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Show DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SfSTAI.V THE UTAH "KI.XGl" The above question is an important one, for the American people are the American sovereigns:. Their fiat is beyond appeal. They make and unmake un-make Presidents and Congresses and Legislatures; in fact even' civil officer in the nation is the creature of the people. peo-ple. They have placed him or those who made him in position arid office, and can cast hi in aside as easily as they can an old and worthless garment. This sovereign power is not to be lightly trifled with, and it has in its great heart a sympathy for right and justice which makes itself felt the world over. This is the power which the "Utah ring" with all their years of experience in the country that gave some of them birth, have not yet learned to properly estimate. The Utah question has become a national na-tional question and the nation thinks of it. The bulk of the American people do not like some things which they believe be-lieve exist in Utah, but they have been grossly misinformed about what are to them objectionable points. Yet they cannot and will not endorse religious persecution ; and they can not and will uot see one portion of the citizens of America stripped of every vestige of Constitutional right to gratify bigoted and prejudiced priests, a few unholy-tempered unholy-tempered extremists and an unprincipled unprinci-pled "ring.'' The measure known as the "Cullom Bill" was introduced into Congress with a wonderful flourish of trumpets, but it was not until it came to be discussed dis-cussed tbat tbe full extent of its infamous infa-mous provisions was known. Then the country spoke through its press, and but a few journals in the entire Union had the hardihood to sustain the "Cullom Bill, "while the entire respectable res-pectable tress, with the exception of one or two leading partisan journals, condemned it- in the strongest and most emphatic terms. The Senate saw this and permitted it quietly to repose on the table of tbe committee room. Where is Sheby M. Cullom, its reputed author '? How was he received re-ceived by tbe people in whose name he had introduced the measure? He went back to his own district, sought the suffrages of its citizens for re-election, and was refused even the nomi-, nomi-, nation for candidate by his own party ; and he was rejected because of the share he had in the infamy which bore his name as a bill. They rejected hiui because they would not endorse en-dorse religious persecution, because they would not (motion such an attempt at-tempt to squander the revenue of the nation in carrying out a senseless and exterminating cruade against the people peo-ple of Utah. And the election of that one district rpoke for the whole American Amer-ican people when they rejected the man whose name was so closely associated with this attempted crusade. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. . Vice President of the United States, descended from the pedestal to which he haa been lifted by the suffrages of the nation, made stump speeches and wrote controversial letters against the religion called Mormoni-m and the people professing it, and threw all his influence in favor of the passage of this bill, or some other equally stringent. strin-gent. This same Sohuyler Colfax has again tried his strength in hi3 State of Indiana, after having stood as one of the sponsors for the Utah "ring," and his State rejected his men and rejected his teachings; and gave it-self into the hands of the party to which he is opposed. op-posed. Indiana rejected Colfax, and in rejecting him it rejected his influence, and his Utah "carpet-baggers." The two most prominent men in leading this attack against the Constitutional rights of a portion of the inhabitants of this great Republic, have been promptly prompt-ly and energetically repudiated by the people, who will not be satisfied with empty words and high sounding phrases in lieu of the statesmanship and just recognition of the rights of all which they demand. Lot the "ring" and those who aid it, "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest." The fall will not be a very great one when they go down, but there will be a fall by and by. |