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Polygamy In The Courts

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Day
22
Month
September
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sai.T LA.KE, UTAH, Sept. 19. The Grand Jury of the third District was impannelled this morning. All polygamists were exottsed. The Monnon journals are vcry bitter on tha United States law officers in corlSotjupnce. ChÍ3Í' Justico MoKenn, in his charge to the jury, said : " Yott lite sutnmoned not to try criminal cantil but to say whut criminal casos allall bc presentad tor trial. In the discharge of this duty you will bo gfövorned by the sarao principies of law Which govern grand jurios in Muine and Montana and Georgia and Ar ama, principies of law everywhere upplicable throiighout thn rnpublic, The cnmeH of nuwfler, arsen, Iftrccny, bignmy, artultery and riot in Utah are; the same criirtes ür elsnwhere througliout Christendom. If thero is anything peouliar in the sitüation in Utah it is the peculiar conduct of soine men here, and not any peculiar principies or policy tlmt are to bo enforcod heve. Utah belcuiKS to Ülb T'nitcd States, and the pcople of Utah, like tho p . ple of the ïost of tho country, l.o umenable to the laws of the United States. Tliose wlm obey the taws must lic, xhiill be protecttd in their right?. l'hosi! who do not must answor at the bar ef jastio6abd tiloso men ofinfluenoe who ,n nractice dofiantly (i:i.imjjIc upon the iiuvs thoniselvc, nlid by preoopt teacb itliuis tn do go, stiiuili? W. Ihr fust to fee! tli ffrfn frrip ot' the fffw, rnilirr than the tbaonre men whom they have misled. (Ji'iifli.'moii, it is your duty and mine to inforce the laws. Lot us do so without :V;u-, tivcir, ntt'iction, prejudioe or the lioDo of reward"

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Michigan Argus