Show EXTRACTS from the SPEECH OF WILLIAM 11 II fun ran tyle THE IMMEDIATE ADMISSION OF ull nil kaffas U na A 8 I 1 INTO ME THE UNION 99 NATY OP OF tue TUB STATES MITES APRIL arnil 9 1356 the the extracts are taken from the speech as published in the N Y week weekly ly tribune cf april 12 the tho comments thereupon are such as we have deemed proper to make so far as space and time would permit ed news we will commence with the four first periods Ms 1 r PRESIDENT to obtain empire is easy and id cognion com common nion to govern atwell it well weli is difficult and rare indeed I 1 salute the congress of the united states in the exercise of its most important function that of ext extending din the federal constitution over added ebins domains andi salute especially es ec the senate in the most august of ait alt all ail its manifold characters itself A congress of thirty one fre free 9 equal sovereign states assembled to decide whether the majestic and aa fraternal circle shall be opened to receive yet another free equal and sovereign state the constitution etes prescribes re scribes only two qualifications for new states namely a substantial civil community and a republican government kansas has both of these most frankly do we coincide with the statement that to govern well weil wellis is difficult and rare indeed I 1 so much so that in in the strict sense of the 1 term well in this connection it never has and never will be done upon this earth without direct revelations from the almighty who organized and peopled this planet and unto whom it belongs A steady persistence in practically rejects rejecting ng this fact is the grand cause of the weakness jarring and confusion prevailing I 1 in n the counsels of the nations and explains the curious mixture of pa part rt hand part error part wisdom and part fanaticism part liberality and part p art selfishness to be found in the sayings L and doings of nearly every professed and acknowledged wise man and statesman after the beautifully expressed salutation to i congress we find the following 0 truthful enunciation of the ONLY two constitutionally prescribed s bribed qualifications for new states namely a substantial civil community and a republican government follo followed wed by the statement that kansas has both of these admit these statements to be true and we rightfully claim the same candid admission and argument for utah from senator seward his friends and evory every lover of freedom and equal rights 0 neither can this claim be put by without rank and obvious injustice more especially as utah has demonstrated for a much longer pernod period and with far greater num humbers beis her substantial civil community and a republican form of government ern ment for these reasons alone we shall confidently look for consistency in mr seward and for his advocat advocating in a prompt compliance with the present unanimous knocking of utah for addiss admission ion lon j with at least as much zeal learning t and ability j as he has displayed in faor of kanbas kansas X in the I 1 speech now under consideration now P mr Se seward we most respectfully ask you to sustain your positions as above made known both by voice and vote when our delegates present mahs UNANIMOUS memorial petitioning 0 for simply what is her right the declaration of independence ind asserts tho the political equality of ALL men and even the tire constitution its itself eif elf carefully avoids any 1 cal recognition not merely of slavery but of the we diversity of races I 1 most true and equally true ia is it that the j first two lines of article I 1 of the amendments to tiit tilt constitution read I 1 con congress tess shall make SO LAW naw respecting HESPECT ing INO AN establishment OF RELIGION OR on prohibiting THE FREE exe EXERCISE incise tuek eor mor 1 does not mr seward va luethe last named priceless boon at least as highly as he docs does those he has named and can he be BO so shortsighted short sighted and unjust as to be more M ore careful 1 of rights colors and bodies pertaining to I 1 time and flesh than lie he is 13 of alding ai dingo to secure to every american Ae rican citizen whether in state or territory the rl right ht and privilege vilee of worship 1 pin ping god in ln accordance with 1113 his command moats and tho the dictates cf of conscience wa we 1 hall shall know wh when in utah knocks atthe atthe it the doors of congress halls whatever ia Is forbidden expressly ly y the constitution is unlawful whatever is not forbidden la Is lawful we most cordially thank you for that assertion fr for you are re reputed p atea to be learned in international national state and municipal law hence it comes to the public with mo more weight I 1 and being printed in the Tri trl tribune bubie bufie will have a wide circulation but lis fis as memories are often treacherous and highly excited fanaticism rife in the land we sincerely trust that you will not forget your last quoted assertion nor let