Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-10

I The CoNTRAoroRs WAR.-The present
"war' in which an army of the United States
troops, not particularly powerful, and an ar
my Of contractors, eminent above all others
for activity. are both engaged, has now
enough of verified history to permit some
sketch of its operations. The great leading
| feature OF these operations is succession of
alarms, of rumors of violence aud disasters,
and OF urgent appeals for more men and more
supplies. The public generally have. from
the outset, taken these reports for truth.
| They have believed that the records Uf the
courts and other offices were destroyed in
Utah, and that the gentle appointees Of the
PIERCE administration suffered such injury
that they were compelled to flee for their
lives. On this ground vast military expedi-
ton was got up, and an unbroken line of
outrages, of acts of violence, and OF calami-
ties to all persons and authorities in the SER
vice of the United States, has been kept up
from that time. Col. Johnston was repeated
ly attacked, by these reports, and repeatedly
suffered great loss of men and means. Capt.
Marcy has been 'fcut Off more than once,
also. Hundreds of mules and horses have
died of starvation, and in tremendous snow
storms, and the remainder have been employ
ed as "mule meat" to feed the troops at yari-
Gus times. Trains of wagons have been burn
ed, stampeded.and destroyed in various ways
10 conclude, Governor Cumming has been
imprisoned and forcibly detained at Salt
Lake, while the Mormons have, at one and
the same time, constructed military defences
for the purpose of continuing hostiities until
Johnston's command is utterly exterminated
and moved en- masse from the city and terri
tory southwark.
Of this army of rumors, which might be
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word in hundred has beea truth. Contrac-
tors, who would profit by a vast expenditure
of money in this distant service, and adven-
turers anxious to come in possession of Nor
mon houses, lands, and territorial government,
have manufactured the whole. Gaining an
expenditure of more than ten millions of
dollars already, they are determined to gain
more, and they are willing to give liberal sub
sides to whomsoever will aid them. Their
stake in the operations blocked out for the
summer, cannot be less than half million
for the profits alone. The whole sutler ser
vice west of the Mississippi including the
purchases from ST. Louis to Fort Leaven-
worth, will be atleast five millions of dollars
for the summer as it is, and to double this
sum, through the calling out of volunteers,
and the employment of all the troops of the
regular army where transportation acHoss the
plains would be required for every article of
supplies, would be profit to the borderers,
contractors, and camp followers of not less
than three millions of dollars. 1t is not Won
derful, therefore, that the services of express
riders, own correspondents and telegraph lines,
could be well and pro6tably employed in the
manufacture of outrages battles and calami-
ties, as has been the business Of these parties,
for the last six months.
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getting up may now safely be brought to an
end Let those who are not heart sick of the
folly and falsity Of what passes for truth with
the public, with Congress, and the govern
ment, look over a file of papers reaching back
to the Inauguration of this Utah war. That
such proceedings could be based on no better
ground Of truth than the foolish vaporing of
the preachers of the Mormon doctrine in their
own private places, and that armies should be
marshalled, volunteer regiments authorized
and fifteen millions of dollars spent on this
absurdity within. little more than year, would
be incredible of belief if it had not actually
occurred The character OF the original fasi-
fees. Drummond, Hart, and others of the
worthless holding Office in Utah, will soon be
thoroughly exposed and all their Pretended
narratives of the destruction of official re-
cords, and of personal violence, are already
shown by Gov. Cumming to be false.
OF the character and actual proceedings of
the Mormons among themselves, we have no
necessity of saying anything in speaking of
this contractors war. Gov. Cumming asserts
the entire absence of military preparations
and defensive armaments among them. They
have shown neither cowardice nor hostility as
body, and it lis doubtful whether any con-
siderable number of the reported speeches of
Brigham Young and others, ever were uttered
by anybody at Salt Lake. Every thing from
that quarter has reached us through interest
ed. if not infamous hands, and when official
dispatches are interpolated, and the telegraph
and correspondence Systematically used to
forward falsehoods, we may reasonably look
for pretended quotations from Utah papers.
The people of Salt Lake were excited at the
hostile array sent against them, of course but
Governor Cumming found this excitement to
have taken no. stronger form than hasty and
irrtated words, very mild form Of war,
which his presence alone was quite sufficient
to quell. Philadelphia North american.