Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-04

@- The Democratic party, it is well
known, has been claiming a great deal OF
credit for the subsection or pacification or
Brigham Young and his Mormons. Never
theless ii is a notorious fact that nothing at
all has been accomplished in that way. The
whole anti-MOrmon enterprise, as conducted
by the administration, has been one of the
most disgraceful and ridiculous failures on
record. Millions and ten of millions of dollars
have been squandered in the most reckless
manner in its prosecution, and yet the con-
dition of things in Utah is not whit better
IN any respect than it was two years ago..
Col. Cumming is nominally the Governor of
the Territory. but Brigham Young is Gov
ernor over him. There seems to be some dit
ference of opinion as to whether Cumming is
an ont and out Mormon or not, but he execu-
ties in all things the will OF the Prophet and
qrarrels with all suci military and judicial
officers as give the slightest indication of a
disposition to establish "a different state OF
things from that land Of unutterable abOmin-
atiOns. No Mormon is punished or can be
punished for theft, robbery, murder, or any
other crime whatever.
The New York Times speaking of the at
tempt of the Judiciary TO enforce the laws in
Utah. says with truth that the minute the
Courts were opened and the MormOns were
summoned on the Grand and Petit Juries.
they refused either to present or convict any
body. no matter of what offense he had been
guilty, and threatened violence to all Cen
tiles and traitorous MOrmons in attendance
on the Courts. The United States Judge
found himself under a spell The criminals
were there, and the law was there, and the
executioner-in short, all the appurtenances
and paraphernala of pure justice But the
juries, and the Judge, and the executioner,
and jalor were found to have nothing to do
init oil nd ha NIL of d
ing Court" which, at one time, seemed at all
probable to his Honor the Judge. was that bis
Honor himself would receive "a licking" at
the bands of the Jurors aforesaid" In this
extremity he called in the aid of a military
force, to protect him, and General johnson
declared his intention to stand by the Courts
and enforced the law. At this juncture Mr..
Buchanan's skill and tact, both in taking his
measures and choosing his men, made them
selves fully apparent. Under an ordinary.
commonplace, incompetent President, the
Courts, the Executive, and the army would
have worked together in stupid hum-drum
harmony. and done something toward restor-
ing the Territory to the reign of mOnOtOn-
Gus tranquility, Our present Administration,
however. does not do things in this miksop
way 1t makes confusion worse cOnfOunded
we presume, in order to show the world from
what absurd embarrassments the American
nation can, when the pinch comes, extricate
itself unaided The Mormon difficulty, when
Mr.. Buchanan entered the White House, con-
sisted simply of the rebellion OF a parcel OF
lecherous fanatics against powerful Gov
srnment an affair to be crushed by three or
four sattaions and couple of batteries; but,
under his skillful manipulation. it has now
resolved itself into a civil war between the
Federal General in command of the regular
troops, aided and allotted by the Judge of
the Federal Conrt on the one side,--and the
United States Governor and the Mormon
militia on the other.
We defy MiramOn and Janrcz themselves
to produce pretticr piece of anarchy in the
time than this is, and we congratulate the
country on the ingenuity of our venerable
Chief Magistrate.-LOu. Journal.