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Show LETTER FHOM ELOEIt JOHN TAYLOU. Utah akd th priving them of any right ia regard to tht election of ojjictrt tor the management of their own local affairs, and fldtes all the pooler in the federal Government! It also tnae8 an insidious distinction between this and other Teiri-torie- s Mobmohs. LBitBB.2. 'tft'fer JeroM: in those bills now before Congress; ami what its results will be upon Utah unci the nation. bus introduced Mr. Frelinghuysen two; Mr. Logau, onej Mr. Poland, one; Mr. Sargent, two; and bow many more have been introduced we buve not yet ascertained. Utah certuinly cannot of being neglected in the national f euuc Is; and if Ibeso bills were intended to work tut the rood indicated in their titles, the would have just Cause to be proud of this distinguished attention; but when we reflect that these bills, without exception, live a direct attack i;pon the Territory a well as upon institutions, rind calculated to of Hrip the people of the last civil nd religious liberty, it puts anoth-c- r phase upon matters It is alleged that the original bill, from wli'uh these were taken, (for several of tbem are nearly duplicates,) was gotten up by some partieB here. What if it was? "There io no necessity fof blaming any ring here, or any where else. These bills have been before committee? of the Penate or House, or both. No matter who are the framers or 01 ig'tnators. The gentlemen who introduced them arc responsible for thrm. Hd s are the committees who ssnc ion or permit scch principles; and to are the members of each House, so far as they adopt them. v c are ttot to suppose that the iutrodu-rei'of those bills, nor (be members of the several committees, nur those gentlemen composing the Sena'.c and House of .Representatives of the United States are ignorant either of the contents of those bills or ef their injustice and unconstitutionality ; nor in most instances if the demoralizing effects of such legislation upon the nation. Not one of them dare introduce such legislation for the All governing of their constituents. acts these should that or know, know, AH know that nr unconstitutional. they are in violation of the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. AH know they are unjust and oppressive; All know that it is a breach of the oovenant entered into in our Organic Act. All know that they are at variance with representation and Alt understand that it republicanism is a religious persecution) and that these bills are gotten up at proscriptive Intol erant acts; and that in passing tbem they violate all tht knownguarantees, of pub lic and personal rights, sooial and roll gious freedom; and are introducing measures too palpable and flagrant to be known by any other name than that af despotism, This latter term sounds harsh, and I would not be discourteous; but in all candor it U right to call things by their pre per names. It ia the fact that 1 would broach. Despotism is not confined alone to emperors or au tocrats; there i? the despotism of a mob; judioial despotism; military, civil and religious despotism, manifested by generals, legislatures and religious dictators, as well as a variety of other forms, in public and pnvate luo. The despotism or the sans eulolte.ui their various sanguinary ebulitioos ia Paris, as well as thai of Hobespierre and Marat, .under the Republic of France, was quite as revolting and reprehensible as that of Catharine de Medicls, in the butchery of the Huguenots The despotism manifested in the republic, dicta torship or empire of Christian or Pagan Kome were noi very dissimilar in their effects upon their victims. Diplomacy, intrigue and finesse, though they may cover ever the acts and doings of men, and give color to fraud and injustice, cannot remove the crime. Webster defines a despot as "One who rules regard-It- s of a constitution and frutv a tyrant." And to be disfranchised by special legislation on purely religious grounds, regardless of constitutional and other guarantees by the Congress of the United States, is more reprehensible thdn that mob despotism which drove us from Missouri and Illinois; because, while the Utter, who were unlettered and ignorant, did it under the influence of fremy and excitement, the former in calm and deliberate Council in committee rooms end in their Congressional halls, where, with the united talent of this august assembly, these feolpns of the nation deliberately and in cold blood ignort, rend to atoms, and trample