Show constitutional utah democrats are in the habit of justifying the words of president VAST BUBEN your cause is just ant I 1 can do nothing for yon by referring to the new orleans mobbing of the mafia they have claimed that secretary BLAINE took the same position in his correspondence with italy viz our constitution would not permit the federal government to suppress lawlessness in a state the fact of the matter is that secretary BLAINE never so represented the new orleans affair he stated our federal laws did not permit the united states to take jurisdiction in the case but he did not say such a law would be unconstitutional the following from an eastern paper will throw bome light on the subject the new of last year disclosed the fact that in the absence of legislation of congress making a the treaty rights of lor eigners domiciled in the united states able iu the federal courts those courts or the federal officers have no power to intervene cither for the protection of foreign ci lizena or for the punishment of their slavery this led the president in hia annual message to suggest that I 1 legislation of this kiad was within the competency of congress and should e i enacted the first steu taken in tins direction is a resolution introduced in the senate instructing the committee on foreign relations of that body to report such provisions of law as will empower he federal courts to try all such cases involving the consideration of international questions and with such police and judicial process as will enable the government of the united to use its constitutional powers to define j and punish crimes against the treaty rights confer redon such foreigners the legislation here suggested ia eminently proper and necessary the power of the central government in re lation to the subject matter involved should be commensurate with its re that sounds sensible to us as we believe it will to anyone who will stop and consi derIt is not reasonable to suppose that a government can make a treaty and then nob abide its provisions on iho samo theory c s not reasonable to say the general government can have the power to sell the public domain to settlers as did to the cormons mormons in missouri aad then not protect them in the possession of th osame if this is good constitutional doctrine then we ann cnn think ot no better words than those of the prophet JOSEPH SMITH in a letter to bonx C go then missouri after another set of inhabitants as the latter day saints did have entered some two or three hundred thousand dollars yorlli of land and made extensive improvements thereon go on athani say vanish the occupants or owners or kill them as the robbers did many of the lat ter day saints and take their lanus and property as a spoil and let the legislature as in the case of the cormons mormons Mor mons appropriate a couple of hundred and dollars to pay the saw for doing the job for the renowned senator from south carolina mr J 0 says the powers of the federal government are so specific and limited that it has no jurisdiction of the case oh ye people who groan under the oppression of tyrants remember a sovereign i state is so much more powerful than the united states the government that it can exile you at pleasure mob you with impunity confiscate your lauds and property have the legislature sanction it yes and even murder you as an edict of and it does no wrong for tha noble senator from south carolina says the power of the federal is BO limited and specific that it has no jurisdiction of the ease what think ye of imperium in impero |