Show wylce OFFICE SEEKING tn in utah the office becks seeks the most fitting I 1 man rua n as in days of ancient purity in the ibe states the man man seeks the oan office ce far too often regardless of qualification for the position notoriety power gid rud and atlease at an leasy easy corrupt fat livin living on others labors appear to have almost mosi entirely engaged the energies of a great majority of that large class known as office seekers the tiie outs couts cuts struggle cwg tzg ae by all manner of meth neth methods far more of them foul than fair to become the lind cind ins 5 the ins hold on to their positions with the utmost tenacity by modes fully ully f as questionable as those practiced by the outs so much and so notorious is this tho f case calse that the teat stat great man mass of the really bowar able ale staid intelligent and truly worthy keep aloof from the downright rab and a nd blackguardism guard ism of political strife as at present conducted they burink from passing the fiery ordeal of blander slander and from running the auant iet lat let iet between a double file of black were nvere even that all w aman man burning with true zeal for f or his count rys a good ada and careless of self india indulgence 0 ence might here and there be found willing to have his name scouted for evil throughout the breadth of our land but after the office ia is secured should he honestly endeavor to magnify it with integrity and ability he is ZIs zib assailed sailed on nearly every hand with the accusation of being a if fanatic or puritan 3 it is foreign 0 to our present purpose to more fully lift the veil veit covering the dark corruptions corrupt ions of political scrambling and abid gambling for power and place and rest rent with this brief portrayal of the pitiable pass to which party politics have driven our nation but who that reflects does not understand that the hue and cry the dust the li and braying against fair utah are for buncombe to the designs si ns of i roost selfish and debased plans who outside of 1 utah stafi and seeking office therein cares carps one particle about her tier prosperity and welfare not one no not one that they want office grave as is that of dence fence is one of the very smallest evils that can be laid to their charge for when it is obtained they f far ar too frequently use its privileges for the purpose of more effectually tram trampling plin upon the rits nights rights tah of their fellows do they fancy that we american born and raised are not familiar with what is our duek due do they even wildly imagine that w we do not not most stand the tike constitution of the united states and are not conversant with the statutes at large at least so far as applicable to territories the most virulent news newspapers papers capets have lve admitted that we are informed upon these points and that by the constitution and laws of the united states we are beyond their reach never having in the least degree infringed upon nor contravened the provisions thereof but all this does not answer their purposes when the mormons cormons Mor mons are in question ah ab what a difference as to which bull gored which ox with the law the constitution a large majority of the judges C of the supreme court and every I 1 ip applicable correct usage of our government from its beginning 0 upon the side of kofl utah still something 0 must be done with those terrible mormons cormons Mor mons but they are living in perfect peace are breaking no law human humin or divine are occupying a region no one else will inhabit and peopling it with the mos most t loyal industrious and intelligent community in the union and are merely claiming c the just right to elect their own officers and to enjoy all other privileges guaranteed to americans that just and unsophisticated mode of living does not appear to answer the morbid tastes of this very enlightened generation and after coh cob conceding ceding th atour positions posidio ns and ments are correct and unanswerable they still continue to howl how cromet something ing roust must be done with the mormons cormons Mor mons we most readily admit that something should be done for forthe the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 after aher having 1 been plundered and driven into these barren wastes they should by every principle of justice be conceded the el election of their own officers the entire regulation of their internal infernal affairs an and d the uncontrolled privilege of worshipping wor shipping their god in obedience to his commandments and during its next session cession Con Congress groBs should admit utah into the family amily of the states au and piri in the lie plentitude of th pouf in the tile oil and band the wine I 3 he healing al and strengthen streng strengthening the ning where her e oppression oppress on has bru bruised ased but no for so fair a and nd just josf a procedure would shut up a certain number of uncles money bayes boyes which office seekers are pressing president buchanan to his death bath for the privilege of opening that they hey may deplete the treasury into their own pockets have appo opportunity r to sow corruption and disunion I 1 n among an innocent and united people clothe slanders and misrepresentations with wilh the weight of official position and give aid towards accomplishing complis comp lishing hing bing ir it possible aho abo a hostila ho collision and bloodshed to the keen gratification of most depraved dispositions and the spread of the control of the powers of darkness true all from abroad who are now s seeking office hi in utah would not perhaps come f fully ully within tho tito scope of the above stricture A few fek are doubtless laboring under the singular delusion that we have completely forgotten vin vil anere nere here we were born how raised and how and why we cine cane came here perhaps some from the lofty phi pinnacle nacle nacie of their supposed widd wisdom om 1001 look in compassion