under foot the most sacred guarantees of our nation's franchise. We will now briefly examine these bills, and as there is a great similarity among them, simply glance at some of the leading provisions of Messrs. and Logan. Section 1. "The U. 8. Marshal Is authorized to appoint deputies in each of the judicial districts ef iiid Territory! to be approved by the Judge of the District Court, and to execute all processes, whether in the District Courts of the United SttteSi or in the courts of this Territory." Section 2. Gives the same power ef appoiutment of deputies to the United States District Attorney, together with he "exclusive right to officiate in all Courts, either United States or Terricom-plai- n B torial." The above interferes with the prerogative of the Legislature and people, de-- ; Ilirfh. To the wife of )!. BuchmiHer, Judges and Notaries Public, shall be nesday afternoon, the 18th by the Govtrnor, and removed by boy. appointed him, another federal arrangement. It is true that the Legislature, like so many or dummies may make a law, und "these oflicers may hold their ifHicfs for the time which the law provides." But what has the Legislature to they have been both engaged in since dp with it, if the 'Governor annuls it, rethe assembling of Corigress? move the party and appoints others? Section 7. Gives the power to the U. The power ia with the Governor,. The S. Judge, Marshal and Clerk "to select acts of the Legislature are fictitious. Sectldn 18, Provides that the "Suthe juries," depriving the people of any vote in the matter, and then, even with preme Court, or its judges, only have this jury of their owd selection, "the power to issue writs of habeas corpus," all The federals can make their court, and not th jury, shull pronounce rEDi:uAL. the punishment " Why not let the court own special appointments; manipulate or do it at first? There i no need of a veto nil laws; serve processes by their iu a such case, only hypocritically, own oilicers, the U. S. Marshal and his jury to cover up the tyranny contemplated. deputies; select and pack their own It is true a number of names are to be juries; try thero before their own judges; selected, and they are to be thoroughly prosecute tbem by t heir own attorneys; mixed and (Shaken;" but then the manip- put them In their own military jails; and ulators are all Federal, not local. Shall then lefuse them any redress or writ of we be blamed for a lack of confidence in habeas corpus, enly through those very these gentlemen, when I assert that on men who have thus condemned tbem. the trial of President Young and others, How much, in advance, is this of the under the administration of his honor Government of Robespierre and Murat Judge McKefin, "after thoroughly mixing of Paris, or the notion of the sans culottcf and mingling " under oath, etc. etc, out Where is Jeffries? It ia true you have of one hundred and thirty thousand citi- appeals from the inferior to the Supreme zen Mormons, not one of them found his Courts. So had Win. Tell to Gesler So way into this jury? And we are de- had the Christians when they were being murely told that "this is being tried by sacrificed in Home to Nero. So had our peers." Is this Federal justice ? Jesus to Herod and the Pha' isees. So Sectious 8 and (J. Provides that the had the Waldenses and Albigenses to the Federal oflicers shall have power to Pope. So had our forefathers to the regulate fees." These fees are provided British government. But you can apby Federal oflicers. paid by them, to peal to the United States Snpreme themselves and their own appointees; Court. Not if they can help it. These collected from and paid by caucus for same creatures are to point out the way. the privilege of being oppressed, a very The road lends through them, if they pretty Federal arrangement, and one shut it who can open it? Tlu crowning i bat was used very efteotually by Judge infamy of these bills is to place the Durell of Louisiana, in behalf of his people under foreign rule and then prefriend Norton. vent an appeal; for no appeal can be Section 10, Ia a singular conglomerahad to the Supreme Court of the United tion of contradictions ; States if these bills pass; the whole Ter1st, It makes a woman a consort and ritory is placed at the mercy ef four or no a lawful wife. five men strangers and enemies. A cen2d, This woman, or consort, can go to tury ago, our seniors and fathers, in a United States Court a court of law, their Declaration of Independence, enunciated the following