The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-16

the country, is a subject of public congratulation
-
We suppose that we ought to be exceedingl
thankful at the final settlement of the Utah in
broglio; but the truth is we are not yet perfect
satisfied that the Saints disposed to yield ob'
dience to the authority they have so long defied.-
1t is not easy moreover, TO understand how exist
ing difficulties possibly be adjusted, so long a
the original cause of offence remains. Yet advice
from Utah, which are said to be trustworthy, as
sure us that all our troubles in that quarter hav
been brought to a Close and that the Saints AM
the Gentiles, have completed their negotiations
with degree of harmonious accord singularly a
variance with what was expected from peopl
fanatical to excess, and not over delicate in tn
choice of the language wherewith they have ice
accustomed to denounce the Federal authorize
in particular and the people of the United States il
general. 1t seems, however, that marked chang
has been recently visible in their department; ant
that all the fearful threats, which their leaders pub
licly swore to execute if the troops under Genera
JOHNSTON should venture within the limits of Sal
Lake City, were but many idle words ''full O
sound and fury sgnifying nothing" This Utah
affair has been exceedingly mysterious from the
very outset. The people of that territory have
been charged with a variety of offences, many OF
which are of the most sanguinary nature, and all
of which were incompatible with our ideas of a
well ordered community During the past few
years, it is well known that frequent collisions
have occurred between officers of the United States
and the followers of JOE SMITH, The au-
thorty of the Government has been repeatedly re-
sisted, and its surveying parties have been cut off
under a strong suspicion that the Mormons were
either themselves the murderers, or that they had
nstgated, and perhaps assisted the Indians TO per-
form the bloody work. But whether they have
been principals accessories to the murder of
American citizens, they have been guilty of many
outrages which yet remain lnavcnged. How then
Is 1t possible to grant to these people, and to their
still more dangerous leaders, free pardon for
the destruction of cmigrants on the plains their
close utilization with the Indian tribes; the mutila-
ton of important public records; the expulsion Of
every member of the Judiciary appointed by the
Government at Washington; their reasonable pro-
ceedings, and Interpretations for armed resistance
10 the forces sent from the States to reduce them
to obedience All these various acts render it of
doubtful utility, in our opinion to make terms
with people whom we know to be fathless, and
believe to be criminal, and whose leaders, we have
every reason to suppose still mediate reasonable
designs. Yet we told that treaty of peace has
been ratified with the Mormons, who have con-
scented to lay down their arms and to receive
peaceably, the troops which, by the latest accounts
were already on their march for Salt Lake City
inf hat Co,-, ~.
MING and the Peace Commissioners were disposed
10 yield implicit credence to the assurances given
them by BRIGHAM You've and other leading Nor
MONS General JOHNSTON still persisted in refusing
10 repose any confidence in their protestatons, or
10 relax that system of vigilance which has thus
lar proved etlectual in preserving his command
no" the perllS of secret ambush, or of open at
tack. But while General JOHNSTON believes it to
oe MS duty to act vigorously and to doubt the
sincerity of people who have already given him
out too much reason to doubt both their honesty
ana their loyalty, Governor CUMMING appears to
oe deslrous of temporizing with difficulties he
cannot overcome and to trust to the representa-
TONS made by BRIGHAM YOUNG, rather than sur
render up all hope of establishing the Federal
authority In tab. 1t is we admit no cause for
pleasant reflection on the part of the newly APP
pointed Executive and his associates, after jour-
ney of over one thousand miles across the great
Central Desert, to find the city where they eX-
pected to exercise their official functions utterly
deserted of its former inhabitants We cannot
conceive more deplorable picture than has been
given us of the Federal authorities in Utah
They are represented as occupying the whole
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against them; attended only by the Mormon
delegates from Provo, or by the truculent fel-
lows who had been left behind to guard the
property yet remaining in the city; constrained to
camp out in the midst of the deserted streets and
to speculate upon the dangers and prvations
through which they have already passed, and upon
the possibility of inducing 80 900 fanatics to sub
NIT themselves to be governed by the laws they
have so frequently denounced, administered by
officers for whom they have declared their utter
contempt and detestation. But the former inhabi-
tants of Salt Lake City will scarcely be disposed to
return at a time when General JOHNSTON is march
ing towards it. The great body of the people,
therefore, still continue at Provo, where BRIGHAM
YOUNG and the chiefs of the Mormon Hierarchy are
waiting, like Mr.. MIcAwBER for something TO
turn up If the next tidings from Utah confirm
the statements we received yesterday, if peace has
really been concluded between Governor CruNrNG
and the Peace Commissioners on the one hand and
the Mormon rulers the other; if the past crimes
of the latter have been forgiven them on condition
of their becoming more moral and submissive in
the future, fear that the expedition so vigorously
commenced, but marked in its progress by strange
fits of vigor and irresoution has been brought to
a most lame and impotent conclusion and that we
have merely scotched the snake we set out so
valiantly to kill.