The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-20
CURRENT NOTES.
NAPOLEON AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE.

NAPOLEON AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE.
There could be no greater proof Of the en-
tire good faith with which Napoleon offers new
constitutional reforms than his desire that the
deputies visit their constituents to explain the
Pleoiscitun, before vote Is taken thereon.
The nation is invited to vote intelllgently, and
thus to take an actual share in creating new Pc
lttical regime. or rather reviVing an old one, by
which liberty In the best sense Is guaranteed to
France. The Parisians, and the voters In other
large cities, no doubt understand the Intent Of
the Senatus Consultum already. They appreciate
fully the Importance OF that part Of it which gives
the popular branch Of the governmental Corps
Legislattf-contr0l OF the national purse.strings.
But there are many parts OF the Empire which
are not SO well informed upon constitutional
changes. 1t was said when Napoleon was elected
President OF the Republic Of France, in 1882 that
some votes were given under the belief that they
were for the man OF Wagram and Austerlitz, and
whether the story be true or not, 1t illustrates
what might have been possible. At oil events,
the present course OF calling Inc whole R people @
ernment by baslng 1t, pyramid-liEe, upon the
broadcast possible foundation-popular know
ledge Of its ability to enforce order While 1t Sc
cures freedom to all.
THE MORMON CREED.
The protest of the 4ormons against the pas
sage by the Senate Of the House bill abolishing
polygamy in Utah has just been received in Wash
Ington. Among other things 1t says:
OF the 10000 estimated population Of the
Territory OF Utah, all except from five thousand
to ten thousand are members OF the Church OF
Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints, usually called
Mormons. These are essentially the people OF
this Territory; they have settled It, reclaimed
the desert waste, cultivated 1t, suhdued the In
dians opened means OF communication, made
roads, built cities, towns and settlements, estab
llshed government, encouraged. education, and
brought into being new State to add lustre to
the national galaxy OF our glorious Union. And
we, the people who have done this are believers
In tile principle OF plural marriage or polygamy,
not simply as an elevatng social relationship and
q preventive OF many terrible evils which affllct
our race, but as principle revealed BY God, un.
derlying our every hope OF eternal salvation and
happiness In Heaven. We believe In the pre-ex-
istence Of the spirits Of men; that God Is the Au
thor OF our being; that marriage Is ordained as
the legitimate source by which mankind obtain
an existence In this probation on the earth; that
the marriage relation exists and extends through
out eternity, and that without It, mo man
can obtain an exaltation In the celestial
kingdom of God. The revelation commanding
through Joseph Smith to the Church OF Jesus
Christ OF Latter.day Saints, In its first paragraph
has the following language: behold, revea!
unto you new and everlasting covenant; and II
ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned;
for no one can reject this covenant and be per-
mitted TO enter into my glory.n' With this Ian
guage before as we cannot view plural marriage
religion. Let the revelation appear In the eyes Of
others as 1t may, to US 1t Is divine command, OF
equal force with any ever given by the Creator Of
the world to His children In the nesh.
CHILDREN's PARTIES.
In an article on'the excessive indulgence Of
children-whlch is certainly quite as applicable
to parents on this side Of the Atlantic as to those
on the other-The Queen newspaper observes {:
AS for the juvenile balls and parties, If we had
to centrallze the evil management Of children We
should certainly place 1t In these deporabe gath.
erlngs; they take the bloom on the still unripened
fruit, make men and women OF little children,
and turn out blase, used up; dlsuslonized crea-
lures, at an age when, II they had been left to
the simple amusement natural to their condition,
they would have entered the world with the Keen
sense OF enjoyment the facility for pleasure, and
the delicious romantcIsm which makes half the
charm OF youth both to itself and others. There
is to be slaughter OF the innocents OF yet an
other kind and Of those OF older years. OF which
premature knowledge OF evil which 1t is now
the fashion to allow. The lovely freshness OF
girls Is daily becoming more and more thing OF
the past, beauty OF tradition, and generation
a Is ThaSabteds fe
action from 'missIshness,n but 1t Is in terribly
painful form.
HOW GRANT PACKED THE SUPREME COURT.
The Cincinnati Commercial. the leading Re-
publican paper In the West, has the following
highly important dispatch from Washington.
Comment is unnecessary:
You VIII see that steps are being taken to open
up and revise the late decision OF the Supreme
Court, touching the constttutlonality OF the legal
tender act. We were promised by the President
that the two judges to be nominated by him
should be sound on this question. he said to
friend of mine in advance, as he said to many
others: "MaEe yourself easy; no one goes on that
bench who Is not sound.n And now the interest
decide, to the extraordinary fact OF President,
for.the first time In the history Of our country,
bufifllng up, through men Of his own selection,
legal decisions In advance. Nothing has ever
been done to so degrade and demorali2c this high
tribunal, and wondered the other day, while
listening to the motion, that the new judges could
sit quietly before the world as the creatures OF
man who sought by such means to traRple upon
the high place to which they hon0rably aspired.