Show from the new york herald improvement AND EDUCATION IN UTAH TO THE AUTHORS EDITORS AND publishers OF THE UNITED STATES the inhabitants of the territory of utah thronia through h their authorized agent agents desire to address you on a subject wherein you have the tiie power very greatly to assist them and the importance of which as an intelligent republican they are ard assured you will at once acknowledge knowl edye edre the extension of education throughout their territory whatever the differences of religious opinion between us or however extraordinary they may appear we know that we take the same views cfall of all ail essential points with our other christian fellow citizens and that we a ai 41 agree that education is the birthright birth right df every american citizen and the foundation on which his liberty must rest iphis if his country is to be krotec ted anarchy and disorder the under signed allu aliu alludes cles oles to those differences because it afe h been believed that not only our reli rell gf Z biffi differed ered from our friends in the states but that it was wag our intention to ai array ourselves against the tiie government of the union we trust that the late mission of our people to congress by which they asked to have extended gier aver over oven them the laws and protection of their great country has dissipated tins tilts illusion As aa the people of a state stav we loo too loolu kf orward forward and that at no distant day to be received into the union enjoy ingall the privileges and performing all the duties of our happy and prosperous brethren but they would present themselves at it that kus ius crr hour our as an enlightened and ana educated t people familiar with the labor labors arid genius of their countrymen and fitted by reading and reflection to take their just share in the th councils and defence of their great country how shall this be without libraries and newspapers how shall shail our children it atso also so great a distance from their J jel lel el HW citizens Iti zens who enjoy these unspeakable pr privileges RA ll alees ees store their minds with the noble abble intellectual efforts f their countrymen our soil ia is productive our climate not to our habits of labor lator and our people unit 0 and happy we worship the great and nd omniscient gli gil god many of our fellow citi whose ithone ideas of duty or happiness have F lied them 0 o q seek their realization in ifania L have bound found in their pe rau ney iy ay thither tint eliat our convictions uey key yn n duty were were derived from the same great at afa 1 aa us manifested through the holy scap 8 ps aup t although we receive and acknowledge ge T ua olvine command also from a later cevela dm while we claim the privilege is igi rin tin r to the wants of the body of our way tario brother brothers we awol confidently and earnestly ar nestly entreat file olio means of refreshing our wn and our ch childrens wrens inroads from the llie great f an all un n of ilc ill that will ever prove thal that 1 b agli there le differ difference encO of i aime lord through th the rea ire s v ha this foun tw w f lout ut it neither the christian nor the i 0 i s p pi r hope to transmit trans lit nit his faith in god and his manifestations in the thedis thodis dist diso cov V cries of science ende or to improve tile the condition of those who are living in the thed depths eptha of superstition and bodily degradation the position olour of our territory cuts us from the repositories depositories deposit ories of learning leaming accessible to others and we can only rely upon the distant periods of arrivals of our mails to learn leam what is transpiring in our common countr country y A library for cos constant tant reference and mental culture in the more abstract intellectual sciences is more than desirable i it I 1 is vital to our existence and prosperity congress wath enlightened sagacity that should always characterise charac tenise terise the views of the true american in matters of education has appropriated five thousand dollars for the commencement of a library for the citizens residing in tile the territory of utah and the pres president ident odthe of the united states has appointed the undersigned undersigner under signed to procure it ile he will remain in the city of new york a considerable portion of the winter for that purpose chimi whilst thus appropriating his time it has oc curneil to himself ana and anu ana his friends that a most agreeable and profitable method of furthering fishers 11 design would be to acquaint authors and u lishers of books and newspapers through u i 1 the th united states with the wants of his big jit Jia c and to assure them of the sin ere re gratitude with which donations from them will be received and such files of papers and copies of works can be forwarded by mail addressed to the hon george briggs member of con gress new york city the word utah should be written on the outside lofther of the en envelope vel vei enclosing them so that their destination may be more correctly distinguished from works intended for the ho honorable norble member himself by this arrangement they will be assured of their reaching their destination and of their appropriation to their avowed object the autograph odthe of the author will increase the value of his gift and convey to the reader of a succeeding generation a pleas of the man to whom he may be indented for his hia means of communicating with the mind ofa ora of a preceding age volumes umes firmly enveloped in thick vill WB WW gr r may be forwarded at your earliest co on lence as above requested W I 1 have the honor to be very T obedient servant your JOHNM new york nov J the scriptures havo have hay been published in two hundred languages and dialects and ma may be read in languages spoken by six hundred millions of the inhabitants odthe of the globe |