Show SPEECH OF JUDGE WM HVID ON no tl C or ra air te Q we rural delle ired I 1 col mr obbert jupt in maling the motion to it adjourn 0 able U JK die ili e onmon joy day was simply to define my position oo 00 ur lr a mate government fr for utah I 1 1 I was waa not aware that tho the duim or of tho the W would 0 nil take so ao wido wide ft a range or t mat at k stion it wo would u ld have invoked so much bitterness of if I 1 had thought so I 1 most certainly would not have made it and none more than I 1 do tint gentlemen gentl should have hard taken this once plan to speak in such hirsh hinh h of tho the i government and ili 1 hat very fact will do more again lt tile admission of utah than a petitions signed by as many people i r fv for the government corn ment will at once say why t tace people who abao the government and its offic oman eret aro are not fit people to join tho the sisterhood of loyal states stales I 1 have noticed more than onice that generally great wisdom marks your courso in worldly matter but in tins this instance it was waa truant when I 1 became a citizen or of this territory I 1 had determined to leep keep aloof m alfaras far as post possible ible from frodi the iho conflicting which seemed to disturb the extreme no of the public mind I 1 did not come eteri to make a warfare on a people to whom I 1 was rat t rely ilick a stranger because tuce thea differed alith me on maat anital religious religions or be C cauce 0 w borno porno n bad ruca sought refuge w within lah in t their he i a walls walk I 1 came to lo practice roy my profession in a q quiet vict way and to net art justly and squarely towards ill all men n bother mormon or sentill a n nothing oil 11 it excel 11 azonor aught set down a I 1 m 11 NO diw I 1 am proud prend to say that the religion of toy luy fathers lim not dot so blinded toy vision by prejudice but that I 1 can see good by whomsoever even though it comes from modem zion 1 it was well known to many that I 1 was opposed to tile movement anil and for far tear of causing ritt icord I 1 contemplated ing and would have done so but for the ilia urgent solicitations soli citations of gentile and mormon friends on this floor therefore this his debate deba teia ig as aa distasteful 10 lo me as it can po possibly sibly be I 1 to 0 you but as I 1 am here I 1 will tell you yon candidly and honestly toy my views without sacrificing T a 1 single l it gin thought for policy when principe principle i Is is at stake I 1 will not occupy your tune time very long but I 1 feel it my duty since I 1 was the innocent of all this debate to say my a few words in reply to what hia has teen becu sa said id on tuc the other pido fide among the reasons I 1 gave nay I 1 wall waa opposed t to a state late was tile taxation I 1 have ne not heard an attempt to controvert that reason tho fact is ii it is incontrovertible an onerous tax lax wilt will necessarily follow keeping foreign capital out and retarding tho the development of the ho re neros of the ditc it will bo be tile the luetory of other new estates blates written over I 1 have attempted to analyze the labored arguments and carefully prepared nrc pared speeches of tho the gentlemen and tile tho result I 1 have arrived at 19 LI this I 1 am a gentile mor president by education and conviction and by my joy action here re represent nt in part the gent gentile sentiment ofa of salt alt like lake county and if my mormon friends who elected too me thought I 1 might be used for forthie tile purpose of a gentile color to this Conventi ali I 1 have to my y is they have Inita mistaken keu tile man why sir I 1 venture the th af ase that outi 0 of the jentile gentile delegates on I 1 his floor there here are arc not fifty gentiles len tiles in salt lake county and I 1 doubt if a hundred undred li in tho the territory who favor a state stale government at the ilia present time the gentile an sentiment of 01 utah territory iq n op posed to a tot bt ilo government and you know acl low it mr president na as well as I 1 th do and tho the rea on wit you were teI to the honorable littion I 1 audo on do was in my opinion that you yop bo be t td awid d as a false falie light to derive the uninformed as to the true 0 clotile ortho of tho cili cilloni zeni of attah they want a state government be alx cana mckenn with will them on questions of law because Ie cause tho the supreme court or of the tean d does oes not hot tender render its ila dock decisions ions in in accordance ce with their ides adv of law base as they gendral govern seat is ii a I 1 a isis oppressive cpr vo so 60 t the ile llon n hout about narrowed a down olor t lo 10 0 tate alu iii kinle art gobern dad m I 1 is IS balina XA lina YI who is this alia mon Mc makilan Kilan that you have with such mph lod bad tato thae and ungallant tone abused abud and if I 1 acre cro di to violate the ho pro iro P pric nc t tica or f I 1 n t law and carole a lualice I 1 er liao not tail I 1 might draw comp comparison arlson between the man i motives and his bid sri ti this floor such a course is M foreign to III my feelings and re to ta my reason lo 10 fur r I 1 have air arrived v at ab a little 0 of f lie w when hen the r VITAS of f the serpent hag no harbor in my ro cut aad I 1 thank god if I 1 have not the power to fill nico men up I 1 clory alory in the thought that I 1 star am too up beeble to pull pall AD locala Is down I 1 will bastil glance lance tit at some or of the leading historic points ints of judgie 10 nio lo IC afcan 0 a D tb the 0 mt nun aw whom a in ib the e president ant of f the united states stale appointed and tan abo senate