Show administration A detailed publication of governmental 11 treatment towards utah as a territory contrasted J i with that towards all other territories from the beginning would mantle the che chek k of every true hearted american at I 1 the glaring n corruptions corrupt ions so oer oler topping a aist administration of our free institutions and fill the heart with wonder that any american citizens could be found sufficiently patient to endure such buch illegal treatment and since even the new yolk herald has admitted that the constitution and laws of the united states do not curtail nor in the least infringe upon any act which our cur citizens have done or wish to do I 1 it might be supposed that there is yet sufficient integrity among the powers that be to remedy the gross injustice of the past and mete to a most intelligent and loyal people those equal I 1 rights and anc principles rightly promised to all such peradventure would be the case cage was the administration of our government actually in the hands of the people the true sovereigns but is it not in their hands no and never has been since the wily and corrupt institution of caucuses and conventions the busy traders mechanics manufacturers and farmers the real virtue intelligence and bone and sinew are quietly pursuing their peaceful and na prosperity avocations while tile the professional politicians the office holders the office seekers corrupt editors hypocritical priests grogshop bruisers bullies and loafers have managed 0 to usurp the administration of the best m man an made constitution and laws in existence do not the last named classes have governmental affairs all their own way each in ili turn as they become seated in power from the presidential chair in washington city to the smallest office in washington 0 territory and do not the small fry who through corruption i seize the reins of Z government annually control I 1 some three bundled hundred millions of public revenue and every four years march and countermarch 2 turn out of office and confer office and all the time wield the power of the nation far more for selfish and low purposes than for the public weal they do as all office seekers and their clans shriek and as every good citizen does know 4 how horbas has so dire a result been produced by the enteria entering 0 wedee of corruptly designed des 0 ned caucuses I 1 which were swept away as 0 gained boldness by success success to make room for the present devilish system of conventions whereby the really intelligent upright law abidin abiding and ando honestly nestly industrious are overridden by those classes who worship the prince of darkness upon his altars called love of gold notoriety office alman man worship temporal power oppression and so forth and so on do such men care for our constitution and laws no no further than they serve them as a cloak for successfully carrying on their nefarious schemes I 1 under such a condition of things well known by all men mea it is notto not to be wondered at that the free just jut and equal principles of our constitution and laws should be so often and eo so glaringly wrested to the of rotten cliques and parties to the overthrow of all that is pure streng strengthening hening 0 and ennobling it is a persistency in such a course that causes lies to be so greedily published and swallowed that is clamorous for the outrageous squandering of the public revenue in pet channels and im unjustly justly withholding wit holding it from channels tending to natural prosperity I 1 and advocates the dra dragooning dragoo ning of citizens for exercising the rights of religious 0 worship the ile principles of our government are good and they will ever be observed and sustained by the inhabitants of utah but an administrative violation violani 0 n of those principles for the express purpose of forwarding the designs des 0 ns of corrupt parties and ind enslaving 0 american Ameri amerl cap citizens will eventuate in the direst civil war upon record and the rending of the fairest governmental fabric ever reared by man in a free government all juat powers whether of taxation election representation or of any other rightful b description are justly based upon the consent of the governed contini continually bally violate that great principle and in all the ex the past or good sense of the present is there any promise of stability american born and reared knowing our constitutional constitution a ri rights t bs and privileges oss oas as the herald admits governing ourselves strictly in accordance therewith and daring to advocate te and maintain them it is not presumable that an an intelligent people will ever tamely bow to tyranny in any shape neither amid the it lin lings 1 s of parties the lies of hypocrites the howlings how bow lings of corrupt editors and the ohp rottenness ro t of officials will they ever be bg unmindful of the great republican doctrines 0 of f 1798 1708 I known as as the virginia resolutions 1 which were wisely acquiesced the great republican party of that day I 5 and are of right as applicable to territories as to states and land are in the following words resolved that this assembly doth explicitly arid peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties as limited by the plain sense and intention of the ins instrument trume t constituting that compact vain a no further valid id than they are authorized ay the grants enumerated in that compact and that ii iri case of a deliberate palpable and dangerous exercise of othar powers not granted by fly the said compact the he states who are the p parties artles thereto HAVE nave HAVE nave THE RIGHT AND ARE IN DUTY BOUND TO INTE INTERPOSE RrosE FOR ARRESTING tile tilt PROGRESS OF THE EVIL AND FOR maintaining WITHIN THEIR respective LIMITS THE authorities RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES LIBERTAS linert LIBERT IES appertaining TO THEM |