sentiment, and deasking to be discharged from a relation ship which is not recognized in law, and clared to this nation and the world, that therefore cot binding; and of which the Governments"nW their JUST POWEllS court can take no legal cognizance. The from the consent, of the governed." These court then is empowered to discharge sentiments have been taught in our her frotn a relationship which is not schools, declared from the pulpit and binding, and therefore null; to give her forum; have been read once a year to her ebildren; and apportion her hus our ten, twenty, thirty and forty millions no, her paramour's property. of listeners, in .the various decades. Do 3d, This illegal act "shall be register- you wish to throw in the teeth of your ed on the records" of this legal court; venerable seniors and ancestry, that and then she shall bo a fentme sole, or a they labored under a delusion, that they single woman. What was she before if were in error, in plain words that tbey she was not married? lied? On (he other band, do you wish to 4th, "Provided nevertheless that noth- pronounce to the world that your goving in this section contained shall be ernment is "unjust?" Gentlemen, take construed to have the effect ot recogniz- which horn of the dilemma you please, ing the validity of any dual, or plural you have, so far as you have gone, and marriage." This law is made to undo not I, written your own record, you are the validity of an act which it does not inditing your own history.' Now it With all the revorence and respect recognize, or declares invalid is visible,. and then invisible. It can and due to the rulers of a mighty nation it can't; it is legal and illegal, fast and from the tops of these distant mountains, loose. A wouiun is not married, and yet I call upon you to pause in your, career, he is. She is divorced from a man to for 1 also am a teacher and whom she is not legally bound, for "no have a right to be heard. I dual marriage is recognized;" is adjudg- speak in behalf of one hundred and thired alimony from a uiau to whom she was ty thousand citizens of Utah. I speak never married; and last of all she is de in behalf of forty millions of free Americlared a single woman; and all this is can citizens in the United States. I done by law. To such crooked shifts conjure you out of respect for the memare men put in seeking to violate justice, ory of the dead, as the rightful guardians equity and law. Either the relationship of the liberties of a vast nation, that is lawful or unlawful: if unlawful it is stands proudly prominent among the nanot binding, it is simply a figment; if tions of the earth, and in behalf unborn lawful it cannot be broken. millions, to pause I conjure you, in Section 12, Gives power to a judge, at behalf of our national honor and integhis discretion, to declare any prison un- rity, in behalf of republican principles, safe, and to place their victims in a mi- and the cause of freedon throughout the litary prison. Such an net is a fit finale world. I plead with ycu in behalf of of the above. Federal again. our common humanity, and the rights Section 13, Provides, that "lif the U. of man, to reflect. Would you, to gratiS. Marshal, or any of his deputies, shall fy a morbid sentimentally desecrate be resisted or threatened, in the exe- and tear, down one of the most mugnifi-cecution of his process" (which these bills temples of human literty, evr are especially designed to provoke) "he erected? Would you wantonly deliver if up the sacred principle of liberty, may then call upon a military po.-e-e he in his judgment thinks it requisite." equity and justice, bequeathed by your Now as I said before, more than one of fathers, to the grim Moloch of party, theBe officials have been prosecuted for who is crushing, grinding and trampliug felony; but the officer commanding at under foot ur rights, and any military fort is authorized to detail whose sanguinary jaws are extended to such men gorge and devour the such posse on the rtsjuisitivn quivering remand furthermore "to furnish force, when nants of our feeble expiring liberty? necessary, to suppress any n oli or riot." Have we not had more than enough of When did we have a mob or riot iu this trouble already with Georgia, North Territory ?, These bills evidently con- Carolina, Louisiana and Utah? Can we template goading the people to despera- never be satisfied? "Let us have peace." tion. The framers naturally think that As I shall be under the necessity of the pecple won't