion of religious alous freedom but judge black said that was not liia point he ile pro against all this legislation as a perfidious outrage upon the civil I A people anre and of right ought to be free judge black was firtl particularly strong alid bitter in his exposit exposition I on of the cause vause which an attack on the cormons mormons Mor mons popular with the average domi demagogue cl ogue of the tile period I I I 11 I I think I that the circum cosit beli pity to strike ih ar arri tori af UMI with th ve of political slaver elavery to deprive ellb peoble c of their local government and dailler them up u naked na ed a anade nd dc t s to lie be sacked and pillaged pill aked by I their enemies but let lot it i t bo be under tinder stood that I am uni not asking fur mercy if von you have the tile constitutional power boll voi i must exercise it as you please thero aro many reasons which naturally lv incline an american states illan todo to do 10 till tile 11 linam arm lie possibly possibly can to the tile people of atall they are powerless to resist it they have it not ot a single vote in the tile national legisla gisla lc turc turo riall cannot exercise the slightest onus presidential election afi ancy ey tire excluded from all political rings the aliey cannot be competitor for tile spoils of office they can make or mar iner no scheme to eave or squander tl uander the tile public ir toncy on oil the ether other hand liand the tile whole country outside of I their heli own territory Terri tor ishop cloua with rith their tiler enemies whom hom r you tou must conciliate find gratify if you can do 69 with a cafe conscience for I hey have votes and power and avo which will nit be opposed without I dancer tho the rd religion ligion which tho people of utah addora iti liere ten tenacity acety is is regarded in other parts of the country with extreme dislike as the tile mere I superstition of an upstart sect no man however hoever who has tit the faintest perception of christian principles pl C thinks thick s it right to kill or plunder or outlaw hem them for holding an air erroneous faith from real christianity Christia tilty there cornea no howl bowl for the blood and property of the cormons mormons Mor Morn mons ions but in other quarters the ewt nio st rancorous hatred breaks out by flome some famous preachers the policy of killing the cormons mormons Mor mons by wholesale unless they leave their property abandon their homes ionic and arid tle ducq beyond the union is openly advocated and apparently apparent ily concurred in with great warmth by com rega ciori supposed to be respectable and this ia is accompanied with curses pull and deep upon nil till who would interpose a constitutional ejection to that method of dealing with thorn them when we read of such things in history we are apt to think them diabolical diab olicA but approved as they are now and liere here by judgment and even by b senatorial enit orial we must concede i I bupp imp pose nse that it is i ery cry good taste a and lid ref refined tried humanity disguised in a new dress aa As a general rule political piety I If irever it lais turned up tip the ates of its cytrin cacs in thia this country or in europe eisa is ft sham sh amanda and ft falbe pretense aut in ill thia exceptional case it would I a speaking evil of dignities to call it the soundness os of the religion lii on slanders a mormon is not to bo be questioned que tinned equally pure is a t of f a returning return ing officer who ariu thy i pa jy filhe he election of an ail anti monnon mornion candidate known defeater ateo by a majority ilia il arity of more TA ulan 11 I 16 r to nor will w wo attribute any sordid motive to those residents of utah official and private who ito busy busy themselves liere here and at home to break down the territorial government seize its offices ond said grab its money their li ir righteous soula from day ato to day by the ili anro fre fact that sinful men are to live peaceful and pr prosperous o lives they are ire animated solely by disinterested zeal for the advancement of lords kin kingdom adom which I in their t I acir judgment would be by the further con govern mentin utah n ie a jure s of punishment p un iiii nim I lie fit people of utah deserve for their wickedness but what congress has leasa a right ri catto to inflict whatever may be the superior sanctity of the holy men who promote notO this ley leg isolation they cannot be gratified gra tilled at the expense ofa of a breach in the constitution ution lf ifju you shall bo be satisfied that hat you have no power in the prom premises you will not usurp it for that would be a hideous crime of which you are wholly incapable before I further let me indicate the ju attice of or this course not because you doubt it for that is impossible but merely to stir up your pure minds by way of ot remembrance mr grote the tile most learned and thoughtful historians hister iani has by direng ex im its I that fidel fety ity tha bairt law u which bich lie terms n ii tile one it cond nion upon which the barely and of every free government must depend these enactments made and pro pr posed are in the main main a comprehensive bill of pains and penalties not against person sr guilty or supposed to be guilty of polygamy or any other hurtful crime but against people known and acknowledged to be innocent they are aro intended to disfranchise whole masses of free persons reduce them to the condition and deprived deprive n community of its al aana wa bild con M uti linal right to an hen hon cst its own for such cabill a bill there idiot is riot only no warrant in the constitution betit but it is expressly ia ir i ted nor is there any prece dent for it except the reconstruction laws of and they were admitted to be unconstitutional by thair their author and bd by the counsel who undertook to defend the theland mand to my certa certain irk knowledge I they would havo have been deel declared sred avoid void by alie lie supreme court in the tile case of mcardle if we had nt not been cir tit invented by an act of congress taking I n afaf the jurisdiction it is true at t il hat they wore ware made effectual but it was dune by the fourteenth amendment the tile opponents of free government ament i in the JSon south th knowing knowin g that Con congress stress had so no such power forcibly i injected their bill of pains and penalties le na I into to tile constitution itself na and f dwir e it liea lies now bion by ale with til the e plo provision vision which forbids it but the injection served only for that occasion it did not abrogate the prohibition I bills of pains and penalties I areas aro as odious as ever it is the duty y avery public man and arid every private citizen to hate bate such things with all his mind and anti heart and strength as I hope you do coming willing back to the original and ail d fundamental proposition that you yon bave no authority to legislate about abut marriage in ili a it territory you will ask what then I are we to do with polygamy it is a bad tiling and a fulse false le eli ligion gion that allows it but the people of utah have as good a right to their false religion as you have to your true truo one then you add that it is not X a religious error merely but a crime r tile which ought to be extirpated b by the sword of the civil magistrate that aj at ia is alto albo conceded but those people have a civil government of acir their own which is as wrongheaded wrong headed aa as their church both are free to de do evil on I i aws and arid kindred subjects if they please and they are neither of th emans crabl ot o t aou TI aliat tat bringa bri ugo lyria afu end of your string g abu are treat this offense aa as yoh treat othe I rahi the states and in the he Territories that is leave it to be da deat it A with wod by that are ordained M god or by bir god Himself who h will I in due time become the tile of his ilia own justice justlee 11 |