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Show CAN ATTACK STATEHOOD. Power to Create Carries With It Power Pow-er to Destroy. Editor Tribune: BRIGHAM? Utah, Feb. 12. V gentleman called upon mo at my home In tho Utahna hotel to Inquire If I wroto an articlo recently for columns signed F. J. II. My answer was no Ho said: "You are being accused of It " I replied. "Toll mine accusers I have never written n lino for publication on any of the questions In Utah without signing my namo to It. And besides, I do not bellovo the nonsense non-sense that statehood Itself cannot bo attacked, and If necessary, destroyed." Tho power to crcuto carries with It the power to destroy tho thing created: to grant on condition Impllen power to tuke back If tho conditions aro not fulfilled. Read th things Congress may do, enumerated In tho argument of Jerry Wilson, pleading for tho admission of Utah if Utah breaks the compact. com-pact. All these things to coerce, if necessary, the Stato of Utah. But coercion carries with "It supremo power to crush. So tho forty-four States that erected Utah statehood can take down that grand structure, or carvo up her territory and erect now States as Virginia was torn asunder and Woat Virginia erected. Tho civil war settled two things; State sov erelgnty cannot carry a State out of tho Union. Neither can it secure tho rights of a Stato while out of harmony with tho gonoral Government. Ton States forfeited their statehood. state-hood. Ono was divided, tho others wero reconstructed, re-constructed, and Lincoln's proclamation set tho olaves freo In all tho States. Cloveland sent Unllod States troops Into Chicago without with-out Gov, Allgcld's Invitation. The United States is supreme over all this territory. Individuals havo sovereignty under lawo by tho other forty-four. CongTess has tho power Inhoront to leglclato In any manner man-ner not prohibited by tho Constitution for the general good of all. That Instrument has been amended fifteen tlmos to meet emergencies. And tho nntl-Amerlcanlsrn of Utnh mny Just as wtll understand now that tho SO.MO.OOO peoplo Intend to have this a Government of tho noplo. by the people and for the people. Tho majority rules. A T RANKIN. |