| Show CHIEF JUSTICE vindicated from the wellington washington chronicle it is ii due to the Jant int whose appointments have boon been ot of lute into so go freely and N lio lie is held to so high a degree ot of r responsibility for every othenal net act anil and I 1 it t if s due to judge mckenn me kean himself in i MOW low of the cettl cast upon him it in an oil od of the new york tribune of ajo dinst that ue e should malc make some allu non eion to the condition of things in utah and to the decision of lie hie judge bibich has ha to so excited the ire of the tribune TriO unc we propose to do so EO ery cry briefly to lo be 10 sure not alone in defense enso of tile the president v i ho seems seem to lo be the chief object of attack tint and of judge mckean lut but to show hon ho very unjust and wrongheaded wrong headed horace greeley can be it hits bas been ei e ident for diviny months rast past that the correspondents ot of tonic sonic of our enst ern in ettah have been subsidized by tile hie lending leading A concerted of cf tort seems to irive been made to acut the condition con dilion of all airs in that territory to mislead it and nd tile hie public inin mind I nl at tile the enist u a view to effect upon the government at washington and upon congress it is raid mid that onn one of the corre 4 of abe thc new york 7 tribune 1 abune is ia on oil tho the clito o connected with tile iho lending mormon stormon paper and in the pay of the mormon lenders and that sonic somo vf tf all thee O correspondents actually belong to tile hie normon mormon church the authority of tile the govern government of the united states slates lias has never been fully lecog nihed by Brig Ur ighani liAm young and his fol followers loers until very recently if indeed it ever ams tits the attempt of administration to civil government there utterly falca A and lid it lii ia offie officers ers a and lid troops were forced to riburn thu was wa able to get a foothold there only by tin an exhibition of Mili military tilly power and the threat of civil war has since more than once been heard the cause of this hostility to the government and people of the united states ignot is not to lo be 10 found in a difference of rc religion ligion merely for wo nye recognize and tol tolerate crato all religions equally nilly vi hother inside or outside of chri it is to the attempt on the alie purl part of brigham youn young aind some of tile tho leading Mor cormons mormons morth to c and legalize galise le polygamy that all tace biffl lany inny bo be attributed no JS 0 one withes to interfere in in any milliner with their dilious dig ious mill fulth or worship but we ve can never consent to lo carnit into our family of states a 1 government which legalizes a plurality of vi vive i es concubinage or adultery nor enn can we ne ever permit tin an independent slate with or without such institutions to grow up among us ui at the commencement of his big administration Pree president dent grant determined in anco of law w to establish ml isil government in utah and to enforce there the ilia sovereign power lower of the united states and with him bim to resolve is to execute ue ile determined to for official position there mon inon of irro pron chable private lire life and character as vi as of ability for chief justice of tile tho supreme court fir fi r tho the territory the iho lion ilon james IS 13 mckean of saratoga TS N Y was and we vie think it is not too brinch to siy say that both bothin in his arh lite character and in ill ma ii public nets acts as asa a judge lie has fully rill all the these ac requirements requirement altis it u ijo to him thai alint ono one of his bis decisions mits lias been overruled by the tha supreme court of the united states since bis h n decision in that hint case was hi conformity with tile the pr previous elous decision of alie tl ie supreme court and in overruling ills de debenion enion they o overruled cr their own it is not a question whither judge icka vi was right or dicing in his big decision forbe for he md did but follow its ft lio lie IV wai as hound bound to do the tha pre previous biou ruling of like lie su tribunal but if the J judge had in act md viivi li h as ashall Cl cs hall presently wo nye think ile ho did not ho he will bo be neither thu first man nor tilt the first judge who lie lias has dont done to so its s our friend ought to ariew Bc resides sides the error if error it be was on tile eida of public order justice and morality before the court was in a nut it was simply this Is that coat it a united states court for upon that everything rise else binges if it is then the united states amsi Is s its evecuti vo ctr cir and the iho proper to execute its pr priccie occie its iU juries jurn ac if riot not a united states court the iho sheriff is tile the officer tile latter is elected by the nhi chin atall lataris tho the mormons cormons Mor mons who nrc are under indictment fur trying to bohac haj e too many wie if tile the trial ot of tile tho saints for bigamy or addi adultery tery wore A mormon jury ejected by a mornion sheriff Ehe riff it would mould proven prove A ridiculous farce and tle the 11 lol fine and other united budles ni As well uell reiger mid go it atno no hinl lean lae c the alone in im their par adibe ns as tiu binnun all did chief justice and liia is associates inid bold hint lot their court is a united stater slamet cruit ti odd and that the united states statha is tile the proper alicer tn tc ex manila octile its it process tho the court ans its d by nit an net act of um colt gres gre are s its judges und officers were appointed ly by the president ind and senate it derived I 1 its ils jurisdiction and authority from congress true it is i caleel tile the supreme court fo for r the territory of utah but utah is not ft it is i a territory belonging longini bf to tile united unita states ti and in nil all shingi to thi the jurl juiris ss alii action thyn and of Cun gresi as fully to nil all inte lits and purposes purpose in As tho the of but congress Con Coo grecs greg 4 aavo to atall a territorial Legi legislature and government so it has to lu the district of columbia in both tho the gos governor arnor secretory Secret SeorA nry ary judges nia karsli rOial il and one bril braicich loch of tha ilia legislature tire op pointed point ti by the president arrs arid and in both bollt cun con grce reserves ilia 1110 tight of legiO nth e control and retains the power to repeal its own owl faits of creation cration tins the court so eo decided nut lot mono tile supreme couil chui t hail had so ao told but because if thare lind been no precedent anil and tile hie 11 question had been nn an open one it coulta not very well veil wo think linbo decided otherie other ir e the court of lii aa l resort afis overruled aled tile decision of mckean lind liis his naw nasu chates lull but they hai linio a oi overruled their own as well ell chaos reigns in IT utah tali and civil var may impend but we submit that no to marno nut ei eian oil error ia i able to tho the lacal tribunal or its judges the alia remedy for this state ito of things is is nith etli Cong alio adio will doubtless speedily sper dily I 1 adopt tile mi mires to public lic order and preserve the tranquility and pence peace of the territory |
