Item #18969 Memorial of the Members of the Legislative Council of the Provisional Government of Deseret, Praying for admission into the Union as a State, or for a Territorial Government [caption title]. Mormons, Deseret Citizens, State.

Memorial of the Members of the Legislative Council of the Provisional Government of Deseret, Praying for admission into the Union as a State, or for a Territorial Government [caption title].

[Washington, D. C. Wm. M. Belt, 1850]. First edition. Removed pamphlet, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 14 pages. Some light, trifling dust-soiling and foxing to the edges; a very good copy. Item #18969

“Your memorialists, members of the general assembly of the State of ‘Deseret,’ would respectfully lay before your honorable body the wishes and interests of our constituents, together with the reasons and design of our early organization as a civil government. . . . And whereas, since the expiration of the Mexican civil authority, however weak and imbecile, anarchy to an alarming extent has prevailed: the revolver and bowie-knife have been the highest law of the land. . . .” Includes the Constitution for the proposed state of Deseret. U.S. 31st Cong. 1st Sess. Senate. Misc. Doc. No. 10. Flake 2780h; Fales & Flake 21.

Price: $450.00

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