Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-09

in the execution of the laws
There is every 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 set
tiers from the Territory, except those who will
acknowledge his divine mission, and implicit
ly obey his will and that an enlightened
public opinion there would soon PROSTATE in
stitutions at war with the laws both of God
and man. He has therefore for several years,
in order to maintain his Independence, been
industriously employed in collecting and fab
resting arms and munitions of war, and in
discipllning the Mornons for military service.
As superintendent of Indian affairs, he has had
an opportunity of tampering 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 intrigues to our In
dian agents. He has laid in a store of pro-
visions for three years. which, in case OF ne
cessity, as he informed Major Van Yliet, he
viii conceal sand then take to the noun
talns, and bid defiance to all the powers of
the government"
great part of all this may be idle boast
ing; but yet no wise government will lightly
such phrensied fanaticism as exists among
the Mormons in Utah. This is the first re.
bellion which has existed in our Territories
and humanity itself requires that we should
put it down in such manner that it shall be
the last. 10 trihe with it would be to en-
courage it and to render it formidable. We
ought to go there with such an imposing
force as to convince these deluded people that
resistance would be vain, and thus spare the
effusion of blood. We can in this manner
best convince them that we are their friends,
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 earnest.
ly recommend to Congress- At the present
moment of depression in the revenues of the
country, l am sorry to be obliged to recon-
mend such measure; but l feel confident of
the support of Congress, cost what it may, in
suppressing the instruction and in restoring
and maintaining the sovereignty of the con-
stitution and laws in the Territory of Utah.
l recommended to Congress the establish
ment of territorial government over Arizona,
Incorporating with it such portions of New
Mexico as they may deem expedient. l need
scarcely adduce arguments in support of this
recommendation. We are bound to protect
the lives and the property of our citizens in
habiting Arizona and these are now without
any efficient protection. Their present mum.
Der is already considerable, and is rapidly in
creasing, Notwithstanding the disadvantages
under which they labor Besides the pro-
posed territory is believed to be rich in min
eral and agricultural resources, especially 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.
Long experience has deeply convinced me
that strict construction of the powers grant
ed to Congress, is the only true, as well as
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 a military road
through the territories of the U. States, when
this is absolutely necessary for the defence of
any OF the States against foreign invasion.
The constitution has conferred upon Congress
! power "to declare war" "to raise and sup
! port armies" "to provide and m intain
navy and to call forth the militia to 'repel
! inVasions." 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 preserving ouI soil from the invasion Of
foreign enemy. The constitution has, there.
tore, left nothing on this poiBt to construction,
but expressly requires that "the United
| shall protect each of them (the StRtes) against
| invasion" Now if military road over our
own territories be Indispensable necessary
to enable US to meet and repel the in
yader, it follows as necessary con-
| sequence not only that we possess the
power, but it is our imperative duty to con-
| struct 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 reach
| ing and defeating the enemy at the frontier.
Without such road it is quite evident we
cannot "protect" California and our Pacific
possessions against invasion" We cannot
| by any other means transport men and NUM-
tons of war from the Atlantic States. in SUI.
fclent time successfully to defend these re-
mote and distant portions of the Republic.
Experience has proved that the routes
across the lsthmus 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 war with a 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 onlyrely
! upon military road through our own territo-
ries and ever since the origin of the govern
ment, Congress has been in the practice ofap-
! proprlating money from the public treasury
for the construction of such roads.
The difficulties and the expense Of construct
ing military railroad to connect our Atlantic and
Pacific States have been greatly exaggerated.
| The distance on the Arizona route, near the SD
parallel OF north latitude, between the western
boundary of Texas on the Rio Grande and the
eastern bnndary of California 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 is, in
| the main, favorable. For obvious reasons the
government ought not to undertake the work
itself, by means of It's own agents. This ought
to be committed to other agencies, which Con-
gress might assist either by grants of land or
money, or by both, upon such terms and
conditions as they may deem most bene-
fetal for the country. Provisions might thus
be made not only for the safe, rapid, and eco
nomical transportation of troops and NUM-
tons of war, but also OF the pubic nails
| The commercial interests of the whole coun-
try both East and West,w be greatly pro.
NOTED by such road, and above all it would
be powerful aid = here there is
brake in the copy furnished.l =
nish detailed statement Of the condition of
the public finances and of the respective
branches Of Their public service devolved up-
on that department of the government. BY
this report 1t appears that the amount of rev.
enue received from all sources into the treas
nry during the fiscal year ending the Goth of
June, 1903, sixty eight million six hundred