Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-07-30
lDRED sGoFr pEolsIoN IN urAH.


GDRED SCOTT DECISION IN UTAH.
Tue Mormons take aeommon sense, practical view
OF The Died SCOT fecision. Il suits them exact.
y. The Oesert Se,rs Of May aOth, presents the
tOllOwing nut for the Little Giant to crack:
IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.--The Supreme Court
OF The United States have decided that the act Of
Congress known rs the Missouri Compromise
about which pofticiaus have hsped 50 InUeh, IS
unconstitutional, and therefore null sBl unid, and
mat Congtess has no power o7er Abe question Of
slavery "a the TerrtoEes. and Of course none over
The question o5 PQfgamy. These two twin relics
Of bafbarsm' can aoW flourish wherever the peo
pie may viii L in any Of the TeniloFies Uf the
United States, and Uncle Sam can dtend 10 his
own legitimate business without troubling himself
any further about them.
AWhat do You think Of that pisv Of the glorious
doctrine of your 50 GATED Democratic partyl We
now direct our remarks to the particular attention
Of the sober minded, honest aud religious class Of
that party, who have been induced by party ties,
false AMI explanatory speeches of parIizsn dema.
gOgues, to support the open and davOwed advocates
Of doctrine 50 perniciOus, degrading and brutal.
izing in its tendencies as that Of HSqualler Sow.
ereignty.e -.
Congress has no power to prerent slGpery in
the Territories, and no power to prevent POlyga.
my, therefore the Mornons of Utah have the right
to establish both Of those glorious DemOcraic an
stitutiOns," slavery and POlygamY, and no powsr
in the Government can interfere ....
To go step farther with this view: If Brigham
Young or any gentleman of tina. school, can en-.
tie! any Of the Territories Of the United States.
take possession thereof with bePd Of bis follow.
eIs plant Slavery and POIygamy IS the great
Democratic and domestic Institutions oC that Ter
ritOry, with no power in the general government
to regulate or hold in check these "Paliiarchsi In
stitutions," to what extept may rot you lend youi
government, reared upon so much patriotic blood
to aid, support and protect all the varied forms o
Iiber!inism, fee.NiIl-ism, trutalism, Tyranny aDd
oppression, that baud of despsradOes may see fl
to institute, to satiate their own gross and bruta
passions? Slavery has been extended and pro.
lectel under the canopy Of this abominable aud
anti Christian doctrine; POygamy has been insti'
tuted, nourished and protected aud it now but re-
mains for , New YORK society of Free-wills to
enter some of the Territories of the nation, inst-
tute their peculiar domestic Free-wi doctrine,
(by which any man or woman can cohaJit will,
or take unto him or herself any person that their
own good free wM shall desire for the OCCASION
when the entire circle Of domestic felicity shall be
rendered perfect and complete, under tAe guidance
of the glorious progressive and heayen.born prin
ciples of Democratic Sovereignty!
Gentlemen Democrats, you who make preten-
tious as followers of the "meek and lowly;" can
you in your prayers in Gods appointed House
aud at your own fresides, make appeals to the
"Thrcne of Grace" for the removal of "a!l sin"
Tyranny, hbertigism and oppression, from among
the people, and then arise, go TO the baIotbox
and there support Slavery, Polygamy and Liber-
tiusm? Can you, in one ard the same breath,
say that Slavery, Poygamy and LibeItipsm is
morally and religiously wrong but the people Of
the Territories have the right to these abomina-
tous, aud the general Government has no righh
under the Constitution, to interfere? A beautiful
consistency for pure minded Christian
Does your religion SO teach you that we should
pray God for the removal Of all sin, and yet by
your acts, not only permit sin to remain in its pres
ent foot hold, but actually to assist in its extern
sion aud growth?
For our part, we subscribe to no such doctrine.
Neither Christianity, morality nor the Constitu-
tion sanctions SO perncious a doctriuei the decs-
ion Of Roman Priest ridden Roger D. fancy LoI
the contrary notwithstanding. We 10 not sub
scribe to the doctrine that the Constitution of the
Union was framed aud adopted, by our patr-
otto aud Christian fathers, to be used as a shield
for tue extension, institution and porpetuity of
these three great National SINS and therefore we
shape our action TO suit our convictions.