Show ME FHE SENATE DEBATE ON PRINTING MEMORIAL Eini iM 11 riD DOth STI amii AN IM 1 XIII senators calli manly defence or of ili an oppressed 11 cople on account ot of the E esqueen quinan Quin rn receiving idy thu tho congressional the ofil bially bridled journal jonana 1 I 1 of f congress we B arb enu blod anil wi will I 1 I 1 bo be to lo pt i if t I 1 in n dattil the debates on the 1151 ormon question ques I 1 ion in they occur m in tile the bonato and ami lie the lonto I 1 record of the le I 1 net last contains couta iua the debate that thai took place in the senate the day previous pre MOUa on in donator calla resolution to print 1 I the record lin oril the memorial ul of the LIB utah coult conventi qu aud and documents senator moved the reference lefe recce of 0 the to the committee on terri tortes and urged that the contents of the iha memorial lue monal and ac accompany compan ing m doe doc should la be examined into be tu forel rathey boy were ordered to ba b printed in the lZ ecord intimating t that hat lau an guage joi iKe disrespectful to congress might bo be contained ili in the papers he also alao to the tha insertion inser tiou of papers in lu tuo hawd on account of the e dee att it S senator gall call urged in reply that the bo memorial contained nothing nol liing objectionable and it related to a public matter the iha admission of oe utah and gi uve ive 1 a statement of 0 the facts acts BS as they tire lira regarded legar ded by the tha who claimed to speak in in behalf of citizens of the united states lie ai said that it would be unjust to say bay in in advance that what those citizens stated or wished was disrespectful to lo congress and to prucilla PrU CIlta deny their right of petition pet iliou the objection was madi he declared spirit brinl of persecution and he hb referred to in in men of both parties who lad bad visited utah as aa staking that not three per cont cent of the people of n the territory were wera guilty of the tha practices upon the assumption ot of which I 1 the he senator from vermont lad bad based his objection senator paddock by way of obia tion urged that the le re solution covered not only the wei memorial norial but nil all t the he a accompanying CC I 1 capets senator son ate r ica iball 11 replied that it was not desired to encumber the accord with any voluminous publication and the constitution need not be included to show that hat thero there was objectionable in the he memorial he be read ir it and then remarked mr president I 1 have read this memorial to show the insincerity of the tha objection which has been made by the senator from vermont to the printing of this mo memorial moriAl from american citizens ci tizana in in the Be corol as requested by them to the and that they may have it hearing before the congress ant and before the people of the united states slates J the senator from vermont knew that there thera was nothing in in this thia memo rial desres disrespectful to congress and he be knew teat that there wan wab no reason in in right of 0 justice wily why tho the bonate of the united states should refuse to hear bear the ther petition of either one citizen however poor or however erring or of two hundred thousand citizens who have a right to be heard herp here as much right as the senator benator from vermont mont or I 1 have bave a constitutional right to bo heard in ia this body and before the american p people A solemnly guaranteed right not only to be 60 board beard but bat to hao halo secured to them aad i ad to each of themi them all of the rights im I 1 na U itie and privileges which the Sj savator Bric vator from vermont has baa or which nay other ollie r citizen of the united states lim ban A right of equality in ar all respects before the law which I 1 the a son senator myself and every other senator have bakon un etith to nuil left deft letend tend nd and secure to them for one I 1 to respect and obay that oath not it either directly or by evasion evasion or in in directly mr lUt nunda mr president I 1 thank tile the senator from florida very much for his gratifying and campli men tary allusions to mt me they ibey bra are wo worthy rth of him und and I 1 trust I 1 can hour bear I 1 certainly do not question the sin bin eerily of 0 the senator benator from florida ri prida fr lie liaa has stood behind th this polk adous hierarchy overy ts tiuis I 1 we they have bava had bd any interest to td advance or any wholesome it gi to resi refat st so BO far ns as I 1 now remember member ru at all birnes ani and with wilu great ability and considers able abl ozeal zeal so ejean I 1 an with equal bill bin cerit centy give him tho praise to which he I 1 IT justly entitled eo titled of being beau abac lately r incero in in standing st by this ibis body of persons person through thick and thin thiD come good COMO come ill I 1 expect that he be will continue con tinna t in do to so igo and i in the process of terue that territory should become a state and we could change the so go that ono portion person might bo be senator from torn two states I 1 lave iio no doubt douht that the hun ator from lelo florida ridd would bo be the drab senator benator that the ha Ar ormon hierarchy would select as they bight to 0 I 1 am for the tha first time aI advised vreed of 0 tha contents con leala 0 this mo pomonal morial A