There is a wide-spread desire on the part of many of the sectarian denominations to have the Constitution so amended to give it a religious air by having a recognition of Deity incorporated in it.

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One of the great reasons for the liberality of the Constitution is, that it was formed by men suffering under oppression, many of whom were infidels and opposed to religious bondage in any form.

If the recognition of a Supreme Being is based on the Christian idea, it necessarily follows that Jews, infidels and others, whose conceptions of Deity, widely differ therefrom, will be more or less curtailed of privileges designed to be conferred in the matter of religious liberty by the original framers of the constitution and Brigham’ Young’s “Adam-God,” left out in the “cold altogether.”

Seriously, we think the constitution needs no amending in this particular, and tendencies of the age are all towards greater religious liberty. . . .