Show f W af t tl fy J A ari short 11 I 1 sinco i the salt lake an all editorial writer of the provo enquirer wag was utterly steeped in treason and a afew few days das later it apologetically concedes the 1 innocence I 1 writer in the same article the tribune says not pre 0 I 1 7 some to judge as to ti I 11 is co constitutional nat it or I 1 ot as that 13 is i I 1 thep the special kial pe Te of the 0 I 1 premo 0 bourt court and that it is the 01 duty 1 ty of to obey the laws even though they may way be bad once t until the supreme court decides that they should be held as binding all tins thi s id is quite 1 I 1 plausible and in id 1 anany ili instances stances I 1 might be considered ve very ry commonplace so sophistry p but we e liven a where every A denizen 1 re presents A in hid 0 is pers a if r bhare 16 yi re of F 10 0 i 1 9 the tho national nation ai sovereignty ty alij and ill in his hii sovereign capacity each g individual vidual I 1 citizen ought u 9 hi of f right to t 0 con coll fider ridel nOt only obly tho constitutionality of d a la law but bu teven vented the action actio n of the sup supreme rebii co court rt or the adriea bailit raf its constitution I 1 n itself its lf it is a sacred duty of his citizenship we lye say fur fuk him to judge of these matters and ana it is ab an obligation of hia put patriotism ato to execute li hia is best judgment rit in ity these ranji 8 as far achis ball b is P personal er 11 j I 1 14 ah I 1 I 1 4 arryl rry i I 1 his pis honest convictions into into effle effect ct I 1 and furtner furthermore m ore if a law aw J is i s out ly bad in ih the most roost palpable direct conflict with cardi cardinal 0 al features odthe of the primary national charier of american libertyn liBert yi t all if the saad act 1 was also passerby pass passed edby by congress in violation cfall of all known precedents ce to abridge the inherited rights of hudi and in effect U reduces a portion of the national 1 to political serfdom lurn why then even if the tile su premo court barn bo rne 0 away way by a well nigh universal p prejudice and blinded by r calumnies calum alum nies 9 should aph that thatah liw obligatory I 1 and binding would it not be an evident example of heroic patrio patriotism tista fur an all individual I 1 tp peaceably res resist to to the tile utmost of his power the cruet cruel iti juAice of bf that legislative leisla 9 tive enact force why it certain certainly I 1 y seems so to us the edmunds eu candidly considered ered grossly unconstitutional by individual chinzelis citi chi zeia zelis of butali and phd rather I 1 rights and acquiesce in the tile of the great natt national unal bom pact several are now languishing in prison that their unusual the ibe irregularity of tho the mock trials I 1 whereby they were convicted and their truly heroic attitude of self sacrifice and dp to principle plO 1 and find country may bring ta the le justice of their cause and the righteousness j of their convictions before 1 e the whole world and arouse honest people to a realization odthe of the impending peril which lies in the ett establishment blish ment of a precedent in tho tile way of a law which abridges constitutional rights and reduces A territorial rW commonwealth justly worthy to the oppressed condition of a van I 1 squished and enthralled province it is truo true that those who violate tho J bad J law lav may be subjected to io punishment but it ia is better to suffer in a great and good caise cause alka than a to acquiesce abjectly y in tho the progress of a disloyal wicked one men aten emarl may 6 ue e tortured Adred Lo by legal process and they may even perish for the sake of an idea 4 at in I 1 go so doing their names immortal mortal tha th benedictions uon como come down to bless them and the 1 for chith they vard sacrificed triumphs through their pains their n s t or their I 1 john t brown was hanged no no jud judicial im ai tribunal could save him franl t trie ne conse which ho had incurred that manuels manu manumission IOU mi might abe n t be made speedy aud aw certain n hia axll jing agonies upon the 66 I 1 8 sounded til alie 0 tocsin which roused tho the nation to weigh the evils of african slav cy and till crush it jt aven wb J tir C e sword |