The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-04-17
ne U,ah Enisuaa.

s34 TIE Utah Enigna.
The present attitude Of the Territory Of
Utah towards the Government of the United
States, 10 certainly very singular and
anomalous spectacle 70 be exhibited in i
civilized country In the 18th century. The
constituted authorities Of that Territory have
declared, nunmistakable terms, their indie
pendence Of Federal authority, and avowed
determination to prevent officers appointed
by the Federal Government, from exercising
their rights and privileges. This is done or
the plea, tsat that Territory is menaced BY
an invading army, manifestly sent, as they
sllege "to aid in trampling upon American
liberty" In other words, they forbid the
entrance Of the u. s. Army into that terri.
DRY, on the plea that it is sent there ste
carry out the traitorous designs concocted
for depriving American citizens Of theil
indefeasible and vested rights" Now, thu
n,Government either has the right to send thu
ssa'..pops there, or it has not-without being
.m;.;. le to be resisted, because certain persons
and nj, for Interior reasons, choose to account
wind tAeir presence, on other grounds thar
"sau' actually given. This army has beer
....to Utah for the avowed purpose o.
~ oring "thc supremacy of the constitution
hmm. laws'' within the Territory of Utah, and
Hooper, other purposes. The autser''e' "
Suggs" territory have declared that mo per-
81 maa pointed 81 once fer Utah by the
c.rrsd = DEMONSTRATION (shalll either qualify
=. .ns : assume and discharge within, the
There 'of this Territory, the functions Of the
on this to which they have been appointed,
to theong as our territory is menaced by an
, ' ding army" Now, the act organizing
he i Territory gives the President the power,
hos and with the advice and consent of the
'Senate, to appoint a Governor, Secretary.
three Judges of the Supreme Court, Mar
4 shall, and District Attorney. The President
in his message, says ssthat all the officers Of
the United States, judicial and executive
with the single exception Of two Indiar
agents, have found it necessary for theil
own personal safety, to withdraw from tn,
ritory, and there no longer remains an,
Government in Utah but the despotism Of
BRIGnAx YouNa." In order to bring thai
Territory again under Federal authority
the President appointed new Governor ant
other Federal officers, and sent with them q
military force for their protection, and to
aid, as n posse comitatus, in case of need, in
the execution Of the laws.
1t is to these officers, and to this force,
that the people of Utah are determined to
offer resistance. What, then, remains to be
done? Shall the Federal Government re-
linquish its right to appoint officers to that
p Territory, at the behest of the Mormon oil
, garchy? Shall the march of the U. S. Army
be stayed by the manifesto Of BRIGHAN
Young? Shall the United States retreat from
the position already assumed, and allow the
people of Utah to dictate terms of capitula-
ton? Or, rather, should not the Govern
ment insist upon conformance to the organ
ic act, and enforce obedience to the same,
even at the point Of the bayonet? We in
cline to the latter opinion. We have herein
endeavored to show.that the authorities of
Utah are manifestly opposed to any exercise
of authority over that Territory by the Fed
cal Government, and to make the same
more palpable, we here give place to an ex-
tract from letter from Col. (now GENERALLY
JOHNSTON, to the Commanding General
The letter is dated Scamp Scott, Jan. 90,
1885," - a.. 49,. . ...,...
81 have nothing material to report since
my last communication. Accompanying that
sent file of the Descret Neus, containing
the message Of Brigham Young, to the Leg
islature Of Utah. You have in the message
and resolutions of the Legislature, their
disloyalty to the Union heretofore made
against this people. My information respect
ing their conduct since is that their troops
are organized to resist the establishment Of
Territorial Government by the United States,
and, in furtherance of that object, they have
erected works of defense in the mountain
passes and near Salt Lake City, knowing
how rspugnantsit would be to the policy or
interest Of the Government to do any act
that would force these people into unpleas-
70 ant relations with the Federal Government,
would, in conformity with the views also
Of the Commanding General, on all proper
occasions, have manifested in my intercourse
win tnem spirit OF conciiia1lon put 10
Isi h ., suo" ~, ra,hnr
would be wrongly Interpreted: and in view
Of tho reasonable temper and feeling now
pervading the leaders and greater portions
OF the Mormons, l tn,nk ina. nellner .ne
",lo,, ~ The si;ah,sst concessions he;nr made
to them.
ssThey should be made to submit to the
constitutional and legal demands Of the uov.
s.;..;nn d TsSu ~, o,hss as;. wo.ld
Be noestory.
"T6eir threats to oppose the march Of the
s's IN the spring will not have the slight
to ;o;n ;as ~ delaylng y. anu y :nes aes'ae
the Gov crnment thai thew should have the
opportunity"
Wo agree with Col. ,JouSsoy that the peo.
nla of vlknh sSsb.t,