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REMARKS OF HON. WM. B. WASHBURN. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board : — It has given 

 me great pleasure to be with you to-day. With some of you, I 

 have been acquainted for years ; others are comparatively 

 strangers. I need not add that I have been not a little inter- 

 ested in the exercises thus far, and especially with what I heard 

 in reference to this county. I had heard of it before, and 

 thought I knew something of it ; and when your good chair- 

 man presented the facts and statistics, I listened to him with 

 deep interest; but when he informed me afterwards that he 

 had given us only about one-half of the facts, I really felt that 

 I should go back with the conviction that I had known but lit- 

 tle of this good county, and feeling a deeper interest in it than 

 I ever had before. 



But it is not my intention to take any of your time. I know 

 that you are all waiting to listen to him who is always ready, 

 and who this evening has to present a subject of deep interest 

 to you all. I therefore take pleasure in introducing to you 

 Prof. Chadbourne, who will now favor you with his address. 



UTAH AND THE MORMONS. 



BY HON. PAUL A. CHADBOURNE. 



Mr. President and Members of the Board: — "We have in 

 the midst of our country a peculiar people. They have 

 religious views which we should not accept, and they certainly 

 have some practices which I presume we should not be inclined 

 to adopt. But it is an old adage, — so old that it is written in 

 one of the dead languages, — that it is lawful for us to learn 

 even from an enemy. It is certainly lawful, right and desir- 

 able that we should learn from every great experiment that 

 can be tried in our country ; and it does seem to me that this 

 American continent, the first one to come up out of the waters 

 of the ocean, and the last that received civilized man, is the 

 great theatre on which the grand experiments of the world are 

 to be tried. We have had many tried here ; many in govern- 

 ment, many in religion, and others still remain to be tried ; 

 and the Mormon people, despised by many, and, as I believe, a 

 much-abused people, are trying an experiment to-day, and have 