III 0 thora lire are it a great duany ciany papers there are ara a great mary answers to them in in other pa paper peris that might bo be read iri 0 chobin to 0 o evade the just rules af pf 0 the sonata by nain g the iba morning in in reading beading counter statements which I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 would th utter hypocrisy find ga millon of 0 thia by Is perform inco it 11 I 1 ders trick to ret get out f aiom rum lind for tho the hneil nud and the laws of u the unit B n promise iBB that when thoy they become a sovereign soM reign and independent state standing and aa that const itu lion leonires leq when they coins coine in in that shall stand on an equal footing with every other olber state in in the tha and having baying the alio right whatever fully be in in their about changing ch it to change any time they gleaso without the consent of 0 catl rewa and ami not being boun baund 11 by any corn compact pact that they may make in regard to their social as the sit promo court in in another case or in in norb more n orb than once perhaps has lous long ago decided aided respecting the equality of fill all new stales admitted into tho the union I 1 understand till all that find and I 1 trust esery everybody eier body does dobai and ami for one I 1 ilo do not propose to be ba a party part y to spend spending inz the money 0 at r the people of the united slit yi in printing in in the his leecora for circulation among the pooh people le this soil burt of things III mr call mr president the aena tor for from vermont la equally insincere insincere incorrect and even frivolous in la his statement that he bo has baa board beard me stand behind the ile mormon hierarchy and defend it the iho senator from vermont has heard me stand behind human rights the rights of women and children whom h L was waa seeking to brand with a lif lifetime elimo of sorro borrow IV and he be has heard board me defend a patient and suffering auti anti polygamous when with the most ex qt cruelty ho be has sought bought to P pun u n jb I 1 the p pua innocent women s and n c hildre children n in n utah by legislation which I 1 regard be as unconstitutional unfeeling inhuman and subversive of the religion and precepts precept s ol of the divine teacher but I 1 am as far from austain in ing the Mori tion or any other ili alner er y as is is the I 1 ha senator benator from V vermont ermont indeed 1 am much further farther for foi I 1 am in in fa favor of 0 religious tolerance I 1 am a believer in in the power of Ch christ s religion and ilia preachers prea chera and nd tile the senator frAir does not seem to la be so A r may be it defender of religious I 1 liberty ibe rt Y in favor of tolerance aitho without ut b being oi n a persecutor and without b baios el ng inhuman towards women aa and d ch children ild r on that much the senator from vermont has heard board from me but he has bits never dever heard and he never cover will hear me stand in in this chamber to deny the be rights of citizens of the united states to whom he ha has sworn to hive give their constitutional rights ile ho has baa never heard we me seek to prevent them from having a hearing bearing and he has never heard me advocate corrupt jadi judicial cial tribunals 0 packed juries lines or the prostitution athe of the courts of 0 justice and the laws of the land for tua the conviction even of cri criminals minall much less leas of men and women who formed relations under peculiar religious beliefs of their own at a time when the right to mako make their own own titu ti lions ons had bad been to them by treaty and expressly conferred upon them by act ot of congress he has bits never heard me advocate brand ing a whole generation ot of young men and women native born am adopted citizens with a stigma by law and to declare them unworthy of trust rust and confidence as t citizens liti zens because their fathers and mothers are charged with what wo we regard as objectionable relations and heterodox and unsound religious opinions the senator from vermont has bits not heard me advocate the seizure seizure of the places ol of worship and the property of catiz citizens s no of 0 the united states because they call themselves the church of jesus christ chnat of latter day saints a and ad because a small number of 0 theta them have hava been guilty of polygamy I 1 have not expressed an 0 pinion opinion oven even as to how I 1 should vote rote on this proposition nor as to whether these people are or not sincere that is is a question for or future cou consideration and for evidence I 1 have however been informed by persons democrats and no rood gd g d as the tha senator from vermont or 1 I as fair in oland ing a its respectable io in character that the majority of these people so p Is all but about 5 per cent have a vo never been polygamists ista that more than a hundred thousand young women and men growing up many ot of them now of age who were educated in in the public schools of that country a ara opposed to polygamy and that hat the prevailing sentiment of ct tho the young population of utah who have been educated as ag american citizens who whoa have the rights that I 1 have haval aud and that the senator from vermont has is is opposed almost valy to the institution net of polygamy and that they have consented conscientiously