In three days the force was mustered and ready to march. And again to the assembled people:
"I say unto you, magnify the laws. There is no law in the United States, or in the Constitution, but I am ready to make honorable."
Here is the message which came over the wires when amid the turmoil of the first years of the Civil War, the Overland telegraph line was completed:
"Utah has not seceded, but is firm for the Constitution and laws of our once happy country, and is warmly interested in such useful enterprises as the one so far completed."
A similar demonstration of patriotism and love of progress took place when the first iron horse, over the Union Pacific, came puffing into the Territory:
"Utah bids you welcome. Hail to the great National highway."
And this from their Articles of Faith:
"We believe in being subjects to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates; in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law."
These do not sound like the utterances of a people, jealously guarding from the intrusion of civilization, a region in which they might entrench themselves, and defy the advancement of law, order and Christianity. As our luxurious Pullman bears us swiftly and comfortably over the rolling prairie, do we ever give a thought to the patient, downtrodden ones who marked out the path for us? Those who, in the words of one of their own poets:
"As armed with mighty faith, no foe could vaunt,
No powers appall, no pending danger daunt."