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Show THE TERRITORIES. I'taU, Montana and Wyoming are. moviriK for rel'orm of tlie abused practiced prac-ticed ou Territories by the lU-publioap I iiarty, and call tor the election ol : ah Territorial otlicerH by llic people. Tlie j present HyaU'in ol 'imposing incoiup-l tent and di.-ilione-t idiicer up'jii a : people is nut republican, aud ought to c cUaiiftid. Carton Itcjittrr. ' The progr.. of the a.-.; ii too rapid fur TerritorieH to be inm-h lmis-r held in the condition of colonial tutelage which now cxi-H. It docs not matter what party U in puwor, American rc-pulieanism rc-pulieanism cannot aliurd to continue copying a .system oi'governaient which even mouarchial di'pendencica arc de-airoiu de-airoiu of throwing oil'. Tito Territories, ut present arc looked upon pretty muck as the spoils of incompetent but strongly partisan ofliou-hunters. What would bo more absurd than for a Democratic Dem-ocratic administration to send rabid Democratic partisans to occupy nil the principal oflicea in a Republican Territory, Terri-tory, to thrust their radical-Bourbon views upon the people on the ''will ye nil yo" plan'.' And it is equally absurd to send to Democratic Territories Republican Re-publican ollice-holdcr.i of the most rabidly-radical class, who uncuin promisingly pro-misingly duinn every Democrat as a "rebel" no matter how loyal ho may be to the Constitution, no matter how ardent and unwavering his patriotism to his country. Wo do not call attention atten-tion to the caso of Utah, lor she has been blessed with very little cither of honesty or ability from abroad, and has got accustomed to it; but if Congress, which bus yivon the right ol self-government to naturalized Nubians Nu-bians and American-born Mongolians, will confer tho full rights of citizenship upon tho thousands of tho Territories whito and colored who aro citizens of tho United Stalos by birth and adoption, and who have proved their olaim to respoct and honor in a thousand thou-sand ways, Congross will do ono of the noblest acts that any legislature has dono since tho Declaration of Independence Indepen-dence was given to tho world. |