The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-27


as to an ordinary military department of the couD
try, 10 enforce the laws of the United States aud
protect its emgrant citizens from Indian murder and
depredations.
The sentiment of the country without distinction
of party or section the almost unanimous utterance,
of the press, in favor of suppressng this trea
son and of bringing the traitors to justice and, al
though almost every day is of precious value for sa
wing cost and life in affording relief to gallant
troops and proper reinforcements to our brave
and accomplishing army, Congress seems as in,
different 10 the necessity of action as if the
whole affair had no more significance than holiday
parade, of contemplate squabble for some par.
tisan advantage here at home. Surely the security
of army, and of its valuable hves-surely the Su
premacy of the laws and authority OF the Union over
it's own domain, is of Importance than the alb
stractions of politicians the petty ups and downs
of partisan strife.
If the army is to be augmented by the addition Of
the four or FIVE regiments asked fora necessity
which exists if there were not Mormon iii Amor
Gait should be done promptly If Congress does
not see fit to augment the regular line, then sui
fcient volunteer force should be at authorized
to quell the insurrection. Even the bill which the
Military Committee of the Senate have required their
able chairman to report however unsuited to the
exgencies of tho country, would be better than moth
ing
1t seems to be forgotten, too, that preparations
are TO be made, and ought TO be Immediately effect
ed for at once sending out such reinforcements as
the present strength of tbs army will admit of; and
supplies to be set at in motion the vast tract
of desert wilderness, twelve hundred miles in OK
tent which has to be traversed nor is it to be for
gotten that there is not now dollar in the treasury
appropriated for these urgent and indispensable Oh,
jects. A heavy responsibility rests upon Congress
in this regard and the people will hold members to
fearful account if army should suffer dis,
aster in Utah while politicians matchmaking
here in cold debate schemes for circumventing each
other or of embarrassing tho administration in full
filling their duties TO the public service. Either
prompt measures should be taken to give efficiency
to the movements of tho army, else supplies
should be at once refused, and the order proclaimed
by Congress that the army shall be recalled AMI
Brigham Young left supreme in his hierarchy.
This, at least, is not question of democratic
or black -repnblcanof administration or opposition
triumph but question whether our gallant army
in Utah shall be victimized by politicians at home
whether the laws and authority of Congress- shall be
asserted supreme in the Territories Of the republic
whether a lbdinous hierarchy that has planted it,
self in path Of progress, and allied itself with
savage tribes shall murder our people with the same
mpunity with which they defy our authority.
AN. EXPLODED HUsIBUG ATTEMPTED TO BIZ RE
vIyED.
We had supposed that know -nothingism one
of the exploded humbugs Of the day that con.
demned, as it has been, by the American people, its
odious doctrines would never again find an open adj
vocacy on American soil; and that the so-calIed
American party defeated upon every field and driven
from all its positions, would never attempt
ganiaation Of its broken and scattered forces. II
seems however that we have been mistaken. The
know-nothngs of Kentucky have actually called
convention to meet at Frankfort in that State the
9th inst and of them, it seems, still indulge
the delusion that they have party. The Louisville
Journal is one of the most hopeful, and, in long
article in its issue Of the 18th inst urges upon the
faithful few to put their heads together at Frankfort
and contrive way to restore their fallen fortunes.
Among other things, the Journal says
The republican party in the North is in the last stage
of decay Its occupation is gone Its most ardent friends
and supporters compelled to admit that in its origin
the growth of sudden emergency but it has now
platform distinct creed and the necessity for has
passed away. Its demolition a distinct political or.
gantion is certain 1t will necessarily be resolved into
its original elements and the who have composed
it will naturally seek affiliations with the party that pre-
the platform Of principles which contain the most
vitality and essential conservatism.
The scheme of the Journal, then, is to unite the
black-repnblicans Of the North and the know-noth
ings Of the South into organizations and thereby
form great conservative Union party. This is not
new idea but only an old one revived The eI
pertinent was tried three years ago; and for time
succeeded admirably Abolitionism seized upon tho
machinery of acknowledgment, and through its agel
cy broke down for u time the democratic party at
the North, and came breaking down the govern
ment. We do not think it succeed again for
we have too much confidence in the good sense and
patriotism of the people, both North and South to
suppose that they will second time be led bndfod
by such men as control the two organizations. The
leaders may, and many of them, we have no doubt,
do "seek affiliations with one another, but we arc
not yet prepared to- believe that the rank and file OF
the 'South AMERICANS" desire any sych union or
that they will be knowingly drawn into it. They
were once swallowed by the political whale Of the
n e lain