| Show 1 TO n A 1 tee following follow Kig memorial to congress Con itress was at the iho meeting ing held at 1 l the ait lu spight night the his details dehill jar f bo be found in our ian 1 columns to tj slie fhe senate and rome 0 cifes aff the I 1 A biml stoles staffs tit in congress your memoria lists learning aliat attivo efforts are being made by cartain parties to profit procure tb alii admission mirion of utah as a stall in tho the union beg to protest against raid a tw at the P pasq ajr of F tho he lil lag reasons lat the population of utah does oot not come coma up to 0 o the standard stan daril lately ci if by congress and ruri fur i on account of the un mif lie i e noy of population the iha chases of supporting top porting a 1 stale sta government obil in 10 it at great measure mci suro cripple ho energies of the P and nd retard tile tho or of this portion ii of tho the na lional domain 21 bemuse a large majority or of the citizens of I 1 utah entertain doctrines doctrin ra an n tol the adeas of fre frea d government inasmuch aa 04 thoy they bt be lieve in in one supreme os as roll As afta religious lead word they claim is ia Fu superior to all law lair and civil authority and even to the cf f the united ln li i q tat ceic aalthe la he hands or of such a people free fic 0 90 government being a 2 myth and the elective franchise a locan lacan ingless force farber we vis submit am liat they hey are arc incapable or of botn comprehending much less lea of a republican govern ro ril ent nt and are therefore totally unfitted to enter as a state into inco the american union I 1 ad U wo protest against t ile emili cai tion for admission us tm hypocritical and treacherous oua to lot tho the nation for far the tha all acason tho the majority of the peal people to of utah do I 1 no and caimol annot tho the permanence of too forms of government appertaining to the constitution stil ution orthe URI led states being compelled by theia re religion ligin to believe that all our present oo go cr ansti lations tire arc destin destined ild to pass away and bo be superseded by the machinery and rule or of their priesthood doctrines oh icil have bare been repeatedly promulgated and which it was repeatedly asserted by the mormon priesthood during tile the sorrows borrows end and fit rulea of tho the nation in tho the lito late civil d til waar icord roni about to receive i their fulfillment fulfilment in tb tho mutual destruction of both north and south ath wo object to tue the admission of utah lice avise tho the bulk citizen sor this tha territory who wham aro ar pealing for a state government aro are continuing to engage in IQ polygamy in violation Tio lation of the laws of congress and audio in defiance of ita authority i and who ahoi not having learned the supremacy of law over churchillo church die ilio tation tati aro are totally unfit un fit to bo be co entrusted trusted with the powers of state stale we know inow that the applicants applicant for admission Ulis sion bare it in their pr proposed constitution a provision suggest bog it a willingness to submit to t sulli conditions its congress way may impose upon apoll them in the he act of Ad admission by a bieh it was nas intended to comey the idea that hat t they will bo be willing to abandon poleg first 1 be c a a the bulk balk of the lie contention end 0 m ui 0 g this 11 state constitution are themselves anil and FeMMI TY because it is ia in an unalterable doctrine or of the th mormon church as aa declared in the most binding of its so BO called revelations and ami reiterated by y its ita present bead thab that no man 14 can by ii rally any awk iliS Vl if 4 intend ik t a the ce e kingdom he is a poga ga ml in proof or which aster assertion tion we felti your honorable body to tho the rue mc morial by to crog resa la in that which was w passed by an immense convention of ortho tile church aus carlt of latter pay my saints hold held march 1870 it il is ia said that tho the saints looked upon the tha principle or of plural marriage iii amago ties as a principle revealed by god ad underlying their every hope of salvation ind and happi bampi na ia m timo time and eternity almi illey fry dmd ifan of god W through J sil smi dill 1 l op roch ce it A ily ane anui of civins beang jamial inthey f ikey aj binl it a and nd ia tk cullom bill left them but the cruel alternative of gati and gijun lg taff wrt or disobeying the authority of tho the g government ov they desired 0 to o honor and to rc 11 thu this being the doctrine doc trino of the mormon morin metin in do chanh mu in ll 11 wo lask how bow can ami they who ho accept of it honestly promise t to 0 abandon polygamy or of n cihat hat force can constitutions and latra wa lor lo 10 wh ch are arc not nob la in harmony with the t sentiments of those who alio liaro lava the power of enforcement 7 rilas muchas any provision against polygamy it my ins ertol in ia the ho state CoBit Coit ution would be powerless no until tit enforced by legislative enactment and is it ll 11 not likely that a P polygamous oi namous legislature would ermet a it law biadin making it ft practice punishable in ia which the iho majority of themselves 1 were engaged tile pro atal weald simply rema i ln n it a dead letter in the ls constitution the practice of polygamy exist as wore before and such audit we have hao abundant evidence is the tion lion in me ciso c iso an anti roly dame came u is by congress Coas resa wo we dedjo bcd mi to your soar honorable body that hat it is is a familiar and well understood thing among the ho normans Mor mons that in case any offers for far tho surrendering of aro are malit by their leaders it il is in to be done solely for the purpose of obtaining oLta ining possession poss elsion or of the flowers anil and machinery of government in the territory and freeing theta from the imd and control of ll 11 the general government Govero ment in which case choit it is ia understood that they the y will continue or resume mutate the tbt practice of polygamy is as opportunities port unities uny may offer and knowing as we do that this pro gramme would fail bo carried out aad that every bivil legislative or office offic ein iq the state bould a u 14 bo be in their lands hands and all U investigation hinves or objection shut out wo we affirm that thi the admission of utah under the present EUID by tho tit 0 congress of the united states stalo would be only tto the permanent establishment of polygamy on a firmer footing than oyer ever and the placing or of it above all opposition till ill wo we protest again Sili tho the adilia di rion acts of utah as adverse ti botho like free area de of tile the resources of tho the ter fiory in proof of which wo we refer to the iaci that until compelled by tile the lib hb crol cial clement clemen to succumb the maintained a quoit 04 bitter and ami untiring 0 to the development of the minerals of the territory their object being the keeping out of a non mormon morillon population and ana wo we are compelled to believe train from tho the ex experiences of the past uio the van thim se alca wea of tho the of III i scott a govera niso bent they will use 1 b c 11 it a 1 lay al adf h a cm t laargo bargon an chis Li mort in lutry me 01 ol J drive arous the tha country 9 all enterprise not to their control nor kor rc cheso our only objection we not only prot elit alie ile auttis sion faion of utah on I 1 iho he grounds of the n lago nisin aril and comity of the majority of thoo thoe seeking admission ou tot to republican principles their avowed tile permanence of the american forms forma of government their enactments of compress Con presa tile iho treachery of ay any promise proui tso looking to tho the relinquishing of polygamy their cip position to the free development or of tile territory arid and on the ibo further ground of the insufficiency of population to bear the burdens or of a state Gosorn goi eminent ment but Butro ro elan alao protest against out BUI it admi sion because tho the bestowal or of a state stale government on etab at tho the present time DC owing ailing to the di of tile norman mormon and abit outside element clement cati can only result in the iho irti ors ofine of abo mormon religion to tho the dignity aad influence or oc state power and in the absorption of every OMCO office of power and res by the ibe mormon priesthood and ana alu when the iho esperi experience ence of your memoria lists it M that they have always used such power to injure and op press tile the minority hai ing such rich ground i 9 of appeal which we are arc prepared to 0 o substantiate before any committees of your honorable body your memoria lists respectfully respectful lir reque request st that the present application for the al ad inissa mission a n of utah ulah may be ref used and your petition will ever pray |
