Show territorial VASSALAGE the recent change in the occupants of tho gubernatorial chair of utah territory and tho vetoing ity of act gov thomas cause us to reflect a little on ft subject which in nearly as old as our territory hs been much and often and not always with the impartial fairness fair ners due to a political topic and which requires frequent discussion 10 bo put in the fullest flare of we are referring to the 30 years servitude under which this fair and prosperous country has been languishing gui shing ever since the memorable of july 1847 when pros brigham at the head of his sturdy mormon pioneers arrived on iho site of salt lake city and inaugurated this common wealth of theU reat salt lake the bondage has liin over ui shutting out from our cayes the genial sunlight of freedm ami independence when tho first settlement pett lement war made in those valleys of th gaiu they were outside of th national domain of the united stalls beyond the reach of that legal and illegal interference which had harassed the latter day saints in and driven them from three states all for the sake of their religious dif the people at large bere in the depths of the desert they determined to build up a pe culiar religious society embracing customs dit to the views and institutions of the world but in consonance with the revealed will of the almighty as they had thousands of evidences to believe it has been universally conceded that their success was eo rapid and so great as to elicit the admiration of the world navera new had to con lend with greater difficulties and obstacles intra maos ft extra than had the Latt erday saints in the settlement of utah much as the phrase is sneered at they made the dessert blossom like the rose they erected first their rude log cabins and adobe huts surrounded with against the attacks of the savage prospered and developed themselves and their surroundings until their cities town villages and hamlets are now the happy homes of industry peace and affluence and an attraction for thousands of curi oas tourists and travelers the wealth of our mountains places us in be front ranks of the miling the agricultural products of our soil yield to none in quantity and quality our educational facilities and compare favorably with the larent larg nt portion of the of the union and as a iw abiden peaceable community ve can be certain to excel at least our neighbors in the four cardinal points and yet we have never yet been deemed worthy of enjoying alie blessings and privileges of which million of our felho citizens enjoy who ilo no more if so much to reu der themselves worthy thereof since sep 1850 abea congress the act organizing thu country which had been wrested from mexico under circumstances circum which all true americans will ever regret bancroft into the territory of our governors our secretaries our judges have been sent to us like and cambeses Camby ses sent their sat laps into the provinces of persia or roman ornate commissioned commissio aed its pro consuls to the subdued peoples and nations our laws were ifred it i men of our own choice but what aviu their legislative labors and enactments what avail tb wishes desires and necessities of our people the governor aman antagonistic to our faith and views or at least unacquainted with our requirements and facilities may one of pen can eel all the work of painstaking leg ula torB a ni atau w answerable only to those who bent him not with a view to our benefit but with an intent to and torment u three tirom in 1862 and 1872 the whole population of thi territory have memorialized the national legislature to grant to it the same rights and privileges that their the bast and west enjoyed bui every application met and cold houlder hould or pretexts most unsubstantial rea most unreasonable were advanced against granting utah what was willingly granted to other applicants that could not make one half one tenth the dillay in population wealth industry material cecial and moral development ai wo could were always cato in tern cruelty if not in strict grobi ayin the fedral contreas Con greas ever recurring motto was fase delf dam we vote that utah be de I royed satrap after satrap we mean govi arnor after governor ha been ent hore to ennoree the law u who are born in law cuned in law bred in law and die in law a law lio wever ag tu to tho man concocted article as tb pure enow keaka of the Chim boraz ar Bu to the muddy pool the minority of our inhabitant aro auriean Amri ean their have fought at lexington bled at daraio g and conquered at thy hava been cili zeu in tae elates before they came here they r f i r T y A sn e y would gain enjoy the citizens frair chic whenever they returned return ej to their old homec amply happen to lave cilea between the and green of act longitude they are thrust back into kept in ignominious no if every american ii born free where when and how did the american karn residents of utah apao their native raghu who could divett them of their and why the legally garman scandinavian on the hor lake have leg opportunities to baak in theun liht of american liberty than the naturalized irishman of the new york slums or the dark colored thirteenth linead menta of the south it key sung true about the land of the free and the home f the arte we would like to know why utah should be a corner of babylonian bonnafe bon Jafe other have keen given the opportunity port unity of a tart in the enliven ing race of the state why exclude utah from the ring or i our free mountain air would crete too healthy a breeze acro the exhalation of the wahington lobbies one hope we have one device we truit in and thi i the chivalrous monarch dieu tt mon brot god and my right I |