Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-07-06

these acts of pretended adjudication.
For quartering large bodies of the
Nauvoo Legion at the expense of the
Territory in rebellion against the gov
ernmeat 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 depriving people, as in many
cases, of the benefit of trial by jury.
For transporting co-conspirators be-
yond the seas, to escape trial from al
legged ofenses.
For attempts to abolish the free sys-
tenn Of American laws in 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 extern led BY Congress t.,
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 i gnored Government
here, have declared their guilty min
ions innocent,a nd have permitted them
to wage war upon unoffending citi-
zens.
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, desoation and tyranny long
ago begun, with circumstances of cru
city and perfdy scarcely paralleled in
the most barbarous ages, and totally
unworthy 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
warfare is ali undis,inguished destruc-
ton of all ages, sexes and conditions.
crimes known Of and committe bv
their orders.
In addition to these grievances
which are strikingly similar to those
of the Colonists enumerated in the
Declaration of Independence, other
and graver wrongs have been placed
upon Americans in Utah.
An incorporation with auxiliary
RANCHES endowed with unusual and
Inwarranted powers, under the form
Of Territorial law, the authors of
which we're paid out of the Treasury
of the United States. is declared to be
such that the exercise of authority I'M
der it may not be legally questioned;
and in these corporations temporal
affairs under forms of law, as claimed
by them, by divine right IN spiritual
affairs are made the sovereign power.
The characters of loyal Governors,
upright Judge faithful public officers
and leading citizens have been falsely
and brutally assailed.
Conspiracies have been entered in
10 and rewards offered in endcavors to
entrap them into dens OF prostitution
established by them, in order to de-
stroy their domestic peace and blight
unsullied regulations.
The homes of officers of the law,
bearing commissions from the Gov
eminent Of the United States, have
been assaulted in the night time and
befouled with the vilest excrement.
Officers charged with the execution
Of the laws have been assaulted on
the public highways, and the Stars and
Stripes lowered and dishonored on
American soil.
Avn hdNC IiO AilCliCdtto VI ~ tAu
been wanting in attention to their
Mormon brethren. We have warned
them from time to time of attempts
made by their legislature to extend an
jurisdiction over US. We
have reminded them of the circum-
stances of our emf gration, of our right
and OF our blood that bought this land!
We have appealed to their native JUS
tice and magnanimity, and we have
conjured them by ties of common
kindred to disavow these usurpations
which would inevitably destroy our
peace and disrupt our form OF local
government. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice of justice and con
sanguinity. We must therefore &C
quiesce in the necessity which de
nounces their domination and with
forgiveness always extended to them
will hold their leaders, as all tyrants
are, enemies to the Government OF
the United States.
/ therefore for myself and for ali