New-York daily tribune., 1858-06-28

tks Crm1 hrO lC tut Hbbfs tt iIr
pr.eidet over ty thss lumus'y Of tn las, Cn'"''
Justire HcLL., tat suoh q tud would OF e"nrre
rs~ci. in tsr oa1victiou of even body indintrd-hr
h.re-Ig u Bret.m Yeure aDd 81 soe Other cei-i
lesde,r Of the Mo,moos te,ng regarded as ne'-=-
,ssy tpetation to~s'd The suPprrs'0o Of toe M'f-
mon rel.sioo So f.y ss rtete nd otnsnts are 90
cesred. the P!e.teut's pfoismanoo viii no e@uot
CO, trtute to r-o,euTe tie hnrmoas
With rsf.rruc- .o Ct'h.-Jrs,ice Ecklrss charge
70 hi, Fprt BGdser Grand Jury upon sne tunjscs OF
psl, gsuy, let us rsuirA Th Commsre'ai Adr.rtiser
that TIA nero fact that such and such st. ara pro-
hibited ey law AID good morals does not release
eiikrs Chwf, Gstiru Eekles CT anybody eiis ffom
tie u~csesity Of proceeding 10 l~gsl way 10 thu
tusrps+s of their supprs,ion. II, a. ChiesJasscn
EckIes lsys it dom, p'iygan ny Il statute oaen'e
IN Utah, sill, bsi1ss al! bocy can bs convicted OF
or parishrd for th.t or any cher odersr, two
thu 70 ae abrolutey necessay: First, an inlet
ueut must be found sgairst tbs psrtius charged by
Grad Ju.y-not d tfsselips Grand jury OF team
sser, and comp f4lowsrs, crg-pized at tie vii and
pleasure of Territorial! ChiefJusdc And Un'ed
States Marshsl, but Grand jury drafted, iu Con-
ormity to tne Terfitori. lawr, from the eszens OF
ths county in which tho OEecses chrged sro al.
eyed 70 haze been committed. Secorely, trial
rrust be bed before Pstt Juiy, constituted IN tho
zane way. II, when Chief Justce Eckles gets into
Salt Lsks Counts, be car persuade tho Grand
Jurors of that county to fEd bills Of Indictment
sgaiLst Brigham Yourg and others, for polysam'
sid adultery, well ard g"od. But TO set on sham
Grsud Jur, Of caup.fllowers a. Fort Bfdger to
,rdct the inhabitants Of Salt Lake Coun'y for acts
done within that county is gross abuse of bis Of
fee, ard Ill assumption Of authority for which the
law does not afford him the slightest color.
The Coni,s,re,l Adre.tiser will perhaps an
sver that the chance then is but small Of the iu-
mediate suppression, By dint of legal prosecutions
Of ptIyeamy in Utah. That may be; but then
those who invoke tho law and insist upon the law,
nu.t be content to stsId by tho law. Whether
pclyepDy be an offense rRa'n.t the laws Of Ut.h
is, perhaps. notwithstanding tue opinion on thar
SUBJECT of the learned Eekles, open to some q1es-
ton Thst Indictments for tots Ohense, or aug
other. can be found only BY legally Constituted
Grand Jures ui thr bndy Of the couniy III which
the Law has been violated admits Of no question at
all II ia part Of cur syStem CT lr,spruderce, that
law. to BIZ enforced gust have not OILS place on
the statute book. ard not only the moral apprOba-
tion of the respectable part of the community bus
their active support also. The Ccmm.re,ai AdOer-
f,ser NEED Lot 60 cut OF the limits OF this
city to find pleuty Of Wholesome and OK
celett lave. which. by the unwuinguess Of
Graz d Juries IN fnd indictments based npon them,
are as little regarded In practice IS the supposed
laws OF UsAh AgAlnst pol5gany.
Even il thr inhahitants of Utah shnu bs con
vinced BY the arguments Of ChefJurt'ce Eckl-s,
not oily If the immortality but Of the ilesalty Of
TINT practice, We car easily imagine tho. they migat
hes tate little q to that Wholesale operation of ln
dieting and cohsictna everybody, which the Chief
Justice insists upon. and which The Commercial
Advertiser appears to approve. The essence OF tho
cime of biesuy, ss Of mo+t other legal ol-ose', is
the wrong done to some particular indv vdua' wh
suffers BY it, and the alarm which it consequently
,presds among Others liable to suffer in the sam,
way. It's tbeinjury done to the woman eatr'pped
into false marriage, which has induced our Leg's-
lstures tn make b'gsDy State Prison offsnse In
U:ah polygsmy, as it pow exists, lacks this
important element OF criuinsl'ty. The
women who have suffered themselves to
be "sealeA," as the Morm0ns soy, to mon
who aredy had Ons or more wives, have
not been entlapPed into this position By falss repre-
senta,ioDs ta.t the meo they have connected them
selves with were single They haze voluntarily
adopted reat on which IN their own eyes and those
of the community 10 which they 1--we, u Jdst as
c,e6table and respectable as that Of woman
married to msa with no other wife. The great
ee nent Of bgsmy considered as an oGense, that Of
fraud and injury, is wanting. The other element
that of an outrage upon public sentiment aud the
deprivation Of morals, is, according To the vie~
which prevails in Utah, wanting aiso; siuce thus
practice is held 10 be sanctioned by the Bible, is
expressly authorized by the sPecial reSelstloas Ut
MormOnirm, and ia supported in the way OF hs1-
ment by many r.as0us nut Only religious but niso
prudential and economical.
Besider, the question arises, What Ia to be done
with these poly eams Us households Have the
"seaed' women ard their children arqairrd no
rights which deceive to be respected II b" been
bed BY our missionaries abroad. aod by macy
of our learned and pous diyines at home that Goa
yerttd Psgans who had pcl,gamous households
ough. neither to be required nor allowed by reason
of their conversion to Christianity, to set their
extra wives and children adrft AL the arguments
employed i'll tbs case would apply with full force
to the csse of the people Of U!ah. But whstever
is done il this matter must be done with the con-
sent and COOPERATION Of the inhabitaats of that Ter
ritoty. TIE Territorial act Is still in iorcr the