| Show GRAND maks haks ewing EUING 31 J abw OF tire OF utan UTAH THE MASS MEETING NG appointed for this afternoon convened at 4 at the new tabernacle which was crowded with a most enthusiastic assembly of the citizens of the territory and w was as called to order by the hon eon daniel H wells mayor of this city president brigham toung youns motioned that hon ron geo A smith president of the tho territorial legislative council Counci ibe be Chair chairman mati maii of the meeting which was unanimously carried hon ron edward hunter of salt biake la ke city general erastus of washington co col peter maughan Maug han hau of cache co hon eon charles 0 rich of rich kich co and hon thomas callister of millard codere co were then chosen vice presidents on Q cannon T B H stenhouse and geo reynolds 4 esis were chosen secretaries and david W evans E I 1 sloan and grimshaw esis reporters the chairman then in brief and a appropriate P prop terms stated that thail the object of the meeting was to memorialize congress for the admission of utah territory into the union as a state after which hon daniel H wells presented the following resolution which was unanimously carried jie ile resolved Jle Be solved that a committee of thirteen be appoint appointed ea to draft a memorial to congress for the admission of this Terri terni territory tor y as a state 11 on oa motion the following gent gentlemen limen were selected as said bald committee honah ron hon DH MH wells salt lake city hon jeter clinton salt lake city hon brigham young jr salt lake city col david mckenzie salt lake city hon lorenzo lorinzo snow box elder co col wm win H dame iron co hon francis jfrancis M lyman millard co gen albert K thurber utah co hon orson hyde sanpete co gen F D richards weber co judge hector C haight light davis co cd hon abram hatch wasatch co capt david P kimball rich co the chairman then instructed the committee to io retire and prepare the necessary memorial during the ab sence bence of the committee several speeches were made setti setting hig kig forth in eloquent language the necessity for the agitation of the subject of admission into the union and that utah having 0 been settled upwards of twenty two years and ind having passed through a territorial probation of nineteen years is clearly entitled to all the rights of a sovereign state these addresses were received with the greatest enthusiasm by the thousand thousands of citizens present the committee returned and presented the following memorial which was read by the secretary hon geo Q cannon andoli andon motion 0 of hon honwah wm H hooper was unanimously adopted to the honorable the senate and bouse souse of be representatives presenta tives 0 of f the united U states stats in oon Con congles congress ores gres assembled we the people eople of utah territory in presenting this ts memorial before your honorable body respectfully solicit your calm and dispassionate consideration and such favorable action thereon as the justice justlee of our cause demands in the year 1849 the people of utah territory organized ile ibe the I 1 provisional government of the state of deseret a government republican in form having a written constitution providing for executive legislative and judicial departments for the election of its officers by the people for revenue and all other things necessary in the government of a republican republica ii state under this provisional government counties were organized and elections held the legislature convened passed laws 1 sul sui suitable table tabie to oun our condition and at that very session I 1 congress was petitioned for out oue admission into the union subsequently in 1856 we held hold a convention and adopted a constitution and memorial and elected our dele delegates gates gutes who presented them to congress but no formal action was had thereon again in 1660 1862 at another iother convention was wm held and another constitution was adopted this also was strictly republican but hut altho aitho although ugA properly properly presented to congress was never brought to vote the organization of the state of deseret is still preserved however io wever and though petition after petition petition has been presen presented ed in vain we are still full of hope and all prepared for the change that shall convert ns us frond irom our present colonial condition to td the mate glorious state clorious dignity of a free and independent strange as it territories have been admitted into the union which with far less order government overn ment and general resources for seli self seio self maintenance when admitted were at the date of our first petition comparatively without inhabitants and what of the future here we are today an organized republican state in a country wrested by our bat battalions irom from a semi barbaria fo foe on a soil reclaimed by y our industry from tho grasp of un 1 told loid nai ages and in made mado do fruitful for the support of a nation shall we then while clamoring for admission te be disregarded and other and more distant territories comparatively ively of no more value be eagerly sought for to enlarge the great republic why should the great chain of states continue severed in ith its very centre today to day utah excels in material improvements every other territory in the union we have already built up one city of twenty thousand inhabitants besides thirty other cities and one hundred towns and villages with a population of about one hundred and ana fifty thousand in all we wo hava have established three hundred schools in which at least eighteen thousand children receive a common school education without one doll doli dollar arof of public money or ono one acro acre of the public domain to aid us we have made wagon bridges and opened kenyons at the cost of millions of dollars we have made over one thousand miles biles mi lesof of canal and twenty thousand miles of irrigating ditches at an estimated cost of three millions of dollars thus bringing natures fertilizing elements over an area of some eight hundred thousand acres of what was once a parched and naked desert we have erected and paid for over five hundred miles of telegraph line jine and ana we have graded about four hundred miles of the pacific railroad rall Bail road wo we have established municipal laws and regulations in 1 all our cities towns and village sand our two hundred grist krist mills our cotton and eplen factories cocoon eries erles tanneries canneries tann eries and or myr manufacturing houses in every department of art speak in language unmistakable 0 of our enterprise and ana industry while at the same time the territory is not only free from debt but the county and city cotylo local scrip udd is held heid at bac bar par with the currency of the united states liquor and gamb gambling lini house sand their kindred klif kiri dred drea temples of vice are comparatively unknown while on the other hand at least ninety nive five per centor centon cent of our families dwell in their own houses these facts are indications of the rapid growth of a prosperous virtuous and in every sense an intelligent and valuable community worthy of a voice in the election of their rulers and competent to rank in the family of states your memoria lists feel that a territorial form of government is at a best an oppressive one that it is a relic of the old colonial form which our fathers unable longer to tolerate threw lou lon off omm because of its injustice exaction and tyranny it isa is a form of government subversive of the fundamental principle of american liberty that governments derive denive their just powers from the consent of vhf the governed the practice of government has been to select and appoint officers from distant states men unacquainted with the habits laws and necessities of the people who to a greater or less degree would lie be under the influence of the traditions habits and customs of the state or country from whence they came and which might be totally inapplicable to the territories if under these theme circumstances any attempt should shoula be mado to force unpopular measures upon the people the result must be a conflict of feeling and distrust and enmity are at once created which should not and under other circumstances would not exist if a territorial terr government can be consistent with h a republican government it is when the wishes of the 1 people are consulted respecting their officers but not while the right of absolute vao veto may be ex exercised upon every act of their tholf legislature by an officer who may be obnoxious to the people therefore as these considerations only anly serve to prove more morre fally fully foly the unfitness of a territorial form of government for the peo people of this territory and that it is unsuited to our present condition and subversive of harmony between us and the general government we ve the people of utah in mass masi meeting assemble assembled do once more make an earnest and solemn appeal to the senate and house of representatives relying on their magnanimity and sense 0 justice for a dispassionate and unprejudiced consideration of buc bur our claims for a speedy admission into the union upon an equal footing with the other states all of which is respectfully submitted |
