Show declaration WH WHEREAS ERrAS we the citizens of the proposed Pro rosed of nevada N evada considering considers con sideri g that ill t vve have sul suffered lored front from a series of 11 internal a and rid external evils or so grave d nature as to lender forbearance forbear arici a virtue tie longer and believing lie iz the time lias now arrived fur us to tal e so bome e pi orni nent action upon our ill ture lure well e 11 being as a people and believing further lier that a plain statement of tle causes m which it I 1 ell have havear impe I 1 I 1 oil us to pursue kursu e th this is course vill convince coni ince a candid arid and unprejudiced public we mould ther therefore etre state chata ahat a long ti li am ain of a buses abuses and usurpations on the part ot or the hie mormons cormons of lantei it utah tox tott a aids i ds the people of western utne evi evince it ces 1 t desire on their part to reduce us jig under an all abo absolute lute spiritual despotism such IMS has been our patient sufferings and such ii now the necessity fur for dissolving dissolve ng all political i relations elat ions chich tie together and v e dearn it riot only our light but also a iso our duty to disown dis a such a government men t and pinch a people abit and to form new guards for out security we ve bould charge upon the Mor mormon mons a gross gros violation of the ine organic act creat creatha hg the t lie territory ot of utah Illey llave de declare clarel themselves hostile lios lile to tl the e constitutional government and institutions of our ur coi thy they have colbet declared llad war a against the goven I 1 en ment of the he united states jepy TIP have refused to submit to its laws anle b e they have when ever it suited them clamed alamed protection under these laws lass 1 1 I h ey have denied to the of tid ted states a right to try in their courts the vini ilois i 0 9 of the hs law when such auch violators v vicie ei e moimoi 6 they have so managed by their legislation a as s ID 11 ep defeat 10 91 ill JH tier tice protect crima cri criminals ma is arid and rd der the I 1 I 1 laws a s and airl the aurb authority arity ot of the unite states stales it in utah territory lern tory void arid and of tie no effect ibey hive conferred powers on their ter rit crial marshals so extensive as to render old oid the of the ills JUdis hals of ill ibe e U cited states stales it all cases they have conferred upon probate judges judg t the h e right to select jul juers aps in 11 civil and cri criminal enina I 1 c cases a sea in violation of all law arid and all frece dent they have also given to said slid judges and justices of the peace absolute jurisdiction in ill all civil and criminal cases case they have hake made all laws all a 1 g noder birder the he people of this arid aid in defiance of I 1 the ile laws lav a of the united 8 baates t a t a I 1 they hire hare b by at an act of the legislature de declared declai elated ed all unmarried men inele eible as ju aymen unless they have resided in in the terri tein tory two years year the have imbrued their hards bards in in the ilie blood 0 of f our citizen citira citi ra lille they Y sung their way nay ac across r oss the cont continent lnell a aid ild have deprived them ot of their property aith out dr d ir courie of la idu they have poisoned the minds of the indians against us and forced us fre to open nar with them liem we have hare petitioned to them to redress and to protect ui in in our right but our appeals have lave ever been treated with disdain and eg lect elect TO lo continue the connection with utah longer we fear would involve us in treason and rebellion to our country we further consider that the dangerous difficulty of transit and expense of commit I 1 i callon with the seat vf the 1 territorial ernt orial government of eastern utah of themselves hafl valid 1 I 1 reasons to induce us to furm a separate te territorial rit orial organization we have applied for assistance it Istance to california but she has declined to aid and protect us its because we were without the jurisdiction of the state we have for the last two tao years invoke invoked congress to erect for us its a teri Teni tonal I 1 gover ment and that body has been deaf to our appeals therefore believing in in the rectitude of our r intentions and belie believe vii g the he time has arrived we make known arid and declare our entire and an unconditional separation from eastern utah to provide for arid and secure our futura pro lection tec tion we pledge to each other our sacred obligations to erect for ourselves a territorial government rounded founded upon the republican principles of the coll constitution at atut I 1 on of f the united states fa tates arid and that we will maintain arid and defend it to the best of our ability and we look to the support and protection of the federal government and our fellow cit citizens izena in ever every part of the union territorial terl 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