Show THIC congressional record of the 21 st ani contains contain the lie debate that tout toot place in the senate the day previous OH an senator calls resolution to print IA 14 the secord the memorial of the utah convention and accompanying documents senator ed moved the reference of the resolution feio lution to the committee on terri lories mid and urged that the contents of the memorial accompany accompanying kag document should be examined into before they were ordered to be printed in toe tae aeton intimating that language jils to congress might be con heined in the papers he a so objected to 6 the InBert ioa of papers in ia toe the record accord dit da account of tha the expense atea attending diug i c t sepa senator toor call urged in reply that bat t the seaonal contained nothing objection wa able that it related to a public matter T the a admission of itan and gave a tat ement of the facts as they are re jarred by the petitioners petition ers woo claimed f in bell behalf alf of boo citizens of the united states lie he said that it would be unjust to co say in advance that thai what those citizens stated or wished will disrespectful to congress a and to fact lea I 1 deny a their right glit of petition the e 01 de ti on was made he be declared ec lared 5 aa to of f persecution and lie he re 4 r ed to u ince 11 igent men mea of 01 both par ul tz who iao ad visited utah as stalin staling odd not three per cent of ule ine people oil of le we territory were guilty of the tae wet upon the assumption of bateu tte aerator astor from vermont had bad based aio senator paddock by way of object box urged that mat toe resolution covered nob eniy amy the memorial out but all the tae ac ca dying papers senator call re pi piled fa that it I 1 t was sot not desired to en ea C with any voluminous p publication aud and tuat the constitution need not be included to snow show that there was objection objectionable aole in the memorial orla orlaf he read it and then remarked mr air I 1 have read this memo memorial rialto to show the insincerity y of the objection which has haa been made by th senator from Verd lont to toe the print iHK of this memorial from american citizens in toe tae record as requested by them chem to the end that they may have a heating hearing bea beffre are the con am 60 before tae people of the waited united states aki senator from vermont knew that there was nothing in IB this memorial disrespectful to congress aud and he kaew that there was no reason n in ID 1 I ight or dr justice why the senate of the bulted S cited states should refuse to te hear tee tas petition of either one ci dzen citizen however poor or however erring or of two hundred thousand tao usand citi iamb SD who have a right to lo oe heard bere as ae much right as aa the senator from vermont or I 1 have a constitutional right aright to be heard in this and before the american people A solem solemnly nig guaranteed right not only t be bea heard but ut to aade secured to 10 them and to each of tatem all ot the rights immune en aa and privileges waichi the tae senator rona arm erm nt at has or which any other citizen of the baited states nas has A right 0 of quality equality e in all respects wore before aha ha law whick toe the self U and every other senator have hakea an oath to respect and defend ano mr AL to them Torone ar pl propose to respect and obey that oath and not violate it either directly or by evasion or indi erectly mr edmunds mr president I 1 bank the senator benator from florida very much for his gratifying and campli andary allusions to me they are worthy of him and aad I 1 trust I 1 can bear them teem i certainly do not question the sin eerily of the senator florida f fur br ht he has baa stood this polygamous hierarchy every time they have had any interest to advance or r any wholesome legislation to resist so far as I 1 now remember at all ali times and with treat great ability and considerable zeal so I 1 can with equal sincerity give turn nim tite praise to which he to is justly entitled of being absolutely sincere in standing by this body of persons dersons through thick and thin come good come ill I 1 expect chatte stat he will continue to do so and if in the process of time that territory donld become a state aud we could dunce the constitution so that one moll might be senator from two knott aces I 1 have no doubt that the sepa sena ft or from florida would be the first senator that hat the mormon hierarchy would wd select elect as they ought to I 1 am tor for the brit time 0 advised of the contests of there are a great many other papers then ue a great many answers G to ather papers that might be it I 1 chose to evade the rast fust rules sin e senate te by bi spending the morning cornin 9 eding counter stati statements mentA which W the utter hypocrisy and of f this performance a m mere ere to iet out from under the hand Conj iresa and d the laws of the united filatea fit atea on a promise ise that when they become in a sovereign and independent state blinding ding as the constitution a W when len they come jn in that the 3 hall stand on an equal tooting footing with every ry other staten aap in the t union and having the right whatever may be in seir beir constitution ast about changing it ZO Bhan gelt any time they please with out ot the ake