The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-08
REBELLION COMPLAINS OF BAD FAITH.

The New York Times of Monday last contains
card of Mr. Bernhisel the Mormon delegate in Com
gress, in which he charges gross breach of faith
upon the President in having as he substantially
alleges, caoled the Mormon leaders into surrender
of their defences an abandonment of their offensive
preparations, and withdrawal from Salt Lake City
and yet in pushing on the army IN violation OF
pledges made through Dr. Kane, to tho occupation
of the city, and to the complete military occupation
of the Territory.
The Times vouchsafes to accompany the card of the
Mormon delegate with aseries Of puerile structures
in which it propounds to absurd interroga-
tories:
DR.. Bernhisel now states--what was, in general
way, already known-hat DR. Kane made his appearance
among the Mormons as secret but accredited commits
sioner from the President and that he carried his be-
half of his and the nations good WILL and
Invitation to welcome peace and free intercourse again
ch orgafulae Of all past offences We have been inform
Cd Also but vouch for the truth of the state
ment that DR.. Kane informed the Momons in the
of the President that the advance of the army not
against the Mormons but for the sole purpose of calming
he public mind and establishing military post somewhere
In the Territory DIR. Bernhisel states that, the
strength Of these tho Mormon troops already
on the march against the United States forces with
drawn and preparations which had been made to cut off
their detachments abandoned And he now thinks
it very that after these assurances and the action
to which they led the army officers and the peace COM
issoners should still talk of hostile proceedings against
the Mormons.
awe do not care at present to discuss the general sub
iec but to call attention the fact that throughout this
whole affair the President to have been carrying
double ncgotiaton-Onc open, to amuse the public,
and the other secret for the despatch Of business The
peace commissioners and the army designed merely
to calm the public mind and make show OF crushing
out rebellion Tho real authority was IN the hands of
Col Kane who Quoted the uneasness of the rebels and
military preparations by which they had been alarmed
Gen Johnston looked the lion, to all the wordit
Dr. Kane mission to whisper to the Momons that twas
no such thing, but only Bottom the Weaver
This proceeding does not seem to quite in keeping
with the ordinary openness and integrity of American di
plomacy It has not been customary thus to the
public with petentious designs which secret agents
commissioned to thwart The public is entitled to know
whether Dr. Kane not public agent clothed
with authority speak and act for the President and
what were the instructions under which he acted Will
the Washington Union be good enough to enlighten
on this point T.
The Times has long ago forfeited all character for
candor or sincerity, and has no claim to respectful
consideration from any official quarter In the double
effort to ape the recklessness of the Tribune and the
respectabty of such elevated journals as the Jour-
nal Of Commerce, it has succeeded in neither afeca-
ton, but has proved itself only snob in respccta-
bility and but second-rate buffoon
From the high pretensons to political independ-
and literary superiority with which it set out
in its career, it became fanatca organ of
free4negroism as the Tribune, illustrating the
adage--facilis deseeasus auernin its rapid descent
from deep to lower deep; until it has sunk, in it's
limitations of that paper to be but common demon
alizer and dsorganizer scrupling not to make itself
All apoogist Of Mormonism, CONDUIT for the erotic
illusions of the freelovers, and ready sewer for
the discharge upon the public of all the abomina-
tons and heresies of the day.
We have no ndispostion, of our own molten and
from own information, to respond to interroga-
tories on subjects of public moment, even from the
meanest source, and we shall respond to the Times
but we shall do so in the full conviction that it has
sought information for no other purpose than to
cavil at it with captous dsingenuousness when it is
obtained and with the foregone determination to
make all the perverson and misuse of which the in
genuity of INSCRIPTIONS partsanship can suggest.
The march Of the army into Utah was for the pur-
pose of restoring the supremacy of the lawsof the
United States in that portion of the domain of the
United States and not for the purpose of making war
upon tho Mormons, or any other persons whatever,
who, as good citizens should obey the laws So far,
this object Of the President has been accomplished
without the shedding of drop of blood, and it is
hoped and believed that it will be entirely accom-
plished without single act of collision or violence
to single individual
But tho duty of maintaining and enforcing the
execution Of the laws being imperative upon the
President and his right and discretion to dispose Of
tho army as he may deem best for this purpose in
the territories of the Union being unrestricted in
divdual or sot of individuals has right to resist or
to complain Of any ALLEGATION which he may make of
the troops Of the United States in the territories so
long as II is done in the discreet execution of this
duty, and without intentional oppression violence
to their inhabitants.
SO far no candid and patriotic citizen of the
Try has found fault with the straightforward rmness
and considorate forbearance with which the Presi-
dent has treated the fragrant, blatant and defiant
rebellion in Utah. He has not marched his army
into that Territory breathing forth fire and slaughter
repelling the foul abuse and insults of the Mormon
leaders with denuncalion but he has gone with
patriotic expostuation and exhortation upon his
lips, and with the strctest orders of moderation and
forbearanco to his officers. That his friendly exhor-
tations TO submission sincere he demonstrated
to tho satisfaction Of the Mormons themselves by