New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-01


suob conduct could only have been actuAted by the
fe design 10 prevent Utah from receiving single dol
lar Of public money for the performance on Puohc ser
VICE honoraby contracted for even though tnat ser
vice were performed in q prsseworthy manner hith-
,to cneYsmnled and to deprive us if possible, from
beoomjnr acquainted with the DISCRIMINATING Panf con-
coc,ea In Washington against the most oya territory
known since the days OF the ftesou.on. woa.a tney
have dared 10 thus tr. at any state or any ohet lern
tory or 10 have even suggested such eatment
Every one knows that they would not. What IL OBJ
yiou,ly the only inference TO be drawn from such y
,.nn;c.l usage by so important Department OF the
Cr.,sI Goyernneptl That a deep-settled and pre-
determined plsn has been agreed upon To deprive Us
Of every yestige Of constitutisnsi rights-tor nat
usage afcords only with the cry constantly reiterated
tLr"ugbout the States, Destroy the inhabitants OF
Utab" thereby compelling numerous portion OF the
citizens of our bsasted Republic TO s. back upon the
indefessible right Of self-deSnse and adopt lawful
measures for their own protection.
Uissmatter of deep regret that officers OF Gov
ernuent founded at great sacrifioe by our fore
fathers upon "s land choice above all other lands
have become 20 sunken in degradation a. to have
utterly lost sight OF those pure and just principles EN-
bodied in the Constitution, and prefer, in the
mad pursuit Of low grovelng and selfish aims,
10 adopt and carry out that suicidal policy,
persistence in which can but end IN rending
10 pieces a nation that otherwise might become
the happiest and most powerful on the globe.
Reckless Office holders and ofceseekers have their
poisoped fangs so deeply buried in the vtals of the
BODY polite and are so thoroughly organized and
drilled the defense ana attack OF the spOlls WhLe
the tradesmen, the mechanics, the husbandmen and
the humble abOrers-the real virtue and sound intel
ligence of the Republican, busily occupied in
their daily toll and, except here and there few, are
80 little Of the dire porent of the future, and OF
the necessary for insuringpubc tranquility,
that ii is discouraging task to attempt arresHDg the
turbid current Of official corruption that would sweep
every vestge of truth, virtue and human rights from
our unhappy country; but the crnsoned satellites OF
plumber oppression and usurpation may rest assured
progress and stand fast by the Constitution aud al
laws conformabe herewith.
True, all human instituted governments contain
more less of the weakness pertaining to mpertec'
ton and to this law our Government is by no
means an exception; still, i am not acquainted
with any man-made form OF government IN winch
are sown few of the seeds OF Its own dis
solution. Lovers of justice as were the Revo-
utionary patriots endowed they we're in their deib-
eraons and acts with goodly portion OF that wisdom
which cometh from above, and welding an influence
seldom attained by 20 small number, yet they were
unable to devise republican form OF government
without system of checks and balances, dividing the
federative power into three distinct branches con-
trollable only by the will of 1.-The sovereign people.
Their former experience makes it matter of no surprise
that in their deliberations and acts they leaned so
strongly to the side of the largest degree Of individual
freedom nor, having suffered sorely under the
cruel rod of religion established by secular power,
that they clearly and strenuously guarded
and guaranteed the widest scope to freedom OF con-
science and consequent right of worship IN ac-
cordance Herewith But with the sound judgment
and experience possessed by those great statesmen 1t
is only another evidence of the weakness incident to
humanity when acting under the best OF motives,
that after having long groaned under the bitter OPP
preston of British colonial rule and successfully strug
ged for the establishment of the Inherent right of each
and all to "e, liberty, and the pursuit OF happiness,
with the positive guaranty that every should be
privileged with and protected in the blessings howng
from republican form ofgOyernmen, whose character
isc consists solely in the we.dehned and well under
stood fact that the rulers and laws shall proceed only
from the election and consent of the governed they
should in April, 1884, pass Resolutions, and III july,
49, two months previous 10 the adoption OF the
Constitution pass an Ordinance specially legslatng
for American citizens residing on public domain,
directly contrary to the very genius OF the Articles OF
Confederation by which they had mutually pledged
each other they would be guided. And that very leg.
isation, contrary as 1t was TO the a1,hofites anu
existing at the time of the passage OF the cee'
brated Ordinance of 81 and TO those OF the Con-
stutiOn adopted in the same year. a. well as TO the
great truth embodied in the Declaration OF lndepend-
epce that governments derive their just powers from
the consent Of the governed, could be and was in-
dorsed by Americans so long as the usurped power
was exercised in Justice and the portion OF that e-
gal legislation copied into Orgabc Acts tor Terrific
RES could still be endured were it not grievously
abused is the when officers are attempted 10
be forced upon free people contrary to their known
and expressed wishes. Still, looking as our patriot
fathers measurably did to the governmental expert
ence and example of the mother country, and sur
rounded as they were by so many conflicting views
and entanglng questions it Is not subject OF 80 much
surprise that they inadvertently took so Illegal
course az il is that al early Congress, under the Con-
stiution, continued to perpetuate and endeavor TO
make legal that which neither nor ever could be
law without first destroying or re-lnodelng the very
Constitution from which Congress derives lts power
to act And again. the course OF that Congress ny
no means so surprising that Congress after Con-
gress with engthening experience IN the workings
OF the governmental machinery and boosted In
crease of enlightenment should still continue 10 tastcn
portion of that unconstitutional relic OF colonial Dar-
bsrism upon American citizens, whenever laudable
spirit of enterprise induces those citizens 10 awiuly
occupy and improve any portion OF the publc DOMAIN.
And it is most surprising OF all that Americans occu'
pying public domain i'll Territories have so taIney
Submitted TO such longcontnued and obvious usur-
patton.
Even since the more odious features in the Ordi-
nance of 81 have been omitted III the Organic acts
more recently passed by Congress tor Territories,
which acts are but illegal patterns after that uncon
stitutona ordinance, officers are appointed TO rule
over American citizens in Territories ana TO nave
voice i'll the enactment, ad Indication and execution OIL
Territorial laws and worse still, those officers are
frequently appointed from class well KNOWN
through the rightfully expressed wishes OF large
maiorities, to be justly objected to by those whom
they are appointed to govern. Gall you that
republican 1t Is British colonial vassalaSe uncon
stitu,ionay perpetuaed by tyranny and usurpaon in
the powers that be. 1t is difficult TO conceive now
people SO enlightened are Americans should lOr 50
long period have suffered themselves to be measur
ably disfrsnchised by usurpations curtallIns ther
rights when passing an airline from state into
Territory, more especially when that changing OF To-
cality to result the Improvement OF regions that
would otherwise remain waste. 49,, ,
1t is foreign to my present purpose TO detalI Ma'
policy which should have governed IRON the Degln
ming in relation TO enlightened residents in our Tern
tories, policy that would not have curtaIled them
in the least Constitutional right and would thereby
have utterly excluded that odious and suicidal inc0h
Al II hAfX
form and the administration Of our Government, aud
would have caused the administration does the FORM