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Show THE CONSTITUTIONAL CON-VtNTION. CON-VtNTION. Tlirt pi iii,i -s wnli wliiuli tit': 'IVr nioiiil hiju.e ul' rrprc-malivi:-; -a.--uJ the bill providing '"r 'h; el:ti jn of di:('KKh:i to a couwniiuii, tu Ii jI'i a con-vtituiwn ami malm unan-iii'-iil.-i tor tippliruti.jii i'ur iht aJu.i--i iii l L'tah a.i a Hiut.', sliowi tli'-y :n; in fanifi.t in (It.- matl.r. Tli-i ' ill will liltily coiuu up in the cuiiLoil lu-uwr-row and r&dv) cnniileraiin ilm-iv. Sol having ennvcr-M with any im'in-L.:r im'in-L.:r of tin; t'ouMi-il on lln' maii'-r mv have no id.-a Imw it will le; view. -1, hut it dimiid, and iiuhI liUIy w.ll, have the earliest and mu.-l carciul cou-sirlruti.jti. cou-sirlruti.jti. U is un.lur(o."I that tui ftnH will ri:ri;ivt; and Wvi'fLi any pmpo-ilion pmpo-ilion coming from this Tmilury, rrlu live to 1'iuh ohuioiu tin: r i x h t of Slate ftOTcrcijjnly and Si'lt'-ivvi nuu-nl; and tlio puoplo should Itavo th.j t.ppor-liinity, t.ppor-liinity, through th-ir olnnrn dclcial i, of expressing thuui.M'IvtH an lu wlnl they deiiro in rtijaid In ilm mai iT. The bill provider for the ih:t'lion ul a hundred, and four di-legaii-a, twonly fro'U Salt LaLe coiinly, luurlcrn from Utah county, nine from Cache county, eight fioiu Wclwr county, seven from Hanp-te county, ix each from Box Kl.lur and I 'avis counties, live from Tooele county, four from Waatcu count, y three each from Summit, ,luah, Millard and Washington counties, coun-ties, two cacli from Kich, Morgan, Kane, Iron, Sevier aud Iteaver coim-lioi, coim-lioi, and ono from Viuio county, tt further provide lor the holding of the election on Monday, the 'J'.Uh ii-.t., in conformity with the Territorial election elec-tion law, ur.d for the county courts to verily the election and isrmc certificates to the delegates elect. It aho pro-rides pro-rides fur the a.eujuling of the contention con-tention in thia chy on Monday, February Feb-ruary I'.uh; and lor other matters connected con-nected with the duties of the member". mem-ber". We have suid little concerning I' lull Ik-'Iuk admitted us a Slate, because it wan a matter on wliich we desired that the people at large should express llicuittelvc; and we are gratified that tho lcgilaluiu is so prompt in providing provid-ing an opportunity fur their doiii so. Wo liavo listened to tho ui'mu-ment.s ui'mu-ment.s of some of the li w who are opposed to I tah'.-i udiuis.siuu into tlie Union, and the plincipal one hccius tc he that by Mich admis-ion the Mormons, Mor-mons, having the great majority ol numbers, would control the new State. This is the most fatal argument these opponent of tho measure could make. They talk of republicanism, of the rights of American citizen,-, of bro;id and liberal iiistitutioin, and they proclaim pro-claim their anxiety to have a hundred thousand people hi ripped of every riffht of tielf government nnd controlled by a few hundred rabid hat en of the majority, led by oHiee-holders and office-hunter:) who manile.-t the very won't ehariiet eristics of their class. Kor, let it bo distinctly understood, the majority of the non-Moruion popula-tiun popula-tiun iu this Territory are iu favor ol Utah's admission. Hut who are the Mormons':1 Wh.it arc they.'' Having made Utah, having pioneered the oneuiu up of this whole interioi country, having done a work for themselves them-selves and the nation which command? the admiration of tho intelligence ol tho world, these liberal-minded (!) tew who compose the Miiall minority mi-nority of opponents to this measure, would have them robbed of every right which a republican government and republican institutions guarantee to them, that they might rale, and that a few ofliee-holdera might have the power to play the petty tyrant over a free- and enlightened people. Complacent Compla-cent vanity and impudont egotism could scarcely go much further. In their greatness, their liberality and their over towering intellectuality they ar satisfied nobody in Utah can govern but themselves, and they are prepared not only to rule Utah but the whole country, and the entire world if ueces sary. "They are the men and wisdom will die with thorn" appears to be their motto, from which, however, we humbly hum-bly xg to divsent, assured of our own littleness wiu-n compared with their greatness; and, somehow, we imagine the people entertain the .same opinions that we do concerning (hem and their programme. |