Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-06-20
The Mormon Difficulties.

The Washington correspondent OF the 1rdr-
eHer thus writes concerning the difficulties that
present themselves in the adjustment of affairs
in Utah -
Judges Drumnond and Stiles, and Gen. Burr,
Marshal of Utah, have called upon the Prcs-
dent and Secretary of the Interior, and have
given the most hcart-rending statements of the
Mormon mode of applying the principles of
squatter sovereignty. Mr. Buchanan laughed
dryly when he heard these dismal tales because
they were simply new versions of the doings
of Border Rullians in Kansas Popular SOW
erigniy and selfgovcrnment have "workcd"
exactly i'll the same way in both territories.-
The Mormans lave copied their rulTan exem-
plars of Kansas in all things, save in robbery
and arson. They have turned their attention
To robbery, and have nearly come up to the
the standard of their original. The similarity,
or rather the almost perfect indemnity, Of those
fellow disciples of the new political school, is
quite in accordance with the eternal fitness of
things, for the Mormons as well as the Ruff
flians are Democrats and shareholders.
The ex.Judges and Marshal endured every
thing with phllosophic fortude until their own
craft was touched then, like Alexander the
coppersmith they cried aloud for the Union
and the Constitution. For when Alexander
beloved, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians,"
he meant "IIurrah for the Union and the Con-
stitution," and damn the Abolitonists,"
though his modesty led him TO adopt circuit.
Gus expressions. The Mormons and ruflians
have more brass than the coppersmith, and
use the direct words which Alexander avoids
The act of the squattcr sovereign Legislature
creating territorial courts of Utah, is copied
from one of the ruifan acts of Kansas. The
Saints very reasonably supposed they had per-
feet right to do what Pierce, Buchanan, Walk
err and Stanton so warmly approve in others
The very courts appointed by ruilian law in
Kansas are now contending with those of the
United States. The contest, however, is a
friendly one, for there can be no differences, as
there is no difference, between Lecompte and
the ruflians.
Ex-Judge Drummond, who wishes to be Gov
crnor Of the Mormons, has been getting of the
most humorous stories of their immortality and
rascality in general; but the ex-Judge, being
put on his purgation, has been pronounced an
incompetent witness, being himself liable TO the
like neshly cravings, and very little attention
is paid to what he says. Yet nobody doubts
that the Mormons are generally the greatest
scoundrels yet unhanged, always excepting
their prototypes and exemplars in Kansas, in
whom they find warrant for all their villain
les.
The difficulty is how TO get at them. Be
ing Democrats and shareholders, many South
ern politicians wish to see them tenderly dealt
with. Under the principles of the Nebraska
bill they cannot be touched, for the whole ag-
glomeraied and concentrated social and politi-
cal corruption which constitutes their domestic
and civil policy. is the fruit and harvest of that
Infamous act But number OF the mos
bloody and brutal organs Of the southern de
mocracy have no difficulty at all in the case
Don't touch their domestic policy, say these
amable casnsts, but call them all traitors in
lump, and hang them and shoot them BY hun
dreds. This is excellent doctrine. There il
nothing in the Nebraska bill ''agin'' that, any
more than there is against slavery and poyga-
my. But this is slavery's panacea, and vii
be administered in all cases where it shall hav,
the power.
The three thousand troops about to be sen
TO Utah will probably remain there OILY few
weeks. The Mormons have no idea Of con
tending agains, military force. They will CONF
down when they see U. 5. bayonets, as quick
ly as the coon did to Capt Scott, or the Bal
timore "Americans" when they saw the ma
lines. Brigham Young, with his wives an,
principal elders, will take early occasion 10 ru
away, and will find refuge in British Amcri
ca. The majority of the prophets follower
are now Englishmcn, and ii is proper cnong
that thew should return to the protection of thei
own government, since our own democratic ad
ministration has resolved to violate its pledge
and forbids their regulating their domestic il
situ6ons in their own way, as promised in til
Nebraska bill.