Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-16
The Utah Difficulties Settled.

The country will hear with much satisfaction that
the wise policy of President Buchanan with refer
euce to the Mormons has been crowned with success
and that the difficulties with that misguided people,
which at one time threatened to result in bloodshed
are about to be, or have been terminated. On the
9Th of April last the President issued Proclama-
ton to the people of Utah, setting forth briefly their
history and their acts of rebellion against federal
thority, and in which he warned them that their per-
sistance in treason would bring them to "condign
punishment, to ruin, and to shame" In this Proc.
lamation, among other things, the President says:
off you have calculated upon the forbearancc of
the United States-if you have permitted yourselves
to suppose that this Government will fail to put forth
its strength and bring you to submssion-you have
fallen into grave mistake You have settled upon
territory which lies geographically in the heart Of
the Union. The land you live upon purchased
by the United States and paid for of their treas
ury The proprietary right and title to it is in them,
and not in you. Utah is bounded on every side by
States and Territories, whose people true the
Union 1t is absurd to believe that they will or
can permit you to erect in their very midst Gov
eminent of your own, not only independent of the
authority which they all acknowledge, but hostile to
them and their interests.
Do not deceive yourselves nor try to mislead 9TH
ers by propagatng the idea that this is crusade
against your religion. The Constitution and laws
of this country can take no notice of your creed,
whether it be true or false. That is question be-
tween your God and yourselves, in which disclam
all right to interfere. If you obey the laws, keep
the peace and respect the just rights of Others you
will be perfectly secure and may live on in your
present faith change it for another at your plea
sure. Every intelligent man among you knows very
well that this Government has never directly in
directly sought to modest you in your worship, to
control you in your ecclesiastical affairs, even to
influence you in your religious opinions.
This rebellion is not merely a violation of your
legal Duty it is without just cause without reason,
without excuse. You never made a complaint that
was not listened 20 with patience. You never ex-
hibited real grievance that was not redressed as
promptly as it could be. The laws and regulations
enacted for your government by Congress, have
been equal and just, and their enforcement was
manfestly necessary for your own welfare aud hap
piness. You have never asked their repeal. They
are similar in every material respect to the laws
which haze been passed for the other Territories of
the Union, and which everywhere else with one
partial exception) have been cheerfully obeyed. No
people ever lived who were freer from unneces-
sary legal restraints than you. Human wisdom
never devised political system which bestowed
more blessings or imposed lighter burdens than the
government of the United States in its operations
upon the Territories
So long, says the Washington Union, as the
-~'S>S sShs
Mormons, they did not scruple to commit any act of
rebellion and war. Indeed, by unanimous vote of
their legislature, these deluded people adopted an
address to Congress- reasonable and disrespect-
iul that it was treated with the greatest indignity
oy that body. Whilst General Johnston's little
command seemed to be beyond the reach of succor
OF support, nothing but vengeance was breathed
from the tabernacle of the Mormon Prophet; bot no
sooner had the ample preparations been made to
march crushing and overwhelming force to the
o'y OF the Saints than change was obvious in the
aemeanor of the Mormons. Day by day their reso.
luton grew fainter until the banners of our advan
eng columns had scarcely been fairly unfured to
TIE winds of the prairies, before Brigham Young
and his dupes fairly :" cut and rum" The sixty
thousand saints sungly ensconced in the centre of
inaccessible mountains, and an almost trackess de.
sert with their ten thousand disciplined troops,
naVe succumbed to the majesty of the law, backed
W Inc army, and enforced by the firm resolution Of
Tue PRESIDENT. The wisdom of this policy is fully
'"ocated, and the thorough preparation for entor.
''"g submission has proved most judicions plan Of
wise economy.
we give below the special Message of the Presi.
dent to Congress announcing the settlement Of
these difficulties
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
10 the Senate and House Of Representatives.:
transmit the copy of despatch from Gov. Cum.
ming to the Secretary of State dated at Great Sail
City, on the I'd Of May, and received at the Depart.
eht OF State yesterday. From this there is reason
believe that our difficulties with the Territory q
o!ah have terminated. and }he reign Of the Con.
sulut,on and the, laws has bfen restored con.