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Show 1 A RESIGNATION. b People here have heard so much about if resignations which' never reached their j destination, if . such resignations had any other destination than a private drawer, that they will'doubt the genuineness of any. A genuine resignation has gone to Wash- Iington, and one of which we can honestly and sincerely say that we wish it had ;;, never .been written, or if written had ! j never been sent. The resignation to '' which we refer is that of William II. Dickson, United States Prosecuting ! Attorney for Utah Territory. We ! ! believe we can say "without fear" of I contradiction that Utah never had so ! competent a prosecuting officer as Mr. ! Dickson, and the great cause of our regret j fr bis resignation is the fear that Utah will not have bo good a prosecuting officer for a long time. Mr. Dickson has alwavs been able, energetic, courteous and kind. In Utah his duties have been arduous and disagreeable, but he has always performed per-formed them without fear and without favor. . Mr. Dickson is a Republican and i all of. his predecessors of which we have any recollection have been Re-! j publicans ; - but he alone, of them I ! Wl has been worthy of resjx;ct and con- j fidence. That is a broad and sweeping j statement, but we would not change the dotting of an i in it. Mr. Diekson'has I been greatly disliked by the majority of j ! the jwople of Utah, but lie has been dis-! liked because he was without fear and I without reproach. He prosecuted under ! ; the laws as he found them, and has never j I cried., aloud, for legislation to aid his j ignorance, as others have done. His 1 " superior worth has come from his charac- I ter and his knowledge of the law. So far j as the suppression of the practice of J I lolygainy and -unlawful' cohabitation! ' is concerned, he has done more than any H and all others. Had the Government I seen fit to furnish him with more assist-1 ! I i ' - - . i f ; t : i ' ants and given him the means of more extensively enforcing the law . than has been done, he would have accomplished a worthy and wonderful work. He did all that any man could do with the means at his command. We . do not think the interests of the law and of the Administration could be better furthered than by retaining Mr. Dickson in office, and we should be glad, to see the President Presi-dent request the withdrawal of Mr. Dickson's resignation and his continu ance in olhce, and then have the Attorney-General furnish him with that assistance that must be furnished if the law is to be successfully vindicated. If his resignation should be accepted and a successor appointed, all well and good if that successor be a superior man to Mr. Dickson ; but if his successor is not, then "Oh ! woe is me Alhema." Mr. Dickson is one of the very few Federal officials we desire to see retained in office, and he seems to have no political friends to persuade per-suade him to withhold his resignation. It is strange how the .unworthy hang on. |