The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-06-12

In direct contradiction to the statements
of Col. KANE, are those of Mr.. HENNEsY,
who arrived at St. Joseph on the 7th inst,
% days out from Salt Lake City, as We learn
from the St. Joseph Journal. Mr.. H. left
Salt Lake on the 10th of May, and states
that Bs1cnAx YouSc was making every ef-
fort for a vigorous resistance. Gov. Cux-
MING had entered the city, but had not been
recognized as Governor by the authorities
but was driven from the city. BRIGHAM has
three tribes of Indians under arms and
quartered in the city. That, with Mormons
and Indians combined, there are 10000 men
in Utah. Mr.. Fl. says that BRIGHAM is con-
fident that Uncle Sam cannot send men
enough across the plains to whip him out.
He reports the men at Camp Scott in de-
plorable condition-almost without food OF
raiment. Col. JOHNSTON contemplated max
ing an attempt to enter Salt Lake City, at all
hazards, unless .uccor reached him soon.-
Mr.. II. met tho advance guard of the army
about 500 miles this side of Camp Scott.
He delivered two letters to the Commander
of this force, from Col. JOHNSTON, where
upon, the forces under command Of the for
mer, Immediately began to make forced
marches.
It will be seen that the statements of Mr..
HESNEsY differ materially from those made
by Col. KANE. Now, which are we to depend
upon? Both statements cannot be true
The former left Salt Lake on the 10th, and
the latter on the 18th Of May. This short
interval of time, surely, cannot account for
the discrepancy in their statements. We do
not think it safe to give entire credence to
either account-from the fact, that one Of
the parties is undoubtedly in the interest of
the Mormons, and the other NAV or may
not be in the interest of the greedy stock
jobbers that are now fattening upon Gov.
eminent spoils. When official accounts
confirm the statements of either of these
parties, then, and not till then, shall we ad-
NIT their entire truthfulness. All reports
brought by parties not officially in the inter-
terest Of the Government, should be taken
with great degree Of allowance, for SIMS
ter and ulterior purposes. We await furth-
er intelligence from the s'Seat Of War;"
with considerable anxiety.
The Chicago Tribune, speaking of the
news from Salt Lake, relative to the surren-
der, by BRIGHAM You've, of the Gubernatorial
functions, to Gov. CUNNING, says that SO
ends, if we are correctly informed, another
exhibition of the American Eagle. Here
we reach another result of our training and
genius, civil and military. A few carloads
Of gold, perhaps, hundred lives, certainly
a liberal expenditure of Saxon strength in
the Arctic blasts Of Rocky Mountain win
ter, little world of correspondence, bulle-
tins, dispatches, proclamations and protocols
and all for what? Will anybody tell US :?
In general way We understand that the
inhabitants Of Utah were in state of rebel
lion against Federal authority, and that the
only way left open to the central Government
was to reduce them by force of arms. But
the late nor the present Administration has
given Congress or the country the specific
acts which required this waste of treasure
and this burlesque of war;. With liber-
atty and ease, which may possibly have
been admissible under the circumstances,
but which are wholly unsafe for precedent,
Congress has allowed the Utah invasion to
60 on, rs though it were matter of course.
II it was war, and there seems little doubt
it was Intended to be, Congress did not de-
clare it. It seems to have been foray on
the individual responsibility Of the President.
The Constitution confers upon Congress the
exclusive right of making war, and limits
the functions Of the President to carrying it
on after it is regularly declared, and to ma
king peace, with the advice and consent of
the Senate, after it is finished. In the gen.
eral botching of Utah affairs, we have a
direct reversal not only of all our war pre-
cedents but an Infringement of the Constitu-
ton itself. If it is alleged that this was
not war, VIC reply that it differed from one
in nothing but blood spilling, which was
avoided by the enemy's failure to shed his
portion of it. Was it not known that the
crazy mouthings of BRrGHAx You've and
ORsoN HYDE would end in this ridiculous
6zsle Then why commence squandering
four millions of dollars in new regiments,
to complete what was already foredoomed !?
"The whole Titan business should become
a matter for Congressional inquiry. Let it
be demanded BY the Representatives of the
People whether the exigencies Of affairs in
that Territory called for the prodigal waste
which has attended the expedition-whethe
the measures which civilized nations exhaust
before resorting to the arbitrament of the
sword, have been oil tried and found want
ing. Let them require to know why they
were not consulted in the grave premises of
. war against Territory of the United
States. Let them insist upon the reasons
for marching twenty. five hundred brave men
into the jaws Of IN Alpine winter. Let the
details of the gigantic expenditure involved
in delivering the Utah mountain Of its mouse,
be inquired into from first to last; and let
the American People hold the authors Of
the combined knavery and laundering to
rigid accountability. Let those who foot the
bill examine the items"
e. The receipts atthe New York Gus
tom House in April were smaller than gen.
orally estimated, and render it tolernbly GER
tain that the receipts for the whole year will |
rot exceed 81, 000, 900, two million less |
han the -estimatc,, and fourteen millions less
han lastyear, and limiting the total receipts I
Il the Government 70 about forgive mil
ions. -s ....s
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