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Show "LOYALTY." An cxai'liiitfly Miiall uiiiiuriiy ul tlu; ifiliaLitmiU of this city arc incc.-.-aoty paraddl id tli HV-reii t new-papers a.s the "loyal eiLizfn.H.'' Ijoyal to wltai? To llic jmpremacy of tlio l'iiit..l States Kv:rnimmt in tliiri Territory, ilu-y nay. WIhj has dUput'l, dciiii-.l, or tlouljtcd liie rinlit of the United Slaton govern-m.mt govern-m.mt to niiprtMimcy in this Territory? Wc liave yet to meet tiic man. But a Territory of the United States U not a penal colony, in which every soul who resided in it in a slave deprived of all hkIiU of citizenship, and shorn of every .surrounding of liberty and freedom. Territorial tutelage cannot go even this far; and while the Mipreuiacy of the govern tii'Uit is not questioned by any one, even the government has its powers prescribed beyond which it cannot step without usurpation of authority; and thoso limits are neither vat-ue nor uncertain. These "loyal" people are hut noisy declaitncrs. Some of them aficct loyalty to the administration while hating it with an intensity that would sink it to the nethermost pit had they t ho power. Such are of the llourbon Democratic style, who merely a fleet "loyalty" bciiHO they hate the M ormolu. Othern hold office, or have hopes of holding it, or are the " 'umblo followers" of oflico-holders, or are ignorant of the real designs of the Utah ring. Their "loyally" is not to their country, which is no way endangered, en-dangered, nor to I ho constilu'ion, which some of ihcm hold it treasonable treasona-ble to refer to, nor even to the administration, admin-istration, only in so fur as thcro uro positions and pay involved. If they call themselves "loyal" to the Ko publican pub-lican party, it may be true of a few, but with the greater number it is a sham and a oloak of hypoericy as thin as gauze, assumed to cover their other and roal object to "u-e up" all in Utah who oppose them irropecttvc of creed or parly. These same individuals are also referred re-ferred to as "the law-abiding people of Utah." That is: somo of them set at defiance municipal law end Territorial law, when it suits them, declaring it unconstitutional; aud some of them set at defiance the law of congress against polygamy, while affirming that it is con.-titutional. Some of them arc polygaiiiisifi by solemn contract; some of them have a wile living in one place and keep a mistress in another; some of them hire a "wife" when they choor-e to temporarily assume the role of "husbands;" and thus living in defiance of law, human and divine, congressional, Territorial anil municipal, munici-pal, thoy'meckly and modestly claim 10 themselves, and to themselves alone, the title of "the law abiding citizens citi-zens of Utah." |