The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-02

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W post g Whiel d SEPT hae
call1 81 the Govern So hgr q 9 s
one of extreme difficulty and danger, The5
who hive imagined that Il Is necessary only 4
laet military police over tha Mormons, . hold
them ii subsection 70 the public law hayelook.
farshort of the sources Sc future enibalfass.
meht ana strife, nherent ia "a ystnm they
hive adopted.
ii sounds ven enough b talk 81 crushing the
EGG before il Is hatehea d teaching the incest
nous and irhpious outlaws their duty . religion
land the Laws; Of excluding them from assoeia.
ton With honorable nations; and thus dispose Of
thgsn by tie eaay annihilaton Of aippant and
Indignant rhetorc---but when 10 come to con,
nider the practical means 81 aceompli this
to hunt for our warrant il the constitution, e.
the laws made under tive NAY find ourselves
brought 70 pause, that oif-hanaed statesmen
and ilnpromptp mofnlists had not reckonea on.
Ifthere Pc any two principles more deeply in
grained ia the feelings 81 or people and the
] philosophy of our Government, than 81 others,
they are, first, freedom ofreligioaa woTship,and,
second. the right Of each Sta = determine
Ewhat shallbe tie chaf aetar Of is domestic ir-
situations. Tothis latter proposition the south-
era States ore especially wedasd, because i IN
wolves the security Of slavery, and i the best
aud only moral barrier against the Intervention
AMI aggression 81 the Abplitonists. 10 as
firnlly believe that these ttFo original and soy-
hereign principles are reserved Is the people DC
the separate States, as we believe IN the right
Of trial 81 jury
There is another proposition that We have.
been aecus toned to believe admits Of no ex-
ception. that when the people Dc q Terrific
~, So constituted, By Congress, have acquired
tie numerical strength that entities them to rep
Presentation ii Cohgress---arid have properly and
regularly adopted republican Constitution for
their goyernIae nt---and presented il Congress,
with an application to be admitted into the Un-
ion, Congress has no power 81 refusal .
These are all State Rights and Southern
Rights doctrines. Taey ara indisputable facts.
in our economy Of Government. They cannot
be relnquished, without surrender Of al claim
Of sovereignty ID the States and n tie people.
But to what shameful and disasters esneluspn
do they conap hen apple she MOI
mons Fheirdeifcahon d ~ smith is . form
Of religious worship which they have chosen to.
adopt, and cannot therefore be denied them,---
Their system Of polygamy IS adomestic institu-
ton which they have chosen to adopt, and must
not therefore be- interfered with Their State
Constitution, when they shall present one, win,
most probsbly, be republican in form for we
need scarcely say marriage and religion are not
matters Of constitutional arrang cement, or neces-
sary elements Of repubIeanism,l and cannot
therefore excepted to, nor their demand for
admission into the Union be refused
As if designed to show the faultiness. and i'm
perfections Of . system tint We had fondly i'm
agined adapted 20 every contnee that could
arise, these miserable and misbegotten wretches
Of the Salt Lake valley are about to put the
wisdom Of our great fathers ct fault, and demon-
strate the inadeqnacy Of our system to meet
the most palpable political enorinity Of modern
times. What is to be done? Can the Federal
Government send its troops there to compel
peaceable citizens to put away their wives and
abnegate their religion! Can members Of Con-
gress refuse them admission into the Union be-
cause1of their peculiar domestic institution
The first cannot bedone---without most tyran-
nous and fearful assumption Of power, nor the
last without 4 surrender OF the whole argument
that protects slavery.
What, we again ask, is to be done! Can
they be put upon the footing Of savages or ne-
groes and denied the rights Of citizenship They
cannot, without disregard Of all the adjudica-
tons Of our courts, and an the teachings Of
common sense Can they be treated as dis /
turbers of the public peace, as pollutters Of the
national morals, as enemies Of the general vel
fare---and, falling back upon the natural right
Of self-protection. shall the armed hand Of the
Executive chastise them into decency and good
demeanorl we should treInbIe 70 see such
thority given to, or assumed BY, the President!
Shall convention be called to remodel our fed
eral constitution to meet the exigency! Wei
do not see. how the Constitution could be So
adapted, without ignoring principles that lie at /
the very foundations Of our republican and fed
eral system besides, we Should regard It
Is a day pregnant with peril FL the onion, when
Ihe Constitution should be opened airesh ior dis
5ussion and alteration. The fanatics Of the
North would revel with demoniae glee over such
] prospect
We have thrown out these suggestions be-
cause this question VIII sosn have 70 Be- met u.
onne practical form, and s full time that The
public attention should be directed % Il. Il Col.