Show 1 1 A LOYAL ACT ak A contentions ConTent iono of patriotic in men en is in ee se sion at salt SaltI jake AIco to frame a constitution ution toe fox the state of utah they have gad the loyalty and manliness to report euch such provisions ae as will place utah tisa as sovereign commonwealth I 1 in ili accord v with ith tho tile legislative and judicial I 1 spirit of the great nation of 71 1 which wo we chopo elio sho ie Is soon to be a 1 in member ember without doubt tho the amend I 1 meats intents forbidding bigamy and polygamy I 1 and fixing penalties will bo accepted by tho the convention and ud incorporated in tho the constitution it will then remain for the people to adopt or reject that charter by their i votes at the august election il it has required no common strength we can well believe for the al members of this convention mention Co to face the issue as they have faced it many 1 of tho the people of utah have buffered suffered almost almost the martyrdom marty doin dom of death several even yen have undergone that su pr arcine i cine test of their devotion all for I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 an idea N w inch bothem to them is as sacred as the mission of christ an idea of religious or political belief is to any ago age I 1 great 11 hit it bo be true it will survive every assault it it bo be false it must go down into he the dust of errors ground 11 beneath the heels of ongoing on going civili bation this proposed constitution forbids the fulfillment of the idea for which iso much lias has been sincerely I 1 done and suffered in I 1 utah but the men N who ho make this proposition are not inspired by any motive of hate or cruelty toward the keif sacrificing souls who he have battled like heroes for their convictions bather rather tho the members of the convention I 1 hao haie been actuated by love lot e for I 1 all honest people as well its s by an exalted L loyalty to their country which 4 1 1 can find few parallels they have hare i I 1 met the demand of thie this gre great nation 1 I by an sin act of signal devotion the 4 nation notion as a whole having blowing forbidden within a certain domain bigamy and j poleg polygamy amy it has half devolved upon this constitutional convention to A show low I 1 that political utah can ally herself with the country and be one with ith tir tile I 1 country in political and legal sentiment the acts which nero prohibited and punished by the nation itis it is provided shall abill be forbidden 1 1 and punished by the state the only 14 I 1 change is a political and legal one it ig is a change demanded alike by the country and by utah and happy I 1 indeed ie is it for tile people of this cornmon commonwealth mon nion wealth that ho tile constitutional contention convention is composed corn posed of men A who ho see the necessity and daro dare to act the late hour at which tho the news 1 1 reached us prevents a more exhaustive review in treating the matter to this point va we a havo have viewed it purely from a political stand as in this ie in the t first phase of tho tile question arese prese presented to an observer |