Show tile The editors of the nou AOL tta ineer are law 5 er iTlie editors of the he quote judge bidge tory story in in their last to pro prove e as near as as we can ascertain that offices in in a ro re publican icart can goi government erni nent are established for tile the highest highe at public good 2 certainly certain every in in ment youth in the united states is avar of that fact offles in in a republic are es ca to give security tranquility an general happiness to all honest law lair abidin members of society subject in in their to 0 o the will of the mao naonta na onti rity irom a necessity arising from unavoidable circumstances tin till copt fsr r will cannot in all or in most cased case exercise itself in in a dh ret way if it could I 1 would as it was mas the intention ir of the organizers of lais government to rest the whole fabric fabri directly I so far as possible upon the common intelligence 11 telli gence and discriminating disca minati ig ius lus lice of all the m white bite citizens of the he LT united cited states of america over the age of twenty two tone t one years lears through the medium odthe of the ballot box where it I 1 is impracticable or impossible for the masse mases to assert their sovereignty in in this next most fea sable method is is substituted i chich aich is is popular so sovereignty byred resen tation the case of cf the territories ivill A ill illustrate the theory territories ern tones are states in in embryo byo going through the regular constitutional routine rout tiie of arriving at a point of state independence under federal regulations they are the offspring kofl pang of the expanding power of the union of states the v whole hole people of the country through the agency of their legislative judicial arid ard executive authorities ties regulate regi late in in essential points I 1 in generalities the he career of the territories for the ery cry good reason that they tile the people are the owners of those territories to make the matter more licie in in detail that our position may not be misconstrued the people through their representatives base conceded to the inhabitants of their territories 1 acs the right to regulate their domestic c in in 1 as they please subject to the lon 0 sti slit ution lution of the united states hut but so far as the form crai of those territorial I 1 are concerned and so far as the theet yet ursee esterd thede the de fac facia 0 o oil owners ners retain the right of regulating and ruling on until the territories progress in in strength ath till they are legally ard and physically able to castoff cast off their siv swaddling addling clothes and loom up p per perfect sars in in the galaxy of stars in the rela 1 eions chich exist between the territories and aid the union the right of the people of the latter to to specify men to fill the offices which they have created in the organic act by which abich they brought those territories into existence 19 clear and indisputable now bowl I 1 how are the people of the united states slates to specify those men are they to meet in in general elections over all the unon union as if electing a president and create them through gh I 1 tatt ballot box bos 2 no iso because this would be one oar or of tile tha before spoken caf cf and here arises the tiec necessity s aly or of 0 exercising e 1 l oj 1 ng power po ter ly by representation the he president of the united states a creature of the people representing those vibo created him pm per forms this business here the people exercise their authority but H ere it practicable for the people of the union to erect elect directly territorial officers cf course the inhabitants of the he territories could have no oice lobee in in that operation our propounds a series series of questions thus what particular talents qualifications and patriotism have entitled the present officers or of utah to appointments in in preference too to our on n citizens isit r right i Is it republican la Is it if according to the lie principles upon which our government is 13 founded 0 or is it rot not the products afan of an old system of cf european despotism 2 in regard to the first question me atlon by virtue of the constitutional facts m aich we ave have recorded above we are authorized to tell our that it is is none of his business whatever that is is a matter wholly and solely between the people of the organized states and the territorial officers whom khom their representative senta tive appointed the succeeding three I 1 questions may be answered categorically thus it is is right it is n american republicanism I 1 if it is not mormon it exact exactly lyl in accordance with the principles of the cop con git ution of the united states As to the last lostion Lf op stion our recitation of th the c relations ex 1 asting bet between a territorial and the general government emphatically shows shots that 11 an old of european despotism I 1 has bas no more to do with aith the matter than moimoi ism ism has with christianity and the difference between these tv two a latter institutions god forgive