| Show AN ALIENS VIEWS It is always interesting to know the views of others on Utah affairs no matter mat-ter what the views are or from whence they come They are generally interesting interest-ing crude and based upon a partial and partizan knowledge of things In last nights Yew there was such a view from a relative in England to Mr David James of this city The wriler condemns the manner in which the law is enforced in this Territory at least FO we infer from the tone of his letter lie says Turning to your part of tIle globe one is tempted to asK What has become of all the fine maxims the founders of your country coun-try pu t in the Declaration of Independence And what has become of constitutional law in UtahRecent events in Utah seem to point out that American rulers of today have forgotten all this or at least only trot it out on the Fourth of July when they nerve it up with a lot of Yankee tall talk and buncombe about freedom etc The writer has evidently not paid strict attention to affairs here or else he would know what has become of the fine maxims max-ims which were put into the Declaration of Independence They have gone into the editorials of the Xeim the Epistle and the Declaration and Protest and are there tried to feed the flame of persecution They also find great perhaps the greatest favor with former subjects of her Hritannic Majesty From the reference to the Yankee tall talk it is safe to say that the gentleman is a Tory in politics and would like to have settled the Alabama affair by a trial by battle He is so good as to tell that the nation is violating the fundamental principles of the Constitution Dont say anything more to me about the boasted freedom of your Republic but hide your diminished heads and blush for the nation which violates the fundamental funda-mental principles of its Constitution What an accession he would be to the Supreme Court of the United States His views as to the constitutionality of the laws of the United States and the doings of their courts are of the same value as were the views of those Americans who sent Roger Pryor to London Lon-don to see that the English judges followed fol-lowed the law of their country in the trials of the Irish suspects for the murder of Carey the informer It is quite evident evi-dent that the gentleman is prejudiced against the United States and all Amen II I I can institutions and his views as to the course of United States officials in Utah are evidently obtained from church sources and if such be the case he could entertain 119 other views than those he expresses to Mr James If it is difficult for men in Utah to have a just and impartial view of things in Utah as they are it is but natural that those who are thousands of miles away and under an entirely different differ-ent form of government should have erroneous ideas of Utah affairs but it is quite presumptous for an English gentleman gentle-man to say when the United States are violating the fundamental principles of of tim Constitution especially when the Supreme Court provided for by the Constitution i Con-stitution has declared the laws against polygamy and the method of their enforcement en-forcement to be constitutional I |
