Show guarantees cor I 1 thank you for your courtesy in printing my letter on re bellion on monday and for your editorial comments thereon permit me now to pertinent interrogation at the close of the following paragraph of your editorial A people without political power ellroy civil only by sufferance and that is against the principles of our form of government the pr ill ft tl on then is I 1 vill tile people af utah stand by their con sti aution and what alq the guar buttes utah on tb I 1 is reasoning is ruled on principles opposed to aur form of government and that is the absolute fact she has no vote in national altairi alT airs nor voice either directly or indirectly in the appoint betit of her judicial and executive and her legi dative acts are subject to the veto of an imported 0 r 1 bich cannop be over gove rule adril e v en by an unanimous vote of both bouges of the legislature she has ec arcely the shadow of a republican form of she is in worse than egyptian bondage the answer to the practical ques tiou dinvill the people of utah stand by their and what are the guarantees is most assuredly the guarantees are the solemn compact offered in their con ution and well known character for honesty integrity and adherence to their agree manner in which they have fortified tile re at ing to polygamy ma ikin them araci colly and the baulf of people attempting to braak faith with a na cioll of ask the leading financial com mercial abir I 1 Foa dand other and corporations with aich tile cotmon have dade business for years alid you will bear from them aa of abir fidelity which vill establish epta blish their character char acte r for strict of contracts the hof itile 11 J borit y at the utah commission commie sion are compelled to acknowledge in their re 1 rt I 1 tile storman people are not y crites v hilt g atean any people P ve on asking admit 1011 int a the U nion than are embodied I 1 tie I 1 constitution utah has sub bitted tu congre lb did th sartes acquired put into their constitution a provi ion against slavery and making it irrevocable without the consent of offer any greater or ila strong that they would by their constitution those presented by I 1 think not why should there be any doubt at a people famed for t heir rity to their agreements will stand by their own fra rajil by their eleard delegates find by their own at the 1 you say f fair play co uld convince Cwi gres out the r bently adopted state would bo executed in good faith the republican party bouli be as free to vote for tire ad of utah I 1 do not consider myself able to of anything but I 1 am lure that any reasonable r e d itoi who will fairly look into this question of sincer ly must come to tile the objection raced is factious 4 d insubstantial arid that no people abo ever applied for admission as a state in the union leas deserved the imputation of insincerity than the citizens of utah who now respectfully ask for re ease anti republican slavery an d I 1 na L such strong provisions aings of the relations of their chased the very strength streng tb of choso penal p ro visions tire ob ejected to by opponents to their statch 0 od the proper quntion is abat more can any member of congress Con grees republican or democrat justly ask the people of utah to do in the way of constitutional guarantees than they have already given and oil which they ask for justice and the common privileges of citizens 2 A square answer to this will please FAIR PLAY washington D C jan 20 |