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Show VVILLIAI H. HOOPER. Tlie Viah Delegate aud Female-Snffrage Female-Snffrage Advocate. ,'CONCLCtiED A yiretty parallel is just here imro-dur-ed by the delegate to help hi? theui?: 'When Kobert Fulton's firs: steamboat steam-boat moved irom Xew York to Albany, so iar as concerned the value of the vessel, he had made scarce a perceptible percepti-ble addition to our merchant marine; but the principle, the practicability of which he then demonstrated, was priceless, price-less, and enriched the nation more than if she had received the gift of the vesel bulk from and loaded with solid gold. ' I will not, Mr. Speaker, trespass upon the time of the House by more than thus briefly adverting to the claims of Utah to the gratitude and fosteriDg care of the American people." Then follows a direct attack upon the Cullom Bill and its unconstitutional unconstitution-al character, and the delegate closes this division of his speech with a forcible forci-ble plea for the integrity of republican government, especially as touching religious re-ligious communities. The pas.-age shall close our extracts from Mr.Hoop-er's Mr.Hoop-er's speech. 'T suppose, Mr. Speaker, that in proclaiming the old Jeffersonian doctrine, doc-trine, that that government is best which governs least, I would not have even a minority upon this floor ; but when I say that in a system of self-government self-government such as ours, that looks to the purest democracy and seeks to be a government of the people, for the people, peo-ple, and by the people, we have no room for the guardian, nor, above all, for the master, I can claim the united support of both parties. To have such a government, to retain such in its purest strength, we muit leave all questions of morals and religion that iie outside the recognized code of crime to the conscience of the citizen. In an attempt to do otherwise than this, the world's abiding-places have beeu washed with blood aud its fields made rich with human bones. Xo govern ment has been found strong enough to iaud unshaken above the throes of religious fanaticism when dr veil to the wall by religious persecution. Ours, sir, would disappear like the 'basele.-s fabric of a vision' before the first blast of such a convulsion. Does the gentleman, gen-tleman, believe, for example, that in aiming this ciuel blow at a handful ol earnest followers of the L ird in Utah, he is doing a more justifiable act than Would be, in the eyes of a majority of our citizens, a bill to abolish Lathuli-cisui Lathuli-cisui because of its alleged immorality, or a law to annihilate the Jews for that they are Jews, and therefore ob-nuxious ob-nuxious '! Let that evil door once be opened, set sect against sect, let the Bible and the school-nooks give place to the sy.ird and the bayonet, and we will find the humanity of tu-day ihe humanity of the darker ages, and our beautilul government a mournful dream of the past." The Hon. W. II. Hooper is an American of good degree, and he is just one of tho.-e men who, if met in any part of the world, would bp immediately imme-diately classified as "the Yankee." There is nothing about him to lead one to imagine for a moment that either ei-ther he or his family are of recent importation im-portation from England, for everything illustrative of corpulent John Bull has entirely gone out of the man's race, yet evidently he is of pure English descent. de-scent. He was early identified with the commercial enterprise of this country, coun-try, and was a captain of some of our first American steamboats. Ho indicates indi-cates a personal reminiscence when he refers in his speech to llobert 1'ulton and his first steamboat moving from New York to Albany. He thus became be-came connected with many of the influential influ-ential men of tho nation both in commerce com-merce and in politics, and several of our leading ututesoien were his associates associ-ates in youth; and these commercial and political connections, formed when he was a "Gentile," have since been turned to much account both lor his people and his own political uareer. There is scarcely a leading man in Washington, either in or out of Congress, Con-gress, who is at all concerned with the government of the nation, or who may be useful to Utah, with whom William H. Hooper is not on foeakin terms, yet he is eminently riot a "speaking" but a "working" delegate. He is about five feet eleven, not largely built, but built of iron. There is a wonderful density in his constitution and physique, almost as much a1; therf is in Grant, for tfent& is the General's distinguishing quality. His head is small, but one pound of his dense brain will do as much work as a pound and a half of some men's sponey brains. There is a ti'ht nipping about the lips which are like the man, altogether expressive ef nervous eui-r-ty, and not or au implacable irun will, this comes of his impulses, for which he is strongly marked, and those impulses im-pulses lead him to generosity and cnn. sideration for friends, it- lUs ine nr'aus of benevolence and Veocratiun well pronounced, while ihe intellectual! faculties are prominently developed and sharpened by a cood decree of Combativeness and Dcstiuctivi-nc.-.-. i His chief and characteristic tjuaiity of mind is sr.-viciiy. 'litis, wuh hU uu- j daunted energy, ha-; made hiui one of I the most sueces-lul men anion? the Mormons in ail the commerce and enterprise en-terprise of L tali. j , i |