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Show THE ISSUE! JOINED. What were the pledges which constituted consti-tuted the Statehood compact? They were all those submissions made by the Mormon church concerning which the Tnited States had been at controversy with the i hurch. For It Is inconceivable inconceiv-able that the Government of this great Republic v.ojid admit Into full and sovereign statehood any Territory theretofore at variance with the Government, Gov-ernment, and Immediately raise It to sovereignty in the sisterhood, without exactions of complete submission by the former belligerent. These submissions were-. Polyga my Polygamistlc Cohabitation. Domination of the Affairs of the State by the Church. Commercialism. Freedom of the People. |