The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-02
you the requisite information touching the condi-

variably fed and clothed them, and treated then
with the utmost forbearance, in proper considera
tion for their degraded condition, if do not turr
out and safely, and without charge escort to thei
destination those through who have cheated
and then poisoned and wantonly slain untutoreC
savages, lying and corrupt presses throughout the
! Union will send forth against united and pro
longed howl of base SANDER and false accusations
charging upon all the murders and massacres Oc
curing between the Missouri river and the Sierra
Nevada Mountains, with the sole intent to excite
to frenzy a spirit for determination.
However much we may be disposed to deplore that
savage usage which wreaks ndiscrimnate ven
geance we still more deeply deprecate that double
dyed viany of iendish editors and their lie-oving
readers who willuly suppress andfasely color facts
and subvert truths for the sole purpose of raising an
unhalowed hue and Cry against an innocent people.
for those editors and readers have been better taught
and suggest that if all such characters would organ
ize themselves into patroling Vigilence Committees
for the purpose of restraining the cruel and oura-
geous conduct of a portion of the annual passing
emigration, they would soon learn that the Indians
are far ottener, If not always, when difference of
education and habits is included, ''more snned
against than sinning;" that the most torbearing will
not forever patiently endure continued TRADE of
unjust threats, abuse and vituperation; that kind
ness is much more winning than severity and that
the inhabitants of Utah, as ever, are at home noise
lessly pursuing their peaceful avocaons and strug
Cling to mete out eyen-handed Justice to ALL irres
pectlve OF creed or party.
But, however Government may neglect, and how
ever enemies may rage and falsely accuse, the cx-
perence derived from long observation of the year
ly Improvement in some of the most degraded In
dian tribes upon the Continent, strongly prompts
me to again recommend the continuance of that hu-
name policy so uniformly pursued by L tab toward
her wild denzens, gradually leading them like chill
dren in the rudments of civilization, which has so
often resulted and will result in saving lives
that would otherwise have been and otherwise will
be destroyed and which my judgment dictates to
me the wisest, most humane and cheapest pol
icy that can yet be adopted.
You are already aware that upon examining the
bids for carrying the mail the route betwee this
city and independence, Mo-, in the fall of 1856, the
contract for that route was awarded to Mr.. Hiram
kimball, citizen of this Territory, in compliance
with a rule requiring the acceptance Of the lowest
responsible bid. Y ou are also aware that the
quiste service began to be put upon that route so
early as February last, upon the first unofficial in
timation of the acceptance of the bid and several
weeks before the arrival of official notification. the
letter containing that notification having wintered
at the Devils Gate, in of mail conductor in
the employ of the former contractor.
SO soon as that notification came to hand. ar
rangements were entered into for the services ofthe
requisite number Of trusty and efficient men to
transport the mail and select station points at CON
venent distances, and erect suitable buildings and
provide grain and forage thereat animals and We
hices were rapidly forwarded throughout the whole
length of the route, and with such liberality and
energy were these proceedings conducted that in
stead of occupying and often exceeding the sched-
ule time OF thirty days. as nau heretofore been the
custom in the most favorable seasons of the year.
the trips performed in less and still lessen
ing number, until Mr.. John r. Murdock and Com
pany took the July mail through in the unprecedcn-
ted short time of fifteen travelling days, with every
prospect for even that brief period being still urtf
er shortened
This prompt. safe and reliable service, attained
by the expenditure of upward Of Sl25 900 in few
months, was well understood in the Post-otce De
partment i'll Washington, but instead of even max
ing punctua quarterly payments at the low contract
rate OF S23,00O year, and extending every legal
facility and encouragement in their power to the
contractor, that Department, taking unjust and
| altogether unwarrantable advantage of a clause
wisely designed for the protection of public rights
tyranically disannulled the contract, alleging as
cause for such outrageous usurpatiOn, naught but
! failure in commencing the service at the time re
| CURED when they well knew that service was nut
upon the route weeks before the arrival of the ac-
| ceptance of the bid, unduly detained through the
fault of their pet contractor and bOstcrinr that al
legation with the false and slanderous assertion.
the unsettled state of things ut Salt Lake render
ceg - VI ''''
To all human appearance euoh oontlvot could only
have been actuateu Dy tue Ge design IT. p t rrit
Utah from receiving a single dollar of public money
for the performance of public service honoraby con
tracted for, even though that service were perform
ed in praiseworthy manner hitherto meXamplcd,
and to deprive us, If possible, from becoming ac-
quainted with the exterminating plans concocted in
Washington against themOst loyal Territory known
since the days of the Revolution Would they have
dared to thus treat any State or any ether Terrific
ry, to have suggested such treatment. .
