The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-07-17
NEW POLITICAL ELEMENTS IN 1860.

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We have but little doubt, says the New
Orleans Creole, that, notwithstanding all the
intense display of feeling, North and South,
in regard to Kansas, that this destructive
political element will become weak before the
next Presidential canvass Greater difficulties
are now looming up in the future, which will
severely agitate the nation. We refer 10 Utah
and Central America.
The position of the government of the Lat
ter Day Saints, with regard to the United
States, is one of direct hostility. II is openly
and secretly organizing means of resisting the
Federal power Not relying upon its own
resources or its distances from the habitable
portion of the Union, its emissaries are Sc
cretly organizing the Indian tribes in hostility
to the government. The Indians are told
that they haze been driven by the rapacity Of
the nation from their possessions, and will
again be forced to recede before the advanc-
iEg tide Of white civilization.
Proffers of alliance, offensive and defensive,
are said TO have been made, and to have been
received with much favor. Thus do the
Priesthood of Nlormondom hope to surround
themselves with a Gordon of friends, who, If
violent measures are attempted, will light up
our whole Western frontier with the lurid
fire of Indian war.
The whole question OF dealing with Utah
is surrounded with difficulty. For treason, the
Territory may becomssuhisct to military oc-
eupation, and the rebelious spirits be quelled
with violence, but this does not cure the evil
Her social institutions are regarded rs
plague spot by nine tcnths of the people of
this nation, and the highest opposition i'll be
manifested whenever her admission into the
Union is proposed as an affiliated State
Public attention will soon be directed to the
movements in regard to Utah, and the present
grand cause of excitement will lose much of
its interest.
Central Am,rica presents question of
different character The iutrigues of Eng
land, to obtair controlling influence IN that
quarter, are UImi,taknbe She seems deter
mined to have possession Of one Of the most
important transit routes across the Isthmus o
the Pacific. The Monroe doctrine is abso-
Iutely discarded by English politicians, and
while our cabinet consuts and deberates, and
recOnsuts and redeiberates, illustrating the
delays of the Circumloculion Office, England
is quietly establishing herself on the Bay
Islands, interesting herself in the affairs of
Costa Rca, ans directing the destinies of
Nicaragua. A, possessors of Canada and the
West Indian Hands, she Chains the right to
interfere in American affairs and to extend
her power ani increase her influence in every
manner possible.
We are beginning to be wearied by the
tardiness of the Administration in regard to
the Central American question. 1t is time it
had marked out well defined policy, and had
taken decided and well considered ground in
regard to this vexed question. The people
begin to exhibit no little feeling or this sub
ject, and ii will swell in intensity until it forces
expression in waIchwords for parties in the
Presidential struggle Of 1860.