Show mir PLA utah will by her lilu lion most assuredly in our last issue appeared an article on the utah rebellion taken from fhe national washington D 0 republican attached to the same article were ahe editorial comments the following article by fair play is in reply to a question in these comments editor republican I 1 thank you for your courtesy in printing my letter on mormon rebellion on monday and for bour editorial comments thereon permit me now to answer your very pertinent interrogation at the close of tho following paragraph of your editorial A people without political power enjoy civil rights only by sufferance and that is against tha principles or or government the practical question Is will the people of claua bythell bythe lr constitution and what are the guarantees utah on this is ruled on principles opposed to our form of government and ahat it is an absolute fact she has no vote inna dional affairs nor voice either directly or indirectly in the appointment of har judicial and executive officers and her legislative acts are subject to the veto of an imported governor by an unanimous vote of both houses of abe legislature she has scarcely the shadow of a form of government she is in worse than colonial bondage the answer to the practical question will the people of utah stand by their constitution and what are the guarantees is yes most assuredly su the guarantees are the solemn compact offered in their constitution ution and memorial their well known character for honesty integrity and adherence to their agreements the I 1 manner in which they have certified the provisions relating to polygamy making them practically and the manifest folly of people attempting to break faith with a nation of ask the leading financial commercial shipping railroad and other companies firms and corporations with which the cormons mormons have done business for years and you will hear from them an endorsement of their fidelity which will establish their character for strict fulfillment of contracts the hostile majority of the utah commission are compelled to acknowledge in their partisan report the mormon geoe re not hypocrites what guarantees can any people give on asking admission into the than are embodied in the constitution ution utah has submitted to congress did the states required to put into their constitution a provision against slavery and make it irrevocable without the consent of congress offer any greater or as strong guaran teesa han they would stand by their constitution as those presented by utah I 1 think not why should there be any doubt that a people famed for their integrity to their agreements will stand by their own constitution framed by their elected delegates and adopted by their own votes at the polls you say if fair play coo id convince congress that the recently adopted stata constitution would be executed in good faith the republican party would be as free to vote for the adels slon of utah as of dakota I 1 do not consider myself able to convince congress of I 1 am sure that any reason sible legislator or editor who will fairly look into this question ofa sincerity must come to the conclusion that the ob eject raised is facetious and insubstantial and that nopo ople who ever applied for admission as a state in the union less deserved the imputation of insincerity than the citizen of utah who now ak for release from anti republican slavery and make such barona provisions against an objectionable feature of the domestic relations of their dis friends that the very strength of those penal provision sare i objected to by opponents to their statehood J the proper quest ionis can any of congress yare publican or Democrat juaU yas the people f adof they have already given and on which they asic for justice and the common privileges of awer to this FAIK |