Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-20
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| I The Saints profess wonderful attach
hent to the Union of late, and through
their organ the Desert Macs, make mucl
ado because they cannot be admitted as .
State. The Fsdstte, published by the
soldiers at Camp Douglas, is very plain
dealing in its treatment Of Mormonisln'
and in reply to a recent article IN inc !.
Mormon organ upon the "aamtSstOAAs
question, Il says: .,--,
r,atter,v ue have been considerably amused
;sno, aj;SoJ =, The efforts Of certain journal
-. .',a.: ;c,,rn lists and SANITY haranguers,
:. 80, - AZ ,aonle believe that Mormopdom
&c Ela ne tns pr,,tad. because, forsooth, Utah
ssas 5Ppe;,ted into the Union Of Sovereign
Is NOT aS I!hsss most excellent and SANITY
ota. a5ssn sffect an infnity Of surprise that
TeTritory is so neglected by Congress,
tntS ,Sst although it knocks and knocks, the
Soor Is not opened to it. Without suggest
nc that many American citizens here and
elsewhere, are equally surprised that Utah is
neglected by Congress, in that it silently per-
mis- divers and sundry laws and still great
er umber Of illegal practices. We simply
remark that these editors and speakers, with
all their feigned establishment, are perfectly
well aware why Congress does not admit this
Territory into the Union. They know as
well as we, that so long as the recorded laws
of the Nation are hosted at, spit upon, and
daily violated, not only with IMMUNITY, but by
Churchly direction and counsel, it would be
burning shame for Congress to confer
sovereign powers on "this people" ~
They know, too, that while their church
leaders and SANITY hierarchies each Sabbath
indulge in public harangues whose burthen is
abuse Of the Government, ribald sneers at the
loyal North, and vulgar trades against all
that pertains to American institutions, it is
the boldest hypocrisy for them even to ask
to be admitted into the Union Of States.
When Brigham Young shall have ceased to
instil into his dsluded followers opposition to
the Government and hatred Of our institu-
tons; when his teachers and apostles shall
refrain Of discoursing disloyalty-when, in
fine the leaders Of the people shall manifest a
single spark Of genuine regard for constitu-
tionsl authority, then may Utah look for ad-
mission, but not till then. So long as the
affairs Of the people Of ehis Territory are
controlled BY archaeological, anti-repub-
lican, oligarchieal system, not only at yari-
ance with our institutions, but implicitly
welded by men who are the avowed and un-
relenting enemies Of the Government and the
Union, Congress will not be wheedled into
granting sovereign power to the territory OF
Utah. ...-. ..
When Brigham and his apostles shall re-
member that the old incongruous and ineom-
patible Union of Church and State is several
centuries behind the age in which we live
when they shall separate quasi religious
tenets from the everyday political affairs OF
the people-when they shall incorporate in
their daily and hourly teachings Little more
sympathy for the nation which they profess
TO desire to be part, and little less disloy-
atty, they may hope their claims for admis-
sion into the Union will be attended to.
These are some Of the reasons why Utah still
remains out in the cold" They are reasons
founded in strict justice, and commend them
selves to every patriot in the land.
For the edifcation Of that apocryphal
" Nine years old Boy" and phunny chap who
originated the pleasant bit Of witticism at the
head Of this article, We may add, that the
President was very wise and exceedingly
charitable in not referring to Utah in his
Message. What could he have said, consist
entity with truth, that would have been graft
fyinG to the leaders and controllers OF Utah's
Mormon population, True, he might have
pointed to the influx Of people into the Ter
rito-y, the great progress being made in the
development of Utah's resources, Agricnltu-
raj, Mineral, and Commercial, the prosperi-
ty of her people, and the dawn Of enlighten-
ment which is fast breaking the bonds which
have so long bound them down. He might
have expressed qualification that the eyes
of the masses, so long covered with the scales
of fanatacism and prejudice were being
opened, and INDUCED the hope that the day
was not far distant when the wiles Of their
leaders being appreciated, they would rise in
the dignity Of true manhood to successfully
ask and be entitled to all the rights and pri-
vileges and powers Of Sovereign loyal Anne
rican citizens Of Sovereign loyal and Anne.
rican State. But we suspect this would
have been hardly more palatable to those
same leaders and Church dignitaries than
was the significant silence Of the Message on
the subject Of Utah and its affairs.
We adyerted yesterday, to similar course
pursued by the President on the subject OF
Louis Napoleon's outrage on the Monroe
doctrine" Much that we then said is just as
applicable to the Presidents reticence in the
Mormon question.