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1 Jedediah M. Grant, Letter of the Delegate of the Territory of Utah in Congress, Enclosing the Memorial of Delegates of the Convention Which Assembled in Great Salt Lake City, and Adopted a Constitution with a View to the Admission of Utah into the Union as a State 1 (1858)

handle is hein.statecon/dlgcssy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 35T1I CONGRESS, SENATE. 1 & Mrs. Doc. Is Session. No. 240. LETTER OF TIE DELEGATE OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH IN CONGRESS, ENCLOSING THE Memorial of delegates of the convention which assembled in Great Salt Lake City, and adopted a constitution with a view to the admission of Utah into the Union as a State, together with a copy of that constitution. APRIL 20, 1858.-Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed. WASHINGTON CITY, April 19, 1858. SIR: May I respectfully request you to present to the Senate the memorial and constitution which you will herewith receive. I am, sir, with high respect, your obedient servant, JOHN M. BERNHISEI Delegate from Utah. lion. BENJAMIN FITZPATRICK, President of the Senate. Memorial to the President and Congress of the United States. Your memorialists, delegates in convention assembled in Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, having formed and unanimously adopted a constitution, with a view to the admission of Utah into the Union as a State, and having unanimously elected and authorized HoEns. George A. Smith and John Taylor delegates, to present the said constitution and other pertinent documents to the parent govern- ment, and solicit a favorable action thereon, most respectfully repre- sent that it is the unanimous and earnest desire of the people of this Territory that their delegates be favorably received, that the constitu- tion in their charge meet your cordial approval, and that steps be taken, during the present session of Congress, for the admission of Utah, as a free and sovereign State, in the great confederacy of our republic, that another star, shedding mild radiance from the tops of the mountains midway'.between the borders of eastern and western civilization, may add its effulgence to that bright light now so broadly illumining the governmental pathway of nations, and another link be

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