The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-16

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ID NEST countries Of the world. rebellion ssa'".'
the government 70 shs highest crime when = suo.
1ect can conmit, and b penisbed ey THO sese'.'e
psaAltiss II may b. that the govefn"'ns
spottc, that Il 10 cruel 10 the exercise o. ts az
thorisy, ADD that resistance to sucn tyranny
q .,s.s,.res 20 God" Yet. unless Rssistacce can
viadieats its own strength and STRIKE o'wn '"e
opprse,or. Il rnst pay the penalty Of the greatest
- .,s,.. A. else society 10 disorganized and must
vihraes a. eternal oscillation between deepotism
and anarchy.
n there 70 Ssantry In the world whore rebel
lion ought 20 BE- more severely punished tnan IN
any other, where tho motto should DO "a short
shrift sud long rope" where such wota' ~
mercy and pardon to the traitor should DC na'
known, Il 10 the United States. Just a. parr'c'oe
deserves to Be punishsd With deeper ana darke.
doom than ordinary murder, 90 should the reoe'
against parental government, against free So'l'
stitrtiou and laws, be punished with more severn,
than those who have been goaded BY tyranny 1au
oppression TO resistance. The rebel sgs'nsss nv
public Il rebel against himseif, and asains. '"e
freedom and happiness Of all mankind wn'cn arc
involved In tho success Of the experiment. Oh ne0
dom, which he, with suicidal hand, IL endeasoi'ss
20 ruin and destroy. The crime OF sucn s"rs,o''
. against such country, and against ha"ann5'
could not be adequately punished, no n"o .
thousand lives. The freer and nobisr the Cover"
nsnt, the more beuignant aud benehceot I've ope'a'
tioss, the more abundant and varied the po'''es''
r.iirous and social blessings which It secures, the
rreater IA the terpitude Of rebellion against it, and
the more inevitable and i1exorable should be the
punishment OF rebellion.
Yet the m.ud,In and maukish philanthropy and
SstA haen h
the psopis Of the United State, 20 look with len
ispey and federation npon such an enormous
crime and to shudder at the idea Of shedding the
blood or twisting the neck of the rebel. In fact,
rebellion is getting to be looked upon a. no crime
at all and ts leaders are to be gently ca-essed and
coaxed and entreated back into the ways OF la"
and order. Hence, for example, is Utah, which,
setting aside fts social and moral denominations
has been for long period in open, fragrant, defiant
rebellion, requiring the bes: part Of the opitea
States army to be- sent against it to reduce 1t to
obedience; and then, when the army, after an
enormous march and an expenditure OF millions
upon millions, has reached the stronghold OF muir
NJ, by some mysterious hocuspOcus, the whole re-
belious territory slips out Of the hands OF the Law
consents, srsciously consents, to accept the new
Governor deports itself with the air OF
and victor, heaps indignities upon the Executive
and ecers Of the United States, and to all ntents
and purposes IL as iruculent and rampant as il
Brigham Yousg had defeated the gallant john
sson In battle and slaughtered every soldier OF tue
United States. Is not this disgracefulf Is 1t not
calculated to bring the United States Government,
and all free forms Of government into universal
contempts Are we not traitors to ourselves, to
liberty, to the hopes of mankind, il Brigham
Young and his associates are permitted to 60 un
punishedi
There never was fairer opportunity to execute
the laws, and punish criminals Ike crime 81
these men are undoubted; and there 10 no other
crime, forbidden by the laws Of God and man, Of
which they are not equally guilty. Murder, VIC
lence, and incest defis their habitatons. The
desert around them Is strewed with the bones OF
.Gentiiss," and of Gentle children, whom thess
wretches have butchered. Their own sermons
addresses and speeches, convict them of being the
basest, viIest, and most shameless of mankind
There are no men In tho world whom the earth
could better spare than the leader and apostles
OF the Mormon rebellion; and yet the leprous rep
rebates are to escape scot Free to assume the airs
Of victors and masters, to laugh at the "poor
cpsses" OF Gsntiles, and gabble on about sending
people ITO he'll across lots." If these creatures
ere not hung, az they deserve, 1t will be confes
sion that our Government is not strong enough to
execute its own authority; that We have Iicen-
tiousness, but not Law, and will not long possess.
a. We do not deserve, even the forms of Liberty.