of ilia united states confirmed as chief justice of utah bod and let lei us ua we KG it the testimony of his hi utah censore I 1 when tien quite a man lie wata elected i superintendent or of public litI schools in tho the county of if barsto stu stata of new york its in which he li wu Z reared NO ared III i lie a WM still elected county judge indge of th the oame 1010 county a fw few yean year afterward abe fenot republican ever r elected and bof for four years year and do daric 1 b tin a term many of him hij doe wiona were pub lithen in 1 towards ward IM atlee reports and if adopted at tho the rules or of p in that a great state alle noted for its in lend legal binl minda and preat great statesmen we biml ml him next elect elected a to the th r con a ire r m 0 rl i h a isted t nit e d S stale batea from the gs saratoga sr agog a district Ii is strict tri c 4 t served e arc 41 the term and reelected re elected to congre condrew ConR rew in the autumn of 1 child my colleague wu war acrid criag i hi is eloquent ae kunrt traitors trai tori to the tha fag of our county country and berving tile the JOYS 1121 I 1 heart to arm nn in nevado we this duch ed man raising gaii ng regiment of tile BOYS in bloe bine and nd at its head as colonel did tit dix Ingul nu ihil shIll ani at the llie port about tile the peninsular campal ann cnn irl and against richmond there cleta d the honor or of that government axi which has hag been today todar ho he con can tra tract clel cil a malarial nial anal fever which thich so BO pro stir rotell fit leini in that hn his life was M JeR dp paired ired ot of consequently in jul july I 1 ltv ta ho he d liia comm Lion and and was removed 10 0 IL hr i s len home and it WM was six years before lie w able to unto tile ties of his profession judge NIC Kean numbers among amone his I 1 LI best and vannest annc many of tho the wisest and cf tho most among whom is ii hui h 11 companion oom panion irk in arms armi IT try S grant at 11 or of the h a united stites and alec who 0 paid hint him ft a h high g h e fornili nilI I 1 elt in b iiii last to lo co or on liis ration in ulah th so you BIC bee whatever may be said mid against hu his integ integrity nty or however liui hist natives may bo be tire record af of his hia rait past mat nio ito I 1 will triumphantly refute it among thoc who know him I 1 have known judge mckeon lut but a short boort floisand floi time cand aad BO am not hippy to say although I 1 differ with villi how leini on some q questions Cs was of law to thu this tem tory 3 01 ol at I 1 believe him to lc be a gentleman of lionor and integrity in Kenty and mccu occupies pled ito 0 high a plane piano that the missiles mis silea of hm his adver irie iries s fall barm lents tit at ilia hia feet sir 1 ilin don t speak be Fenti sentiments ments of myldra lone but bat I 1 re no echo tho the centi marts of thoa sandi in this territory and hundreds of thOu tho jandA mands beyond the mon n lains I 1 alk he peroration of if in my e lie 0 I 1 was mainly coffin to ap CA a to tile tho majority to pac what it t alicy aey call a divine ordin ordinance anee of tb their ir religion rel cli irion gion lor for thi the coveted bauble of a sute government why what chango change has como come over thi ill faint of your dreams that you with will greedy ears cart caught the sweet cag dence of fit the Plea pleaders ders voice woon wooing you on faour to bo be crocked on OD the trea cherom croul silla from conversations with wilh many of houi all whom honi I 1 believe to be gentlemen of integrity and honet religions religion 1 condic buom from what it bat I 1 know of your history your persecutions trials and privations t in no forvour tor your religion ion lam not prepared t to believe without it new revelation that 3 prop pro crity has so weakened your faith as aa to trado trade off a divine ordinance for a tinkling cymbal I 1 entertain we too much respect for you 1 and I 1 so no docs tho the Chi christian tian world to believe TOU on are re sincere it if you make the suen sacrifice aa unless now lights conscientiously ly guide you ou once lo 10 tho the ro re pac L the world iou i liaa has for honest devotees to t their faith and you are fone bonc rone gone like lucifer never to m rise IN hat would you think of a who to raio in a peaceful entrance to a 5 river tit thereby enriching hu iq coffers cluora would be willin willing to the crescent fyr fr tho the greek re crow 0 you would and a act ct w the a or thou thought gilt slid and acted a ami rid wit whom ilia bristiw tain w world arid s d with slid and granted anted ou succor mor acs I 1 ur on did malo bialo the sacrifice tou iceo 0 ve without more li light t tit the world art i would cievo you yon were sincere I 1 no oi I 1 your very it to your ur faich 2 it amid tile trying which acl en car 1 you like thi the still small vol voice 0 to found u nd a lodgment in thousands thou sanda of honest henu hearda all over the llie world what will history what will the world ray my of a convention compa vj almost entirely of miter day baiato care among whom are six rix apost loi and wan awen ty ll 11 of ready and to B one of af lots t their air divine ordinances for tire sale of a state Covern government ment hearken to the worda of a who is is no enemy of yours but fl a lio 10 has el every cry reason to be be your friend who has no DO favors favora to ask except those that one christian may rightly demand of another stay atay where you yon are and bido bide your liniel learn to labor and to lo well wail t unta td a new ordinance ordina aco ahall mani manifest fett itself for your guidance |