The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-24


taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive |
luxuries which only be obtained by involving |
yourselves in debt; let home industry produce every
article of home consumption
What has become OF the interest that parents |
should have for their offspring! guardians for their
wardsl do they not know that useful trade is Of
more worth to the rising youth than q patrimony!
that it IL patrmony Of itself far more noble and
BETTING than any oherl that it is the surest road
to distinction Us well usefulness that can
traveli
This subject of course belongs more properly to
the peope as il is for them TO net in the premises
nevertheless the Legislature may do much by fran.
ing wise and snlutary laws, in relation to master and
apprentice; which shall equally secure the rights
and protect the interest Of both, while sustaining
that relation to each other.
Let the proper direction and encouragement be
given to these desirable results, and we may
reasonably hope long, to attain to that enviabe
position, real independence.
The University, am happy to say, is IN success
fu opeEation under the guidance OF the Chancellor
and Board Of Regents, far as school can pro-
mote its interests; although that institution has
suffered, in common with other enterprises, for Inc
want of the promised aid from the Legislature. The
grounds are partly enclosed with very good stone
wall, and q bulldog designed for their temporary
use is commenced in the thirteenth ward ofths CITY,
Tho fostering hand Of the government could be
exercised to no better p1rpose than providing fQr
the education of youth. You are doubtless already
sufficiently alive to the Importance of this subject,
to extend such pecuniary assistance rs shall be
mSnSurulc WIN your aDlhty.
In accordance with the resolution of tho Lcgisla-
ture, locating the seat Of government Mt Pauvan
Valley, and authorizing me to appoint commissioners
to select site for the capitol, and seat ofgovern-
ment; complied with that requirement, by appoint
ing Professors Orsan Pratt and Albert Darlington,
Jesse W. Fox, Esq William 9. Staines, and Joseph
l.. Robinson, said commissioners. They Immediate
y proceeded to the performance of their duties, and
have made their report which take great pleasure
in presenting to you.
1t appears from their observations that the Local
tion is far more central than this city, and that the
valley will sustain large and dense population.
The locating of the seat ofgovernment in that val
ley WILL it is believed encourage settlers to go there,
and very much facilitate the settlement Of all snta
bic places in that region Uuder all these consdcra
tons, its location at that point appears juacious
upon its own merits, and will unquestionably ad-
vance the already prosperous and vastly increasing
resources OF the territory. AT Fillmore City, one
wing of the State House will probably be fnshodfor
the accommodation of the ensuing Legislature.
This will be built with the funds furnished by the
general government for the erection of suitable pub
lie buildings at tho seat of government
The practice of purchasing Indian children for
slaves is a trade carried on by the Mexican popula-
ton of New Mexico and California. These traders,
OF late years, have extended their traffic into the
limits Of this territory. This trade l have endea-
yored to prevent; and, this fall, happening to en-
counter few of them in my travels, Superinten-
dent of Indian Affairs strictly prohibited their fur
thcr traffic. The majority of them appeared salts
fed, and, after making few exchanges of property
in the settlements returned to their own country.
Unfortunately, however, a few of them still deter
mined to carry on their nefarious traffic; they have
been arrested, and now on their trial i'll this city
1t is unnecessary, perhaps for me to indicate the
true policy for Utah in regard to slavery Restrc-
tions of law and government make all servants; but
human flesh to be dealt in propsrty, is not
sstent compatible with the true principles of go
vernment. My own feelings are that no property
can or should be recognized as existing in slaves,
either Indian OF African. No person can purchase
them without their becoming free, far
natural rights concerned, as persons ofany other
color; under the present low and degraded situation
Of the Indian race, so long the practice Of gam
bling away, selling, and otherwise disposing of
their children, as also sacrificing prisoners obtained
among them, it seems, indeed, that any transfer
would be to them relief and benefit. Many life
by this means is saved-many child redeemed from
the thialdom of savage barbarity, and placed upon
an equal footing with the more favored portions of
the human race. If in return for avors and expense
which may have been incurred on their account,
service should be considered due, it would become
necessary that some law should provide the suitable
regulations under which all such indebtedness
should be betrayed. This may be said to present
new feature in the traffic Of human beings. 1t is
schtally purchasing them into freedom instead of
slavery; but 1t is not the low seryile drudgery of
Mexican slavery to which would doom them-not
| to be raised among beings scarcely superior to
themselves. but where they could find that consid-
Grafton pei mining not only to civilized but humane
and benevolent society.
So shall the benevolence of the human heart be
called into action. to promote the improvement of
the down-trOdd race, whose fathers long swayed
the destiny of empires; shall the condition the
poor fo.lorn, destitute, ignorant savage African,
as the case may be, become ameorated, and
foundation laid for their advancement in the scale of
useful, exatng existence: useful to themselves, to
their nation, and all who shall come within the pur-
view of their influence.
Thus will people be redeemed from servile bond
age, both mental and physical, and placed upon
platform upon which they can build, and extend
forth, ms fur as their capability and .ural rights
will permit their thraldom will no longer exist, al
though the seed Of Canaan will inevitably carry the
curse which was placed upon them, until the same
authority which placed it there shall see proper to
have it removed. Service is necessary it is honor
able it exists in all countries, and has existed in
all ages it probably will exist in form in all
1t has long since ceased to became query with
me, who were the most amenable to the laws of
righteousness-those who through the instrument
tally Of human power brought into servitude human
beings, who naturally were their own equals or
those acting upon the principle of natures law,
brought into this position or situation those who
were naturally designed for that purpose, and whose
capacities are more betting that than any other
station in society. Thus, while servtude may and
should exist, and that, too, upoa those who
turally designed to occupy the position of 'servant
OF servants, yet we should not fall into the other
extreme, and make them as beasts of the field re-
garding not the humanity which attaches to the CO.
lored race; nor yet elevate them, seem dis
posed, to an equality with those whom nature and
nature God has indicated to be their masters their
superors nor yet again drag into servtude through
the circumstance OF penury or misfortune, those our
equals, peradventure of common parentage with
ourselves but rather let build upon foundation
which the God OF nature has furnished, observing
the law of natural affection for our kind, and sub
serve the interest Of fellows by extending the
principles of true liberty to all the children of men,
In accordance with the designs of their Creator.
!. during the past year the settlements have con-
tinued to extend until we now have a line extending
from near Bear river the north, unto within about
twenty-five miles of the southern rim of the Great
BASIN, distance of about three hundred and fifty
miles; and company is now forming who design
making settlement near the Santa Clara, far
beyond that point; also east and west few settle
those directions Il is desirable that a settlement
should be made on Mary's river, in order to pre-
serve peaceful relations with the Indians in that
region. They have become of late very trouble
some to travellers, stealing their animals. robbng
and killing them as they have opportunity There
is a successful settlement established on the