The Washington union., 1857-05-27
WHAT ELSE COULD BE EXPECTED,

We notice that several republican Journals AZ.
complaining that the restraints which formerly prevail
ed in society and kept individuals within the line of
propriety. have given way, and feeling Of awless
and disrespectfor the laws and the authorite,
who administer them is becoming alarmingly mani.
tested This is the natural fruit Of srepublicanism
That party commenced its career by crusade
against the constitution of the United States and b
laws enacted under it. Its press has devoted ia
columns to denouncing the compromises of the con-
stituton, and securing resistance to the laws con.
templated in, and sanctioned by, that noble instru.
ment. Courts and officers of justice fulfilling tbe
duty of administering such laws have been stigma
tized monsters in human shape, who were unfit
for their stations, association with civilized so
ciety. To these considerations may add that this
same party has been the author of so much reckless
legislation that the Judiciary have been much occu
pied in considering and preventing that which was
unconstitutional from being enforced, and thus con
trolling the destinies of the people. This party il
now engaged, with all its energy, in seeking to
overthrow the adjudications Of our highest ti
bunas, and bring them into contempt and in en-
forcing laws almost universally conceded to be
The state of things complained of naturally flows
from this course of policy. The republicans" are
the authors of the consequences of which they
complain. They labor at prostrating the bulwarks
which protect society and then complain at their tot
tering condition. They seek to overthrow the cons-
tuition and laws, and to cover with obloquy their law
ful expounders and defenders and then express their
asonishment and regret that their influence is dimin
ishng and hardly felt. The cause and the conse
quences too palpabe to be subject to doubt The
remedy rests with that party. Let them give over
their crusade against institutions, constitution
and laws, and the ministers of justice and teach their
followers to respect and protect them If they fail
to do this, they only expect that the public dis
eases of which they complain viii increase and end
in the most fatal consequences and they ought to DO
held responsible for the result
The following is an extract from sermon deliver
ed on the llth of March by Elder Orson Hyde, and
published in the Deseret News:
I no man or woman among us, not of faith, that
behaves himself and violates not laws and regulations
has any occasion to fear molesaon But II he or she do
violate them and will not desist Tcaaaa roueh for his
slfay, member of church or not sea,sr can insure
tfs house 10 stand.
The following is from the New York Tribune Of
May goth, edited by Elder Horace Greeley:
Ihe city Of New York is in state Of anarchy and in
danger at any moment of conagraton and rapine Not
only the police act but all laws and ordinances are
set at defiance and nothing stands between the honest
man and the knife of the assassin-between his ware
house and the torch of the incendary the vague i'm
preston that the first overt act of unusual magnitude
s1oad b t sgHsi fer rgianoe oonnes purge the marO
hs, sza s Cy HaH 10 Harlem rireT according 10 the bay
and ncIrIisss cod, rscssly 1seaaod San Francisco
Both these pious elders (says the Albany Argus)
refrain from saying they win violate the law But
they point to the lives and property of citizens
one side and the mob headed by the banded Danes
or secretiy-sworn vigilance committee on the
other and they leave the objects of the threats to
draw their own conclusions
But the meaning of this language is in both cases
an incitement to Illegal conspiracy, to mob usurpa-
ton and murder; and the authors knew it at the time
and resored to it in order to excite the fears Of the
tmid, as prelude to the reign of terror at which
they aim.