Joseph Conway Hemingray

AN ENGLANGLING ALLIANCE.

Grandmother is greatly distressed at the letter of the Supreme Court Judges to Judge Hemingray, and thinks "the statement in regard to the Territorial laws, comes with a very bad grace from at least one of the Judges who signs it." This is a mere indulgence of malice, but suggests a useful reflection. The Judge alluded to placed himself in a false relation when at the instigation of a committee composed of such men as Smoot, Burton, and Raleigh, he undertook the task of codifying the laws of the Territory. It was an entangling alliance, and officers entrusted with the execution of the laws cannot hold intimate relations with these disloyal an law-defying priests without losing their independence of action. We do not ask exclusiveness and prescription of our judicial and executive officers, but we demand a fearless and honest performance of duty. This, as has been shown on a hundred occasions, will bring the Federal office-holder in conflict with the chosen servants of God, and then if they have any hold upon him it will be tugged at with galling effect. Thus we see Grandmother threatening the Judge before alluded to with making public some scandal which she says in her issue of Saturday, "we have neither space nor inclination to unfold at present." Oil and water will not mingle, and those entrusted with the enforcement of the laws cannot associate with law-breakers and criminals without derogating from their own usefulness and injuring the public interest.