Show THE ADMISSION OF UTAH tile THE opinions of J randolph tucker late congressman from virginia virgiaia and present legal defender of the condemned anarchists Anarchist so in reference to the utah state question have received some attention f from rom the press ilis his attitude altitude on antl anti mormon legislation leg illation last winter and his legal attainments have occasioned this special notice from the papers one thing conceded by mr tucker is worthy of attention it is that to keep utah in the territorial condition is contrary to our free institutions he says to govern ern an people per permanently an is worse than tony folly lc it is baji ann offense fence to the principles of anglo american liberty 1 I that is correct band and andis indisputable mutable the course pursued I 1 in n keeping utah out ot of the union after clr repeated applications for admission as a state and her provisions for a republican forra of government has been contrary to the principles on which the nation namon Is founded and the virtual serfdom in which she hits has been kept in consequence of the gerusal of herabert he her ravert overtures ebes ia i an offense to the spirit of liberty utah is governed as a adir conquered province under a monarchy moa archy not as a part pare of a tree and popular re public 4 1 1 it is admitted by mr tucker and many other politicians indeed by every american statesman that utah should be made a state but tile the polygamy obstacle magnified by her enemies beyond L all nason reasonable ablai proportions proportion sand and used as a dreadful terror to inflame the prejudices of the american people is declared to be the one great problem tobe to be solved in tue tiie settlement of this important I 1 a question fuestion ue stion it is itt in vain that it has fias been shown torivia to hivia no esse essen n bial bearing upon this I 1 purely political issue it has to bedet in goffic some wa way how t 1 1 mr tucker and the minority minori tIO of abb utan commission say by an a blid f 1 ment n tu the constitution Cons titu kioa of the baited states forbidding polygamy in all tile the states and territories with power in congress to enforce it legislation but that is an ah ald id p rd rb dosal rejected by the press fil and ith the conal ry after much apa apart from other reasons that have been advanced v against it arises why should an amendment amend merit to the con ution be made requiring the th e formalities mali ties of congressional action aad and then the action of every eadry state in ia the union before it would be valid for th ehte suppression or restriction of a i tice not even claimed tb da b common in any of the present states why make all this pother and to do over a matter that belongs to bat on one section of the countr a erdall parti of one small community look like load loading ing a cannon cannonito cann onto eto kill a fly nothing what ever marriage age quest in any or form that belongs to the domestic institutions of the sever several severlin lil states there Is coq much extension 4 now of the powers of 0 th the general government at the expense jbf 61 local authority there needs to be rather a t m the other othe direction the balance of power designed in the the nation between the several states and the national Niti orial gov ern eminent ment requires instead eada of oiling more weights oh on the federal scale we do not ihma the proposition will be viewed with much favor by sound and thoughtful democrats what is the other alternative it is the admission of utah with a conati ution providing for the punishment of polygamy by the state mr tucker also admits this but echoes the objection of many superficial thinkers on this subject tha tomes iche 1 union spate apud change attl Cons titu tion as soon as its peoples hauld think proper he seems seem top to endorse the dpn boji that a irate ao an irrevocable provision or one subject to the action ot of congressi Loo Lon gressi without rendering ia U a state 0 OH s as an unequal footing jtb theother the other states au of the ibe enabling acts for the boj A bomber of states now part of tuo the federal union jylli this error T tae he very lao a a guage I 1 age wed used in quite a number of thum them fl is that certain provisions pro visions made conditional to their ad into the Union should be irrevocable without the consent of Cos congress ress 17 we will quote two act for the state of nebraska passed april a year before the Cons titu dional amendment prohibiting slavery was adopted had this condition and provided further that said constitution shall provide by an article irrevocable without the consent of the congress CoQ gresa of the united states first that slavery or involuntary servitude vl tude shall be forever prohibited in said state etc at the organization of the state of texas among amob other guaranties guarantees guaran ties re as conditions for its admission wislon ad lato into the Union nion wa was me le following a adopted by I 1 congress ss march anew new stites states of convenient size not exceeding four in number in addition to said state of texas and having sufficient aten may here atterby the consent of said state Aej ormed out of the territory thereof of which shall be entitled to admission ander the provisions of te federal and such states as may oe beform formed sd ou out of that thirty six degrees thirty minutes mi north latitude commonly known as the mis bourl compromise line shall be admit ted into tile the union with or without slavery as the people state asking admission into th the union may desire and nd iu in such ecate or stat states as a shall be termed formed out of said ferri tory north of amt said mi compromise pr omle line slavery or servitude except for crime shall be prohibited in addition to td alie these special ons ona for the admission oje of State sunder suder different condit loBs limiting some and not limiting others aa th president ot of the united states was authorized to use his As to making the compact embodied in the resolutions ob p pas passed aed by congress or tp to b negotiate 9 directly with the people of T texas aas for their adbul aamir slon sion into the upion union ian anthe the ark argument 61 ft mr tuc tucker and other objectors to 9 special provisions these states state texis texas and nebraska w were on unequal an equal footing wit with tithe abd tbd states but neither I 1 congress con reaf nor the country s seemed to view the matter in that light special situations special provisions and the states mentioned accepted the conditions and entered the union under the guaran ties required 1 1 but aut if it should still be argued that Coli congress gregs bs not the constitutional power howerto to require special guaran guarantees guaranties ties from 1 ra lmh 1 diff differing ering from the condi ians I 1 ns on oa which the existing states ware re admitted that dogs does not touch the impregnable position that the peaple ofia of a pew state tave the to provide in co constitution ns tion adi forcer taia chions upon themselves as a guaranty of good faith made a de necessary because of a general sentiment ment materialized into the lorm form of 0 0 a virtual requirement from states tes the of it the movement for the admission of utah into the union may eOn congratulate themselves upon the fact that none of the object objections ious that have been urged against it will the p cassare of logic brayec or precedent put of ofton ton s or republican lean policy Y tie T e q qu abid quirks which arv ar TC sorted to show scow the poverty of reasoning anthe on the part of the opposition and proclaim that the etie mies to ulah liberty albert are prompted promoted by prejudice ad ace an and I 1 di pad passion sign or influenced by tives pf af pa paltry itry self interest |