The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-31


Territory OF Washington. Observation-Disclosures. 1886
Territory OF Wyoming ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Oils
1t thus appears that in 1870 Utah was first
of all the Territories in population excepting
New Mexico but in 1873, and at this day. we
conjecture, the population Of Utah is far
ahead of that Of New Mexico, and very near,
if not over, one hundred and twenty-five
thousand Within the last two years the re-
Gently discovered rich silver mines of Utah
have drawn into that Territory an immense
immigration Of Gentiles and Mormons
through the facilities of transportation offered
by the Pacific and Utah railroads Mr.. Bates,
the late United States District Attorney
at Salt Lake City, reports that the addi-
tons by immigration to the population of
Utah during the year 1872 were in round
numbers seven thousand Gentiles and four
thousand Mormons, and that the population
of Salt Lake City, given in the census of 1870
as 1854, now exceeds twenty-five thousand
And in agriculture and manufactures as well
as in mining, Utah is by far the most prosper
GUS of all the Territories, not excepting Colo
RADIO, and in solid material development the
best qualified for admission as a State.
Why, then, the defeat of Colorado, in her
application for admission as State, with the
appendage of Utah as an amendment? Nor
mon polygamy is the answer. The Mormons
desire admission as a State in order that they
may be relieved Of the presence of United
States Territorial officers and the supervision
of Congress over their local and domestic
affairs. The Gentiles of the Territory are OPP
posed to the granting of a State government to
Utah, BECAUSE, as they contend, such gov
eminent now under the control Of the Nor
mons would become close corporation in the
support and perpetuation of Mormon polyga-
my, and government under which Gentiles
, would have to sell out and emigrate or surren-
der to Brigham Young. The anti-Mormons
further demand the active intervention of Con-
gress against Mormon rule in the Territory,
while they claim that within q few years the
Gentiles, if only left as they are, will be the
masters of the situation. At any rate the diff
Guilty concerning the admission of Utah as
State is the insuperable difficulty of Mormon
polygamy, and with all the claims of Utah in
other respects this difficulty will exclude her
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institution Of polygamy remains. Dealing
justly with both parties we believe, too that
the wisest course that Congress can now pur-
sue in Utah is to leave this irrepressible con-
fict to a settlement between Gentiles and Nor
mons in their Territorial condition and until
the Territory can bring forward State con-
stitution affirming the abolition of polygamy
But while the association with Colorado
of Utah and Mormon polygamy was sufficient
to kill the application of the enterprisng men
ofthe Dome of the Continent, there was, in
truth no chance for Colorado for various
other reasons. She has not more than one
third of the population required by the ratio
lately adopted for one Representative in Con-
gress If admitted with her forty or fifty
thousand population, each of the other Terri
tories in its turn, with few thousand
people more or less than Colorado, will, on
the rule of fair play, have to be admitted.
But here comes in the contest between the
East and the West, and between the States Of
large populations and the smaller States, in
their representation in the House. The half
dozen States which represent in Congress half
the population of the United States, are
neutralized in the Senate by the half dozen
States which altogether represent only some
two millions Of the people, and the larger
States are beginning to realize the fact that
with every admission of new State their
relative strength in the Senate is so much
weakened.
The late tremendous and sanguinary Sec
tional conflict between the North and the
South has been fought through to a revolu-
tionary and decisive settlement, and the issue
is now between the East and the West The
last struggle of Calhoun for the maintenance
of Southern slavery was his struggle for what
he called the sectional equilibrium in the
Senate. To secure this equilibrium Florida
mad been admitted, and Texas had been an
nexed and admitted in the face of q war with
Mevir0 But thia wa y rooultaJ a, vo "a aoru;