The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-12-05
The Tenderness Of the Administr ation to.
wards the Mormons

The marked difference of spirit mani
tested By the Administration towards the
nor;aous from that which has ben exibi.
ted towards the people 81 Kansas, must
have been remarked by til. most carless
observer.
From the first, the Mormons have been
treated with the most distinguished
consideration; !" they have been allowed
to do precisely as they pleased, even
when 1t pleased trampled aud burn the
records of tie Feder,.. i,arts. or 10 cx-
crcise their popular sovereignty" in the
murder OF score or more of American
citizens who did not happen to be of the
Mormon faith If demonstrated with at
all, the Administration has spoken to them
In the gsallest tones, and handled them.
as contemporary expresses it, with the
softest kind of kid gloves. Even after
oil these evidences of contumacy and
treason, the Administration affected to
believe that they did OF mean ANYTHING
by 1t. And now when there can be no
question that three Government trains
belonging to the Utah expedition has
been destroyed by detaehments of the
Mormon army, Dir. Buchanan and his
Cabinet hold a pleasant little consultation
over the news, and conclude that BRIG.
ham Young will not proceed to extremi-
ties!
How different the attitude of the Ad.
ninistration towards the people of Kan
sas From the beginning they asked
nothing but law and right, yet both have
been trampled down by the iron heel of
the Government. TO say nothing about
the chapter of outrages that were perpe-
trated under the administration of Mr..
Pierce; we may note that one of the first
acts OF Mr. buchanan on coming into
power was to send well appointed army
into Kansas to compel obedience to the
oppressive laws enacted by his ruflian
legislatures All summer Lawrance was
IN state of siege, with the ostensib!e
object OF preventing the citizens of that
place from carrying out few municipal
regulations. And when the people had
been exasperated by series of wholesale
frauds upon their rights as citizens. and
1t was feared that the preparation of the
GROWING fraud of the formation Of Con-
stltutlon by the bogus Convention might
be interiered with by those who alone
had the right to say what should be the
character Of the organic law under which
they must live, this precious BODY of
seoundrels was surrounded by a cohort of
Federal troops to protect them in their
nefarious work.
And now this Partially of the Admin
istrat'on for the Mormops, and its gross
injustice towards the people Of Kansas
are being brought into judgement BY its
own acts. The Utah expedition, weak
ened and delayed by the withdrawal of
about one-half of its forces, who were or
dered to remain behind to overawe the
people Of Kansas has peen beset by Nor
mon traitors, and its object is sure to be
defeated, If, contrary to present indica-
ttons, the troops should not share the
tate OF their provisions. In tho best
view Of the case, several millions of doll.
ars will have been lost to the Government.
and new and most costly EXPEDITION
must be fitted out in the spring to ac-
complish what, but for the unjust conrse
OF the Administration towards the people
Of Kansas might have been ere now ef-
fentad X