Show i f A MEW REW DEPASTURE DEPARTURE to day we publish a full and interesting le te account of a very 13 notable episode ia in which governor west and apostle lorenzo snow 6 figured 9 ared prominently W we advise our reader arif to peruse it jo in taking the trouble to go out to tha th hinr gitry and zu d coffier to the alor mons incarcerated alleged 91 violations 1 ot of the edmunds law G fervor west was na doubt actu tel led by the best of too motive tive but when his excellency insist insists that the partisan hulings of the utah courts must be regarded as in in fallibly right and righteous he makes a very grave error the mormon authorities and the abor moos generally have lave d desired to pay but no mamou im lor foi we felig religion inui convictions could possibly know what he lie was ua pr if h he eliou lil promise to t obey the edmunda enact enactment menti because that law ha has wen so interpreted hut that no human being on eart earth it not even tho the courts themselves can tell just what ja a man roan who has fias plural wives shall do to obey tho ilia law lay gov week west 11 very naturally and humanely I 1 wants to fieve the from C cruel suffer buffering illge hie hill motive are lofty so doubt but he lie has pone about it in the wrong way if ho he wanta wants the cormona onil to baty the edmunds law he should first study ludy that en as it has been variously construed by he file beveral e urte and see for himself wherein itis it is ie in some respects monstrous and ind ab surd then ho should make proper recommendation recommendations to that t this h is law may way bo be corrected by another law faithful and constien conscientious mormons are tire not merely to escape punishment going to promise unqualified qualified obedience to any ee es seutia lly bud bad and unintelligible law wretchedly interpreted by partisan tribunals until they loee lose their faith and their manhood governor west no doubt sh sincere iceie ly jy desires to mitigate the suf fiering of the mormon people and he be can cart do so probably by recommending proper legislation in place of improper laws improperly admin adain he can do so moreover by recommending the pardon of prisoners who like apostle snow hayo have been innocent cfall of all intention at al violation of tho the law if bow ever the new governor begins by assuming that tho mormons Mor have no rights or grievances and baud continues ti cities upon the theory that every thing the local partisan courts may do and have done is right and just juit his hii philanthropic and humane designs will all 4 miscarry the masses 0 the I 1 mormon arc are prepared to buffer and endure patiently until they can have justice with liberty the doubt lem has a keen recollection recollect ien of tho the F fugitive slave Slav elaw law ho he doubtless recoil bots that the courts the t validity it ity of that famous enactment he knows bow how the bonios declared that laws law bad bed one oie and coa em aired at ite its violation violat ioa until the whole of the north echoed their senti it id true tb tl joba jolin brown was bung and that aimy wimy left were suited l to IT e 1 W le pe but they a cona r 1 lar prini principle aple a gailand tha th martyrdom uli erthall e v mind of men and eventually resulted iu in the abolition Fugi fugitive slate slave law and the of t this shoaf f t thi t me anen n at again sfa law c ven sofe rae violate ing it aad d g buffering ff lettig i tho consequences consequence i a speedier repeal of bf the objectionable measure and hasten buten tha lh triumph of t their heir c caie by rc u deisting the unjust measure to the last ordinary history is fall full of kindred leevone lee eone |