Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-30


The Office of delegation from Territory
Is not created by the Constitution, Such eel
egaes are not members of the House. and
have no votes in its deliberations. They are
received MS matter of favor, as organs through
whom may be communicated the opinions and
wishes of the people of the Territories 1t is
competent for the House-and this power has
been often exercsed-to admit private parties
to be heard before it by counsel. 1t must be
equally competent for the House. at its dis
creuon. TO admit any person to speak IN be-
nail OF the people OF the Territories. 1t NAV,
II 1t sees nj, admit more than one person from
each Territory. Under no circumstances, no
case calling for the exercise of this discretion
airy power will arise. In all the laws Great
ing Territories, provision is made for the cleo
ton OF delegates to Congress, and the people
of the Territories, having the opportunity to
be heard through such delegates, and bv me-
moral and petition, under the general provi-
slops Of the Constitution, could not ask to be
heard through any other agency.
In the present case, however, the people of
the Territory of Kanzas have been deprived
OF the power to make strictly legal election
of delegate by an invasion from Missouri.
which has subverted their territorial govern
ment, and annihilated its Legislative power
through the choice of its resident citizens,
merely because that choice was manifested
outside of legal forms, and necessarily SO, be.
cause tine law making power was destroyed
by foreign violence, is to deny to Kanzas the
right to be heard at all on the floor of the
House.
Your Committee cannot recommend to the
House to declare that the seat of the delegate
from hanzas is vacant, and to order that a
new election be held The objections to such
a course are obvious and insuperable No
law exists in Kanzas for the election of del
egation to Congress. the provision on that sub
ject in the organic law having reference only
to the first election, and no territorial law for
such an election can be enacted, for the plain
reason that the law-making power of that
Territory has been subverted by usurpation.
To send this case back to the people of Kan
zas for a new election is merely to invite
repetition of the scenes of last October
A HEROIC WoMAN.-A passenger on board
the Northern Indiana, which was recently
burned OH Lake Erie, gives an account of the
narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of
Tully. There was but one life preaeryer for
Mrs. F. and her husband; lie insisted imper-
atively that she should put it on she per.
emptorily refused, saying she was poor in
health, and his lie was worth far more than
hers! The preserver having no strap Mrs
F. tore the hem from her dress snd fastened it
to her husband, whum she continued to en-
courage, saying she could hold on to him, and
if the preserver could not sustain both, she
would be the one to let go, and leave him to
save himself
The fire was getting hotter and hotter. The
water was thick with human bodies strug.
Cling for life ; she tore her bonnet, already on
fire, from her head, and hand in hand with
one she Loved better than herself took the
dangerous leap. AS they arose from the wa.
ter, Mr.. Fowler assisted his wife in procuring
good hold OF him on or about the shoulders.
She wiped the water from his eyes and mouth,
and encouraged him to retain his hope of be-
ing saved. He continued to struggle with the
waves Half an hour elapsed and there were
no signs of assistance. His strength was rap
idly falling his wife observing it, tried anew
to cheer him. He said he could not stand it
any longer it seemed as though he must give
up. At this moment she heard a steamer
coming rapidly through the water. She says
My dear husband, Il few moments more and
we are safe. Don't you hear a boat coming :"
He said he did, and Immediately revived. and
made all the efforts in his power, and strug.
gled for himself and his heroic wife until the
Mississippi took them, with scores of others,
on her commodious decks Syracuse Journal,
A GEM OF MORMON LITERATURE. = The
latest numbers Of the Deseret News which
have reached the States, contain not a few
pictures of Mormon life and sentiment worth
reproducing as part of the current history
of the times Read for instance the follow
ing apology for polygamy addressed by Brig
ham Young to some of the refractory brethren.
Z" l do really wish that some were possessed
of better sense; l will therefore tell you
few things that you should know. God
never introduced the Patriarchal order of
marriage with view to please man in his
earnal desires, nor to punish females for any
thing which they had done, but he intro
duced it for the express purpose OF raisingup
20 MS name a royal priesthood, a peculiar
people. Do we not see the benefit of 1t ;
Yes, we have lived long enough to realize its
advantages Suppose that had had the privi-
lege Of having only one wife, should have
had only three sons, for these are all that my
first wife bore, whereas l now have buried
five sons and have thirteen living. 1t is obvi-
GUS that could not have been blessed with
such family if l had been restricted to one
wife; out by the introduction of this law l
can be the instrument ill preparing taber-
nacles for those spirits which have to come
III this dispensation. Under this law l and
my brethren are preparing tabernacles for
those spirits which have been preserved to
enter into bodies of honor and be taught the
pure principles of life and salvation, and
those tabernscles will grow and become
mighty III the kingdom of our God.
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