consent of congress and not being bound by any compact that they may mate make in agard regard to their social institutions as the supreme court to in another case or in wore more than one perhaps has hai long ong ago the equal t quality of all new baates admitted into to toe union I 1 understand auder all that and I 1 everybody does and for one I 1 do not propose to be a party to spend finx ng the money of tie te people of 0 tu the united states in printing g in the mhd R record ecord for circulation among the people this sort of things mr call mr president the senator from vermont is equally insincere incorrect and even frivolous in his statement that he has heard beard me stand behind the mormon Mor moa hierarchy and defend it the th senator from vermont has fias beard toe me stand behind human rights the rights of women and children whom he be was seeking to brand with a lifetime of sorrow and disgrace he be has heard me defend ft patient and suffering anti polygamous people when with the most exquisite cruelty he has sought to panah the poor inno innocent cert women and children in utah b by 1 legislation I station which I 1 regard as unconstitutional at ional unfeeling inhuman and subversive of the je lell glon ligion and precepts of the divine teacher put I 1 im as far from sustaining the or any other hierarchy as to is the senator senater from vermont indeed I 1 am much farther for I 1 am la in favor of religious tolerance toler aLce I 1 am a believer bellev dr in the power of christs religion and his preachers an and the senator from row vermont er does doe not seem to be so A senator may abe be a defender of religious religions liberty in ih favor of tolerance without being a persecutor and without being inhuman towards women and children that much the senator from vermont has heard from me but he has never h hard ard and he never will hear me stand in this chamber to hetty leoy the rights of citizens of the united states to whom be b has sworn to give their constitutional rights he has never heard me seek to prevent them from having a bearing and he be has bas never beard me advocate corrupt judicial tribunals or packed J uries or 61 the prostitution of the courts of justice and th the laws of the land for the conviction even of calm criminals much less of men and women who formed relations under peculiar reli religious gous oua beliefs of their own at a time when tie right to make their own owa laws and regulate their own institutions had bad been guaranteed to them by t treaty and expressly conferred upon ty them by act of congress he has never heard me advocate branding a whole generation of young men and bome i native born and adopted citizens with a stigma by law and to declare them unworthy of it trust and confidence as citizens because their belr fathers er q an and mothers are charged with what we regard as objectionable relations and heterodox and unsound religious opinions the senator from fro fal vermont has not heard beard me ine advocate the seizure ot the places of worship and toe property of citizens of the united states because they call themselves the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and because a small number of them have been guilty of polygamy I 1 have not expressed an opinion even as to how bow I 1 should vote on this proposition nor as to w whether tiet tier these people are or are not sincere that is a question for future consideration and for evidence I 1 have however been informed by persons democrats and republicans as good as the senator f from adi m vermont or 1 I as fair in stand standing bug as respectable in character that the majority of these people all but about 5 per cen never been mists that more than a hundred thousand young women and men growing up aaby many of them now of age who were educated I 1 in the public schools of that country count rv are opposed to polygamy and that the prevailing sentiment of the young population of utah who have been educated as american citizens who have the rights that I 1 have and that the senator from vermont has is opposed almost unanimously to the institution of polygamy and that they have consented conscientiously to the legislation of congress Ion gress and have done all that they could to enforce it and propose to make it so far as they can do so perpetual and irrevocable by what right does the jhb senator from vermont say here that this is a sham and a pretense re tense on oa what assumption ortruth of truth or reason does he pronounce the protestations of the young men and women of utah that they are innocent and chaste and desirous of an anti polygamy society and government a false pretense sham and a fraud how vain and idle the objection which the senator from vermont seeks to make here and impose upon the people of this country coc that by the law these men cannot trammel the state in its future legislation suppose that to be so does that show that they are not sincere does that import that the very cruel legi legislation he himself has constantly forced on OB these people has had bad no effect why mr president these attempts to con damn these people to in advance advance i e to prejudice them in the public opinion without a bearing are idle and u unworthy n of the irom from vermont vermo ab nb they are not reasonable as a matter of