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gress derives its power to act. And, again the
course of that Congress is by no means so surprising
aS that congress after Congress, with lenghening
experience in the workings of the governmental
machinery and boasted increased of enliphtenment
Shond sun continue to tasten portion of that un-
constitutional relic of colonial barbarism upon Amer
lcan citizens, whenever a laudable spirit of enter
prise induces those citizens to lawfully occupy and
improve any portion of the public domain And it
Is most surprising of all, that Americans occupying
public domain in Territories have tamev submit,
ted to such long continued and obvious usurpaton
Ever since the more odious features in the Ordi-
nance OF S1 have been omitted in the organic acts
more recently passed by Congress for territories
which acts are but illegal patterns after that uncon
stitutonal ordinance, officers appointed to rule
over American citizens in territories, and to have
voice IN the enactment adjudication and execution
OF territorial laws; and worse STILL those officers
are frequently appointed from class well known
through the righttully expressed wishes of large
maorlties, to be justly objected to by those whom
! they are appointed to govern. Call YOU that re-
publican? 1t is British colonial vassalage, uncon.
stltutlonally perpetuated by tyranny and usurpa-
ton in the powers that be. 1t is difficult to conceive
| now people so enlightened are Americans
should, for so long period, have suffered themse-
YES to be measurably disiranchised by usurpations
curtalng their rights, when passing an air line
! from State into Territory, more especially when
that changing of locality is to result in the improve
! ment OF regions that would otherwise remain waste.
it Is foreign to my present purpose to detail tha
Poiic! Whlch should have governed from the begin
nng In relation to enlightened residents in our Ter
fltorleS, policy thatwould have curtailed them
IN the least Constitutional right, aud would thereby
nave utterly excluded that odious and suicidal in
consistency existing from the hlztunt now between
the form and the administration OF aur Government
and would have caused the administration as does
te form, to'guarantee equal freedom to all in Ter
rltory as well as State but will merely reuark in
passing, that the continued practice Of that wretch
ed inconsistency has done and is doing much to un-
! dermine the fair fabric of American liberty.
Utah, Also like other Territories, saw fit to waive
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tzens who cross certain air-nes of a common coun-
Try to extend the area of civil and religious liberty
ana an act organizing our Territorial government
was passed by Congress the 9th of September,
lS0U. fortunately for wise and good man then
occupied the executive chair of nation, a states
man whose sound Judgment and humane feelings
prompted him to extend to rights, so far as
the Organic Act'' and hungry ofce-hunters would
permit. lie appOinteda part of the customary ap-
pontees in accordance with the wishes of the people,
and no doubt thought that he had appointed good
men to I'LL the remaining Offices but in this he
was partially disappointed being deceived by
the foolish although very common habit of
recommending men who are not worthy.
am also confident that his successor endeavored
to make as good appointments for us, as circum
stances and unwise counsels and recommendations
would allow, but during his administration preu-
dice began to set in strongly against tab, and he
was so unfortunate as to appoint at the instigation
and solicitation of then influential Senator in
Congress, person who proved to be degraded az
his capacity would admit. and who, it is reported,
came acted, left, and still acted in accordance with
the instructions from the Senator who procured his
appointment, but in a manner outraging morality,
justice, humanity, law and even common decency.
The members and officers of the last Legislative
Assembly, familiar with the evils visited upon the
innocent by the miseraby bad conduct of certain
officials heretofore sent here by Government, know
/ ing that all republican governments which both
| our General and State Governments are in FORM
| are based upon the principle that the governed
shall ENJOY the right to elect their officers and
| be guided by laws having their consent, and
perfectly aware that by the Constitution residents
/ in Territories are guaranteed that great right
equally with residents in States (for Con
gress has not one particle more Consti-
tutlonal power to legisate for and officer Amer
cans IN Territories than they have to legisate for
and officer Americans in States respectfully me
morialized the President and Senate to appoint off
GERS for Utah in accordance with accompanying
/ list containing the names Of persons who were her
first choice for the offices placed opposite to those
names but if that selection did not meet with ap-
proval they We're solicited to make the appoint
| mcnts from list containing other and a larger
number of names of residents who were also the
choice of the people, and if that selection was also
rejected, to appoint from part of the Union,
with the simple request, in such event. that the APP
/ polntees be good men. In this matter Of appoint
ment OF officers what more rights could the most
. tyrannica in republican government ask Terri
tory to waive? Yet up to this date no official in
"Igation concerning ia oot;"e, if any, taken upon
that memorial ts1 ever reached us
Time glided by, and the travellers and newspapers
begen to confirm the that the present EXecu-
tive and part of his Cabinet had yielded to the
rabid camor raised against Utah by lying editors,
corrupt demagogues, hcartless office hunters and
the ignorant rabble, melted by numbers of the hire
ling clergy, and were about to send an army to Utah
/ with the sole and avowed purpose rs published in
| almost every newspaper, of compelling American
citizens, peacefully, Loyalty and lawfully occupying
American soil, to forego the dearest constitutional
rights, to abandon their religion to walow in the
mire and worship at the shrine of modern cyiliZa-
and be pNDcllpI from he
try and eXtermnated.
