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Show CHAPTER V BABB1TT'S AC,HIEVEMENT8 IN TERllITOIUAL AFFAIRS In th$ spriug of 1851 Sabbitt) accompanied by Stephen B. Rose, the Indian Agent, arrived in Kane svi.He on their wa.y to the Salt Lake 'Valley. 1 , Iowa, from Washington Dr. Bern;hisel, the agent from Utah; had arrived in Kanesville a few day's earlier. Babbitt was not vey popular with the people of this comml:tnity because duri:n,g the presidential election. of 1848, he ha.d tQld the people that they'mu$,t vote the i)·emoerati¢ ticket or stay,Jiieutl"al and not vote at alL The majority of the Sain:ts itt. Kanesville had, therefore, a.ted themselves with the Whig party, affili .. and this had irritated Babbitt. Th.e people of this town 'blamed. Babbitt for the failure of' "De sez-et " to ga.in statehood because they c1a.ime,i he had gone to Wa.shington to satisfy his own political ambitions and not. as from Utah. a representative of the people They asserted he was insincere in his motives. 2 n was' rum'orec:i tb.at ':Babbitt had puzchaae d a. press while Da,ek east aD.d that he was going to establish his newspaper in the town of IF'i'ontier auardian Ma.y 2" Zlde.m. 64 1851. |
