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Show i PROPOSITION TO SETTLE THE MORMON DIFFICULTY. ! "C. A. T.," in the Cincinnati Commercial Com-mercial of the i;th hisL, says: A way seems to arise by which, as ; under our free system such couimuni-i couimuni-i cations should he brought about the ! Mormon church, the Mormon people, , and the true course of law, justice and tolerance may be secured, it was pro-; pro-; posed at Salt Like, lo several Mormons in my presence, by a distinguished : member of the church. Namely: That the Mormon chiefs , should nut trifle with time, nor hesi-; hesi-; tate upon the brink of danger in this ; ai.c of breech-loaders and volunteer i soldiering. Lei thaui dismiss the freak ! of an exodus to some other Territory, where in a few years ihe storm against polygamy will burst forth again. A ; forcible resislauce, in my judgment, 1 they never contemplated. Let them ; believe that many thousands of Gentiles I take pride and interest in their past I energy and useful acquisitions, and do-i do-i sire to see them protected in both and . in their worship. But polygamy is ; not only a tenet; it is a practice, and it encounters the whole force of the creed and current of the common law of civilization. Here is a way to deal with it, extinguish it, and make a wholesome audilourishing Stale out of ao anomaly. 1 Let a convention be called promptly, oven at once, before congress gets well i under way with next session's business, j Let this convention prepare a State constitution and concede polygamy lor the right of local government, trial by jury, and a share in the benebis of representation in the nation. If necessary neces-sary to the dignity aud conscience of 1 the Mormon people, let them thiow in - their preamble or codicil the rcsponsi-j rcsponsi-j bilily lor abandoning polygamy in ; future upon the government they ; petition, and u.ncede it to the cause of peace and tho preju dice of the time.-. The country will not be unjust enough to demand them to violate the duties of paternity and I wedlock in marriages already eoutract-; eoutract-; ed, where lite complaint does not ari.-c within the muriiage relation. Let them staunchly, inviolably agree and bind themselves to keep the agreements of this State constitution as they make it, : and to altesl l ho same let them make ! the oath to sustain monogamous mari-I mari-I tal fidelity in all future marriages a portion of the official oath (0 be taken I by every Stale officer. ' This concession will be state.-'iiKiir;liip and sacrifice togclher on the part of those ltitlueniial apostles, counselors, and quorums who will briDg it about. They will approve, themselves worthy to preserve the State they have erected and remove the last cause of interference interfer-ence with the civil rights and freedom of worship and faith. They will share in the benefits of a State to which they arc already bouud by the lies of race, interest, and neighborhood, and will fiod compensation for tho loss of polygamy in riches, respect and stability. stabili-ty. They will save themselves by a speedy movement of tins kind, for such political neutralization, I might say annihilation, as has overtaken the South. l(,or, if they do not hoed tho warning, it may be too late ! One rash act, the folly of any wretch, may blot out Utah politically, materially, ecclesiastically, een as a tradition 1 "Now is (he accepted time and now is the day of salvation 1 " |