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Show A MODEL STATE- By telegraphic Ukpateli it will be ieen that Sargent, of California, has introduced into the House of Representatives Repre-sentatives a bill providing for the admission ad-mission of Utah into the Union as a State. It seems to have some of the salient points of Wilson's, to be introduced intro-duced into the Senate. It requires the people of Utah to embody in the' pro- posed State constitution an article pro hibiting forever, irrevocably, without the consent of Congress, polygamous and bigamous marriages, and all concubine con-cubine relations. This latter clause would make Utah a model State, and the Solons of Congress will he wise not to attempt its introduction in the other States or other Territories to he mads States. Concubinage being generally understood under-stood to mean certain marital relations existing where no marriage ceremeny has been performed, positively forbidding forbid-ding it by Constitutional provision will be a novelty in the way of Constitution Constitu-tion framing. But may it not have a tendency to keep away an amount of bachelor immigration that might otherwise tend Utahward, and a cer-tais cer-tais class of women generally accom-1 panying aggregated bachelordom ? How Utah will be able to look down upon Chicago, New York, Boston, Pniladelphia, Sc. Louis, Cincinnati and other places, and upon many of their prominent men who are so virtuously and so violently opposed op-posed to the "immorality of Utah," while upholding . a social so-cial structure of, concubinage which rears its front in the face of legislation and religion, and flourishes in spite of both ! Mr Sargent knows what he is about, and Congress knows what it is about ; and the people of Utah can do as they please should the bill pass, "Let the galled jade wince !': |