upon our benighted condition i and in the ings of their philanthropy are ready to immolate themselves upon the altar of patriotism for the redemption of utah poor souls we pity you but candidly we do not need nor court your ca compassion m nor sacrifices in our behalf and emphatically I 1 wish you to understand that we do know what we are about and are most amply I 1 able to take care of ourselves it if you will but keep away and let us alone it mily may not be so stra strange tigI that the people in the united states should deem mem our course rather singular nor that we should esteem theirs towards us as savoring very strongly n lyof of gross ignorance 0 intolerance and abuse for we are viewing from a pure atmosphere and great elevation their petty lings twist ings 0 0 and strafes fes moral social civil political and religious while they are laboring under the disadvantages of a low point of sight slight and a misty atmosphere in their feeble efforts to comprehend the modernly anomalous movements of a whole people with but few exceptions seeking and practicing ing truth bit B it notwithstanding the difference of position both parties would be enabled to see each other alike if the people of utah would only cease worshipping wor shipping the lord their god and heartily strike hands with is actually the true secret and is really un sacking the cat but candidly most pious and civilized people of the states that is altogether too costly an affair with which to purchase even your sweet sweat swei opinions and hail hall fellow introductions into your delectable abominations for the end thereof is death not temporal but spiritual now 0 0 ye loving ones abroad seeking office utah ye who are panting for notoriety and places will you not let a little good advice a slight gleam of sound sense and fair into your darkened understandings and clear your bouy be clouded and mistaken notions notion sl utah is most assuredly not a desirable aiding place for any ally who do not love salvation the salaries are not high and heretofore the kC eings KINGS AND have not rapidly enriched even the mosi most expert who have been sent here the society is in no wise wise congenial to the tile tastes and habits of those who expect to continue in the tho indulgence orthe or of the spicy SLY CUTS recommended by christian monogamist noga mist there are no daily papers to dish up lip a long and dark catalogue of daily crimes and no crimes to be served up there is only a monthly mail at best and often only ohly one in six months except from froin california and you would pine yourselves away awby in fretting for an opportunity for sending off your slanders you could gain no notoriety for lor we estimate all men at their precise value and there is not the slightest chance for a red cent to pass current for a gold ea eagle eale le and if you indulge in any of those n numerous urne rous roue peculiar practices so fashionable I 1 i n your localities such as gambling drunkenness prof profanity anit y ac ac you will be liable to 0 o be act unceremoniously introduced to tiie the acion of good and wholesome laws greatly to chagrin cli agrin and much to your discomfit and giving you a pretext to writh write feri ten ible ibIe things about the 1 mormons cormons Mor mons in short to avoid the ilia tediousness of minute detail you would find yourselves entirely out 0 of f your element and far from congenial society except a small clique too 00 oo insignificant to form a circle too few for boon companionship and almost monthly diminishing all lovers of good and wholesome laws all even morally honorable and upright men all who love and strive to extend the area of true freedom and to mind their own bir business siness aie afe are always have been i and will be treated by us in accordance with the tha most liberal construction of their merit on oil the other hand we are sanguine that miserable sneaking traitorous self conceited slandering busil I 1 lani scoundrels will ever fini find that the climate of utah is not congenial to their health and that they had bad far better have staid in the regions 11 of bf more compatible society we are fully aware that president buchanan and his cabinet can not be presumed to know the qualifications of all who are hounding them for office and a clutch at the spoils and r ar arb are a thereby liable to have their best intentions frustrated but they do know that utah unanimously AND OF figur and respectfully respects ally nily petitions that 1118 his excellency brigham young be continued to be her governor a man long and thoroughly tried and proven to be most worthy and what american citizen having a due respect for the constitutional rights and welfare of the people will so much as ask for the ilia appointment in governor youngs place or even accept it if proffered without being sought no one ne neither can ally any intelligent person by party frenzy uncontaminated by love of office and spoils and poss possessed essed of only a tolo tolerable rable rabie respect for the rights and feelings of others be BO ro wickel wicked and malicious as to urge president buchanan to appoint point any iny officers in territories save those ini dilated by the choice of the people dwelli dwelling Dg therein any governmental appointments for territories more illa ilia than n for slates is at best but a relic of barbarous on colonial lonial usage such a course has haa no warrant from the constitution and hence is glaringly unjust and altogether unworthy a professedly free liberal and enlightened nation and the persist eit alit pursuit of that policy has a direct tendency tenancy to subvert those eternal principles lying at the foundation of all durable wise and happy governments it is also a constant insult and abuse highhandedly high handedly inflicted upon those patriotic and who forego the comforts luxuries and mani many conveniences of the states to go forth and turn unoccupied wastes into fitting abiding places for joyous freemen |