New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-12-15


acts Of hostility against the United States. Unless
he should retrace his steps the Territory OF Utah VIII
be in a state of open rebellion. He has committed
these acts Of hostility Notwithstanding Major Van
Vliet an officer Of the army, sent to utah 6y the
commanding general to purchase provisions for the
troops had given him the strongest OF the
peace intentions Of the Government, and that the
troops would only be employed as posse conm.tdls
when called on by the civil authority to aid in the
execution of the laws. AG s' sl-lF& t.&F
There is reason to believe that Gov. Young has
long. contemplated this result He knows that the
continuance of his despotc power depends upon the
exclusion Of all settlers from the Territory except
those who will acknowledge his divine mission and
implicitly obey his will and that an enlightened
pubc opinion there would soon PROSTATE institutions
at war with the laws both Of God and man. He has
therefore for several years in order to maintain his
independence, been induatriously employed in col
and in disciplinng the Mormons for military service.
As Superintendent Of Indian Affairs he has had on
opportunity Of taperng with the Indian tribes and
exciting their hostile feelings against the United
States. This, according to our information, he has
accomplished in regard to some of these tribes while
Others have remained true to their allegiance, and
have communicated his intrgues to Indianagents
He has laid in store Of provisions for three years.
which, in case OF necessity, as he informed Maj Van
Vlet, he will conceal, and then take to the noun
ernment." rs. -
A great part of all this may be idle boasting; but
yet no wise Government will lightly estimate the e
forts which may be inspired by such phrenzed fanat
icism as exists among the Mormons in Utah. This is
the first rebellion which has existed in Terrific
res and humanity itself requires that we should put
it down in such manner that it shall be the last.
To tre with it would be to encourage it and render
it formidable. We ought to go there with such an
imposing force as to convince these deluded people
that resistance would be van and thus spare the eff
fusion OF blood. We can in this manner best con-
vince them that we are their friends and not their
enemies. In order to accomplish this object it will
be necessary, according to the estimate Of the War
Department, to raise four additional regiments and
this earnestly recommend to Congress. At the
present moment of depression in the revenues of the
country, am sorry to be obliged to recommend such
a measure but feel confident of the support of
Congress- cost what it may, in suppressing the insur-
rection and in restoring and maintaining the sover
eighty Of the constitution and laws over the Terri
rtory OF Utah. a.
I recommend to Congress the establishment of a
territorial government over Arizona, incorporating
with it such portions of New Mexico as they may
deem expedient. need scarcely adduce arguments
in support of this Recommendation. We are bound to
protect the lives and the property Of citizens in
habtng Arizona, and these now without any eff
cient protection. Their present number is already
considerable, and is rapidly increasing, notwithstand-
ing the disadvantages under which they labor. Be.
sides the proposed Territory is believed to be rich in
and copper. The mails of the United States to Cali
fornia are now carried over it throughout its whole
extent and this route s known to be the nearest and
believed to be the best to the Pacific
Long experience has deeply convinced me that
strict construction of the powers granted to Congress
is the only true well the only SAFE theory Of the
constitution. Whilst this principle shall guide my
public conduct consider it clear that under the war
making power Congress may appropriate money for
the construction of q military road through the Ter
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necessary for the defence OF any of the States against
foreign invasion. econstitution has conferred upon
Congress power "to declare war" "to raise and cup
port armies, "to provide and maintain navy and
to call forth the militia to ''repe nvasions." These
high sovereign powers necessarily involve important
and responsible public duties, and among them there
is none so sacred and SO imperative as that of preserv
ing our soil from invasion of foreign enemy. The
constitution has, therefore, left nothing this point
to construction, but expressly requires that 1.-THE
United States shall protect each of them 1.-THE States]
against INVASION" Now, if military road over our
Territories be indispensaby necessary to enable
US to meet and repel the invader, it follows as ne
cessary consequence not only that we possess the
power but it s imperative duty to construct such
a road. 1t would be an absurdty to invest govern
ment with the unlimited power to make and conduct
war; and at the same time deny to it the only
of reaching and defeating the enemy at the frontier.
Without such a road it is quite evident We cannot
"protect" California and our Pacific possessions
against INVASION" We cannot by any other means
transport men and munitions of from the Atlantic
States in sufficient time successfully to defend these
remote and distant portions Of the republic.
Experience has proved that the routes across the
1sthmus of Central America are at best but very
uncertain and unreliable mode of communication.
But even if this were not the case, they would at
once be closed against us in the event Of with
naval power so much stronger than our own as to
enable it to blockade the ports at either end Of these
routes. After all, therefore, we can only rely upon
a military road through our own Territories and,
ever since the origin of the Government, Congress
has been in the practice of appropriating money from
the public treasury for the construction of such roads,
The difficulties and the expense of constructing q
military railroad to connect Atlantic and Pacific
States have been greatly exaggerated. The distance
on the Arizona route near the 32d parallel of north
latitude, between the western boundary Of Texas on
the Rio Grande and the eastern boundary of Califor
mia on the Colorado, from the best explorations now
within our knowledge, does not exceed four hundred
and seventy miles, and the face of the country on
the main favorable. For obvious reasons, the Govern
ment ought not to undertake the work itself by means
of its own agents. This ought to be committed to
other agencies which Congress might assist either by
grants of land or money, or by both, upon such terms
and conditions as they may deem most beneficial for
the country. Provision might thus be made not only
for the safe, rapid and economical transportation of
troops and munitions of war, but also of the public
mails. The commercial interests of the whole coun-
try, both East and West would be greatly promoted
by such road and, above all, it would be power
ful additional bond of union. And although advan-
tages of this kind, whether postal, commercial or
POLITICAL cannot confer constitutional power, yet they
may furnish auxiliary arguments in favor of egped
ting work which, in my judgment, is clearly EN-.
hraced within the war-making power.
For these reasons, commend to the friendly con-
sderation of Congress the subject of the Pacific rail
road, without finally committing myself to any par
tcular route.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury will
furnish detailed statement Of the condition Of the
public finances and Of the respective branches Of the
public service deyolved upon that department of the
Government By this report it appears that the
amount of revenue received from all sources into the
treasury during the fiscal year ending the 30th june
1851 was sixty eight million six hundred and thirty.
one thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and
sixtyseven cents, ($6S ,63l ,5l3 CD which amount
with the balance OF nineteen million nine hundred
and one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dol
lars and fortyve cents (sl9,9Ol 1926 45,) remaining
in the treasury at the commencement of the year.
made an aggregate for the service of the year of
eightyeight million five hundred and thirty.two
Thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and
twelve cents, (Sss ,532 ,s39 12.)
The public expenditures for the fiscal year ending
Both June, 1857, amounted to seventy million eight
hundred and twenty-five thousand seven hundred and
twenty-four dollars and eightyfve cents $50 922-
724 $50 of which five million nine hundred and forty.
three thousand eight hundred and ninetysx dollars
and nnetyone tents, ($5,943,S96 9l,) were applied
to the redemption of the public debt including inter
est and premium, leaving in the treasury at the com
mencement OF the present fiscal year. the lst july
1857, seventeen million seven hundred and ten thous-
and one hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty
seven cents, ($l7,7lG,ll4 27)
The receipts into the treasury for the first quarter
OF the present fiscal year, commencing 1st July 1857