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31st CONGRESS, [SENATE.] MISCELL'ANEOUS,
Is/ Session. No. 10.
MEMORIAL
OF
THE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
OF TiE
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF DESERET,
PRAYING
ftp adinnssion into the Union as a State, or for a Territorial Government.
DECEMBER 27, 1819.
Oidered to be printed.
To the honorable Senate and Houre of* Representhtives in &o'ress as-
senibled:
Your memorialists, members of the general assembly of the State of
Deseret, would respectfully lay before your honorable, odytlre wishes
and interests of our constituents,' together with theyeasons and design, of
our early organization as a civil'government'; tQ which $hd conaiderakon
of your honorable body is most earnestly' jsticited.
Whereas the history of all ages proves thdt civil goVcrnmeptsj cm-
bining in their administration the protection of prson, propeity, sharacte',
and religion, encouraging the science df aghiculture, manufactures, and
literature, are productive of the highes4, happiest, and plurest statp of
society:
And whereas all political. power is inherent in the people, and govern-
ments, to be permanent and satisfactory, should emanate from the same:
And whereas the inhabitants of all newly-s ttled countries and territo-
ries, who have become acquainted with their climate, cultivafed their soil,
tested their mineral productions, and investigated their commercial advan-
tages, are the best judges of the kinds of government and laws necessary
for their growth and prosperity:
And whereas Congress have failed to provide by law a form'-of civil
government for this or anV other portion of territqxy ceded to the United
States by the republic.of Mexico in the late treaty of peace:
And whereas, since the expiration of the Mexican civil authority, how-
ever weak and imbecile, anarchy to an. alarming. extent has prevailed:
the revolver and bowie-knife have been the highestu law of the land-
the strong have prevailed. against the weak-while person, property, char-
acter, and religion have been unaided, and virtue unprotected:
And whereas from the discovery of the valuable gold mines west of the
Sierra Nevada mountains, many thousands of able-bodied .men are emi-
grating to that section, armed with all the implements and munitions of
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