Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-06-25
POLICY IN UTAH.

stated that the policy OF the new GoferhoI VI
Utah is 10 be the Issuing of proclamation
that such persons residing in the Territory, |
male or female, as wish to leave and go else |
where, shall be protected in doing so, and shall |
b.. assisted in getting away. If it be true, as !
the recent correspondence from Utah SO posi-
lively asserts, that considerable part of the |
Mormons, including a large portion OF the |
women, are held in subsection by Brigham |
Young and his elders, by system of pure ter
ror, and that it is as hard, to get away from
Utah, as it was during the time of Walkers
predominancy for American citizens, especial
ly those who had enlisted into his service, to
get away from Nicaragua, certainly it is high
time for our Government to interfere. They
did not interfere in the case of Nicaragua, but
that is no reason why they should not inter-
fere in the case of Utah. The case of Niear-
aqua stood upon peculiar grounds. The last
Administration. TO say nothing of the present
one, was a fllibustering Administration.
Walker, if not acting by authority from Wash
ington, was at least, acting in conformity to
Cabinet principles and ideas and it is set
tied maxim of all fanaticism, more especially
of fillibustering fanaticism, that the end Justi-
fies the means. Utah stands upon no such
ground-U tab is annexed already; and though
Walker was all owed to go on, not only re-
strain;ng American citizens, but robbing and
shooting such of them attempted to escape
out of his clutches, that is no reason why Brig
ham Young should be allowed to emulate his
example. If Brigham wants to do that, ii he
wants to shoot, hang, rob and imprison, with
impunity, let him establish a fllibuster settle
ment either in the Mexican territory at the
| south or the British territory at the north.
| Then he may reasonable expect, not only to be
| allowed to proceed to any extremities he
| chooses against such unfortunate Americans
| as. having been deluded by false representa-
tions within his grasp, shall attempt to escape
from il, but in case he is likely to fail and fall
into the hands of the Mexican or British au-
tkorities, that the Government VIII send mil
itary force to hover on the border to aid in his
escape, and even 10 intervene in his favor by
solicitations to the other party to ALLOW him to
escape, with hints. perhaps, of something else
| in case of refusal. So long as Brigham Young
| is merely Governor of Utah, he has no reason
to expect that our Government viii at all con-
/ VIC III HIS INHuiLIeo i4G SAM Win W
! in Nicaragua. Neither need Bri gham attempt
! 10 reassure himself by calling to mino the case
| of Kansas, and the privileges OF robbery and
murder and false Imprisonment allowed there
by Gov. Shannon, acting Governor WoodSon,
Judge Cato and Lecompte, .'Sherfi'' Jones,
| and other distinguished functionaries of the
| Territory. Neither need he count at all on
the high official positions lately conferred by
President Buchanan upon Murphy, Emory and
other leading Border Buffians. That too
! was filIibustcriug operation; these persons
! were also fillibusters, and stand on the same
ground that Walker occupied in Nicaragua.
Stealing Kansas from the Northern States was,
in the eyes of the last Administrator, and is
| in the ewes of the present one, an enterprise
no less laudable and useful than stealing Nicar-
aqua for the purpose of making Slave State
OF it. Indeed, more so, since the blow at Ii
erty attempted in Kansas is a double one, no
onlv adding one to the Slave States, but als'
taking one from the Free States. When ther'
: is an object to serve, Mr.. Buchanan can winl
as hard as any body. Indeed, he has practices
If so long that habitually he keeps one eye hal
= shut. But as Brigham Young is not acting
D the interest OF IDc SIdNS-utlNciSs hO he.S Al
j grounds for expecting that his outrages Will b
# overlooked, or that measures will not be take
e to protect and relieve the sufferers by them
:, Nevertheless, we very much doubt whethe
the President will have the courage to adol
the very reasonable and proper course indie;
It ted for HIM by the Washington letter-writer
: Unfortunately, Utah is by no means the onl
o norton of the Union IN which nearly ever
c household is at once soraglo and prison
d and in which large portion Of the people al
r kept from running away by terror of the col
/. sequences should they happen to be caugh
- Mr.. Buchanan, we fear, will hardly have ii
rt courage to set an example of Intervention {
IN the mart of the Federal Government, howev
le loudly the state of things in Utah may dema'
TO it. which might hereafter be inconvenient
applied to other 40 less suffering portions
the Union. In fact, it would be easy for BrI
ty ham, and he is altogether too shrewd felit
to to overlook ito put Mr.. Buchanan, his NJ
he Governor, proclamation and all, in We
y, awkward predicament. Let the Norm
il Elders only induce their extra women and
rank and file generally of the Church, male
i'll we'll as female, to enter into WI tten Indentul
an of service, and thereby would not only p
lg, fectly lawful authority be acquired to NJ
IS them in Utah, but should any of them succe
on in getting away, they might be pursued,
ing manded. arrested and carried back under
provisions Of the Fugitive Slave Law. I
a.. very troops about to be sent to Utah, inst'
"a, of being employed to aid in setting the c
=: tiyes free, might, under the provisions of
a., Fugitive Slave Law, be called upon to aid
=, catching the runaways. ---