The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-11-19
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A FRIEND Of ours, as We were pass
ing his residence week Or two ago.
handed US ! number Of the paper
bearing the above title. he pointed
out TO us, at the same time, the leading
article of the editorial, bearing the
worn-Uut-bug-bear heading The Army
IN Utah."
The paper IS apparently . Hedge-
ling; being only in its first volume.
The editor, however, Is said 70 have
the reputation ef IN old scribbIer. For
what particular and more than ordi-
nariIy fragrant piece Of irregularity he
was dismissed from the sanctum Of tie
sTribune," We are not prepared 10
say. He has assumed in old fashion-
ed heading, and Is, evidently, deter
mined that his editorial Inatter shaIl
correspond.
The stories about the horrors 81
Utah and her rebellion are very, very
old and stale. But tie ssCentury''
seems fond Of monldy crusts. Such
being the case, We shall presume, ii
the inGnitude Of our compassion, Il
give him one Or two 70 Whet bis teeth
upon.
The first paragraph, in the article
ab0vereferred to, IS adeploring episode
On the dying, starving, freezing con
dition Of tho Army IN Utah; and i
genteelly iIlsinuatod apology forwhole-
sale desertion When all who know
anything Of the matter, are well aware
that the army are fattening at their
leisure; and that their desertion more
over would be attributed to the Nor
mons as further evidences of TO-
hellion.
The second Is q commentary upon
the announcement Of peace restored TO
Utah; the sale Of mules, and necessity
for Immediate supplies 10 BE- sent to
the army These questions We leave
70 be settled between the Century, &,
Mr.. Secretary Floyd, and the Quarter
lnaster and Commissary Departments.
And if Congress should see ft, By the
way, 70 inquire into tho varied tram
sactions Of the several departments,
We shall mako no serious objections.
The accusers Of Utah, and advocates
of arbitrary government might object,
it is true; and threaten to march the
army npon the Capital, and subject
Congress and the nation to martial
law. But that would be their own
affair, and Utah would not NEEDLE,
save and except in tho dark extremity
she might be called On fora ssbattalion,'
to protect the threatened constitution.
This would scarcely be out Of the COM
mon course Of things. When PAM
pered pets betray and abandon, turn
towards and miscreants, then it IS that
the abused, rcyiled, persecuted, and
hitherto forgotten child IS called upon
as the surest shield and support Of the
tottering parent. 4.
The third paragraph contains most
charitable and philanthropic sentence.
Thus i reads; and we shall Be careful
TO quote without the omission of even
hyphen or comma: We do not de-
sire to find such an explanation For
keeping the army at Salt Lake, as is
limited at in some quarters that the
continuanceof contracts, and opportuni-
ties of plumber are at the bottomo of it,but
would much more willingly believe that
the Government has been hasty in
announcing . settlement, and that there
exists . real necessity for the main
'tenance Of force in the Mormon dis
trict to prevent the breaking out Of
another rebellion z Another small
deploriag sentence closes the para
graph, eomplimenting the army on
their lack Of robust constitutions and
powers of endurance, or in other words
eondoling with them on the pangs they
suffer from exposures such as are but
sport to the children Of the mountains.
The 6 Century has here been most
unfortunate, and has betrayed its ven
atty in rather unnistakeable terms.
Purchased, as i evidently is, by the
philanthropic individuals Who have