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Show THE ADMISSION OF UTAH. '1'he main argument of thorn oppo.-fiil to tho admivion of Utah into the sisterhood sis-terhood of Status, bs, that if admitted bef'oro the Mormon in balanced by a (i entile population, the former will have wipremo away and all State omeiulii will he fleeted in tho interest of tho church. This objection to our Statehood is entirely obviated by the modern political dogma of centralization. centraliza-tion. Tho President has only to ak of congress tho prerogative of declaring martial law in a State to have it granted; grant-ed; and it appears to us that this sword of Damocles suspended over Stato sovereignty is ample security against tho perpetration by a Stato of any very dangerous enormity. lu these days when States' rights are made, at tho whim of the President, to succumb to tho dominaney of drum-head jurisdiction jurisdic-tion thero is no danger of tho terrible condition of affairs which the crusaders pretend to apprehend will follow the nd minion of this Territory as a State. |