THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. EDITED BY ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE. VOL. CXXXVIII. Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur. NEW YORK: No. 30 LAFAYETTE PLACE. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. EDITED BY ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE. VOL. CXXXVIII. Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur. NEW YORK: No. 30 LAFAYETTE PLACE. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. No. CCCXXVI. JANUARY, 1884. ECCLESIASTICAL CONTROL IN UTAH. PRESIDENT TAYLOR. A REPORT has been spread far and wide through the country that in Utah there exists "a combination to nullify the laws of Congress," to defeat the plain will of that body and of the Executive, and also to thwart the adjudication of the Supreme Court of the United States. This is an error. The simple fact is that the citizens of Utah are contending in a peaceable and legal manner for the same rights, privileges, and immunities that are possessed by their fellow-citizens-for these only, and no more. Some time after the Edmunds bill became law, the commissioners appointed by the President under its provisions came to this Territory and entered upon the discharge of their duties. With regard to the nature and scope of those duties, the commissioners (gentlemen for whom we have much respect) and the vast majority of the people of Utah hold opposite views. One of their first acts was to frame a test oath, which they required every man to take before he would be permitted to vote. By this coup d'état every citizen in Utah-Jew, Gentile, and Mormonwas disfranchised without indictment and without trial: a most summary method of robbing a people of their rights, one that we claim is entirely opposed to both the letter and the spirit of that great charter of human rights, the Constitution of the VOL. CXXXVIII.-NO. 326. 63817 1 |