Every one knows that they would not. What is
obviously the only inference to be drawn from such
tyrannical usage by so important Department OF
the General Government? That deep-settled and
predetermined plan has been agreed upon to de
prive of every vestige of constitutional rights
for that usage accords only with the cry constantly
reiterated throughout the States ''Destroy the in
habitants of Utah. thereby compelling a numerous
portion of the citizens of our boasted Republic to
fall back upon the indefeasible right of elfdefence
and adopted lawful measures for their own protec-
ton,
1t is a matter of deep regret that officers of a
Government, founded at great a sacrifice by
our forefathers upon "a land choice above all other
lands" have become sunken in degradation as
to have utterly lost sight of those pure and lust
principles embodied in the Constitution, and pre-
fer in the mad pursuit of low, grOveling and sell
! fish aims to adopt and carry out that suicidal poll
! cy persistence in which can but end in rendng
| to pieces nation that otherwise might become the
/ happiest and most powerful on the globe. Reck-
less otice-holders and office seekers have their poi
soned fangs deeply buried in the vitals of the
body polite and are so thoroughly organized and
drilled in the defence and attack of the spos while
the tradesmen, the mechanics the husbandmen and
the humble laborers-the real virtue and sound in
telligence of the Republican, so busily occupied
in their daily toll and except here and there few
are little aware of the dire potent of the future
and of the measures necessary for insuring public
tranquility that it is discouraging task to attempt
arresting the turbid current of official corruption
that would sweep every vestige of truth virtue anC
human rights from our unhappy country; but the
crimsOned satellites of plunder, oppression anC
usurpaton, may rest assured that every friend o
liberty will resist their destructive progress anC
stand fast by the Constitution and all laws conform
| able Herewith.
True all human instituted governments contain
more less of the weakness pertaining to imperfec
tion, and to this law our Government is by means
an exception; still am not acquainted with any
man-made form of government in which are sown S(
few of the seeds of its dissolution. Lovers o
Justice, as were the Revolutionary patriots endowed
as they were in their deliberations and acts with
goodly portion of that wisdom which cometh from
above, and welding an influence seldom attained by
! so small number, vet they unable to devils,
| a republican form of government, without svsten
of checks and balances dividing the federative DOW
er into three distinct branches, cOntrOllabe onl,
bv the will of the sovereign people.
Their former experience makes it n matter of NJ
surprise that in their deliberations and acts the
leaned so strongly to the side of the largest deore
of individual freedom, nor, having suffered so sore
under the cruel rod of religion established bv secu
lar power, that they SO clearly and strenuousl
guarded and guaranteed the widest scope to free
dom of conscience and consequent right of worshi
in accordance Herewith. But with the sound Jude
ment and experience possessed by those great state
men, it is only another evidence of the weakness il
cident to humanity, even when acting under tn
best of motives that after having so long groane
under the bitter oppression of British colonial rul
and successfully struggled for the establishment
the inherent right of each and all to :" Iii
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" with tn
positive guaranty that every one should be priv
; ieged with and protected in the blessings flow
ing from republican form of government, who's
, characteristic consists solely in the well define
: and well understood fact that the rulers and law
shall proceed only from the election and consent
the governed they should in April, l784, pass Res
olutions, and in July, 1877, over two months prev
Gus to the adoption of the Constitution, pass an O
dinance specially legislating for American citizen
, residing on public domain directly contrary
the very genius of the Articles of Confederate
by which they had mutually pledged each otl
er they would be guided And that very lee
islation, contrary as it was to the authorities an
2 limitations of the articles of Confederation e,
isting at the time of the passage of the eel
brated Ordinance of '87 and to those of the Coz
sttution adopted in the same year, as well as to IL
great truth embodied in the Declaration of Indepe