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Show TIIK "TKlllI.'XK'rl" TKDl'BI.K. j V liciher the Mormons will agree to make those eonee-.-iom which will it j is Migi'ted -secure liom coijjjresi a ' State government fur Utah we cannot prek ud to say, but our neighbor of the j Tt-ihifuK U fearfully disturbed over the pro-pect. He observes a eri-is in j every telegram, and a dent b-blow to I Iim friends in every rumor, lie fran- ! ticuliy urge the 'Liberal.-'' to send some agent to Washington to counter- j net the Mormon delegation. .Now, we ; havo no disposition to intcrlerc with our neighbor's project for a wtntcr'a ; terrapin ut somebody eLa's expense; and if tho "Liberals" are willing to make up a purse for the purpose of exporting the rotund Uoheiuiun who now drives a quill in their behalf in tho Tr ibune olBco, we will not say nay, and will even give, a Irille to help the matter aIou((. Hut we may perhaps bo permitted to indulge in a good na-tured na-tured smile at tho mild conceit of our friend in supposing that his arguments have had or ever could have any el-. feet upon the question of congress admitting ad-mitting Utah to tho Union. The Tribune's reason for opposing tho Statehood of Utah ia simply that j under a State government the Godbc- itcs would not probably obtain office and that therefore t lions ought to be do Stale government until theGodbeites shall be in a majority of the people. There are in Utah probably 130,000 Mormons, li,Oot (j entiles, and between be-tween thirty-five and thirty-seven CJod-boitea. CJod-boitea. It is perhaps probable that were tho people of Utah given tho privilege of selecting their own rulers and representatives they would take them from among those men Mormons Mor-mons and U entiles who represent the wealth, the progress, tho integrity, and tho best interests of Utah; and wo concede that it is altogether probable that no one of the thirty-five or thirty-seven thirty-seven Uodbeitcs would get office. Wo know how much this admission will damage the prospects of a State government at Washington. We keenly feci that when tho three hundred hun-dred M. C.'s and senator?, who arc now burning the midnight oil to eagerly eager-ly peruse our neighbor's two-column article "why Utah should not be a Statu"- shall Cod his statement thus confirmed by ours that there will probably bo an end of our prospects of sovereignity. Nevertheless, the truth of history must bo vindicated, and we can only plead that if Utah is to remain re-main in political pupilage until the Tribune crowd is in accord with a majority ma-jority of cither Mormon- or Uentiles in Utah, why our Territorial coat of arms is likely to represent our condition until the bee-hive is covered with the mould of centuries Aumla. |