stand the amount of further investigating this subject I must tyranny contemplated, and that mobs for the present conclude. and riots will ensue) theu the military is Respect fully, Joun Tatlob. called upon, anarchy is the result; followed by confiscation of property, and a division of the spoil. Blood, carnage LOCAL and desolation are evidently contemplated; if they do not occur it will be no fVow Thursday's Daily of Feb. 19. fault of the framers and abettors of these diabolical productions. On a Fourth of Nkxt TUKSDar. It is expected that July celebration, in this city, the pro- the desire to hear tbe Hon. Taos. Fitch's gramme provided that each department should be headed by company of mili- lecture next Tuesdaj evening will necestia. The Acting Governor issued a proc- sitate the engagement of the Ogden lamation prohibiting the assembling of the purpose. We want an opmilitia.and called upon Gen. deTrobriand for everybody in town to hear for troops, and requested him to fire up portunity on the citizens, if their militia should as- the orator. semble on this national jjbilec. The General being more humane than this Religious. We are authorized to anquixotic Governor, said : "I feel called nounce that, a sermon will be delivered upon to do uiy duty; but do not wish to I M. will there- in the E. Church, on Sundny next, destroy peaceable citizens fore bring the men; place them in posiby Rev. L. W. B. Long, who has selected tion; order them to make rpjuly; but you shall give the word FIRE!" The militia as his text, "The word of Christ, superiJid not assemble; they listened to the or to any system devised for the ehva-tio- n command of this Brobdignngj no blood of man," Wny does this bill not appoint these a place in the lobby in Washingof officers this the In pursuing investigation much mooted question of Moi monism, it ton, to persecute, prosecute, defame and little inta viltlfy the Mormons; for that is what May be well fur us to inquire a the'nature of the legislation Contemplated was shed. The General, however, not beifcg considered orthodox, was removed. .Sectiou 17, Provides that the Probate figure-head- s . - . Intbre.itug As in, Wed- a fine - there are many of our subscribers anxious to se the letters Lake by Elder John Taylor 10 the Salt Press we copy No. 2 from the Herald of this morning. tender our to the Superintendent of the Utah Northern for continued courtesies and privileges on the narrow guuge road, and hope that continued success will attend the efforts of the Company. Utah Northern We left Forest City and has not l8tt It is supposed that h WlJ buried in a snow slide. and caught Mr. D. Eoucicault concluded his n, gagement at the Theatre last eveoiB and Miss Maggie Moore and J. Q liamsrffu will appear this evening jn popular drains of "Child of the lgj. mcnt," aud "The Chinese Invasion." From this morning's Tributtc: The First District Court, after a Be$ of since. at Provo, adjourn until the Gth d:iy of April. Tbe will of Li?zio Sanders, who w shot at Alt a City last week, wherein gh, bequeathed all ber real estate and yiouoftwo day sonal property to her nephew, by a stranger, who claims t her husband. Mr. J. Tyrrell, The shipments for last week from ExcKLsion. Cottonwood, suffered some intcrrup. forwarded to Salt Lake, his first conmanufacand boots shoes, tion by the storm. The amount shippt(j signment of this tured by him at his shop in city. comes to; Flagstaff 100 tons, Emma CO He intends to supply not only our home tons. market, but adjacent cities and settlelaiuifac-turiii- g ments, with bis unrivalled articles in The Company. the root and shoe line. Ogden believes in home manufactures. A full meeting of the resident share, holders of the Oden Iron Manufacturing wa held yesterday evening. William rucii The S. L. Herald Company of moat pnuniuint citizens our this morning states that a man who gave Many On motion of J, attendance. were in his name as William Pugh, ami had Mr. I II. Brown was callei beeu without food for three days, and Parks, Esq., Mr. E. Lascclles was elect-echair. the to unable to obtain employment, was taken Secretary. The object of the meeting in charge by the police yesterday. While stated by Messrs. Parks and Mere was under their care, he was taken sick, and when a doctor was called in to aitend dith, tiding iu behalf of the Beard of Directors. The Secretary read the charupon him, it was discovered that the toes on the man's right foot had beeu ter, articles of association, and of the Company. The geutleinen