us for putting them aldace 1 I inthe in the language of te benator pator grce i is is as mile as the he space be tween heaven and hell bell now we ave would ask our learned legal friends as they say that it is aiom the volumes of the lead ead they are compelled to cull honest opinions of honest government govern it if any or of those antiquated works will show allow that there ever was a territorial go government under the united states whose government officers were talen taken joely from the inhabitants inhabit ans of such territory Terri tor or is there a 1 1 in existence any anywhere vilore today to day whose government men t officers were inhabitants of 0 such territory at the liae of their appointment per naps hops our gneids Ine fric ids in speaking of 11 the volumes of tile the dead 11 which hibb we viet alink ink most likely de designed sigred the readers mind to extend back beyond the establish meiA mei t of our government overn ment to the days das when european despotism stalked about evelym here tread 11 ng is with ith its iron iron heel beel the necks of millions buc luch b must be the case if our ow OR 11 ancient an all als will not carry them out it in their state bents by bv reference thereto in fact there n be no doubt upon tills this rol to from the 0 ol lowing remarks by orson pratt published shed hed in a sermon of his antho in the besci deseret et ACUS fur by their own church reporter thus t e t tint the of gd bort end 11 arol I ot vil vi 1 it fedgo gitlit r on it batern or is batern tatern n iy it i firs the earth about it clr the lian rii r ii row pow we ire see the he time our alludes td it was as about four cen trifles after he christian eraci era that the lit people had 11 honest opinions of hollest holiest bo lest government over 1400 years ears ago ago I 1 henry clay thou illustrious type or of genius ceniu we vie always thought you ou erred in in mahy political i ca I 1 perci ples but iben hen you jon declared tec lared this to b the fairest fabric of government that ever floated on all the stream of time y vou oil did commit a mos most t egregious historical blunden blun dei deil what though greece the cradle of lib liberty etl tyll of ancient times has reared a proud marble shaft to your memory and consecrated every stone with iab tears of gratitude and i veneration ene ration what though your lour mighty sils wisdom dom manifested in thoughts that burnek burned and words that beathe beat hd 11 could the minds mindret of your countrymen with a power all but me ic what though your our death plunged a nation friends arid and tees foes in ili deepest mourn g and threw a shade or of gloom wherever genius re calved the admiration of the multitude all this amounts to nothing for one who is authorized zed zd to say sav thus saith the lord god has declared that this fair fabri cof govern aten mant va is is not the tree of liberty but that it is 13 the fruit of Eurg i ace despotism that P po are ces despotic iia I 1 1 a u lt hed of prostitution an and y 1 n ol 01 I 1 whore where may tile v ci eddied riel tye lye repose ii it lire r 4 lt wry gi alons glons fsr dt late not on you goo geo washington nor you thomas Jeffers onnor you andrew jsckson jackson but on the immaculate prophet seer and revelator brigham kowis we make bake no apology to our for quoting from the sermons ot of the apostles of his church for gods people are one people just like man and wife are one back among the heathens heathers he athens of oe the united states and the servants of gods servants roust must do their masters bid bidding daig and endorse anti and uphold every word they utter butyok but you tellus tell us do you that hat it is altogether whether you obey the mandates of oy your pur leaders granted but just as soon as you become disloyal you become be coine apostates you cease to iou T you are freemen oh besl yes in the fullest sense of the word you oa are freemen beca because se you are free to make yourselves cringing crt ning slaves this is the same kind of freedom that frenchmen had bad A when hen they voluntarily bowed themselves to tile the yoke and acknowledged louis napoleon their despotic ruler the only difference between you and them is you have more of that of freedom than they had and the less of it you both have the more genuine liberty you have both got we again quote from the same authority 1 I 1 he people rt in own handi bardi the power to tot thrown I ue when he of the p ale are hi favor or ilie und u n d whole p opar joy a degree ot t hh ny y it if the he volie of tie the ps p pie i li daam for abt 1 Is wrong theu the minority how every right has to with the reat but ellb p we od a go a could be under th no explanation of these remarks is needed to those who vibo reside here and the language is so BO clear and unmistakable that to those at a distance it wm will suffice to simply say that it signifies that the likelihood of majorities committing errors can be obviated by gi gaung ing brigham Brig bara young the pas poach or to make all officers himself regardless of 0 the opinions and preferences of any ono