Show ITHE BOLL or as nos r JH j the religious baua generally and however much they may be prejudiced against the cormons mormons Mor mons yet there cannot bo one intelligent american soul endowed tight and blessed with one particle of the of human thy would not look with compassion and regret upon the incarceration of such an honorable and conscientious gentleman na tB ishop il B has him self by the attitude which he assumed before the Third judicial district last tuesday even the non Mormon who feels certain that the latter day saints are mistaken in their ideas of religious duty must cordially sympathise with a man who has the courage to maintain his honest convictions in the face of the most humiliating cruel and studiously insolent penalty that a court can inflict to coerce its victims into compliance with its anti nonreligious non religious and agnostic views even in spite of itself the honor and ci alt that brava opprobrium pain and the loss of his personal liberty in the effort to maintain of all leges of freedom the inalienable and rightful privilege of worship ping god according to the dictates of normal and scrupulous individual conscience 1 bishop H B example will civo illustriously in the history of lien if Is written by the faithful historian af pf v r v the future who IP able to view abisi wath the cool deliberation of justice arco from the trammels of factional strife and partisan or religious acrimonious feeling he haaf met a crisi and withstood the assault though confined an fn prison walls he has triumphed over even the judge who add his own an ti mormon haired annn the extreme penalty of tho law taranta may place man cles upon the body they may mangle it and contort it and even crush the spirit out of it but BO long f to t o as the soul maintains a greatness and grandeur to adhere tu ita inalienable pre roga ti dag c no power can conquer it T iia is something that the cormons mormons are now teaching the american nation and the world Upon the roll of exceptional honor and upon the tablets of the hearts of all bis brethren has been inscribed the name of H B clawson alongside the scores of kindred heroes who are now languishing gui shing in the various prisons of the slates for the offense of obeying the behesta of god in contravention traven tion to tha legal whims of |