Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-06-25
PLYMOUTH. THURSDAY, JUNE 25. 1857.

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led to infer from the reports, and such in
formation comes in an official shape, the
knife must be applied to this pestiferous,
disgusting cancer which is guawing into
the very vitals of the body polite. 1t
must be cut out by the roots and scared
over by the red-hot iron of stern and un-
fiinching law.
Should all efforts fail to bring them to a
sense of their duty. there is but one RENE
dy left. Repealhe organic lar of the Ter
itory, on the ground that they are alien en-
emies and out laws, unfit to be citizens OF
Territory, much less ever to become citi-
zens of one Of the free and independent
States of TINS glorious confederacy. To
protect them farther in their reasonable,
disgusting and bestial practices would be a
disgrace to the country-a disgrace to hu-
manity-a disgrace to civilization, and a
disgrace to the spirit of the age. Blot it
out as one of the organized Territories of
the United States, what then? 1t will be
regulated by the law of 1890, which has
exclusive and sole jurisdiction over all ter
ritory not incorporated under auy organic
or special law. By the provisions Of this
law all crimes and misdemeanors committed
on lis soil can be tried before the legal au-
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thorities of any State or Territory 20 which
the offender shall be first brought for trial,
and punished. Under that law persons
have been arrested in Kansas, Nebraska
and other Territories, and hanged fol their
crimes. The law of 1890 has sole and ex-
elusive jurisdiction where no other law of
local character exists. and by repeating
the organic law of Utah you give to the
General Government of the United States
the whole and sole jurisdiction over the
Territory.
The Judge entered into long and con-
vincing argument, IN which he demonstra-
ted that the line of policy he had marked
out for Utah did not conflict in any partic-
ular with the principle of the Nebraska
bill, but were in harmony with the Demo
cratic platform in regard to the power of
the Government over the organized Terri
tories of the United States I must refer
You 10 iun .sr-"t of bis speech on this
peint In order to do justice 10 MS posItIou.
He said he would be found as willing to
meet this Utah question as boldly and to do
his duty as fearIessly as he had done on
the Kansas Nebraska blll and should the
President, when he submits his views or
this question at the next session of Congress
have no more efficient plan of disposing of
the Utah difficulty, he pledged himself to
bring in a bill embodying substantially the
course of policy he had thus briefly allu-
ded to.
After thanking the audience for their at
tention, he left the stand amid the most
tumultious cheering, and the crowd dispers-
ed, greatly delighted, with three times three
for Douglas and the Democratic party.
have thus, fear, at too great legnth
given you the main pointsof this great and
powerful speech, as 1 thought its impor-
tance at this time demanded this much to
be said. l am gratifed in being able to
say to you that arrangement have been
made TO have it published in pamphlet
form and in the newspapers, an early copy
Of which will send you. As one of the
first expositions of the policy of the count
y since the Inauguration of the new Ad-
its claims upon the attention
If the country can not be overlooked.
Yours truly,
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