one else just like lie he made IV 11 II hooper the delegate elect to congress the mormon people pretend to be dissatisfied with the men N ho the people of the united states send Ir as government officers but when we unmask their hearts and consider their true proclivities the doctrines which are taught their children in the ilia schoolroom school room and hurled in the teeth of the fathers and mothers from the pulpit it is plainly seen that it is ii not the men at all who chii they object to but the principles under which those men act the principles of republicanism as ap pilet to the territories alicy want all temporal as adwell well as all spiritual power concert grated in ill the e hands of fintain fin hain you young ng they want avant him to be at once the governor the secretary the judges the marshal and all I 1 why not act like lile men inell of cari candor dorand and frankness and come out clean breasted and state what you want tell the people boldly that I 1 you want to put yourselves completely under I 1 of vassalage to your master i brigham young that lie he owns your very ery souls and hasa has a mortgage on oil your consciences as security for the fee stint till this would be a much more honorade hono raUe course aba than n by A hipping me the devil round the stump by abusing those who alho give you the only libery of conscience and action that you ou possess we will now show allow the pitiable condition of the I 1 mormon people tile the disloyalty they are taught and the ty tyranny ranny that grinds them in in the dust duat by giving a few extracts extract from the sermons of their leaders their apostles Brethren tumble in your interest into L this I 1 lie gre great a I 1 re reservoir ser air and we will drink up the earth A and it d I 1 if you do not do it as the lord lives a the he first IOU presidency ar of this church a and nd tile the avoe fw eh e AN will ill de drink r balc you 5 on up if IE ou on trifle with me when I 1 tell jou douthe the truth you will trifle with br Bilg biggham ham and if you trifle with alith 1 lam in you will also trifle with angels and with god and thus you will trifle yourselves down to hell bell cleber C kimball I 1 do have that poll power or and influence here that hat no other man on this earth has in the midst of his community with the exception perhaps of some whom V we a call heathen and the members of the church of rome and I 1 do not suppose that tl at there can be a bishop or priest in the whole abole roman Catti catholic olle kingdom who anbo has a people around him that havy have that impei implicit cit confidence in him that this people have in their leaders brigham young in fact we have lived so long under the priesthood that I 1 for onedo oneo not want to live hie under any other government however I 1 will tell 3 oil that the govern ment front of god is is the only legitimate government upon the earth orson orion hade now how I 1 v will ill prove these things upon natural principles this kingdom this church this people are ills his ser servants our gover governor no is is gods servant and he will stand and we a never shall be ruled over by any of them again heber C kimball we have given this subject considerable space pace but by so doing obviate future lengthy y dissertations in in the same direction as tile the lawyer editors dont play on a harp of a thousand strings but one only there will be no practical utility in in being so verbose hereafter w ping A german at cincinnati made a bet it the that lie could drink h half dif a barrel rf cf lacer or hatli twenty four hours seeing how bass its hV iree I 1 going gain on tile the other party paid a W ay 1 stop and throw up tile the bet 0 ya b aa althere gyi There liere are at this thia time is two 0 vessels ciol ting out in salem mass for tile J trade on the coast of art lea J he and I 1 iii the affair are a spanish fit in in lei ew ajl and the pecuniary e equipment of til alien e it f has hag been forar forwarded ded in the form oruil gilb 9 in hard specie if the lg C ment anent really wishes to stop ib li fam trade it t must look north as aa wel as so sous leda anti and to these small email new england it ports a nt well ell as new york and ardnea new orleans Or leang the thera lie will mil be no difficulty in ili identifying g he craft e t at salem and this is not the first fast instance I 1 11 a abr tl alie to last few deiv months 11 mr buch Buc nan will be 71 e ears r a t close of his official term aich is is five yea las older ider than IV washington ashington adams jefferso d it Mid maddison dison or monroe fifteen years 5 ears oli old 1 1 ag than polk or dillmore ril rill linore more and eighteen tita eat 1 0 older ider than pierce 11 A MR C james ins has retired abe ti r h lt t tonal ia Ete enterprise ca carbon kniley and 1 bou atrial lt rial responsibility now devolves devol ces upon li eld J william mr TV arnie a ban ticul gilhofer gil ofer ad een II 11 poisoned herself with nith laudanum ina 0 A 1 S york from grief at HIP des eltia I 1 a I 1 dov UP town merchant ander iho tz she had been living last fa |