The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-24

mlgnD De cdlleQ. undoubtedly they |
that sacred charter, OBJ
tanned through the blood of our
revolutionary fathers, would ever
be reYered and cherished by all flu
tuTe generations; they could not be-
lieve that that sacred instrument of |
human rights would ever witness
the degeneracy of their chill
dren so far that they would |
ever permit either religious CT !
political demagcgueS to attempt to
undermine and destroy it. 1t was
never dreamed that there could be
an American SO insane as to attempt
lit. Yet it's, remarkable and humil-
iating to every one in this enlight-
ened age who has one spark of
patriotism burning in his bosom, to
observe, in this crusade against the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints, that this same special
clause has been the main object of
attack, and that even the chief
magistrate of this great republic,
its noble and high-minded Senators
and Representatives, and secre-
taries Of State have permitted their
heaviest batteres to be planted
Iaga nst this otherwise impregnable
barrier, The Constitution, to make a
| breach through that special clause
to admit greedy political and pious
adventures to get access to and
rob and eXterminate the MormOnS
land still more remarkable and de-
lplorable indeed it is to see the
} supreme judicial bench, bow obse-
quiously before the fictitious, evan
escent popular prejudice of the
hour When the decision was
passed upon the Reynolds case, O.
J was virtually an endorsement 1t
the acts of Congress in violation OF
l the Con ;titutiOn, as is very apparent
in the law of 1852, and the Edmund;
: bill 1882, violating not only Sec. Is
: Of amendments. Congress shall
2 make no law respecting an estaE
! lishment of religion nor prohibit
7 ing the free exercise thereof" bu
i the clause in See. 9 of the Consti
g sutton 'No bill of attainder or :,
E post facto law shall be passed. ant
+ last but not least, is the presen
t shameful and open violation il
t Utah of Art. 6, "But no religion
n test shall ever be required" etc.
| 1t was vitality necessary to tn
e success of the conspiracy, that tn
: Supreme Court of the United State
n should unbend from its dignity, I
}, make these Congressional violation!
D to appear to the needless public, d
d least, plausible; but the covering l
It too thin to deceive the sound reflect
e ing mind either in Europe or Anne
: RIGA. 1t is thus, however, they hav
: widened the breach in the ConstitU
e ton, made by Congress, so that no.
d any piratical craft that choose, ma
T pass freely through, to rob, and
l. possible, exterminate the Mormon
n without fear of molestation frOl
Y the strong arm OF the general govern
S ment- But, how long may it be b.
g fore the black tagged crafts will a.
;" pear in other, than Mormon waters
> Perhaps it may be in Catholic, PEI
E haps in Methodist, or IN Baptist, {
)" ISwedenborgian, or Campbellite
c. Who knows? Who can tell? 81
If Notwithstanding these dark cIouC
Y. may hang dismally around Il
re horizon, we can tell, that God reign
II and Zion shall arise and shine, al
t, Gentiles viii yet come TO her hgh
Of and even kings to the brightness
5e her rising, and who csn prevent
1t if God reigns? F.