present frozen, and were then fairly putrid. The affected members were amputated, and were invited to give expression to tht.r last evening he was comparatively easy. views, and in reply to questions proposLast Monday the Junction contained ed, explanations were made which wtr an item alluding to Mrs. Mary Pugh, of acceptable to all. The head ofiice of the is at present in Bay View, Philadelphia, who was seeking informa- Company will be removed to this city at but Wis., tion regarding an absent son, who was an early day. The stockholders in the last heard of in Ogden. May it not be East have, in most instances, paid th possible that the person mentioned entire quota of their subscription. It ii above, is the wanderer to whom referunderKtood that the owners ot stock art ence was made ? not liable for any amount beyond their subscription, in accordance with the law "Camills." The thrilling an4 splen- relating to limited partnership. Other did drama of "Camillc" will be produced suggestions were made that were entireat the Ogden Theatre next Saturday ly satisfactory, and it was tnanimously night, Mr. J. A. Heme, as "Duval," and resolved that the action of the Board Mrs. Anna Wright as "Camille" The and the be approved. play is not unfamiliar to those who have The following resolutions, introduced watched the progress of dramatic litera- by Mr. Lascelles, were adopted by acclature for the last ten or twelve years. mation : The plot is popularly believed to be Thnt the resident shareholders in Ogbased upon an episode in the history of den pledge themselves to use their utthe younger Dumas and preserved amid most exertions to advance the interest! the treasures of romance and fiction by of the Company, and extend to the Board his father in the famous work La dame of Directors their congratulations upoa auz Camelias. Miss Matilda Heron trans- the bright auspices under which the prolated the novel and produced it on the ject cf erecting iron works in this eity stage. In the role of "Camille" she has been inaugurated. achieved a triumph that has given her a That Messrs. Parks and Mpredith bt just title to the high rank which she en- requested to communicate to the Board joyed as an actress. It teems with of Directors the earnest assurances of scenes of absorbing interest, aud pre- the with people of Ogden to sents one of the most vivid pictures of them in promoting and eneouraging the life in Frence, in certain phases. The enterprise, which has been started under cast for next Saturday night is excellent, the fairest promise of a successful issue. and a good house should then receive The meeting then adjourned. one of the finest dramatic efforts presented on the stage. to-dn- y. Lit-ti- c Osh'n Iron d by-la- by-la- nt God-give- n f ITEMS. p. t Mwrttir Con dens aTIoks. fill All 01 From Yesterday's 1 Sews : Geo. M. Norton, charged with assault and threatening to kill II. C Goodspecd, was yesterday bound over to keep the peace in the sum of $1,500. Geo. Atwood, of South Cottonwood, about fifteen years of age, has been suffering for over two years with running sores on both legs, caused by excessive skating. A bloodless operation was performed yesterday on the person of the patient by Benedict Bros., assisted by W. Fowler. An iucision five inches long and two inches deep, was made in the right leg, just below the knee on the outside, fro m which about three inches of bone was removed, and not a single drop of blood was lost during the operation. The same operation on the other leg will be performed as soon bs the patient has gained sufficient strength to bear it. A S THE BOTTOM FOR URT Goods and Groceries has unquestion- able been touched, and a fliarp ia liable aJ-van- at any inomeDt to take place, vrc advise Country Mer- chants who intend replenishing their stocks for late Winter sales, to send r inspect the niarket for themselves as earlj a" along their orders, possible. Having availed ourselves of the recent depression in the Blanket ami Flannel market by making large pnr" chases for cash, we ore prepared to Savage's art gallery was damaged by fire Thursday night, and about offer extrr.ordiu.ury bargain1. two feat square of the floor of the framing room was consumed before the fire was discovered. Carelessness in placing Mersome hot ashes from the stove in a box Zion's wai the cause. Frotn this morning's Ifcriild! On'Thursday last C. Van Wambeke, ?r. IT. Hooper, Supt mail canicr in Auurican Fork Knnyon, C. R. Co-operall- cantile Institnlion. sC-t- f |