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no power to restore and defend the rights of her citizens, have not the
love of the truth abiding in them, * * * and whenever that body passes an
act to maintain right with any power, or to restore right to any portion
of her citizens, it is the supreme law of the land, and should a State refuse
submission, that State is guilty of insurrection or rebellion, and the President
has as much power to repel it as Washington had to march against the whisky
boys of Pittsburg, or General Jackson had to send an armed force to suppress
the rebellion of South Carolina." "And God who cooled the heat
of a Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, or shut the mouths of lions for the honor
of a Daniel will raise your mind above the narrow notion that the general
government has no power—to the sublime idea that Congress, with the
President as executive, is as almighty in its sphere, as Jehovah is in his." President Brigham Young as a Republican Protectionist:—We do know that he was a strong protectionist and an abolitionist. Whitney's History of Utah for the year 1852 gives some idea of Brigham Young's policy as Governor of Utah. It says: "Governor Young and other leaders of the community were very strenuous at this period upon the subjects of manual training and home manufacture. Said the Governor, in his message to the Legislature in January of that year: ‘Deplorable indeed must be the situation of that people whose sons are not trained in the practice of every useful avocation, and whose daughters mingle not in the hive of industry. * * * Produce what you consume; draw from the native elements the necessaries of life; permit no vitiated taste to lead you into indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can be obtained by involving yourself in debt. Let home industry produce |
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