Show GO GOVERNORS VH rih RNO RS MESSAGE GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF or representatives or tiie OF or UTAH tuie tiie appointment of the president of the united states having de alved lipon upon me the powers of governor of this territory I 1 now have th honor of addressing to you my first E executive message the recent date of my appointment and my arrival here only three days since will of necessity render vey ve y imperfect per feci teci what I 1 may say to you either by way of information inor lnor mation matlon of we the state slate of affairs in this territory or of recommendation of measures of legislation hence I 1 shall postpone the considerate con n of much kuch local matter for a special communication it if necessary and demote the most of the mess ige to a review of the causes of the war which now is devastating our land trusting that what I 1 may say may not be regarded as idle words hy by this remote colony of of the united states I 1 come among 3 buthe people one of you to io make this my hoine home and though a stranger to you I 1 hae have the earnest desire and anah h pe v which are aie stimulants of strenuous effort efort on my part that bat our now brief acquaintance may ripen into one of mutual respect and alike of the honor and welfare of the united st tes and of the best beat inte ests of pe of utah I 1 enter on the discharge of my duties as the representative of federal autio authority rity in this territory at an ev fitful period in the history of the united states you in common with the people of the whole c world are now looking upon the painful spectacle of the people of th a american F derall deral union at war with ith each other the nob est structure of political government ever created by the wants or devised by the aldom wisdom xi dom of men ia 13 passing through the ordeal of civil war eleven of the slaveholding slave holding state have openly repudiated repudiate d the authority of the federal constitution and are no v emping attempting att by force if f a ams ms ma to eg es ablith an independent national government und r the name of I 1 the confederate states of america into which a desperate and poA powerful erful if not a numerous mino ity of the pet pei pie of kentucky missouri and maryland are endeavor ing to draw those slaveholding siave alave holding states it Is perhaps unnecessary for me to enlarge upon what is probably already known to you of the ori orl origin in and progress of the war I 1 may however how bow evert enumerate as amo g it its ci causes uses fi st at different systems of laloi and social life in the slave hol in ing S aes ales involving essentially d fiert fieri nt opinions kopini ons s tc the morality and expediency of ibe the domenic do mesic slavery of the african race in the northern sta es pr labor which ia lit the basis of the material prosperity i f society is free and honorable it 4 way vay is leg lly ily unobstructed ted to wealth and honor in the southern states labor is servie servi e or enslaved and there therefore fere Second Conflict ot of sectional interests hit int ersts he most populous and wealthy poisons ons ong of the nor hern states siring desiring ae to favor their comme cial and manufacturing manefa turing interest a e predominant by protective tariffs against forel torel forein loreign n manufactures the So athen othen states on tlde tide the other hand who e interests are mainly cultural aiming to develop their agricultural we lih by freedom of trade and each endeavoring tu to make the federal government auxiliary to its own s policy third antagonistic political theories eq coeval wi b the formation of th federal un on in agard to federal and state rights ibe ue northern states having generally practically accepted the theory recognizes the supremacy prenia cy of the federal government as a national government created by the iha people of the U cited states as 0 e natili and the southern states having as generally adopted that theory of the constitution wn as the strict consani tion or states R gats theory which holds the constitution to be a compact act cr league between co coequal equal sovereign elates united in a confederacy not consolidated d under a national government tid the e radical substantial difference beleen ti e two theories may perhaps be summed up in these wolds the people of the northern states generally regard their allegiance to the federal gov rement as paramount to their allegiance to their state governments while the people of the southern states as re beneral heral ly hold atiat their allegiance to their states is superior to their all ail glance ta to the federal government hence a northern man regards hla hia S ate as having bavine no political sovereign rights except as a member of the feder federal a union and that therefore the secession of a state from flom fj om the uni n or its resistance of F dera authority is an act of rebellion or to be pu put down by the strong arm of federal rear reas a southern states xi lichts ats man considers hig his state as having rol poi roi 1 ical rights and sovereignty above and in dependent depend eit of the federal union and tha tija ther iber fore it may inay for cause lo 10 be ned evits bv its own d sc ri withdraw from the union or resist its authority without afford anord ing