Hearings Before the Committee on Territories in Regard to the Admission of Utah as a State (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Hearings Before the Committee on Territories in Regard to the Admission of Utah as a State The committee met this day for the purpose of hearing arguments in favor of and against the admission of the Territory of Utah as a State. Mr. Caine. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I take great pleasure in introducing Mr. F. S. Richards, of Salt Lake City, who will make the opening argument in behalf of the admission of the Territory of Utah. Mr. Richards is a native-born citizen of Utah and thoroughly posted in everything pertaining to that Territory, and is chairman of the delegation sent from the constitutional convention. I bespeak for him your favorable consideration. Argument Of F. S. Richards. Mr. Richards spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, as a delegate from the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Utah, held in July, 1887, I appear before you to-day for the purpose of stating some of the reasons why Utah should be admitted into the Union. This is the fifth time that the majority of the people of that Territory have appeared at the bar of Congress and petitioned for admission as a State. At first we were told that our numbers were insufficient, and that we were without the self-sustaining qualifications requisite for a sovereign community, and so we were relegated, by the organic act of Utah, to a condition of Territorial tutelage, until we should gain the strength and experience to fit us for the higher sphere of statehood. But in our later applications for admission it has been conceded, again and again, that we have obtained all that was lacking in the beginning, in the way of numbers and resources, and yet our prayers have not availed to give us membership in the great family of States. I shall endeavor, in the remarks which I make on this occasion, to show that the withholding of this sacred boon is an act of great injustice to a patient, patriotic, industrious, and law-abiding people. And at the outset of my remarks I desire to remind yon of a few pertinent facts which history has recorded, in undying characters, upon the annals of the Republic. On the 24th day of July, 1847, when the Mormon pioneers entered the Great Salt Lake Valley, all that part of our great nation lying west of the Missouri River was an uninhabited wilderness - a barren desert These brave men and courageous women blazed the way across prairies, over mountains, and through rugged defiles, which have since become the highway of nations, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They opened up this new country and demonstrated that human existence could be maintained in the midst of ruthless savages, ferocious animals, and deadly insects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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