Show TUB people of utah have time mid jam am up applied PI led for admission into tile union onion of states our territory Tern tory was vl well ell fitted ready find and willing to lo assume llie ilia of a sovereign state I 1 i no I 1 0 truer or more loyal community dwelt in tho the land arid of 0 america than tile people IN lio sought bought to bo be brought into closer rei with tho the general government and tho the states hut but no every time tile ir OP application was war met with tho the response we cannot tol crato a polygamous state ilio 1110 system eblem of 0 marriage you sou practical t lough founded on divine revelation la Is with a republican reau form of we have iao no fit arther object lion to you as ag a comman community I 1 ty you tire laur I 1 nv abiding peaceable and industrials in I 1 without polygamy we shall bo be happy IN to receive yau among us and vast abt vou ci mi with ith statehood 11 at U last in a from pit nil quarters tora of ilia territory met and the propositions so often nade made by tho the nation ruid whatever their personal views or belief were v ere whether I 1 liay accorded ac cordei 1 l with those of tile nation niti onor or mt they nevertheless accepted tile con editions upon which J tah could bo be inneo I 1 sections ol 01 10 court country t ry ind and inserted in the constitution i 1 I 1 for submission iori to congress provis 11 egions on linking bigamy anil and polygamy unlawful und and punishable under the state govern ment anent all ali that tho nation had in tho the ilat bast urged upon tho the people to perform at I 1 H th the condition upon which their soy eov reign I 1 ity could bo be secured wits vas dono done by this body of delegates rt it was vas not a ro re body it no church ir sect with etli any ecclesiastical till nu dhority congress had kotbin nothing to do in connection etli such a quest question fell file proposition was ft as simply to ira frame a state constitution that would be abc acc c to the country so BO the citizens of 0 utah met in range maes conventions still and selected competent men to do tho the work mork thosa these men tho the delegates of the people met as aa a political body and succeeded in formulating a constitution that will empara favorably with that of any state in tile the union and certainly one that meets nil all the demands that havo have at et been made or that inn can roast reasonably ma by be made upon tho the people of oe utah there aro are individuals however alio who are riot yet Rati rationed Batis Bod sned they know knoby that with vilh statehood this territory could not bo a robbed and plundered by them as they have so BO long hoped they hm have 0 no wish dighto to aeo ace utah become it state until they themselves are in control here their wishes and anticipations in ibis connection aro arc however lion ever doomed to meet v ith disappointment tho the territory statehood or no statehood wil vill I 1 at least lio be spared that affliction |