just cause i f war upon it it is deply to be pored deplored de that BO radical ph sh uld exist among the people of the united states for their tendency is to impair the harmony of feeling and uni y nf in tere and purpose which are essential I 1 to tb the e ful fui terr develop rn lit jit of iho ihm national prosperity erity and nowise man who mho rient fleen tand and imperi imperl I 1 territory upon which the providence provid embee effee of or god has placed the pe pie of the united stales states ca can fail to believe that they should rem ayi ati one nation and one people a t m may ay be one from many ny but yet one among the nations and that hat t their true interests and glory are in unity and peace but deplorable as the difference i are that have resulted in civil war they do exist and it is a his oric truth that they did exist coeval co eval with the for mation rf the federal union and constitution in the convention of wise and pa biotic mentho moen roen who formed the federal constitution of 1787 these differences cons the most serious to the fram tram ng of the con ution and afterwards to its adoption by the people had the councils of men of extreme and violent opinions igns prevailed and the jealousy between some of the stat a been fostered and the assert on of their separate sepa rae sov bov 1 been carried to its natural results the american states after havil bavi g nobly struggled to a glorious success through the seven years war for indea instead ot of forming the un on which gave them strength and dignity and started them upon U on a career oe of matchless prosperity would A ouis have been divi led fed into petty states without national resources without national al dignity and power and ever at the mercy of forein foe foes and of the british empire against which their united struggle had 0 iven eiven them success but the men to whom the desany of the united states was committed at the close of the war of the R vo ution were patriots and statesmen they were men of large hearts and clear heads they pa plainly tinly saw the dangers which threatened to divide the states and ani they sought to avoid them they ther fore mutually discarded is sectional views and jealousies and brought to the formation of the federal constitution ution a spirit of amity and the mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity arity of thir political situation rend red in 2 thle thie they did rot tot urge daffe ances of opinion or conflicting convicting interests to their log cal results they conceded they yielded they compromised the constitution the work of their hands was based on compromise the jealousy between large and ard small states was wag compromised by giving to each state equal representation in the senate senath and numerical representation in the house of rep the differences between the advocates of a strong national government on the one hand and a limited federal govern ment wi w h strictly defined powers on the other ether were compromised by maeng a government partly national and partly federal As to all its extern d a d for ign rea tiong tiona the government became a national on ons in its internal relations it remained federal each state retaining its sovereignty and independence as to all its local and internal concerns the differences of f antislavery anti antl slavery men and of the advocates of slavery wre wore reconciled conci led by fixing a it p when the congress hould have power to terminate th foreign lab iab laye lav trade which was a subject within the legi legitimate scope of national legislation and by virtually zing slavery without naming the words slavery or slaves as the creative crea tuie tule ft rf local law ind by leaving slavery in the st tes tea as the constitution found it a domestic institution the subject of local or state not of federal Fe derti dertl legislation Not withstand ng the com ses te the constitution it was not to be expected that the causes which produced diversity of or opinions and ty in framing the federal gov rement would wholly cease to operate with the pro bro ero th and prosperity of the nation the experience of humn hum n lature gave no guaranty of so benign a result brave and patriotic arid and inteli gentas they proved them se be vs vs to be in the he establishment of their in and in forming gieir system of govern government the american people had hall no claim to immunity from the ger get eral failings of men wise as was the plan of government they adopted they were liable to depart from its spirit and thus impair its efficiency and ard endanger its ita existence there was however strong hope in patriotic men that the wisdom of the people the practical good sense characteristic act of the race would always prevent the caus a olp oll ojea jealousy lousy and dis sention between different sections of the union from coming into angry collision and overleaping over leaping the limits and safeguards of their self seif creates created Cona constitution titu in th s hope there has bag been disappoint ment the people of the United states have not proved themselves to be as wise wiss as the fathe a of the republic hoped they would be disregarding the injunctions ot of washington in hig bis i farewell ad address driss and the teachings cf his il ii lustrous com compeer peeril diar garding the sacred