Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-08-20

caution and effort of the advocates of freedom
to battle them. But to return
These mules which are to be sold, might have
been used this season, as | think have already
stated to you, in enabling the troops to explore
and open up this region of the country, of which
but little is known. Many of the troops might
have been readily employed in this way to a
great advantage both to themselves and the
government, and the mules might thus have
been rendered much more valuable than they
would be by sale to specuators but all the
useful ends that might be attained by the Utah
expedition seem to be lost in view of some
strange, incomprchensible political object. A
number of troops, equal to quite an army, are
maintained here at great expense, and for no
other political object, as far as can be seen than
to draw the attention of the country to the fact
that popular sovereignty in Utah is a failure
The army is kept as mere frame to show off
the ugly picture of Mormonism and squattcr
sovereignty, neither of which could have any
existence in the United States at this day with
out that same instrumentality upon which the
slave interest of late years has been dependant
for its political power, viz: the sufirages Of for
egn voters. 1t is thus that the slavc-powcr
seems to be pleading its own wrong in its own
cause, and without seeming to be aware of it.
Few things can be more unpleasant to the
practical genius Of the great majority of our
people than to see the sterling interests of the
country set aside in order to give scope and
play to the stupid combinations of political
fraud and cunning. To see valuable public
interest wrcsted from its appropriate object and
converted into a mere idle exponent of a use
less political idea, gives the practical American
one of the most sickening sensations of en-
slavement that he has ever felt since the escape
of his forcfathers from the despotism of Eu
rope. No malarous breeze from n southern
swamp, charged with all kinds of sickcning
influences, could so overcome the physical man
with its cncrvating lassitude, as does this the
moral man who has been reared under the in
fluences of freedom. A whole army, with all
its immense expense, is made as it were a mere
masonic symbol, signifying nothing, or at most
as a mere expedcnt to gloss over crime, error
and folly
UTAH, U. T., July l3, 1859.
Tne most recent event Of interest in this
quarter is the discovery of nest of counter
feters near the church. Two men have been
arrested, and were up to-day before the Judges
of the Supreme Court of Utah, sitting as mag
stratcs, for their examination. The testimony
was such that they have been bound over for
trial The event is the more remarkable since
it presents the novelty of setting the machinery
of justice going, forgery not constituting rebel
lion or massacre, and being an act with which
the political sentiment of orr dominant party
will hardly venture to seek an alliance. For
You are doubtless aware that court of Justice
in Utah, thus far, from the way affairs are man
aged in Washington, has been very much like
the fifth wheel TO a coach.
The examination was conducted in the garri-
son thcater of Camp Floyd to which limits the
legal Jurisdiction of the United States in Utah
has well nigh come to be confined. like an Off
Ger in arrest. The judges complain that the
government furnishes none of the necessary
conveniencas for the execution Of the laws even
if such execution were possible. In case of
deliberate murder here the other day, the ques-
ton was asked why the Governor did not offer
reward for the apprehension of the murderer;
and the reply was that he had no funds for such
a purpose!
The counterfeited paper consists of drafts on
the United States Treasury, which are exceed
ngly well executed and many of them bear
the forged signature Of our chief disbursing
officer, Col. CroSsman. The design was to du-
plicatc every draft which the Colonel should is
sue, so that il would be difficult to detect the
false from the true. The copper plate from
which the impression were taken was captured
among other things and exhibited to spectators.
II was engraved IN room OF Brgham utEng
office in Salt Lake City; and Brigham claims
the cngrayers tools as his own.
The testimony, as far as We can learn, does
not directly implicate Brigham nor can we see
how it would be possible to implicate him al
though he should even be the chief offender in
the case for, being as he is at the head of dill
the Masonic Lodges which make up Mormon
ism, he might direct, instigate, and amuse the
execution of any crime however atrocious with
out committing himself to that degree which is
necessary to constitute legal evidence. An in
stituton that is based on charity would but i'll
subserve its purposes, it might be thought, if it
could not be so extended as TO cover multi
tude Of sins. If the two criminals-the two
cats-paws-who have been apprehended, should
both be permitted to turn States evidence, we
don't see how anything farther can be done in
the matter, unless indeed, they should choose
to make more developments than they have
thus far done.