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Show the neutrality of tliq Uranslt routo. ABOMSHJSO POLYGAMY BY COSUBKSS, The Republicans In the House are at work at, otiOj-ofc -those 'twin relics poly, gamy, tryiiig lb abbtish it, in. Utah.. They propose to jireScribo by act of Coiigrcas, the number ,pf AVivw.n mdi.shaU.haye. Jf Congress lias. atiy'Siick .power, itcn'n ai Well niakb 4lic numbef'one, twotlirep or. thirty.; pt it'caii enact tfiaXbq shall,. have no wifo'ut uti eltCongressaii -legtBlate at all oirtbissdbjectJits'pbWers'of legisla-tibn.areuiiliuVittii. legisla-tibn.areuiiliuVittii. "It ca'n'as wcl dcter-minc dcter-minc tho, number of clitldrditft iiiaii shall hare, the number of servan'tSi "the color bl thq'same, &e.f &c,. If Congress ban legis-Jate legis-Jate on. the'domestio. relations of peopie iu iho Territories, without consulting the wants and Wishes of said people, then tho doctrines of the Revolution and Republicanism Republi-canism are ikc sounding brasaand tinkling cymbals to all who are so nnfortunato as to live beyond the corporate limits of tk'ci States. ' ' " ' ' What nonsense this isl That a person acknowledged to bp possessed of certain inalienable, rights, even under a State government, by passing into -a, .territory, suddenly becomes nnmanucd,nn infant, an jdtot, with; no rights, itojpower to act, ho business to think, and no wishes tp be regarded. re-garded. This is n pretty doctrine to he preached in a Republican country, and in this enlightened day, If Congress can put down Polygamy n? a religions dogma, Congress can put down Sbakcrism, Quakerism, 'Trcsby tertanism, Methodism, or any other ism not believed in by a majority of its ptont members. Congress can do no auch thing. It itiona W regale tkefflr m lodMft' tywkro ffiito 1 - w to Tcgkie ft for tkccoSfi I ?orea now byCbflstifationTrS f-M - 'OlJCtonttncnliU, their wgecftlirtefmcntRrj " ' vH'"1 g King OEORCB'a overboard, W':?:lr xelund JPfbindqtlch , ' - |