The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1858-04-22
From the OhioState Journal.
Buchanan,s Administration.

Buchanan's Administration.
We really begin to feel a,1y3Cg'"vI
commiseration for the "Sag Wheat
land" He is filed with Dis str ;SS,-
He i was defesa ye I-r 5.e laoas. laoa s., =
Representatives. W.. dpportant
Administratioam II s+fo elency
Bill. andlthe Lecc sH''l',, on
thePopular branch of USs9 II, Es3s. = "ar : !
been defeated upon the AflIy Bill, the
Deficiency Bill, and the Lecomp;on Bill.
We ca9not call to mind solitary Admin.
istraioR measure that has thus far passed
Congress, unless il be The twenty million
shin plaster bill. 1t is said that the W ar
Department is in state of bankruptcy,
upward of half million drafts upon it are
lying unpaid, and new demands are daily
pouring in. Itrelied upon the passage of
the Deficiency Bill to liquidate them, and
Ubat has failed. 1t is proper that they
should be paid, but the blame for their
non payment, whatever it may be, must
rest upon the majority, and not upon The
minority. If the majority will not vote
supplies for the Administration of its own
making, it is not to be presumed that the
minority will do it.
There is no doubt that the hasty and
unauthorized proceedings of Buchanan
Il Co., in declaring war against the Nor
mons, and dispatChing an army TO Utah
without first getting Congress to recog
nize the necessity of the war and to fur
nish the money necessary for such an ex.
pediiion has caused the defeat of the Def
cheney bill. In the same hot haste, and
without consulting Congress, the War
Department has gone on making immense
contracts for beef, breadstuffs, horses and
mules, many of which are said to have
the taint of fraud hanging to them, and
all of which show gross favoritism and
now the Secretary comes forward and
asks Congress to appropriate the funds
sufficient to carry them out, with which
request Congress respectfully refuses to
accede. 1t is said that by computation
the cost of barrel of flour when safely
housed at Salt Lake City under the con.
tracts made by the War Secretary will
cost one hundred dollars, all Of which it is
expected Congress will provide.
This whole Mormon war has been "a
muddle" from the beginning. Instead oI
sending an army against the dwellers in
Utah, efforts should have first been
made to heal the difficulties by negotia-
ton. But no, war, war to the knife was
declared against them, and that too when
the power to declare war rests solely with
Congress The people of the Uuiled
State are unacquainted with the crimes
which led to this Utah invasion. They
want to know what the Mormons have
done that they should be put to fire and
sword. The Administration dsCaims any
intention 10 int arlere with their religion,
What then,we ask is their crime, that that
Territory should be invaded by a hostile
army, aud the nation should be put to an
immense outlay of money, to carry on al
internal war? The Florida war, which
was waged against handful oil hostile
Seminoles, cost the nation over fifty mil
lions of dollars, and unless this Mormon
war is brought speedily to an end, it vii
, cost much more.
The telegraph yesterday announced tha
Gov Powell, Of Kentucky, and Majol
Mccullough, Of Texas were to be appoln
ted commissioners to Salt Lake City, anC
treat with the Mormons. If this be so, il
is an acknowledgement on the part of the
} Administration that its previous policy
has been laundering, and that it mus
take a step backwards. Peace commits
t tsioners should have been appointed first
and if they fail in their errand, the army
} might have been called upon. This poll
cy was reversed, until stern necessity ha
forced the Administration to char y III
, course The defeat of the Army bill, o
the Deficiency bill, and Of the Lecomp
ton bill, has brought the Administration
, 10 its knees; oneor two more such blow
will Law IL DrnetrnIa