The Nevada journal., 1857-12-04
VSome of our democratic friends are

EV Some OF our democratic friends are
disposed to find fault with Willard Fill
mores administration because of the
appointment of Brigham Young as Gov
ernor of Utah. We are told the old
traitor has been petted and favored too
much, that he never should have been
invested with civil power, and that Fill
more is responsible for having to some
extent aided the Mormons, through their
Governor, in their persistent opposition
to the laws of the general government.
Our democratic friends should have
discovered the great error in the policy
of the government toward the Mormons
during the four years services of Frank
lin Pierce. While the democrats were
ousting all the officers appointed by
President Fillmore, they should have
made aclean sweep and taken the worst
one with the best. Had such a course
been pursued, there would now have
been little ground of complaint against
Brigham Young, and more reason for
charging that little upon the admins
tration of Fillmore exclusively. Unfor-
tunately the astute policy of the demo-
cratic party to unite all the odds and
ends of society together to form itself,
was opposed to the dismissal of Brig
ham Young, especially as considering
the mentral and moral calibre of the
Latter Day Saints, they promised GER
tain recruits to the party. The prom
Use was fulfilled to the last letter of ex-
pectation. Wherever polls have been
opened and the lepers have had a
chance to exhibit their political procliv-
tiles, their democracy was declared SUI
preme-barely vote being polled for
any other party. San Bernardino is a
witness of Mormon politics. 1t has re-
turned year after year to the Legisla-
ture the old polygamist Hunt, ranting
disciple of jackson, who swears "by the
eternal and is now taking the respon,
sibility'' of joining the Saints at Salt
Lake and resorting to arms against the
United States.
1t seems that some of the unterrifed
are not mindful at all times of their po-
litical decalogue. The Kansas Act rec
ognzes the competency and right Of the
people of Territory to decide for them
selves their own institutions. That Act
is sovereign in the opinions Of a majori-
ty of the people of these United States
It is in accordance with the old demo
cratic doctrine of the largest liberty
Applied to the country at large it con
forms to the maxim, that government
is best which governs least" The
President should carry out the dogma,
of his party by adopting towards the
Territories a dolce far njente policy, or
in other words, maintain mastery IN
activity"
In late letter Little Douglas par.
AIDES with much JUNCTION his right IL
common with other democrats, to deter.
mine who shall and who shall not re
,ceive federal offices in Illinois at the
hands Of the President. Atleast the pc.
tency of his recommendations is strong.
ly suggested, Recognizing the equa
right of the people of a Territory Will
those of State, we would like to be In
formed why the universal wish of the
people of Utah is not as much to be re
spected in the appointment of Cover
nor as the petition of few democrats
for the elevation of one of their number
to the post of receiver of public moneys
or post master in the State of Illinois,
Willard Fillmore in making Brigham
Young Governor of Utah consulted the
wishes of the people over whom he wa:
to rule, and in so doing carried out the
principles of the Kansas Act in its mos
liberal sense. Brigham had then shown
no disposition to commit overt act
against the government of the United
States How far the disregard of tn,
wishes of the Mormon democracy BY
the President in the appointment o
their Governor, has influenced the &C
ton of the Saints against the United
States authorities, we are unable to say
Doubtless those mormons who lave
been loud NJ outhed in eulogizing tn,
Kansas Act would like to see it carried
out in liberal spirit as Trey expected
Ii would be. As democrats they lay
claim to the same right to advise the
President of their wants as the diminu
tive author of the Act himself, aidet
and abetted by few of the prsminen
partisans in Illinois.