logic and not true as ametter of fact senator stewart ot iNe yada here took part in the debate he was opposed to printing the memorial mAmori aJ in tile the record he charged that utah was governed by a hierarchy that neither freedom n nor or free schools existed in the territory and thit that it is impossible tor for citizens of the united states to live in any part of utah outside of the towns where there is military krotec tion if la in asu a similar nilar tinned to ut cipe ge the as of utah for admission ills hid remarks were particularly conspicuous ou on account of the utter incorrectness I 1 ol of hi ha statements I 1 senator cill call rejo rejoined ened mr air president I 1 deprecate any dis als cassion to in regard to what utah as ia or is not these people deny tho statement of the senator from nevada they have a 4 ngat to be heard they ask that proof be taken as aa to whether or not they are loyal people and bin cere as to whether they are houle to the people of the united blauss or not they ask the poor privilege of being heard and add allowed to prove their true status and not to be condemned in advance adva ace without evidence upon prejudice that is the question upon I 1 have bea bf en speaking that it IB the motion which I 1 have made I 1 am defending sir the right pi of an amen can cit bitzen zen to a tair fair trial and to a fair hearing no aring and he shall not be condemned in toe the congress of toe united states without a hearing heurin gand and vl proof they deny all the statements of the senator from nevada and anda I 1 have heard them denied as I 1 said paid before by republicans republic public ans ot ol the highest indulgence imelli gence and by democrats the last few days in regard to these facts I 1 have h ayt not expressed any opinion of my flay own i it if the senator from nevada is id right thiea it becomes simply a question whether we have the power and right to deny the principles of ef the government and the great proposition upon which oll all our rest whether public opinion under our and our govern meak is the irue and safe basis ot ol local seif seaf gov ern mentor whether a central ud concentrated cent rated authority in ia the hands of a small swall number of persons ahall prescribe the domestic institutions and the religion oi 01 a people T r ran an anti aati mormon hierarchy of 01 which the senator irom from V aci ea mont moat shall be the high priest alid apostle to make war upon and suppress the mormon hierarchy with nee fire and sword or whether we shall rely on the principles of ow our government and the presumed power ot carista Caris ts religion and his ministers to accomplish the result I 1 have not expressed anop an opinion lulon even on this subject I 1 will aree agree with t w senator thadeas ametter i expediency if what he be says is true these are not like other american catiz us out if what they bay is true and W dl other citizens of the U united states of character and consideration say BULL aull what people from europe why who nivy testified on this subject say nay is id tiu then the senator from nevada is wrong hels he is these people upon facts anich do not exist aud deny denying ing to virtues and qualities they possess this he denies to them without a hearing land and without proof and he be asks that they IA gujt t nave bave the rights of american citrona citrons on this in advance senator platt of connecticut alre took part in tue tiie debate OL 01 j cig hii ig lu tae lne publication in ia the record of the documents under discussion upon technical grounds he made no remarks bearing on the merits of claim for ad admission in reply to a question from senator harris the g officer stated that the pending question cow co w was the reference of senator Seri ator calls resolution ica to the committee on territories Terri toria senator harris observed that the memorial would feces necessarily T airily ap appear pearin in the record ecord li having been bee read senator paddock faddock of Nebraska now joined in inthe the debate by observing I 1 mr president I 1 do not nort propose at this stage of the session to embark in any discussion of IT this is queston of the application of atel utah for admission into the union I 1 desire simply to correct a statement or two made by the sena senator from florida i I 1 the senator said that this memoria comes from people of the teri ter i eltory of utah tat is a ini mistake stake the whole population of the territory of utah is the mormons cormons of all kinds ar about toe the remainder are what are known a gentiles they are not mormons cormons at all nor did any of them in any way participate in ia the concoction coa or presentation here of this State scheme then as to botne ane mormons cormons 0 of all kinds my friend says that only 3 0 percent per cent of the gentlemen who present thin th memorial here ar are I 1 assert that t ere are not nota 3 per cent who are not polygamists so fat far as the in dorse dor mant of the doctrine of polygamy is concerned anere are afe a good many who under the circumstance af their not gone eone but there are not mot in my 0 opan irlon and aad I 1 speak with the conn cc deuce dence of an intimate knowledg ei of toe situation in uvah utah 3 per deist of all those who 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