Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-07

and necessary to the public good.
They have forbidden Governors to ap-
prove and pass laws OF immediate and
pressing Importance til! thew assent
should be obtained.
They have refused to pass other
laws for the accommodation Of large
districts of people, with a view Of
having those people reinquish the
right OF representation i'll the Legis-
lature--a right inestimabIe to them
and formidable to tyrants only.
They have called together election
Judges at places unusual, uncomforta-
bic and distant from the homes of
Americans, for the sole purpose of
fatiguing them into compliance with
their measures.
They have caused the removal of
Governors, repeatedly, for opposing
with. manly frmness their inva,ions on
the rights of the people.
They have refused, for long time,
to support Others that have been ap.
pointed whereby the executive pow
ers, incapable of annihilation, have
returned to the people at large for
their exercise under orders from them
the Territory in the meantime ex-
posed to all the dangers of invasions
from without and commissions from
within.
They have cndeavorod to prevent
the population of this Territory, by
Americans; have prostituted the laws
for the naturalization of foreigners
have refused to pass others to encour-
age the migration hither of Ameri-
cans, and have engaged in gigantic
frauds in the appropriation of public
lands.
They have made Judges dependent
upon their will alone, for the tenure
of their Offices and payment of their
salaries.
They have erected a multitude of
unnecessary offices and filed them
with swarms of officers to harass
Americans and eat out their sub
stance.
They have kept among US a mill.
tarv force, and have marshalled them
in hostile campaigns against the
troops of the United States.
They have affected to render the
military power Of the Territory ,nde-
pendent Of and superior to the civil
power of the Nation,
They have combined with others to
subject citizens of the United States
to Jurisdiction foreign to our con-
stitution, and upacknowledged by our
laws, giving their consent to
these acts of pretended adjudication.
For quartering large bodies of the
Nauvoo Legion at the expense of the
Territory in rebellion against the gov
eminent of the United States.
For protecting them and others
from punishment in the courts for
murder and other crimes committed
against American citizens.
For cutting off trade Of resident
Americans with all parts of the world.
For imposing taxes upon Americans
without their consent, and while they
were denied representation.
For deprivlng people, as in many
cases, of the benefit of trial by jury.
For transporting co.conspirators be-
You'd the seas, to escape trial from al
legged otfens.s.
For attempts to abolish the free sys-
tenn Of American lawsin an adjoining
Territory, to establish therein theo.
cratic government and to extend their
powers SO as to render Idaho at once
an example and fit instrument for in
Producing the same absolute rule into
other Territories and the States.
For granting unwarranted charters
to municipalities in order to virtually
abolish our most valuable laws, and
altering fundamentally the powers of
Government extended BY Congress to
the Territories.
For suspending the laws OF Con.
gress and declaring themselves in
vested with power to legislate for US
in matters which National law forbid
them to do.
They have ignored Government
here, have declared their guilty min
ions innocent,and have permitted them
to wage war upon unoffending citi-
z ems.
They have plundered emigrants,
burnt their trains and DESTROYED the
lives of innocent men, women and chill
dren.
They have mustered in large bodies
Of extra police to complete the works
Of death, desolation and tyranny long
ago begun, with circumstances Of cru
ELY and prrfidy scarcely paralleled in
the most barbarous ages, and totally
UNIV orthy of rulers in AIRY part of any
Territory in the United States.
They have excited domestic insur-
rection and have charged against the
Indian savages, whose known rule of
warfi re is ali undistinguished d-struc.
lion of all ages, sexes and conditions.
grin es known OF and committed by
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