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Show tjfo foreign, to our present purpose id ejdero.)idj6cUi.of Bptnh4oii oa this abjcct,-jor to go Intd an elaborate ssay bit the facts as they t the present timd cist, 'Vif can but, merely cojiline. oar-seivcsr oar-seivcsr tdt ttjc'point, issue ' and, ask a few pjaia; questions, oa tho policy,;constitulioui ality, aHflixpcdte'ncjr of legislating for a Territory legally; provided for by th will and 'appro vc4 nct.oC tfic fovercign reprc scntatircs of the people of the SUtes fa jCoagress assembled, la, the year 1850. Aaan apology' for -thtf acts ot the proi tent OongrcsR, can io notflag, , better HiaatiS pffcr our owu lionest cqnriqtiprt. TVi fsej fatisfic4 that ijts incmbcrs arc hoodwinked by vrtaoline, and that thtfr evitgeail are iic)ther,mbrc ner less than such hypocrites n.3 qUpn of 'lVessce and the Vf.cd spul of a Vernioutcr likp ijorrijl, And for the folly of being' led brsveh Wiseatirts wo predibt tho. time will come When thjjso ractobje rjjers shall bo forsaken . by pi liipliuo bijjincnccj and forgotten .and.'iicgtoctcsl Ijy priestly byiiotrjtical sujiportchr. , . 1 lint to 6nr text Vc (eel 6 urge On "tl)e representatives) ,ia. ?biigre& ; (whose acs wo think savbt: tnord of sublime sub-lime ridicule on tho common sense of Wen, than we feci is su)portabie), an ar- j gaiqent, ort st)m constitutional irauchise that rightfully belongs. to every American citizen, Tucrp are facts that exist, for iastauce tlje present ontWoiygamy bill which has pVssed thq Housethat; snyor so ninch' or ridicule O nd contempt, for; the, jopstitotipna., rights' of American pjtiaeH,that we eanuot butfecl as if liieoi-bera liieoi-bera thought of bat.oae blijcct, and ;tbat I waa io ?arjnoy;arid pcrpicx ,HhcH;Mormons; o?Brc:irptft of juHiqe sxjeared, to tU wfcpla( aatioa by .tke feileral compact foren aader; tiw' VaastJtatiain. 'Wo are Ted;tq;th conclusroh fromftlie jfact, that sljould Congress pneecfitab'i ifeclal Itgitla tk A cji ay salyeeCwhateverj aad the'peoiile of dthe tate at 'Territory 'Terri-tory submit to, lffjjtlrt thjb, door K opda for any and aljGwgrefouaijinljerrcrepec in religious, dpwcstiov oe locaL'iaffaira in any, of the States r "Territories Whose peculiar social or rtUliotis; jiosUion may' not be agreeable to the jron jbpund stc-r;eotyped,To)vs stc-r;eotyped,To)vs of .somei .othe? , section of U cottatry, which aociat' or.. religious quastionl,Jif legislated on orYorm'18? M t&.$ become cause for'a lUat'.seve-! ragce,. Tjna proiilcra mayv probably'soon, be sqtved, by 'the jHtroductioafot,biil tq prevent slavery iWvirtah,iit.' Ceing'onelof the :,twiii4Vo frenently Spoken of 'in( "!Ucj pjfcscnco or tScItwgobr fio tionj'anilis special: Ivgwutipttib deemed ' net'clsary. by sonJOiurjCoiigress, to sup-press' sup-press' thciiiiiucnce ipi one' eiT ttic-tiiw; Ujay wO,ilSfce expect' .thof itftcrfencpf ; Oohgrc"; t' pro , .iijjtJtobbutjVvlicro th.o: aroiiaaco;of Congrc6sioW.iutcrfcitnce. 'will bdrtbler " atcd?-'.;'"1 f J-'y - ' 1 "- ,oCtthe citizcHS of. U tnji ls?-lW'CNicnMettgbt of . franchise?; Was it! by removing across' '. hi imaginary line, separattngthd Statp'of ! California or Missouri rfrora, tho Tcrrltdry of Utahr If so, when was their sovc-, sovc-, rciBnity,'mergcd:iuta. forg'e'tfnlness??'as it through the Organic Act of 1850, organizingiond givfngtp"- the fcitizcrirof th'e'itcd'Stafesinthb'Tc fnlt powc to enact Invjs and govern them-, selves, enjoined by the act to only observe the provisions of the Constitution of the tTuifed StatW?'' lU " The.sg.prprisipjjS Imvo been held, sa-, crcd and havc bccn'fuithfnlty observed by tho citlreiis of Utah, aud have'- only been violated "by tho body fropi which .the riglit .aud the caution emanated. Aguiut we would.ask itjtho .lynx-eyed atatcsmau who found the marels ucst-in i the act incorporating in-corporating the'Clmrch'of'MdaOhristpt liattcrday Saints, hiU'iTnce'tbcc! able to, find tho act.authoJigolygiinjyuijthp Territory of .Utah, or'Autboriziug any one to administer tho ordinnncoof mar-riogc? mar-riogc? Jf wedlock Is, as'jurisfe Iiold'it' to bca civil contract, Weivrputd" !aik 'ia'tijc absence of law, who . offend? Jul, of this wq have said enough. Thai .policy, the constitutionality of these measures will have to be met yet, by those who have erved,$ki M desalt of M Hhfom |