The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-04-01
Miahlrbury Rrgister
M 1 d d L E B u r Y:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL /, 1867.
Utah.

" IAN.
The situation Of the people Of Utah
is beginning to attract tho attention OF
thoughtful men. In the great basin of
the continent occupying three degrees of
latitude, and larger than tho whole State
of California, with o climate and soil
second to that Of no portion of the coun-
try, Utah like neglected and overgrown
child. has been suffered to grow to its
present dimensions in population and
resources, and has arrived at the point
where the parental authority Of the gov
eminent must be arrested, or ii will soon
be beyond tho reach of training or con-
troll.
In tho overwhelming agitation Of the
Slavery question, and in the struggles
for place and power by the politicians of
the country, this far.off territory has
been left to strike for itself, and to de-
velope all the miserable tendencies Of its
natural character. A military governor
has been once appointed, but was driven
to resign his authority before any at
tempt at its exercise. In 1852 the
present disgraccful imposter and incum.
bent, Brigham Young, was invested with
the control Of the Government, and has
held the appointment without express Ii
cense, as we'll as without any constitu
tional check, ever since. This degraded
sensualist, with his fifty wives, not only
holds his Office without authority from
the government, but in absolute defiance
of it, When it was proposed to remove
him, he addressed the miserable fanatics
of tho territory as follows Il can and
will be the Governor of this Territory,
and no power can hinder it until the
Lord Almighty says, Brigham you
need not be Governor any longer" This
declaration was accompanied by an open
threat that any person who should en-
deavor to hold the office of Governor in
his place should be assassinated,
When it is considered that this bold,
BAD man, is surrounded by thousands of
fighting men as desperate and abandoned
as himself, who, blinded by fanatic zeal
and stepped in ignorance and vice. are
ready to obey him as a God.appoiutod
delverer; that the entire country, iso.
lated by trackless deserts, 80 far as il is
poopled, is in entire sympathy With him.
it will be readily perceived that this
knot will be ono difficult for the Govern.
ment to cut, and impossible to unto
Recent events, however, have at last
made it imperative that the Government
should rcsolutoly grapplc with the diff.
Guilty and force it to a solution. The last
mail brings tho intelligence that Brig.
ham has directly attacked the constitu.
ted judicial tribunals Of tie country, and
thus virtually declared the independence
Of his government.
Much as the Kansas question, and all
its involved relations will demand Of the
Administration, it seems to US that no
matter Of more vital moment to the
prosperity and reputation of the coun-
try can be found, than is wrapped up in
the problem of Utah. The laws of
trade and of God will ultimately dispose
Of the clouds and darkness which seem
to have settled upon the territories in
relation to Slavery, aud we have no
fore bodings for the future, so far as this
subject is concerned; but the solution of
this otherproblcm will be found, if found
at all, in the inherent strength of the
government, and in the wisdom of the
administration.