With Idaho and Wyoming admitted, they did not dare prolong the exclusion even of Utah, and so we have the shame of seeing an avowed polygamist with a prima facie right to sit in our Congress as a legislator not merely for Utah, but for the whole Union.
Reid criticizes the political situation that allows a polygamist to hold legislative power in Congress.
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Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?
Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.