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Show UTAH'S SIGHT. The Constitution of the United j States, the laws enacted in pursuance thereof, and the treaties entered into under tho authority of tho United States, form the supremo Uw ""of thin country, binding alike upon all the departments of government aild upon the whole people. This the sixth article ar-ticle ol the Consliluiion affirms in the plainest terms. The treaty of Guadalupe Guada-lupe Hidalgo, therefore, entered into botween tho United States and Mt xi-, co, is a portion of the supreme law, binding upon all. By that treaty the United States guaranteed to every Mexican citizen, who chose to become a citizen of the United States, the full enjoyment ol his civil and religious relig-ious liberty, untrammelod and untouched un-touched by invidious legislation; and it further guaranteed to the people inhabiting the region then ceded by Mexico, a republican form of able to sustain it. Utah formed a portion of that Territory. Ter-ritory. Its inhabitants had come unto un-to Mexican soil and had settled upon it, which by the naturalization law of Mexico, in force at that time, constituted consti-tuted them Mexican citizens. Whether Whe-ther they called themselves United Suites citizens and in their loyalty to the stars and stripes would recognize i no other flag, does not matter; in law and in fact they had become Mexican citizens, and were, consequently, guaranteed a republican form of government and Statehood as soon aa they would bo able to support the latter. Now, in view of the continuous continu-ous etlbrts to secure special and prescriptive pres-criptive legislation, aimed at the majority of the peoplo of this Terri-toryf Terri-toryf the right of Utah is plain. A gentlemanly member of the Utah "ring" remarked a few days ago, when the unconstitutionality of thei proposed measures waa urged upon him, "Wei1, never mind; if we can get a bill through Congress, before you can get a case up to the Supreme Court to test it, we will have accomplished accom-plished our purpose ! ' 1 This should be written -on the memory of every man in Utah who has the welfare of tho Territory at heart, that all might remember, under all circumstances, circum-stances, how frank an avowal had 1 been made of ulterior motives and husft nnrnoRCR designed bv the Utah "ring," no matter' how unconstitutional unconstitu-tional the means by which they should be accomplished. All that Utah requires to entitle her to a State government, by virtue of the Supreme law of the land, is the requisite population for one Congressional Congress-ional district under the last apportionment. apportion-ment. There is little doubt that she has that number of a population, and jwith it her right is, to adopt the constitution con-stitution framed nearly two years ago, organize a full State government, Bend her Senators and Representatives Representa-tives to Washington, and if refused admission by Congress, fight it out in the Courts until tho decision of the Supreme Court is obtained in the matter. |