True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-07-29

case with which BRIGHAM YoUNG has
brought the deluded inhabitants 10 regard
as holy the must sensual aud degrading
practices and vices, and to submit quiet
" and cheerlully To hIs uespolism as IA
civil and ecclesiastical rule.
But there is an important political les
son to be drawn from the statement of Mr..
DOUGLAS in reference to Utah. 1t shows
US, in a striking light, the imPolicy
and the dangerous tendency Of allowing
foreigners, before becoming naturalized
citizens, to exercise the right of suff-
erage, and thus enabling them, where
they have or may, by constant accession
from immigration, to obtain the majority,
to give shape and direction, especially IN
new territories, to our institutions, our
laws, and TO the entire tone and temper
of society. No longer ago than last win
ter, Mr.. DoUeLAs united with the Demo-
cratic and Republican members of Con.
g:ess in fastening this unwise policy of
Alien suffrage upon Minnesota. We
hope the example of Utah will be needed
as a warning against such unwise legls'
lalion in future.
Congress having committed the fatal
error in the organic act of permitting resi-
dent foreigners to exercise the right ol
suiTerage, Mr.. DOUGLAS says truly that
the remedy for existing evils in Utah
rests rather with Congress than with The
President. All the President can do, is
to remove YoUNG, fill the territorial Of
fees with suitable m.n, and sustain them,
if need be, by the military forces of the
nation, in the discharge of their duties. -
But it is little they can do, as we demon
strated some time since in an article on
this subject, towards removing the evils
in Utah, without The active cooperation
of the inhabitants. But so far from hav-
i ing such cooperation, all possible obs'a'
Gle will be thrown in their way. A ter
rilorial Legislature, whose members are
not only Mormons but Aliens, denying
and defraying the authority of our Con
stilulion and our Fedral Government, will
enact no laws for the punishment, with
penalties the corrupt and vicious praCtic.
es sanctioned by BRIGHAM YouNG aud his
church.
But what can Congress do ! 1t will
be Of no avail to pass additional laws fol
the government of the territory, for the
President cannot. with The whole military
force of the Union al his command, en-.
force the laws in Utah now in force. II
is papabIy impossible to convict man
of crime allowed by the Mormon faith
and practice, where the grand and traverse
juries must be made up of men of the
same church, guilty Of the same crime
generally of foreign birth and unnatural
lied bound by no allegiance to the United
States, and esteeming BRIGHAM You've
as the only earthly potenlate whose voice
is to be heeded. Into the jury box ant
on the witness stand, the "Danlies" o
destroying Angels" would find lhe
way, and they would esteem it the high
est honor and the nob!est act to commi
perjury for the sake of shielding froa
punishment a brother Mormon who LA
murdered a Gentle.
The impossibiIny of administering i
Utah any law which does not meet til
appreciation of the Mormon Aliens, ren
ders it, in Mr.. DOUGLAS opinion, i'm
perilive upon Congress TO pursue no TEN
porizing pOIicy-no halfway measures
The first step in his view should be tn
absolute and unconditional repeal of til
organic act-bloiting the territorial GOV
ernment out Of eXistace-upon the gronn
that they are alien enemies, denying the
allegiance 10, and deGying the aulhorit
of The United States. Columbus Fact.