New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-25
We entreat. therefore, for the sake Of harmony in
our ranks, that il be not made.

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be found for attacking them, has been assembled
there, and is now detained there only by the total
disregard and neglect other very imperative militia
~ duties. loud cry has resounded from one end Of
the country to the other for a military force to be
sent to Utah sufficient to maintain in that Terrific
ry some show at least Of respect for the laws OF
the United States and the authority Of the Federal
Courts. A body Of troops has been called for such
as might give to the inhabitants Of that Territory,
or to such Of them as may be disposed to make the
trial, some chance of raising and testing the qres-
ton whether the common law and the statutes OF
the United States are in force there, or only the
Book Of Mormon and the sermons, letters and de-
crees of Joe Smith and Brigham Young. Great
satisfaction was expressed throughout the country
by journals of every shade Of politics, at the deter
mnatiOn evinced by the President to bring that
question to the test, and all loudly applauded the
preparations made with that view, as it was sup
posed, by the War Department.
The necessity, however, of enforcing the Border
Rufian code of Kansas, and Of preventing the IN
habitants of Lawrence and other Free-State towns
of that Territory from enjoying the advantages OF
municipal institutions agreed upon by Themselves,
instead of submitting to accept charters and local
administration at the hands Of invaders from Nils
souri has appeared to the Administration at Wash
iogton of vastly more importance than the recognl
ton of the United States authority in Utah. In
stead of marching to Utah to enable the Federal
Judges to bold their Courts, the military force
originally destined for that purpose, and fitted out
at very great expense, is now detained IN Kansas
for the purpose of preventing the people of Law
renee from eecting a Mayor The laws of the
United States, and every principle of common
Justice and common decency may be trampled
under foot in Utah, and almost every Federal
official in the Territory, Brigham Young
excepted, be compelled to fly from it, as
the fugitives allege, for fear of their
lives; the United States Courts may be shut
up, and all the public lands Of the Territory may
be appropriated to suit the views and the interests
of the Mormon Church and the Mormon leaders;
and all this is to be suffered to 60 on from year to
year. growing up into sort Of common law for
the Territory, while it s judged necessary to keep
an army of two or three thousand men in Kansas
to prevent the people of Lawrence from adopting
municipal regulations by common consent, and to
put down the atrOcious treason and rebellion on
their part of organizing Board Of Aldermen and
making bylaws for the good government of the
town.
But it is not alone from Utah that troops are
drawn away for the purpose of frightening and har-
assiDg the Free-State men of Kansas, and dragoon'
ing them into submission to Border Rufianism,
Gov. Walker and a slavebOldiDg Constitution. The
Free State people, and for that matter the whole
population of the Territory of Minnesota, are at
this time severe sufferers from the same cause.
Every body has read in the newspapers accounts OF
the Indian murders and depredations of which
Minnesota was lately the scene The history Of
those outrages was simply this: They were not
committed by any of the Indian bands with whom
the United States have treaties and regular rela-
tons but by a. robber chief, one Ink-pa du tab,
who. at the head of band Of some forty persons,
has long lived the life of an outlaw, disowned by
the Indians and sustaining himself by robbiug them
as we'll as the whites. 1t was by him aud his band
that the recent murders were committed at Spirit
Lake. and several women carried off captive
The murderers expected to be Instantly
pursued and brought to account by the United
States authorities. Of course they fed, and their
chief took the precaution to send of his women
to some distant tribe with which be had some con-
nection But the grave and Overrupg necessity of
putting stop to the formation of local municipal
governments in Kansas has been thought BY the
War Department much more pressing matter
than the pursuit and punishment Of Indian outlaws
and murderers in Minnesota. Border Ruifanism in
Kansas must be sustained at all hazards, even
though the settlers of Minnesota, who, being
mostly Free-State men, are not of much account at
Washington, should all be murdered in their beds.
The United States troops hitherto stationed in
MinDesots, instead of being employed to pursue and
punish the Indian murderers, have been drawn off
to be placed under Walkers orders in Kansas;
while the Government has resOrted to the miserable
expedient of trying to ransom the female captives
This shameful abandonment Of the people of
Minnesota has had its natural effect. The rob.
Der chief, Of course, supposes as the Indians
always do in such cases, that the only reason why
he is not pursued and punished lie, that either the
United States are afraid Of him, or else that they
have not the means. Nor is this opinion confined
to the band by which the murders were committed;
it is beginning to spread among all the Indian tribes
Of the Territory, who are numerous, and who,
ceasng to regard Ink a-dutah as a robber and
outlaw, as hitherto are beginning to recognize him
az great brave, the terror Of the white man.
new Pontiac OF Tecumseh This agitation among
the Indians produces, Of cOurse, not little aglra-
ton al d alarm among the people Of the Territory,
r,.r, ,.h;ch xvb;ls tbus threatened with an Indian