Excerpt from Utah Statehood; Reasons Why It Should Not Be Granted: Will the American People Surrender the Territory to an Unscrupulous and Polygamous Theocracy? Our judgment may seem to others who are not familiar with the circumstances a harsh one but you will understand our reasons when we say, that we Oppose placing governmental authority in Mormon hands because we regard the system as one totally at war, with all our recognized ideas of Republican Government, and incapable Of being so reformed, as to be made in any degree a depository Of impartial governing power. When your Mormon church shall have aban poned its pretensions as a temporal power, when its people shall render that Obedience to the laws Of the land which is yielded by all other citizens, of every shade of religious be lief, in fine, become supporters Of the lawful civil government, then we will consider whether Utah, though Mormon in population. 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.