Brigham Young has been" indicted, at the suit of the
United States, for polygamy. It is not likely that he will be convicted, as he can buy or terrorise one of the jury into an acquittal ; but a serious trial will show the Mormons that the United States Government is master within the Territories, and compel them either to suspend "the institution" by revelation, or to leave the boundaries of the Union,—the latter a step which they are most reluctant to take. The difficulty of the trial will, of course, be to prove that the secondary marriages are marriages at all ;
but this will, it is believed, be got over, the marriage ceremonial in the United States being nearly as lax as in Scotland. It is, in fact, the same, with the proviso that one witness must be known_ as a minister of some denomination.
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