The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-02


ia their worst excuses. They recognise NJ Law
hut the law Of the bold imposter who is their
chief They have an organized band of secret
assassins whose duty it is to cut of all intrusive
Centiles. after the fashion of the Thugs Of
India
They have become living scandal to the
country, and arc at last in open arms against
its authorities They are difficult of access A
thousand miles of desert plains and mountains
have to be Crossed to reach them. The supplies
for the subsistence, through this long desert
journey, of the email army force of Col Johns
ton. come twenty-five hundred men. have swal-
lowed up millions of dollars and where is this
army detachment Arrested, and compelled to
winter in the mountains by the guerrilla opera
lions Of the Mormons, inficting direct army
loss of over million Of dollars In the destruc-
ton of its baggage trains and in the
seizure of its horses, mules and cattle. And
the worst part of the journey to Salt Lake City
has yet to be made by Col Johnston, when the
epring opens- But then he may anticipate guer-
lila obstacles Of every kind in the numerous
narrow and dangerous dehles be will be COM
PEELED to pass. Without seasonable reinforce
ment of men, munitions and provisions, his force
will probably be exterminated before finishing
half the distance of the two hundred and fifty
miles of mountain chasms, torrents and preci-
pices that lie between him and the Great Salt
Lake. Common prudence, therefore, and the
argument of economy should have had their
weight in the prompt ordering by Congress of
the army reinforcements requested by the Pre-
sident.
But the bill has failed, and it may now be too
late, not only for the anticipated subjugation or
expulsion of the Mormons this next summer but
even for the rescue of Col Johnston command
Not only has this consideration however, been
blinked by the sectional ultras of the Senate
North and South, but in their course upon this
Army bill they have betrayed, if not positive
sympathy with, at least crimina! Indifference
to this Mormon rebellion. 1t is disunion
movement of the most brazen.faced description
If such precedent may be winked at as q
triHing affair, we may next expect to be told
should the reckless demagogues ofsome Southern
State set themselves up as an independent power
that it is not the business of Congress to aid the
President in reducing them to submission. We
apprehend that some such State rights notion as
this may have influenced the action of some of
our fire-eating Southern Senators upon this ques-
ton of reinforcing OUT Utah army corps.
AT all events, it is most remarkable circum-
stance that this Army bill owes its defeat to the
junction against it of the black republican
ultras of the North and the fre-eating malcon-
tents of the South; and the least that can be
said of this opposition is, that it was inspired
by the most conismptible and factious hostility
to the administration. The public sentiment of
the whole country calls for the speediest posi-
BILE abatement Of this great moral nuisance of
Mormondom. II is adisgrace to our institutions,
disgrace to the government, and living re-
proach to the American people so long as it
lasts. But when this moral ulcer has ripened
into open revolution, there is no excuse for any
longer delay in its extirpation.
Here is q revolutionary movement in the most
emphatic shape-the first positive disunion
movement, in fact, within the limits of the
Union since the organization of the govern
ment. The disunien movement of 1912 of the
New England federalists was projected in view
of contingencies which never came to pass the
1882 '3S was suppressed before it came to
head: and the secession movements in South
Carolina, Georgia Alabama and Mississippi, of
1851, on account Of the admission Of the whole
of California as free State, were all quietly
extinguished by the sensible body Of the people
Southern military marth upon Washington,
threatened by Gov. Wise and others, in the
event of Fremont's election, was happily ar
rested by the election of Mr.. Buchanan. This
Momon rebellion stands alone in our history
as the only regularly organized and positive
disunion conspiracy upon the calendar.
As disunion movemement Of the most re-
pulsive description, it should be put down with
the utmost promptitude. The Indifference of
the Northern and Southern utras of the Senate
to this view Of the subject besrays the lament
able fact that with them a factious and disor-
ganizing policy towards the Administration Is
considered Of higher Importance than the SUI
premacy of the government or even the moral
and political integrity of the Union itself And
thus it is that we regard the defeat of the Army
bill in the Senate as more significant of dan
gerous sectional and factious demoralizations
than any proceeding in Congress of the last
twenty years.
TIE FRESCH CRrsrs.-The new government
which Napoleon has just established is more
like a Council of War than a civil adrninistra-