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Show 61 attitude concerning his trip to the city of Washington as were a delegate made: f •• 1 was left in Nauvoo. in charge of the Temple, and other property, to adopt the 'best ltUilllftE'U.· Qf to help the pe'ople to ,get westwal*d, dispOSing of it. and. to flee myself'. We had. poverty, wars. and everything else to cOlltend with. I brought up thlb. re.ar. Wh.en I came he1"e I was eAO$en thei;:r humble sn;","ant to go baek., and ask £ or adrnls $ion into the Union. I went, and did $0', I laboured faithfully. 1 went back with a.ll the prejud.ices o£ this peeple against me. I stood \)etweel'l the wind and. the water md, combatted. the oppo sition. I sa.id God was at the helm. I retnrl1ed again and 32 ... " again. . , The rea.son tha.t Utah failed. to gaia statehood was Dot because of Babbitt &ad his shortcoming. I aQ, was it because of te hatred to- wa.:tds the Morm.on people' by theit e:n.emies, 'but it, was the controversy liletween the North and the South ov'r the proolem of slavry and the state of. affairs existing in the Ull.ited States at that period of tim. The effo,rt to obtain a st.ate rather than a territorial government was futile. The political statu. of Utah was aetertx'lined by the CompQmi$,e of 1850. of the agreement" Altnough slaery la,rgely c!et,mine.d the nature the fact that the Saints presented memorials a.n4 petitioti.S for both state and territorial governme»ts, iudicating definitely their willingness to aceept a territorial gove1"nment, deem it inadvisable to establish a state, 32Millennial Star, XVII, 307. should COllgres $ may have affeeteci the final |