Where are constitutional rights? Who is
LAYING the axe at the root of the tree of liberty
| Who are the usurpers? Who the tvrants? Who
the traitors? Most assuredlv those who are mady
urging measures to subvert the genius of free inst
tutiOns and those principles of liberty upon which
our Government is based, and to overthrow virtue,
independence, justice and true intelligence the loss
| of either of which by the people, the celebrated
Judge Story has wisely affirmed, would be the ruin
of our RepubGc-the destruction of its vitality.
And ex-Presdent James Madison, among other pur-
poses, declared it to be the purpose of Government
'to avoid the slightest interference with the rights
OF conscience or the functions of religion, wisely
exempted from civil jurisdiction"
Has Utah violated the least principle of the
Constitution, or so much as broken the most insig
nifcant Constitutional enactment? No. nor have we
the most distant occasion for doing but have ever
striven to peacefully enjoy and extend those rights
granted to all by merciful Creator. But so unob-
trusive and wise a course does not seem to please
those who live and wish to live by office, and those
who make and love lies; and since those characters
are numerous, ndaso powerful through well discip
lined organization, and since Utah has Welded right
after right for the sake of peace, until her policy
has embodened the enemies of our Union, it must
needs be that President Buchanan, if he has order
ed an army to tab as repOrted-fOr he has not of
hcally notified me of such a movement by his order
has at length succumbed, either by choice or
through being overcome, to the cruel and neariOus
counses of those enemies, and is endeayoring to
carry out usurpatiOn of power, which of right be
longs only to the people, by appointing civil officers
known to be Justly Objectionable to freemen, and
sending a socalled army under mere color of law
to force those officers upon at the point of the
bayonet, and to form a nucleus for the collection
and protection of every gambler, cut-throat whore
master and scOundrel who NAV choose to follow in
their train Such reasonable system of opera
tions will never be endured, nor countenanced
by any person possessed of the least spark of patriot
ism and love Of constitutional liberty The President
knew if he knew the facts in the case he was in du
ty bound to do before taking action that the Officials
hitherto sent here had been invariably received and
treated with all the respect their offices demanded
and that portion of them had met with far more
courtesy than elsewhere would have been extended
to them, or their conduct deserved; he also knew
or had the privilege of knowing. that the memorial
of the last Assembly, already stated. respectful
" informed him that Utah wished good men for of
fcers, and that such officers should be cordially
welcomed and obeyed, but that we would not agar
tamelv endure the abuse and msrule meted by Off
} cial Williams, were some who have formerly of
fciated here. Such being few of the leading facts
what were the legitimate mlerenceS to be draw
from the rumors that the President had sent bacl
Of officials with an army to operate their posse
l That he had wilfully made the official appoint
e ments for Utah from class other than good men
and placed himself where tyrants often are in the
e position of levyng against the very nation
e whose choice had made him its chief executive
officer.
Fully aware, has been Justly written, tha
patriotism does not consist in aiding Governmen
in every base stupid act it may perform but ra
ther in paralyzing its power when it violates vestet
i rights, aronts insulted justice, and undee
: army, reported to be on its way to Utah, al
undsguised mob if not sent by the President of thc
! United States and if sent by him. in the manner anC
o for the purpose alleged in all the information per
mitted to reach us was no less mob though in tn
latter event acting under color of law, upon learn