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Excerpt from Plea for Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience: An Argument Delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, April 28, 1886, in Three Cases of Lorenzo Snow, Plaintiff in Error V. The United States, on Writs of Error to the Supreme Court of Utah Territory
I am firmly convinced, after a very thorough study of these cases, that both of these inquiries arise on these ree ords. I am to submit to you a constitutional question which involves the religious liberties of these people called Mor mons; and it arises in this way: This man was con victed three several times on evidence which was precisely this and no more, that on a certain day he casually introduced an acquaintance of his to two women, who were present in the marshal's office when he was under arrest, as his wives, and that is all there is of his language which is in evidence in these cases. The whole of his other conduct, if you grasp all its incidents in one bundle, resulted from moral and religious duties, as he estimated and believed his religious duties to be, and this I shall demonstrate to you, I think, is the precise question here. Without a doubt, it presents a constitutional ques tion, and a very grave one.
The first proposition to which I have to ask your atten tion is stated on the 22d page of my brief.
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