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Show SULICCTKl). THE CO.111.VO POLITICAL CON. TEST. The following is an extract from the Stilt Laka oorrospontlonco of tho Alta, Fun Fmucitiuo, of May 22 : CENTRAL TElllUTOKIAL COMMnTKE OF THE LlUEltTY PAHTY OF UTAH. Among tho uieuibcrg of the com-niitioo com-niitioo woro Geo. Wood, C. J. Mo-Keun, Mo-Keun, and Kogi.itor Maxwell, the two Cornier of whom took an active part in tho deliberuliouH of the comtuittue. Tho announced objoet of the couiujltec ia to eheet (by organizing into a s;ugle uia.-is all of tho anti-Mormon element in tho Territory, opposed to the one-man one-man power, or a theocnttie goverir meut) the overthrow of Btigham aud the priesthood; aud the opinion was ex pressed that if such an orgatnzatiou eould be ell'ected, and it would aet vigorously, vig-orously, two of tho counties of tho Territory Ter-ritory might give a Gentile majority at the election next August. Thia is a plausible programme, but there are many dillieultics in the way of carrying it out. The (jcntile population is discordant, dis-cordant, and the time will soon come when the national politics will here as elsewhere, becomo the issues in our Territorial elections. Politicians with prospects ahead will bo chary of incurring incur-ring for the sake of a trivial, temporary triumph now, the lasting opposition ol lUoruious. lu illustration of this opinion, opin-ion, 1 have been informed by an ex-United ex-United States Judge that the original disturbances at .Nauvoo between the Mormons and the citizens of Illinois, which led to the Mormon exodus, had their origin in tho violence of party teehng. At the lirst general election in Illinois, after ISiO, the State was uearly equally divided between the Whig aud Deniocraiio parties. A few thousand Mormons at .Nauvoo held the balance of power. Party feeling was intense. It was considered by each party an essential of success to obtain the Mormon vote, and they bid for it viciously. The Democrats obtained il and carried the State. The price paid was a charter for the city of INauvoo, which invested the municipal authorities author-ities with autocratic powers; in fact, created an imperium in imptrio, made the city independent of the Slate, and here began a conflict of jurisdiction which ended in the settlement ol Utah. - THIS CHARTER, TUE PRICE OF POLITI-. POLITI-. . CAL ASSISTANCE, Granted by this great Gentile State of Illinois to the city of Nauvoo, conferred upon the municipality vastly greater powers than toe charter granted by a unanimous Mormon Legislature to this Mormon city confers upon our municipal muni-cipal authorities. 1 have heard ii complained here in Court that the Aldermen Al-dermen of the city were all fx ojicio Justices of the Peace. Tha charter of the city of .Nauvoo made the Mayor, ex officio, District Judge, and it was the exercise of judicial lunctions of the Mayor that first caused trouble between the Mormons and their neighbors. Nauvoo was a city of refuge. illains from the surrounding fled thither, relying re-lying upon a writ of habeas corpus, issnor y,y tha Mayor as Judge, to escape es-cape the clutches of the nnrnm? oili-cers oili-cers of the law. Ii the political necessities neces-sities of parties in a great State would thus count the assistance of an infantile Church; think you that party spirit in this Territory will defy that Church when it has grown to man's estate. "'But," says Judge McKean, "we don't propose to war against the Church, only against members of it, who violate the anti-polygamy law of 1SC2, and against the one-man power" meaning Hrigham. In considering the Judge's rulings as to Territorial rights, and his general judicial style and ruling, it has struck me that be rather favored the one-man power, and I have thought that, if a believer in Mormonism, what a splendid successor he would make to Brigham in the event of the resignation, resigna-tion, deposition, or death of the latter. |