White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-12-31


would only be employed as . posse eomitatus
when called on BY the civil authority to aid in
the execution Of the laws.
There is reason to believe that Gov. Young
has long contemplated this result He knows
that the continuance Of his despotic power de-
ponds upon the exclusion of all settlers from the
Territory except those who win acknowledge
his divine mission and implicitly obey bis viii;
and that an enlightened. public opinion there,
would soon 1rostrate institutions at war with the
laws both Of God and man. He has therefore
for several years, in order to maintain his indie
pendence, been industriously employed in col
lecting and fabricating arms and munitions Of
war, and in disciPlinihg the MOrmOns for militia
~ service. As Superintendent of Indian AZ
fairs he has had an opportunity Of tanpering
with the Indian tribes, and exciting their hos
tile 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 allegi-
ance, and have communicated his intrigues to
our Indian Agents. He has laid in store of
provisions for three years, which, in case Of ne
cessity, as he informed Major Van Welt, he VIII
conceal, t" and then take to the mountains, and
bid defiance to all the powers of the govern
ment.''
s great part of this may be idle Boosting; but
yet no.wise government viii lightly estimate the
efforts which may be inspired by such frenzied
fanaticism as exists among the Mormons in Utah.
This is the first rebellion which has existed in
our Territories; and humanity itself requires
that we should put it down in such a manner
that it shall be the last. To trihe with it would
be to encourage it, and to render it formidable.
We ought to 60 there with such an imposing
force as to convince these deludea people that
resistance would be vain, and thus spare this
effusion OF blood. We can in this manner best
convince them that we are their friends not,
their enemies. In order to accomplish this OBJ
ject, it will be necessary, according to the esti-
mate of the War Department, to raise four ad-
ditional regiments; and this eAEpestly recon-
mend to Congress. At the present moment of
the depression in the revenue 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
insurrection, and in restoring and maintaining
the sovereignty of the constitution and laws over
the Territory of Utah.
recommended to Congress the establishment
ofa territorial government over Arizona, ineor-
porating with it such portions of New Mexico as
they may deem expedicnt. need scarcely ad-
duce arguments in support of this recommended
ton. We are bound to protect the lives and
the property Of our citizens inhabiting Arizona,
and these are now without any efficient protec.
ton. Their present number is already consid-
cradle, and is rapidly increasing, notwithstand-
ing the disadvantages under which they labor.
Besides, the proposed territory is believed to be
rich in mineral and agricultural resources, es
pecially in silver and copper. The mails of the
United States to California are now carried over
it throughout its Whole'extent, and this route is
known to be the nearest, and believed to be the
best to the Pacific. f4ri -.-
Long experience has deeply convinced me
that strict construction Of the powers granted
to Congress is the only true, as well as the only
safe theory of the constitution. Whilst this prin-
ciple shall guild, my public conduct, consider it
clear that under the war making power Congress
may appropriate money for the construction of a
military road through the Territories of the
United States, when this is absolutely necessary
for the defence of any of the States against for
eign invasion. The constitution has conferred
upon Congress the power "to declare war;" "to
raise and support armies" to provide and main
tain a navy, and to call forth the militia to ere.
pei invasions." These high sovereign powers
involve important and responsible
public duties, and among them there is none so
sacred and imperative as that preserving our
soil from the invasion of foreign enemy. The
constitution has, therefore, left nothing on this
point to construction, but expressly requires that
"the United States shall protect each of them
(the States against INVASION" Now, If a mil
itary road over our own Territories be indispen-
SADLY necessary, to enable US to meet and repel
the invader, it follows, as a necessary conse-
quence, not only that We possess the power, but
tits our imperative duty to construct such road.
1t would be an absurdity to invest Government
with the unlimited power to make and conduct
war, and at the same time deny to it the only
means of reaching and defeating the enemy at
the frontier. Without such road, il is quite
ivident we cannot "protect" California and our
Pacific possessions against invasion" We can
not by any other means transport men and mu-
nitions of war from the Atlantic States in sufi-
cient time successfully to defend these remote
and distant portions of the Republic.
Experience has proved that the routes across
the isthmus of Central America are at best but
a very uncertain and unreliable mode ofcommu-
nication. But even if this were not the case,
they would at once be closed against US in the
event of war with naval power SO much strong
er than our own as to enable it to blockade the
ports at either end of these routes. After all,
we can only rely upon 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 expenses Of construct
ing military railroad to connect our Atlantic
and Pacific States have been greatly exaggerat-
ed. The distance on the Arizona route near the
32d parallel of north latitude, between the ives
tern boundary of Texas on the Rio Grande and
the eastern boundary Of California on the Colo
rado, from the best explorations new within our
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