| Show MAN CLOTHED WITH I 1 A LITTLE BRIEF AUTHORITY fito tto WE clip from the tho ogden gierald JI erald some correspondence which will be found in another part of this paper pr between an ogden committee and d tilo the governor of this territory ogden Is preparing to celebrate the F fourth of or july in the manner customary in this city until quite recently that is by a union of tho the people for that auspicious day regardless gard less of sect party or race to commemorate tho the birth of the nation and the establishment of civil ivil and religious liberty for all who dwell I 1 I 1 under the protecting fegis of the tiie government of the united states the junction city folks are organizing on this broad and cos cosmopolitan mo principle as they have done and can do without the likelihood of any illiberal exhibition of party spirit or brutal ebullition of sectarian spite this is highly commendable and is after the fashion of our old time celebrations in salt lake city and other othen parts parth 0 the territory the request of the committee was made in the tiie spirit of conciliation and with a desire that nothing should occur on such an occasion that could be construed into a disregard of authority righteously orun or rily rill 1 exercised the organization ina tion of a cavalry company was not asked for the tho calling out of a battalion was not desired the tiie committee simply wished to know if there would bo be any executive objections to the parading of a company of or mounted men on a day sacred to the cause of human liberty the tiie answer is just what might have been expected from such a source fco it is an intentional avoidance of the real request the introduction of things not asked for and a statement that is incorrect manifesting profound ignorance of the law as well as disregard for geatan teed popular rights we appreciate tho spirit in which the application was made at the same time wo boregard regard it as a mistake tile iio people of or ogden had a perfect right to do what they contemplated without paying any imy attention to an all official with a soul of binik dimensions kalons and a mind cast in the smallest and most illiberal mould A company of mounted men with or vit hout arms could parade on the of national independence without infringing in the least degree upon any law human or divine the previous executive order alluded to is of no more legal force fore cand caud and effect than the wad tn a amans gun without any powder behind it i the supreme law of the I 1 land and vides vidos that the right ri ht of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be jur in fringed riDged 11 and announces that A well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state interference with this right of the mple people is a stretch of authority that t argues a despotic disposition as well as contempt for the constitution of our country we can celebrate the fourth of july without military parade or any of the observances usual on the occasion and if we choose to do so we may have llave all the tho mounted men or i companies on foot that we can mue mua ter without asking the permission of any petty satrap or pompous popinjay anjay who wants wanta to abridge the rights lights of the people or play the ruler in in a country whose officers are its servants not its sovereigns |
