Show ON THE MEXICAN TREATY in the fira put part of our review of frank fullers speech we have admitted tint flat brigham young g dij did not offer to tie the government the mormon battalion lilt ilion but that he did cw authorize hi his agent to offer his able bodied men for ico the service contemplated was on bach ch as transporting government supplies Hup making military roads road building bridges and fords and any employment of the kind for which they might have been needed deeded it at a time when the US nation tion was moving towards the Paci pacific fio find and trains of emigrants emigrant were already en routs route for oregon and california in fulfilling brigham ighani Br youngs to him dated and written in the temple of Neu Nauvoo voll jesse C little through the of col thomas esuo rost post master general kendall and others obtained an inter view tic wu with president ident polk and laid be b fore forc him tile the petition from which we have bave extracted offering tho the entire mormon people for service to take posses I 1 vion ion of california Cali fonua in the issue then pending between mexico and the united states sl tua for the of the pacific delegate Delc Eite littler Litt Lt lea Illes awn own words to the president were if I 1 you ym will bat mut w in this cyiril I 1 hanla p my r as tho the of abi thin p hlll a lb whole tol body will wiil stand ready at zen TOOF au D it ul mt u one ODO am IQ in the land to we iro kro a solas coin t and bd should our territory bo I 1 ed v v hold bold may to enter the doldon fjald of batlo ud than like oar aft flit flithers here in nudo tho the on oar an or pua ty ai M thu this very critical time too wath wash iceton was in a furore of excitement over tile the news which hid jest just arrived that general taylor had just fought two with the mexicans justet jut at talis loom le poll polk granted to the tco mormon morion delegate liia big aft first in terriel ter alad when mr little was the president was in do deep Conver conversation conT gation with general sam ILDI houston fou and other distinguished statesmen over mexican Af af fullis Tair here flow BOW was van an 0 o agent from brigham young como come to ofer the entire mornion mormon people to take poes pOT sion of california the very thing the nation dation debood to do polk accept el the offer mu designed signed to employ two we ablo able bodied AS an expedition for foi that pur JiOM rOne orill half to go 90 overland under the command of general Rea racy and the other half balf by way af if cape clorn while main body or of the people was to follow and settle cn tho the province of f upper california which their theira I 1 fathers and brothers brot loni bad thus thos ia the iha name of the united tho the whole is else dear r and consistent with national nati oDal policy a and 11 d h baa AS nothing 01 ol cruel exterminating antem tiona 95 1 l charged against the govern the transaction the aka battalion mail t next leads lead us on to the treaty with me memo which mr fuller affirms the unitta state lava have i violated in not granting to utah a state go government reboot from the fit ertl st ile ll eay gays NOW it 1144 bem held lit blui I 1 loster 1 t b I am bmw rwei which t lo barb barbai 0 lah nation X ii i bay 12 1 I 0 sis not ty I 1 1 late fa at pollo 1 an a abom no moo tiani na 0 T F ament roch each as bu bao too been ka imposed apon J 1 diew leff lial bug Is jer e uit that oba W m lier her his ton tha dipetro or iol airm yo par 10 edmont V not im in aad not ia in I 1 fact I 1 th than lb alint 1 which hiell ax bed anor or to ur cassino or urn t enjoyed by bit other ill or P poll hotl diTtie nr of the tb b tion HOD receiving the octon cession the nio opinion has bu il hwn praised upon tn abu time floor of co I 1 lr r th ha yr mbel from Ouri arx HOD air r b alir kod by much that uie the pledge contained in tha trel to lo into the tb abow altoft 0 of the coded ronal try who tio by abir fotioo 0 or r I 1 inaction bon should decide lo 10 a lor favor y A alu J M J ud 4 to admit them the Joy mth eta the rights of came of tile led 8 let dingy 10 lo the ali brind rah odthe of atio was u by ved icum cance to provide pa sovereign statehood fyr for her several adl fields at the tb mili cation of 0 the lart cpr o probation and that this population in the ali that tc Is daring ahli brief f period of minority hould be maintained aid pro tooted in the free on en I 1 JoyT Deot of their liberty ud and 1 I in tho arco chicri ci cri of K religion without mr fuller fulle further quotes a higher autho authority eity secretary wh who a of the citizens of ono CM portion of this thin acquired territory eaid md they TO no a pearlo having as important kod oi BA dean to u the tb rw is of my any pes pe plo in ur the called states they bare h under gloo no a chug change of sovereignty only but bat in all 9 oth other their rith ie ara tt IN lien they last the rui arnht t to to them az by the constitution of mellon they acquired red I 1 to triable of amar m ci timas secured to them by the of cf tho the united states stata involve the protection of their heir I 1 of f bow libarte litT lT ma and of their tarry all thom tin erht of lif which the llie united state can lawfully deprive no a continually on ver it 7 they hey my may extend their conci lamIng m arni m oscr state mid nd T ade mil it rr bat it carries with villi it freedom and dd security to the subjugated cart condan conD tries tn you hard com anted to bring annir this region into I 1 the he value no not aa a A bory territory na not si u k s proTia am oe I 1 not as a colony but AS a bible the fact li is that the he mormon people deop le never dover was vaa ceded to the united unite ed states by cican government ern ment though the territory now kno known wn as utah which was then a artof the iho province of upper california WILL the mormons cormons were not contemplated in IQ the iho most sense in iii the treaty but wen ratha rathey regarded as tho the tilro forar the protestant invaders of which the just before abo breaking out of f t iho I 1 a if war ar its had j so go bitterly complained for threatening to overrun its ita territory ly their 1 migration migrations they never were subjects of mexico tut lut american america c citizens i and as aa wo we haro bird feen theace tho eyes a G government overn actually designed to talo take aaman laco or of their mi cration gration on to the Jacif iob occupying 1 calif ons I 1 through their AS aa aho he instructions a a truel lions of secretary marcy to generi general kearney have hare it indeed the orden forwarded Wl lo 10 Kear Kearey nty weri were a lo 10 clr proceed to Cali california califern firn conquer it wall and set act up a government for or the united states and the mormon battalion wais vas designed for purpose par pose and u tho the so qu el avows kearney did principally by that battalion battal ioD take 16 possession of le country set mt aside bremont still ind mile malo himself governor several hundred mormon onil alao who S sailed 1 from newyork New York in tho the ship brooklyn Bro ollyn were the first american citizens who ar jh the rai by of lif S san an francisco Francus ct about 60 tuo time that commodore stockton ran up the american flag they started lilio like tho the rest of tho the nii te rox ican boil and the utah pitin cers actually did tale take possession po I 1 of this country in tho the name damo of the united Sta tc all the argument mon t then about tho the people of utah being despoiled of rights which will h were tc cured to them by th the treaty it absurd every right which the mormon haj to a stale government govero ment is that which aci balonga D gs to hi him m as aa a citizen or of the united states and not as aa a transferred citizen of mexico he bas many claims it must be admitted which would have been long ago allowed had it not been for polygamy but ho he has han none latent in the mexican treaty |