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GARFIELD, James A. Autograph letter signed ("James A. Garfield") TO PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, Washington, 5 March 1877. 1 page, 8vo, inlaid.
GARFIELD TO HAYES ON "THE PECULIAR SITUATION" OF THE MORMONS IN UTAH
A fine Garfield autograph letter, written by the future President to the current one, introducing George Q. Cannon (1827-1901), the delegate in Congress from Utah, who "desires to see you in reference to interests of his constituents. I am sure that his views of the peculiar situation of his people & their wants will prove interesting, and valuable in reaching a conclusion upon the questions relative to Utah." Utah's long confinement to Territorial status was one of the great and persistent problems of the post-Civil War political scene. Brigham Young first petitioned for Utah's admission into the Union in 1849, and Congress awarded it Territorial status as part of the 1850 Compromise package. But Americans' prejudice against the Mormon practice of polygamy long deferred its admission to statehood. Cannon was part of the delegation that presented a proposed state constitution to Congress in 1872. His home legislature also made him the Territory's delegate in the House. When Cannon left Congress in 1881 to become an executive in the Union Pacific Railroad, Utah was still only a Territory. It was only when the railroad brought more "gentiles" into the region that Congress felt assured that Utah would not be a purely Mormon state, and they granted it statehood in 1896.
GARFIELD TO HAYES ON "THE PECULIAR SITUATION" OF THE MORMONS IN UTAH
A fine Garfield autograph letter, written by the future President to the current one, introducing George Q. Cannon (1827-1901), the delegate in Congress from Utah, who "desires to see you in reference to interests of his constituents. I am sure that his views of the peculiar situation of his people & their wants will prove interesting, and valuable in reaching a conclusion upon the questions relative to Utah." Utah's long confinement to Territorial status was one of the great and persistent problems of the post-Civil War political scene. Brigham Young first petitioned for Utah's admission into the Union in 1849, and Congress awarded it Territorial status as part of the 1850 Compromise package. But Americans' prejudice against the Mormon practice of polygamy long deferred its admission to statehood. Cannon was part of the delegation that presented a proposed state constitution to Congress in 1872. His home legislature also made him the Territory's delegate in the House. When Cannon left Congress in 1881 to become an executive in the Union Pacific Railroad, Utah was still only a Territory. It was only when the railroad brought more "gentiles" into the region that Congress felt assured that Utah would not be a purely Mormon state, and they granted it statehood in 1896.