Brigham Young:

Utah has not seceded, but is firm for the constitution
and laws of our country.

The "Mormon" people saw in their terrible experiences and in the
outrages to which they had been subjected, only the
mal-administration of laws and the subversion of justice through
human incapacity and hatred. Never even for a moment did they
question the supreme authority and the inspired origin of the
constitution of their land. They knew no North, no South, no
East, no West; they stood positively by the constitution, and
would have nothing to do in the bloody strife between brothers,
unless indeed they were summoned by the authority to which they
had already once loyally responded, to furnish men and arms for
their country's need.

Following the advent of the telegraph came the railway; and the
land of "Mormondom" was no longer isolated. Her resources were
developed, her wealth became a topic of the world's wonder; the
tide of immigration swelled her population, contributing much of
the best from all the civilized nations of the earth. Every
reader of recent and current history has learned of her rapid
growth; of her repeated appeals for the recognition to which she
had so long been entitled in the sisterhood of states; of the
prompt refusals with which her pleas were persistently met,
though other territories with smaller and more illiterate
populations, more restricted resources, and in every way weaker
claims, were allowed to assume the habiliments of maturity, while
Utah, lusty, large and strong, was kept in swaddling clothes.