The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-01
U.IOWA HAS ELECTED THE ENTIRE
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET!!
Ut,ah.

Judge Dnmrncnd has resigned his position In
!. Utnh. He Gays the Msrmons will not obey the
Courts Of the U. States when there is any con.
flict between lts precepts and the teachings Of
q Brigham Young! .. -
This is a dcploablc state Of afairs even in
the wild and Mahommedan regions Of the Great
SILT Lake Basin, but we do not see the prcpriety
II certain papers bewailing the rebellious spirit
u that ani,natcs these unpat-iotc fanatics. There
6 = no end 70 the examples their party and their
rllvines furnish to the miserable scnsualsts whose
s. conduct they pretend to deplore. Can you ex-
b pect a Government to he of value to the citizen
when such sentiments as are promulgated by
< Seward and Greedy and Sumner and Cheever are
quoted and applauded by every jack-a-napcs in
: the country' If law. passed by the constitut-
cd authorities of the Union is to be obcyed or
elridiculcd. as the whims of dirvcllcrs or the in
forests Of factionsts may suggest, we may as well
abandon the doctrine Of general capacity in
man for selfgovernment and go back to the opin.
liens which prevailed anterior to the American
Revolution. If Priests, of any order, are to be
elevated to the censorship of political authority,
and THEIR announcements of what is law. and
what is not are to be regarded as superior to the
Decisions of our Courts, we can easily determine
to what end our government is approaching.-
" The Thunder of the Vatican may have been
beneficial in days that are past, because the SUI
psrstitions Of the masses rendered them controll-
able through clerical appliances. but now such
exert'cns of authority on the part of Protestant
Clergy are of as little force except where law
lessncss is authorized, as the command of a
Canutc was in rolling back the waves of the sea-
II is atcring to ninny to be told that his opin-
ion is as likely to be right on constitutional
question as the deliberate and carefully prepared
argument Of one whom years Of study and prac-
tice have qualified and it is no difficult matter to
Secu-c full house, attentive listeners and un.
bocn led al plausc. when such dangerous flattery
is dealt out to those who can see only the
thirty, and not the Hccntiousnew which must re-
cult from an unrestrained indulgence of opinion.
Bat as you cultivate private Judgment against
constituted authority, and hallow the violation OF
law Ivy promises of church rewards and Gods
approval, You are establishing rule of action so
entirely individual, so enincntly independent
and so impatient of control, that it will be be.
yOnd your power to stop the car of lawlessness
until moral and political right shall have wrapped
our present glorious government in it's impcne-
trable pail. Law in our country is the public
ceusritnce in written form. and no citizen can
caip, an exemption from its effects or release
himself from the duties which citizenship inyol-
sea by pratng of his conscientious scruplcs."
Brigham Young in dcnouncing the authority
of the U. States Courts, but consuts the inclina-
items of himself and followers he knows that
such restraint as he imposes is license to all the
bascr passions of human nature and he is in no
fear Of being deserted by the lechers who sur
nund him. His influence extends only in one
direction. After having cultivated "frce
thought" in its widest extravaganza he can moi
check it up and make it productive of good
Precisely so win it be with the political Clergy
ofNcw England. They viii find when too late
the evidence is already found in the immoral.
ity ofthe Clergy-that the only way to retain
influence with the masses whom they have beer
cultivating is to follow the crowd as did Aaron
and furnish for alteration just such gods as de-
PRAYED state of public morals may demand.
This subject is worthy the careful consideration
of every man who desires the triumph of the
Christian Religion and the success Of free govern