Show inconsistent CONDUCT OF THE TEE STATES TOWARDS HER HEB I 1 in a republican government so BO liberal and professedly enlightened as that of the united states a person might reason reasonably abl y expect to seethe see the principle of popular sovereignty reig nty the basis nawa which the whole hole political machinery is alleged to rest cai etia i out to 60 the fullest extent and not only each state but ale al each territory be left to operate so long as they kept within in the bounds of th the constitution agrain again n it is not strange that our revolution revolutionary ary fath ers era were more or less influenced by th the a pre tee dents of the government whose yoke of itaf taxation ution without representation they had i so s 0 bently i moy thrown 0 off ff b but ut it actually is in this boasted tag age e of progression I 1 I 1 the I 1 var vor principle i in ciple against again st which our ou r fathers so manfully mainly struggled should be carried out towards our own n territories almost as axtens extensively ivoy i Z ati by great britain towards I 1 the colonl colonies this I 1 is as entirely opposed I 1 to reason ju justice stipe and the professed principles of freedom ana and kobular po Bular feig nty as it was in the days adys i ot ol the revolution and the perpetuity per of 1 so s glaring an inconsistency can only be accounted for z upon the principle of influences human weaknesses delight in oppression and love of even though unjustly obtained and exercised such will continue conti to be the practice so long a as placement placemen pla cemen office seekers and dema bognes can manage m anaceto to hoodwink and lead or r divide the masses of the people the revenue of the united states state s is is rais raised t from duties and land sales sale for I 1 at present the mail carrying is reported not to pay expenses this is taxation so far as duties are concerned and is revenue e in in every sen sense se of the word and ala bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives senta tives now itis well ell known that residents in territories osy pay revenue in common with residents in im states on all the imported articles they consume in the purchase of public lands and in the payment of postage and for all this khow how many votes have they in bills of such vital interest and importance I 1 not one no more than the colonies had in the british parliament the colonies could draw up a petition and forward it to the home government for their consideration and a territory can only send a delegate to congress a mode but bat little diore more than tantamount with the privilege of petition as the delegate has no right to vote on any question no matter of how much importance to his constituents the inhabitants inhabit anti of territories in addition to paying their proportion of revenue are proportionally interested in the administration of the affairs of the general government as managed by the president and ana congress aind rightly so since they are members of the same body politic and hence in a free government should also most unlimitedly be members of thi the same sa e body corporate it may be asked are they not no are they taxed an and d are they liable to have their legislative proceedings and internal policy scanned by those who are in in power without their voice yes though fortunately for the development of freedom popular sov is beginning to be better understood and many of the most intelligent and influential of our statesmen and writers writ ers are battling for territorial rights to self government but this has to be done in the midst of much violent opposition from the partisans of hoary headed superstitions and false traditions through 0 which craft they have 1 their place and living but how taxed and subject to be controlled in the acts of their legislative assemblies 1 without any election in the matter matier by having no vote AS we have shown in the body bly where I 1 all revenue bills mua originate nor for the appropriation of that revenue and by the wording of acts establishing territorial governments viz iball all laws passed b by the and governor skau y all be submitted to the congre I 1 0 alf f fac h united states and if disapproved shall be null and of no effect you can now clearly comprehend that all the territories of oar our boasted republic although contributing their full quota to swell the public revenue are entirely at the mercy of men for whom they are denied the right of casting one vote for or against so far as mere dollars are concerned this tyrannical relic celic of monarchial usage is not so particularly ticul arly odious but when it threatens to interfere with the internal or home policy of freemen of the descendants of those patri otic sires sira who fought to achieve popular I 1 sovereignty 3 it behooves every lover of liberty and equal rights in our union to take a bold and unequivocal stand against the f further ur prevalence of practices so rankly savoring of despotism there is still another incongruous feature that should not be overlooked and that is the mode in which the appointing power is exercised thus thug keeping open an overflowing and of corruption bitterness ter ness and oppression to more clearly elucidate this inconsistent practice we quote noah websters definition of a republic aca a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is is lodged dislodged in representatives chosen by the people it has been shown that a territory in the matter of taxation without without re presentation ovil is held almost precisely in the same relationship to our parent government that a colony is to a monarchy and by the definition just given it Js ia obvious ehst the appointing power as aa exercised is another link from the same chain of barbarous why so simply from the fact thai the Bo governor vernor of a territory is the executive or sovereign power thereof and is appointed by the president and senate