article I 1 of the amendments of the constitution escape your notice in connection therewith so may you be preserved from blowing 0 hot today and cold tomorrow to morrow or from being I 1 caught C in the predicament of the lawyer in the spelling 0 book who wiio was found sa saying y ing and land if and if and if when there was no ground for a single it if examine the code created by the legislature of kansas all the statutes of the state of missouri are enacted in gross with out alteration or amendment for the government of kansas and then at the end the hasty blunder of misnomer is is corrected by an explanatory act that wherever the word state occurs it means territory I 1 and what amodel a code one that stifles not indeed the fruits of the womb but the tile equally important clement of a state the fruits the immortal fruits of the mind a code that puts in peril all rights and liberties whatsoever by denying to men the right to know to utter and to argue freely according to conscience a j right in in itself conservative of all other rights and liberties we are not familiar with that code neither does it concern us at least for the present what we particularly wish no now w to note is the earnest emphatic and correct opposition to any code that puts in peril all rights and liberties whatsoever by DENYING TO MEN tiie THE RIGHT ta TO KNOW TO UTTER AND ANID TO ARGUE reely KEELY I ACCORDING TO conscience A RIGHT IN ITSELF conservative OF AIL ALL OTHER RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES ind not only any code mr seward but any course or practice whether in congress or elsewhere be pleased to bear particularly in mind that portion of your above quoted important statement which we have honored hon 0 wd with small and large capitals and condescend to allow a small amendment doubtless overlooked in the hurry of speaking C by adding a the words to ito act after the words ito to know so far as such action does not infringe 0 upon any true rights a of others or nany wholesome law or regulation will you be kind enough to accept of our amendment so obviously necessary and in keeping and to be mindful of your position in the hours of temptation so soon to assail you 1 I propose to apply the remedy now by admitting the new state with its PRESENT population and present constitution again you are strictly and constitutionally correct as also in the following 0 Fre freedom edwil justly due cannot be conceded TOO SOON roon the constitution does NOT or ANY OTHER otner NUMBER of people as necessary to constitute a state cc the point made concerning numbers is therefore f ore practically unimportant and frivolous if this true doctrine is applicable to kansas with her reputed and we contend 9 it is most certainly should it be extended to utah with her inhabitants who are permanently increasing as rapidly as they are in kansas and probably more so and is it a aught ug but simply just u st to expect that senator seward in his place in congress and elsewhere will give utah his powerful aid in her lawful efforts to procure full fall constitutional liberty precedents in such caes cases casca steps for admission BEING WITHOUT foundation IN LAW are without authority this is a country whose government is re regulated plated not by precedent but by constitutions right again a and inasmuch as utah in her preliminary measures and action followed the best precedents that government and governmental mail facilities had placed within her reach then most certainly she has his no cause for apprehension on the ground of informality or accidental oversight should any thing of that nature be discovered in her proceedings m I 1 which we are confident will not no republican government everham endured WITH STANDING arnies ARMIES maintained IN ITS BOSOM TO ENFORCE submission TO ITS laws laws we comm commend end the perusal of the above quotation to the new york herald and its readers a paper that recommended with unblushing effrontery the sending 1 of troops into utah no not to aid her inhabitants ilta lita nt ls against tho the aggressions agg kos ros kus lons ions of tin the red men mea for well weil it knew that she bought sought no such aid ald pot to enforce submission to laws for equally well did that satanic print printy KNOW that utah had been most loyal and law abiding on what ground then did it advocate such a devilish policy forsooth to compass if possible the corruption of the fairest and most virtuous of all the fe female ma I 1 e sex the lovely daughters of utah A policy I 1 most worthy vort the boasted christianity and enlightenment lighten ment of the loth century ll with the quotations thus far made we cheer fudy rudy and almost entirely coincide and had hoped to be able abie ablerto to do so to the end but human ria nature ture even in a man so noted for po lotical wisdom as is senator seward for he 1 broke down on his own platform in his efforts 4 tto ito 1 to get a fling hing at polygamy in utah before