to the legislation ot of congress and have hae done all that they could to enforce it and propose to make it so far as they can call do so BO perpetual and irrevocable ly by what right does the senator from vermont doiy aay here that this hist is isa a sham anda and a pretense on what assumption of truth rath or reason does be pronounce thi protestations ot of the young men and women of utah that they are innocent and chiate and desirous dasi roua of an noti anti polygamy society and government a false pretense sham and it a fraud 1 irow how vain and idle the objection which tho the senator front from V vermont ermont seeks to mako make here and impose upon the people of this thin co country antry that by tile the law these theao men cannot trammel the ibo state in its ita that to ile be so no does that show that they tire are not a roberet roc deer eret at does I 1 that import that the tha very cruel legislation I 1 I 1 b be a h I 1 me 9 it has baa cone land y I 1 forced on these people has haa bad no I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 J I 1 I 1 I 1 1 t laby lyby hy mr those these attempts to condemn these people in advance to prejudice them in the public opinion ii without A hearin hearing gare are idle aud unworthy ot of the senator front roin vermont thay tire are not reasonable as a baltor of logic and riot not true us its it matter ot of fact senator stewart of nevada here bore took part in m the debate liu ile woe op posed to printing the memorial in tho the iv record cord ile charged that utah was governed hy by a hierarchy that neither freedom nor free schools existed in in the territory and that it is is impossible ble for citizens of the tha united sasto to live in ID any part of utah etab outside of 0 the towns where thero there ili is military protection in a similar strait hol ho continued to urge the unfit nose of utah for admission uia ilia remarks were particularly particular Y conspicuous chous on account of the utter incorrectness of his senator call rejoined mr resident president I 1 depreciate any discussion in m regard what utah is i or is la not ihaas people deny the statement of the senator from roan novada navada they bahea right to be heard they ask aal that proof be taken as to whether or riot not they are loyal people und and sincere as to whether they are hostile to the peo people ale of the united states or not nit they ask aak the peor privilege of being heard and allowed to pr prove 0 ve then their true status and not neb to b be a c condemned 0 alde mn ed in in evidence evidence upon prejudice that is the question upon which I 1 have been speaking that la is the motion which I 1 I 1 am 1 air sir the right of an am american citizen to a fair tri trial I and to a L fair bearing bea riny all and d that he shall not be coull condemned mod in ID the congress of the united without a hearing and without proof rhey illy do deny 7 all the tha statements of ill the So benator tr froia frow nevada and I 1 have heard board them denied aa I 1 said before by republicans of the tha highest intelli gencel genca and by democrats within the last fow few days in regard to thes cheso 0 facts J have any opinion ion of wy my own it the tha senator beu ator from nevada is right then it becomes simply a question whether we have the constitutional power and righetto right to d deny elly the principle of the government and a a the 9 great reat proposition upon which fill all our institutions reft rest whether public opinion under our institutions and our oui govern government mont is the true arne and safe basis of local self belt government or whether a central and concentrated authority in in the hands handa of a small number of shall proscribe the domestic institutions and be religion of a pe oplean aali mormon hierarchy 0 of which the senator from vermont shall bo be the high priest and apostle to make war wac upon and suppress supa ress the mormon hierarchy with lira fire a and sword daward or whether we shall rely on the principles of our government and the tha presumed power of christs religion and ilia his in motors ministers to ackom ther iba result I 1 have hare not expressed an opinion even on this subject I 1 will agree with tle the senator that sea lisa matter of expediency it if what lie says ye is is true these people are ara no not t like other american citizens citizen at but bab it if what they bi say y is trap teat and what other citizens 0 t the 1114 united states stales of 0 character an and d consideration oa say gay and what people from europe who have testified on this subject say is true then the senator from nevada is la wrong he is is condemning those these people upon facts which do not exist sod and denying t to them virtues arid qualities which which t they hey this he be de denies to possess poe sess them wit without a hearing and without I 1 0 of and he be asla that they shall not of kave have the rights of american citino citizens ns on oil this judgment in in advance senator platt of 0 connecticut here took part in in the debate objecting to the publication in the record of 0 the documents under dis discus cus mon lillou upon technical grounds I 1 lla 0 made no DO remarks remark marks a bearing beana on the merits of 0 uta its claim for admission in 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