compromise compo mise of the constitution itself men in different sections of tle tte tt tle e union h vc ve riot not of consequence to urge radical opinions upon various questions ons ors of felicy policy P spec aly the question of d bestic a slavery avery I 1 t that h at could not but terminate when thus urged in the formation of sectional parties and a consequent destruction of the harmony and moral power of the union which are the main elements of its p it is not my burp purpose ose to take a par pa tiza rUza but a dispassionate and patriotic view of our national troubles and arid in d doig so I 1 would falsify the truth of history I 1 11 I 1 falto say that neither the northern people nor the southern people are wholly free from front blame for or the great evil t that bat has come upon the i lation atlon upon a question like that of slavery which has been the most prominent amerig amr the causes dipti bing the lir harmony mony of the union a question involving 0 moral a cial and political confide rations conc cone arning which wise and good men in different ages have widely differ edit was rot wise for menan either elther section of the union to assume to be ie wholly right and their opponents wholly wrong nor wise to allow differences of opinion n to ripen rien into a sectional party spirit ind hatred ao so intense and rancorous ranco rous roua that they usurped the throne of reason and incapacitated men from seeing measures and events except as through a glass darkly the atmosphere of passion is ever an unsafe medium through which to look either upon men or things the federal constitution had bad dealt with the subject of slavery as a po political lideal one in the spirit of compromis com promis and it was the duty of all men loya loyal I 1 to the constitution to continue so to deal rieal wih it it was not therefore e fore well for the people of either section to give heed and influence to the saying sayings S of ien men of extreme opinions in regard to it the for matlon mation of a political party in the northern states upon the distinct basis of hostility to slavery insignificant as that party was in its beginning was ominous of evil the people should have foreseen that beneath the rending and disintegrating power of such a wedge of disunion the federal ui ion tho though agh strong as gnarled oak must eventually be rent asunder it has been a cardinal error of the people of the northern states towards their southern baehren br ehren to permit a fanatical fani abolition party in the north to enlarge its borders and strengthen its stakes and to gain political consequence and power until the opinion has been created among the southern people that the whole northern mind is imbued with bitter hostility to the southern people and a determination to destroy through the intervention of federal awer the southern domestic institution of negro servitude influenced by this opinion union loving men of the southern states hive been led to the conclusion conc luson that the harmony of the union was forever at an end and to look almost without regret upon the prospect of its 4 dissolution an idea once utterly repulsive to 0 o the whole american mind on the other hand im impartial partiA justice demands that I 1 shoud should say that the people of the south sensitive hot blooded impulsive and fond of rule instigated and misled by ambitious political leaders have been too much disposed too scoff at and defy the intelligent moral sentiment of the northern people on the subject of slav slavery erys and to force them by arrogant ani ant insolent to formally approve as a political and social good what tacy firmly believe to be a p political pil and social evil the people of the south have wi UT wisely claimed a political importance and power for their domestic institution of slavery not belonging to it they h hive ve claimed rights for it under tinder the federal constitution which the con tit ution does not award to it in fine the people of neither section have been willing as to this exciting question of slavery to iet let each other alone ad in the spirit lif lit f mutual forbearance and kindness and national brotherhood to pursue the even tenor of their way each content to form and regulate its domestic institutions in its own way subject only to the constitution of the united states from year to yar for many years past the disharmony of the federal union growing out of the subject of slavery and the other causes of difference to which I 1 have alluded has been increasing en outraged ou raged by abolitionists at the north and anti the ulta slavery men of the south A ahil t agitation the wisest and best men of the have manfully con ended the st at uggie of 1820 in regard to 10 the admission of missouri into the union a struggle which shook the union to its center as w th the throes of dissolution was safely passed by a c mp romise wholesome at the time but not as the result has shown resting upon a permanent self adjust ing principle adapted to all future aises that in m arise with the s on of 0 national territory and the ch duncing dunging ginging relations of states the ile next great stir struggle was that resulting in the compromise measure of 1850 wi b which the history of your own territory is identified 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