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distribute among hundred or, if you please, a

distribute among hundred, or, if you please,
much less number-two more-if the law
sanctions that. it is unjust; it makes it bind
ing contract upon a woman and not upon q man.
Or. if you say that neither is bound by it. then
this institution of marriage is rope of sand that
binds nothing This institution, upon which
the family rests, upon which the welfare of the
community and its progress. as we trust
through all ages, depends, means nothing. If
the woman, notwithstanding this marriage. may
go aud contract and associate with dozen men
as though they were her husbands and a man
may do likewise, then the institution of mar
rage is broken down and destroyed. The civil
lied world believes that that is the most impor-
tant pillar in the great fabric that shelters and
protects humanity and all that is good and
vlrtuous IN it; and no sect or creed will be al
lowed IN the United States to overthrow it.
You and your followers and those who be-
lieve with you had just as we'll submit to the
laws of your country as good citizens because
obedience to the laws is the highest duty of a
citizen. / understand you profess to be citizen
of the United States, and yet you say you will
not promise to obey and respect its laws; and
that you will not promise not to persuade others
to disregard and defy the laws of your country.
Thousands of as brave men as ever lived died in
defense of those laws and that government, and
1t don't do for you to stand up in this court or
anywhere and treat those laws with contempt
and that government with contempt which shell
tiers and protects us all.s
"As man have nothing TO say whatever
against you. l regret that you have not the
courage and manhood to stand up in defiance of
sect and say that you will obey the laws of the
country and that you will advise other men to
abide by them. This timidty and cowardice is
not becoming to an American citizen. You seem
to acknowledge that in your second reason, De-
cause you say that you would be Ostracsed and
would become an outcast if you were to obey the
laws of your country--if you we're to promise to
obey them though many men have died-not
become ostracised-but died in its defense. That
reason constitutes no Justification In view of the
TACT that you propose. as l understand to con-
tlnue your polygamic relations. to continue your
adulterous connection with women who are not
legal wives however much may respect you as
an individual, my duty. representing as l do a
great and glorious government will not allow
me TO indulge In any personal feelings, but the
discretion which l possess must be so used as
to strike down these crimes of polygamy and un-
lawful cohabitation When men will not agree to
obey the law my duty, as the judge of this court,
requires that the extreme penalty be imposed
upon them. You will be sentenced therefore,
to Imprisonment in the penitentiary for the
term of six months and to pay fine of 5000 and
costs, and be confined until the term of your inn
prsonment mas expired and the fine and costs
are paid"
The Judge spoke with great severity toward
the close. and used the gestures with which he
always indicates his deep earnestness, though
he made no such manifestation of wrath as he
exhibited in the Pratt case
Bishop Clawson was allowed to visit his rela-
tives to take farewell and, accompanied by
several of his family, he drove out to the peni-
tertiary at o'clock Immediately upon his ar
rival he underwent the process of having his
hair cropped and donning the penitentiary uni
form The circumstances of the separation from
his family were peculiarly painful at the present
time, as he leaves daughter in deep mourning
over the death of her child, little grandchild
lying at the point of death and two of his own
children PROSTATE with typhoid fever.