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Show NO HE DIDN'T. In a biblical discussion of the silver question this morning, the Tribune has this : In these modern times the Lord has Riven to the people of the United States a free ballot, and delegated to them the power to right their wrongs, eto. ' Now the Lord didn't do any such thing any more than He gave the Mormon people peo-ple the right to control Utah, and eventually event-ually to uphold this Government If people of all classes and parties in Utah would leave the Lord out of their discussions discus-sions and use more common sense, Utah I would be in a much better condition than she is. The Lord is made to do duty in all camps, and very often in hostile ones at the same time. We bow with great deference to all the dicta of the Tribune, but we cannot subscribe sub-scribe to the theory that the Lord gave a free ballot to the people of the United States, because the history of the Constitution Consti-tution of the United States nowhere mentions men-tions such a fact, nor is it referred to by Story or Kent or Marshall. The Constitutions Constitu-tions of the United States and the various States and the laws made in pursuance therewith give the free ballot to the American people. |