The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-05-12
MOUNT n | N Il ER.
tatAt SALT lart CITY,
saturday MaT III 1850
THE SUPPRESSION or POLY
GANiY INV UTAH

st,f,e ~ viz " ullNt1AttE - VI esfg
Representatives IL relation to The Anti
PoIygamic Bill For tie bpttef satisfac-
ton Of al parties, the sI,aecll q the great
Nelson Is given ii fnII Ills week Let
II not be mistaken lpr i moment that this
Is the Nelson Or Trafalgar, but one Or i'm
mortal Tennessecanm memory.
This speech seems intended to cnlbody
the boiled down IDEAS 81 the opposing
forces Of p0Iygamy Itwas Inc sap,mpn-
boaam and the climax And upon lis
logic and eloanence seemed to depend iaa
great measure the Success of the bill.
II il Mother within tho compass 81 our
allotted time, nor space, To review closely
Mr.. Nelson's speech. Il may be suiii-
Gent to take passing glanue 1T IL.
Lctds commence with the Introduction
Of his resnmed remarks
II maintain that there Is i manifest
difference between the power Of Congress
70 interfere with the rights n property,
and the right % declare IN net criminal
which was 80 declared by tile law Of
God.
What tho learned gentlenans isleus Of
the law Of God may BE, or whence nc DEL
riyes them, We do not ptetend 10 say.
The law Of God is made, III 4 general
sense. the apology for everything that
subscrves The interests 81 political plrtics.
But those political preachers 81 that
great law, Is q general thing, deeliiln
without . text suppose We give them
one Or two, and then see how they agree.
Itwould not 30 considered consistent win
modern arguments 70 begin with the
Bible. Let us begin with the rudincntal
authors Of modern Inv, and compare as
We go along their arguments mud fonii,la.
lions. Blackstone says::
Upon these two foundations, tho INV
Of nature and the law Of revelation, de-
pend all human laws; that ii ID say, llo
human laws should be suffered 10 contra.
dict these. Sd.
The law Of nature tells its own story On
the wild prairies or III the doneslicatcd
circle Of the farm-yard. II Il all open
volume. and may DO read BY the most m,
lcttered. i Is. however, very indeH
mite law, as defined ~ jurists generally
Upon tho basis Of the law 81 nature
Deists, Atheists, and Inidels OF every
class repose their claims to superiority.
They are all, in their own estimation, IN
the right. and wrong according to the IL.
terpretations Of their opponents Nature
i what God produced Il. and lis laws
ore governed by reason. Al wider field
Is therein open than We nro now disposed
to enter on We would not dread the
issue Of the contest on that field; but the
great harpstring played upon seems to &c
the LAW or Con. 5is .s.
In what particular code OF the GREAl
Z Llw-GtyER, whom Blackstone and all oul
learned jurists have adopted ns tllei
standards, the anti-polygamic statpie In
found a precedent, we are ut q loss 10 IN
form our readers, Mr.. Nelson has been
student We would not for a molnsn
dispute it. If lie relies On modern tran,
lations, and has confidence Id the tradition
handed down 20 us from the ancient,
there are q few items that ought to max
lis ears tingle and his nerves quake. SUI
pose wc give an extract from tile goo
book upon which his everlasting immorti
lily seeks repose.
: II man have two wives, one beIoyc
aud another hated, and they have Dor
him children, both the beloved and III
hated, aud i the first born son be her
that was hated; thenit shall be, when h
maketh bis sons to inherit that which h,
hath, that he may not make the son or iii,
:: beloved frstborn before the son Of iii,
hated, which is indeed the firstborn.g
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..s u that BIO not All Endorsement Of III,
Almighty in favor Of roLYe ANY, then indeed
: we are thrown upcn our last trumps il
the argument, II polygamy was a trans
erosion Of the law Of God, upon Mllsl
principle should he provide for the Il.
gitlmacy Of its olfspringg
The book from which We have ouot.d
is acknowledged BY all as the second book
OF divine law, or the expoundsr Of law,
previously given. There can be no room
Tor eayll in the matter. BY all who nrs.
tend to be believers IN holy writ, these
iacts must be acknowledged. If our
Heavenly Father was, like Mr.. Nelson.
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