The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-15
FROM UTAH,

FROM UTAH.
from QUIZ SPECIAL CORRESP ONDENT.
We received yesterday from onr special correspondent
at Camp Scott three letters respectively the Sth
2lst and 18th of April although the latest news from
Utah brings down advices to the Sth of Nav these
tiers enter so largely into the morale of the army and con
tam such graphic descriptions of the scenery and pheno
ena of the Great Central Desert that apart from the
transpirng in Utah. they will be found not Aess interest
ing than instructive Though differ in some points
from the opinions expressed by the author we therefore
puDsh them not the iatest news from Utah but as
incidents in the Utah campaign which deserve to be re.
corded-EDs. DAILY EXCHANGE
CAMP ScoTT, Z. T. April s, 1858
Not many the events which occur within this bar
rem region although during the last six months it had re-
sounded with the STIR the stray musketry and the
soha booming ofarery oftwo thousand men, This
Der OF men includes ateamsters and camp followers
well as combatans of which latter could perhaps
scrdPed together some fourteen hundred The original
NUMBER intended for this expedition would probably have
been very nearly realized had not been for the
binary extent to which deserton has been carried
tle expedition was decided upon We hazard but little
IN saying that at least six hundred men, and probably
nave deserted from the corps comprising the army
OF tan since the intention first announced from the
War Department of setting such army foot. The
solemn moral and patriotic sanctions attending obga
uoh 10 serve the country five years soldier
have lost their force. The who enlist nowadays
chiefly foreigners tfor few Americans willing to min
gle with foreigners avoCaton) to regard the
sanctions of an enlistment oath matter tempo
rafy convenience which is to be observed Just long as it
suits their interests and no longer The little care and at
tenton which paid to this crime the part the GOV
eminent only to confirm soldiers in this view of
ms oath Heruns away almost with impunity. So ten
der has the democratic sentiment the and coup
try become that the extreme penalty prescribed for dcser
uo IN time of peace fifty ashes and is seldom Wis
tied upon the delinquent he should be caught
tried The government has appealed nobler sense
OF the soldier by increasing his pay that while it
equal to and even supasses that of the agricultural labor
er many parts of the country it is than double
that of any other soldier in the world Besides this on all
extraordinary occasions, he may expect handsome graft
fcation in land His of service short and the
of intellectual culture always placed within his
reach If then such advantages these fail to awaken
in him manly feeling of selrrespect and patriotism
other means should be rcsOrtcd to- the seventies of the
law should be increased and vigilance exercised in
their execution. The who breaks his oath democrat
ICES himself and adds thus much towards the demoraza
ton of society
1t might perhaps he well to substitute a system of
CONSUMPTION instead of voluntary enlistment and admit
none except American citizens in place of receiving as
the first unnaturazed alien who presents himself
i'll the streets Many, very many. of the men whom we
now enlist would never ereceved into the military ranks
of the nations of Europe. Some of them. indeed are
such as those nations would be glad to get rid
their prisons and in fact the prison the pencntiay
Is the proper place for them whenever they desert
Such should be the dsgracefu penalty of dsgracefu
crime.
Much might be effected by the Government by means of
judicious measures, towards the prevention crime
Care in the selection recruits accepting none except
such as show parentage of responsible character
geher with system of depot instruction. moral and in
eecual well physical received amidst the sabler
and better influences of old established socetv would
only inspire the youth with resrcct for himself and
his profession but would the respect of that
loose population of where In
serve and where in fact he can serve well only Inv bep,,
man of character. There is nothing prevent the ad0T
ton of such measures these, unless it is that the pO
cal deprNty of the times renders all public
utility of but little interest or importance.
is spectacle of melancholy interest to nation
so young as in downward career towards hrbarsm
from comparatively high order of morality and civza
ton The revolutionary novelty indifference and ncon
gruity of ideas prevailing among people; the want
of confidence which they exhibit in each other the loose
ness disorder rregularity and lavish expenditure
ing the operations of the government the low order
enS of many of late years who elevated
positions; the brutal indifference and perfunctorv ftcss
ness of officials the rewarding with place and honors
low and bare actions rendered partisan service the sy
tcmatc and deliberate Infringing of the notions of
the people with the view them to the re
yaence of an immoral idea the confOunding political
majortes with moral right and the kinds of
Voeces to gain these mortes; the prevalence of horrd
crimes and the increasing extension of cunning ignor
and brutazaOnal these traits and more which we
now exhibit those which characterised the nations of
Europe when after their long babarous slumber thou
sand years. they began to emerge into civil order and fixed
national character To such extent have we already
rerogaded and it would have been interesting too to
philosophical mind, in such state of society this
to see how long such sect Mormonsm is could exist
when left alone to ITSELF 1t would he curious to watch
the of body polite whose muscles and sinews con
sst OF socialism, and whose principle of life is
ciaOnto how long such could live when the
venom of its fangs had fully entered own
For unlike secret societies elsewhere in one respect
one, women included, is member, and under the usual
barbarous obligation to secrecy having the bowels ripped
Open the tongue cut ont &c In other norts of the wild
mosons are nrevent tod fro,, corrn,,t;,,r a. a.,
tv NV LARGE ,Joss con s;st;,, 81 - ~ -. w. :,
men women CotboIics and On ars VI ,n h NJ
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n,itigated masonry Of Normonisn, co,II ,ssiI H.; &c
rnrnisinr some evidence Of tha .,raoter ar 1os
influence of masonry in all civilized comn1unit;es II =
our opinion that If we had left Mononism ,lono ono aar
longer it wond have died from its own noison for tbc
horrrn TO exist excent Inv nrevino mon ~ rits ana in;
tcrests of outsiders
Rut unfortunately for such pbilosophcol observation
the desert Utah with hardly peopI cnourh for Meth
odis meeting, into an organized territory
with the view Wrestling from the free Influences of
Mexican law and thus gave Normonis SIN sometime ia rc
sis i'm the shane of United States authority somrthn to
prey upon besides itself Had IL not been for h il
would long ere now have fallen to neccs lilo ne in c
case of some other institutions rnsis+ancn or
nroD In hold II nm ' - "
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