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Show 56 the people and would give the House the necessary information for legis- Iatton, an a dmrs.sfon s titutio.n. advantage both to Deae re t and to Congtess; and, (3) that the of the delegate was entirely in accord with the federal con 21 Both opponents and pz-opoaenta of the report 'tpraised the Sa.int,s for their noteworthy achie vemeate and insisted, brought up, bias. ,,22 when the question was that thei:r opinions were not in any way tatne d by religions The remarks of Mr Venable of North Carolina admbably illustrates this: I can assure the gentleman f:rom Illinois tha.t the appl icant loses nothing in my estimation to his claim to a seat here, that he represents a Mormon Community. No sir, the reli gious tenets of that remarkable people do not enter into the opposition, to the seat of M:t BabbUt on thi s The J ewa, 'Turks, C.hristians or MQlrtnons, 1 would award the same right and the same privUeges, and I could not perceive the necessity of hils appeal to us in order to avoid the effect of out of door influences created by prejudice against I know nothing of them 'but the extra.ordinary the Mormons ele:m$:Q.ts of my floor. fact that they have a power of organization which can collect the idle, vi¢ious and uopJ"oductive aacl. r.nke i.Jl a short time a. most prosperous community. There is something to be ad23 at least. mired in. that result, Mr. Babbitt, 1850, to P:resident . however, in a letter :from Washington, July 7 Young imp1is that President Taylor was prejudiced 21Ibid., 78. 22Ibid. J 79. Z3Congression1 Globe (1849 1850), XXI, 1419. .. |
