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 clusion to which it should arrive. On the other hand, inferring from the tenor of the decision, the judges were not, by any means, ignorant of—what outside of judicial quarters, might pass for a related circumstance—that, infesting a region somewhere between the Mississippi and the Pacific, there is a band of miscreants, wicked beyond all who dwell elsewhere within the boundaries of christendom. Also that these interlopers, squatters upon the public domain—which they have the insolence to turn into fields and gardens, and to satisfy their unhallowed appetites with the produce of the same—have a religion, which ts neither Methodism nor Presbyterianism, nor Episcopalianism, nor Baptism, nor Congregationalism, nor Lutheranism, nor Quakerism, nor any other of the isms or sub-isms which prevail in the other States and Territories; and which, therefore, is beyond description corrupt, ungodly and infamous, and must have been adopted through the direct instigation of the arch-enemy of mankind. Furthermore that these reprobates, in order that they might practice their unholy rites, without interruption by the good and picus—who constitute the remainder of the citizens of the republic—retired into the wilderness, a thousand miles from the abodes of civilization and christianity, and thereby became obnoxious, of evil example and a pregnant source of infidelity, misbelief and corruption to the people at large and to christians in particular; by these means implanting and instituting a national sin to the intense disgust of the Almighty, who may, any day, be expected, in punishment thereof, to descend in person, without notice, to wipe out and eradicate, without discrimination, old and young, righteous and wicked, not sparing even Congress, the President nor the Judiciary.

To fill to overflowing the cup of their abominations, these reprobates, it is understood, have malignantly taken to imitating the example of holy Jacob and David and Solomon, and multiplying their marriages, This proves them—as it did the said holy Jacob and David and Solomon and the saints and patriarchs of the elder dispensation—beyond hope vile and incorrigible. The notion—which is one of theirs—that every woman is entitled to the privilege of hearing legitimate children, is proof of their inherent licentiousness. The practice which they pursue of absorbing all the females of the community, so that none shall be left over for prostitution, demonstrates how utterly they are depraved. The idea which they entertain, that the fraction of a