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Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
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Letter from Moses Thatcher [Resolution No. 46G]
LOGAN, UTAH, March 18th, 1895.
Hon. John Henry Smith, President, Constitutional Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah:
DEAR SIR: Having recently undergone a somewhat painful surgical operation, I find that improper haste in resuming work has produced unfavorable results, compelling me now to keep quiet, absolute rest, and treatment for a few days, and possibly a longer period.
Will you therefore, it my behalf kindly make to the honorable members of this Convention the necessary explanation required by the rules governing such matters. I shall expect no compensation for the period covering my absence; and under no circumstances will demand remuneration, to be paid from any deficiency which the people of Utah may be required to raise through taxation on their property, should the generous appropriation of Congress prove inadequate to the expenses of the Constitutional Convention.
In the interest of committees with which you did me the honor of associating my name, I respectfully suggest the appointment of others able and qualified to do their full share of the work_ a duty under other circumstances I should feel it a pleasure to perform. Trusting that the utmost harmony and fraternal feeling may attend all deliberations of the Convention over which you have the honor of presiding, and that partisanship, local demands, and individual interests may be subordinated to the general welfare, so that a Constitution may be drafted and approved, no provision of which shall ever bring a blush of shame or feeling of regret to us or our children, and one which as a whole the voters of Utah may adopt by an overwhelming majority.
If true patriotism, a high regard for the right of the governed, sympathy for the laboring masses and producing classes, united with equity, justice, and economy in all public expenditures, shall be made basic principles upon which the fundamental law of the new State shall forever rest, that a happy result must surely follow, and the people who sent, with the fullest confidence, the honorable members of the Utah Constitutional Convention, will not be disappointed, nor have cause to regret the choice made in selecting the men best qualified to write the State charter_a law of human justice and liberty, before which all may feel equally protected, while learning that untarnished American citizenship is the highest distinction to which we or our children can aspire.
Very respectfully yours,
MOSES THATCHER.
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- Letter from Moses Thatcher [Resolution No. 46G] (introduced on 1895-03-18 14:00:00 - CREATE - e692887) [This document]
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- Letter from Moses Thatcher [Resolution No. 46G] (introduced on 1895-03-18 14:00:00 - CREATE - e692887) [This document]
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