so polished an audience as will be plainly seen by comparing a the teachings and positions of previous quotations with the fol tol following lowin 9 even then you must give over utah to slavery to lakeit make it secure and permanent in kansas and you must give over oregon and i washington to both polygamy and slavery so as to guarantee equally the one andee other I 1 I 1 of those peculiar domestic institutions in utah I 1 and so you must go on sacrificing on the shrine of peace territory after territory until the prevailing availing nationality of freedom and of virtue shall be lost and the vicious anomalies which you OU 1 have hitherto vainly hoped almighty willom wisdom 1 would remove from am among orl n yom yoa without your yur own concurrence shall become the controlling elements in the republic I 1 mr seward what evil spirit could have tempted so t great reat a man to take so ion lon long iong a stride i I 1 from his subject and to pour his scattering insinuations I 1 upon isolated utah how could you have so far forgotten your text and like a sectarian priest preached so far from it and so entirely irrelevant to it who told you that the practice of polygamy was that it was a vicious anomaly Is it possible that sound arguments for the rights of freemen in kansas were not at least as valid in favor of freemen in utah a contiguous 0 territory of the same bame great republic had you so at soon entirely cn forgotten article I 1 of the amendments or must you sacrifice candor and consistency in order to tickle the ears of your auditory if your object was to please the ladies who thronged thron ged the galleries we must courteously correct the delusion whish blinded yoi you with the information that every noble minded every virtuous and truly intelligent female in all I 1 christendom is despising c celibacy monogamy and their attendant accursed abominations as rapidly as you will permit true light and knowledge from heaven to enlighten their understandings you must surely hae have let dust accumulate thickly on your bible the source of all valuable laws with which you are acquainted or you could not have been unmindful that it was in the seed of abraham that all the nations of the earth were to be blessed A polygamist who received the word and will of god who talked with angels 0 and with his maker and whose second wife during the life of the first was counseled in her domestic domestic affairs by the almighty and received promises from him concerning her offspring colf coif if ye were ivere abrahams children ye would do the works of abraham john viii 39 why did it not occur to you yoa that the savior himself was a lineal descendant from that righteous polygamist jacob then you might have saved yourself from your present ignorant predicament and peradventure have remembered that the god of abraham of isaac and of jacob was the same yesterday today to day and forever that his course is one eter rial round I 1 that he c hanseth not but that it is foolish men who change the laws transgress 0 the ordinances and break the everlasting covenant having 0 made our quotations in all fairness and ana having criticized your speech far mor more e daintily than you com commented minted upon the course of president pierce after calling a your closer and more pra prayerful gerful attention to your bible after again asking you to urge request for admission into the union with the same ability with which you have argued the causa cause of kansas after urging upon yourself the strict practice of those port ione ony of your speech which we have quoted and coincided with W we e will close with its ending as we began with its beginning also commending your own exhortation to your careful tudy study lest peradventure i denture you be again 0 found forgetful and again make yourself aa as one of the simple ones in the eyes of the assembled beauty and wisdom of our nation mr president the continental congress of 1787 on resigning the trust which it had fd discharged with signal fidelity into the hands of 0 the a elected under the new j tion and in taking laking nr 0 leave of their constituents addressed to the people of the united state states this memorable injunction let it hever bever never be forgotten that the cause of the united states has haa always been the cause of au luman man nature 71 let us recall that precious monition let bs ns examine the ways which we have pursued hitherto under the likht thrown upon them by that instruction we shall find in doing eo so that we have irive forgotten for otten moral right ri ht in the tho pursuit of material material greatness ans and we shall cease henceforth from practising practicing upon ou ourselves ous elvea selves the miserable delusion that we 0 can safely extend empire Cm pire whence shall have become reckless 3 of the obligations of eternal justice i and faithless to the interests of Uni universal versal freedom I 1 I 1 will the new york weekly tribune pie pleas as copy |