The Brigham Young Center

MEMORIAL

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,

Gentlemen:

We your Memorialists, the Members of the General Assembly of the State of Deseret, respectfully state that our peculiarly isolated position, the well proven inadequacy of a Territorial organization to meet the wants of a rapidly increasing population now numbering from eighty to a hundred thousand, a disposition to lesson Governmental expenditures when they are of necessity so great, and an earnest desire to enjoy those inherent, inalienable, and Constitutional rights guaranteed to every American Citizen have induced the citizens of Utah to unanimously and Constitutionally organize a State government, preparatory to their admission into the Union as the "State of Deseret;" wherefore your Memorialists most respectfully solicit your Honorable body to favorably consider this our petition, and, at as early a day during your present Session as other important duties will permit, take action admitting the State of Deseret "into the Union on as equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever."

Adopted by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret on the 17th day of April A. D. 1862.

T. W. Ellerbeck, Secretary of the Senate

John Taylor

William Clayton Chief Clerk

President of the Senate of the House of Representatives

A. P. Rockwood

Speaker of the House of Representatives