| Show y A rd a p nn I 1 i 1 gg 7 1 fia a A c vt F THE EE LAWS OF UTAH 1 IT no 1 the proposition made b ty the utah legislature to grant a state sovereignty to the territory as aan notified otic ed at the close clos c orthe or the previous re article de volores one or of the great difficulties experienced by federal officers office rs who are sent here they are reg as strangers intruders bersand and almost as corf foreigners ers and little petty annoyances ar are e imposed upon them for thestle the sole object of compelling tile them to jo resign bocc occasionally asio ally the church leaders colne coine across an offic official fiat who has bas an lin immense melise quantity of backbone who will aulon on all occasions J in in discharge of idoff rub tile bifid peculiar institution until it becomes b becomes restive and bucks buck s like a cayuse horse then thea other means are employed to gt getlid r I 1 ld of him bird tom committees appointed vy by mass nibe meetings eings wait tip upon n him with much regret and t great civility and ask him to resign Threat aare madei made with low whiskers rowdy insults offered by the ruffian ruf fiani spirits of the community scathing 0 edi corials from the church organ and ald a geft general eral burning lub up se 1 a la 14 southern confederacy Conte deracy whenever seen are among the means eni employed aloyed to compel comp compliancy lianca to their wishes T this his ac counts forthe great number arof of fe deral officers who have t apin the territory A favorite remark ot of the churuti leaders is that the refuse 0 politicians of the country are sent to govern them the federal officers in utah in 1862 3 were certainly not net of that class tha those e in m the territory now are not of blut class they are certainly y high minded gentlemen the truth is as simply that no federal officer unless he is i mo dio T nj 0 bias R that way whatever maybe may be his virtues or vices will ever be beable rable to pass tigh liis bis administration without securing the ill will of the church leaders if con cog gross gress would give them officers of their own choosing even in in a territorial kiil capacity utah utah would progress swimmingly just so long as the government allowed them to doas do as they pleased I 1 and of course the longer the policy were pursued the more inerrable would become the evils existing in the community the territory Js governed like all other in the and yet they ire are not sath satisfied fied why because all civil laws conflict with their peculiar system and they have in the desired much power ats w will I 1 ill eh to fully y auh co render the church law in fact sl 1 eded by civil enactments the law of tho th state yet to be sufficient evidence or of this assertion alread already y exists exist s upon the statute books bonks it was while brightie Brig t hain tim young was acting in the double capacity cApi city ot of governor and head ot of the that the greater portion ot of these evidences now nov upon poll the 1110 Sti I 1 tutu books geee were enacted and the persistency with which they cling to theta them is evi dence in of the oval nal object in view f ewhen when they desire to have gre greiter iter p kolii oli il tal e power thau than is or ever has been granted to the territories of the united states i in 1861 Brig hain ga to a self gelf te doody claiming M to represent the state ot of des desart rt andack and acknowledging now 0 ll 11 liim im govel governor nor thore thereof of thia action was in int irly or the Terr itoi ail organization g ionization the Thee church burch leaders wre wr e determined that if they gleadys jere could c au no not have the substance of a state sovereignty they would of their own facts acts create the shadow of cofone one and iandthy they did so and the people passed through t athe the mockery of an elect election iori brigham 7 i i in hii hh to that body becom recommended edit it to reenact re enact by resolution all 0 the laws aws then upon the statute hooks bonks of the Ferri territory tory th that M was before bet ore the army 9 lame came here under general connor and i afore utah commenced her process ot of 01 generation genera tinn wonder bouder if he be would ike a similar recommendation now hardly think lie he would |
