The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-10
IN answer 10 which returned the following reply
STEAMER FL PAso. Missouri river.

STGAMEA Ell PAso, Missouri nyer,
November 10. 1851.
IApIrs AND GENTLEMEN; Your polite note OF this
morning has been received. You ask me therein 70
make speech in reference 10 the Great Salt Lake Val
ley, rs general features inhabitants religious anu
people resident there towards The ehed Slaes oheeis'
If he time and place and circumstances OF the osca
sion were proper | should no, hesitate in yielding
prompt conn liance 10 your request Such, IN my mum
BILE opinion, is not the case.
The officers OF the government now on ihe return 70
Washington from The sphere of duty assigned them 10
Utah Territory design making 10 the President OF Tue
United States report OF the state oil affairs winch has
rendered their longer residence among me MormonS un
pleasant That report will be made public; and that TACT
log ether with the circumstance that publications have re-
Gently been made through the channel OF the press show
States officers and the Mormon people enables me WIN
the less regret to decline your polite invitation 10 make
speech upon the subject
Previous to the date of your note, have been more
than once called upon since my arrival within The Dor
ders of the States, 10 speak publicly IN regard 10 The
Iamentable of things existing in Utah, and have UNI
forinly felt /, my duty TO Decline with hope, which
now express you, that my motives and feelings IN de-
Ginning the performance OF such task will be understood
and appreciated without detailed alluson 10 Them on
With due appreciation Of the patriotic solicitute that
has prompted the writing OF your note, and with thanks
for the compliment you pay me personally 10 making
the reQues, therca contained, am mos, respectfully
0' PERRY e. BRoCCHUS.
To Mrs Tallar, Miss Tallar. Mrs. Hart Miss Blsy Or.
H. f. PEBBLES, A. Wneland and others
The other officers OF the government, win whose &c.
ciety on my return have been honored, have likewise
been called upon to address the public upon the subec
and have also, in conformity TO sense OF decacy ana
duty, invariably declined
eminent officers for Utah haze received or are entitled 10
outfit. There is no outit and as 10 myself hass
been a. the expense OF more than twice Inc amour! o.
salary shall have received in going 10 and returning
from the Territory including robberies by the Indians anu
other disasters furthermore upon leaving the Territory
with the purpose OF going 10 washington we SUSPENDED
ries Tor the act oil Congress making appropriation ot
The payment thereof provides that no salary shall be PAID
TO any officer Of the Territory who shall nave ansen!ea
sixty days. The trip from Uah 10 Washington and back
again. if we had designed returning, could not have
been made within sixty days: of course. then. our de-
pare from the Territory abandonment oil our
The editor no less in in supposlng that the Of
iensive portion of my speech to the MoImons was
prompted by the disappointment Of aspirations 10 de2a
in Congress. met with no disappointment IN that re-
-pect knew, from the ateness OF my departure from
the States that the eecton would have transpTed Or al
least, that the eecee would have been chosen by Coz
ernor Young before my arrival in the Territory Inc
election did take place previous to my arrival there ad
my aspirations been ardent before had formed
an acquaintance with the sedious and immoral charac-
of the community the formation of such acquaint'
would have cooled that ambition; for should have
conceived no honor have been the representative IN
Congress OF the revers OF my country and my country
men. and the open enemies of decency and virtue.
The Republican also fails to state the ruth when i
says that ectured the people upon "the immortality OF
their conduct in their social relations" II lectured
them all, it only upon the alienation OF their 10y
ally and their affections from the country 10 which they
owed their respect, their alleg lance and their love- re-
buked nothing but their intolerance OF the authority oil
the United States the sedoas injustice OF their hostile
sentiments toward The general government and the inhu
and sacrlegious denuncaion by their leaders OF
lamented and lustrous American, who has gone TO the
grave leaving us his surviving countrymen, The guar,
dams OF his name, his glory, and his tomb When
shall have learned that to hold office under my govern
when my country and her statesmen are sediously re-
viled-when shall have learned that to accept Office al
the hands of my country is TO seal my tongue while
hear insult and obloquy and inhumanty, and sacrilege
poured by impous, atorous lips upon lhe graves
her hallowed and lllustTlous dsad-so soon will learn
that, while love my country. office no longer can be
nine.
DO not come to your columns, sir to justify my with
drawa in disgust. IRON the late sphere OF my Official du
lies. I merely come TO seek protection IRON un,ruth
willing leave The facts OF the case, without argument
before the tribunal Of public sentiment, and ready to
yield cheerful acquescence 10 its Judgment.
i feel conscious that | have performed my duty IN a
faithful manner, not only IN The discharge OF my func
tons as judicial officer but also in rebukng the ina-
nous sedilon OF the enemies OF my country and in then
leaving them am not, nor could be, insenslbe 10
public TO public praise but adequately as
| may appreciate them bolb they dwindle rapidly away
into unmIortance, when compared with the morihca'
ton should feel il had failed 10 show 10 the Mormon
community the moral power OF this government IN keep
ing her citizens mindful OF their duty 10 defend her
from insult and in nervng their hearts TO meet that duty
and perform it, should conceive myself unworthy the
name of American citizen il had been willing longer
to remain amongst people whose chief dcligh: was 10
denounce the government from which held my commits.
sion, and TO assa the officers OF that government.
whether present absent, with the dsre speeul
'N Very respectfully, PERRY E. BRoCCHUS.
by A. GREEN, Auctions.r.