men in whose elevation to power the people to whom the officers are appointed have not the echo of a voice this usage is ia another case in the similarity before alluded to and is precisely such as great britain exercised towards the revolutionary colonies all this 1 is but cold shouldered treatment and left handed kindness to those enterprising persons who go forth to redeem the unsettled wilds of our country whereas a nation so wealthy with such an extent of unoccupied domain and withal so boastful of should axce eltena wary possible encouragement to the peri I 1 ey and improvement pro of new regi regions olis and in lieu of fettering and discouraging by bj the arbitrary and tyrannical exercise 1 of highhanded highhanded power should break off every sha shackle clile and guarantee the broadest exercise of the freedom that is consistent with the constitution n who are the men who settle our territories who make the first roads road sand and bridges open th the e first farms build the first houses and i make the barren waste aste rejoice they are rt the he most energetic and enterprising of your citizens and have been raised side by side sidd i with the residents of your sta states tes to whom you vouchsafe the full fall and free rights of self government and a i voice in your I 1 highest and does the enterprise 1 I 1 necessary neoe esary to found a now new sett settlement leme n t d i squal I 1 I 1 I 1 II I 1 t afy them for knowing their own wants making I 1 their own laws and choosing their own I 1 officers shame on such an absurdity and I 1 a double shame on all who would put the I 1 weight of a feather upon the elastic step and buoyant fortitude of those most loyal and I 1 intelligent pioneers who go forth amid hardships i and privation to multiply upon american soil the happy fi resides of american sons and daughters what should be done by the parent government to f oster foster the extending of the area of unalloyed freedom knock off the shackles which now bind the expansion of 1 the full force of her territories and to do this effectually and consistently whenever they petition for it and present a proper state constitution admit them into the union as states with the privilege of sending at least one representative and this too regardless of the number of their population but if this is too long a stride for the short steps of old usage 11 and for the I 1 square rule of old say so begin by allowing their delegate a vote as well as a voice expunge the usurped authority to disapprove their legislative enactments and i permit them to elect all of their own officers except such as are also appointed in states to carry out the policy and laws of the general government and a person to look after I 1 the proper disbursement of such funds as I 1 I 1 congress should appropriate to assist the creeping child to speedily attain full f ull stature I 1 if this is still requiring too sudden and great an expansion of the parchment skin of old tradition it does seem that thai the I 1 I 1 smallest amount of consistency would compel the appointing power to gratify the I 1 wishes of the people by appointing 0 officers of their own choice A few personal perso nl items and we will leave I 1 the subject for the present I 1 I 1 where was uncultivated utah in the i tops of the mountains begirt by still loftier I 1 alpine heights and clad in robes of desolation 1 until a noble people fleeing from the md hand band of persecution solely on account of their religious faith came and began to decorate her sombre garments with the bright hues bues of civilization thanks to ex president millard fillmore who through his republican consistency and an ardent desire to extend all the evenhanded justice in his power appointed brigham young to be governor of utah a man who was unanimously the choice of every resident in our territory and ad honor too to president franklin pierce who so long withstood the howlings and the scratch ings and ings at the door of the white house of the hungry hunters of office who wished to fatten I 1 upon the spoils to spy out the liberties of an innocent moral and industrious people and reap in fields which they had bad used no effort to make or sow saw so w but the pressure was too great greab even f for or his bis ami tM i 11 i 0 impelled to give way he acted with all possible magnanimity aty by appointing the gallant lt col steptor to be our governor an appointment that could not have been more acceptably ini made ade outside the ranks of oe our 0 own population we speak understandingly upon this subject for we have the honor of a personal acquaintance with the colonel and so far as our observation and judgment extend we have found him to be in every particular an intelligent honorable and upright officer citizen and gentleman it was this fact coupled with his knowledge of the anani unanimous wishes of all our population for the reappointment appointment re of governor young with his h having signed a petition to the president and congress to that effect with his familiarity with the illiberality of such appointments and with the certainty of having to resign an elevated and highly honorable position in the army to serve but two years yeara as a governor where the united voice pr preferred gov young to all others which doubtless moved him to ref refuse use to accept t the he 11 ap x this refusal is stated upon report which if true substantiates the correctness of our oar 1 estimate of the colonel and corroborates orro borates our idea that president pierce made the best I 1 appoint appointment men t for us that our enemies would let him I 1 if bany any free born american citizen will successfully ully combat the correctness of the cho main main principles i ples so briefly set forth beneath I 1 the caption of this artile article we cewill will examine his re reasoning and see whether by its light i we can cau detect any error in what is above advanced |