The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-06

The statement contained in one of Yesterdays
kilograms from Washington that Immediately
upon the organization of the House. the Mormon
Delegate, Mr.. HOOPER, will introduce q Bill
Tor the admission of Utah into the UNION. NAV
possibly serve to direct public attention once more
to the anomalous condition of affairs in that re-
mote Territory. The introduction of such a Bill
ought to find the Administration united unon
some definite line of policy, upon subject the
Importance of which it has hitherto seemed to
ignore, and in relation to which its members do
not appear altogether to agree. At least we should
infer from that portion of Secretary FLoYD's re-
port which refers to the operations of the Army in
Utah, that the Head of the War Department is bv
no means disposed to acquiesce in the pacific and
temporisng policy of his Chief. The contempt
with which Mr.. CoDB treated, wear ago. the
PRESIDENTS recommendations in reference to Spe-
chic Duties was hardly more undisguised than that
which MIR. FLOYD seems to entertain for the results
OF Mr.. BUcHANAN's diplomacy in Utah In view
OF the practical Importance which will be given
to the subject by the application of the Mormons
to be admitted into the UNION, it may be as well to
recur to what the SECRETARY has said in reference
A
Sin the Territory of Utah." he SAYS, stremain
very much as at the date of my last Annual Re
port. The Army is inactive, and stands in the
attitude of a menacing force towards a conquer
led and snlien people," Suen, but not con-
quered, Mr.. FLOYD should have said as his subse-
quent language proves. 81 am satisfied - he con-
unues, THAT the preservation Of RIGHT and iustice
through the means of any jurisprudence known
"or recognized by the people of the UNITED STATES
rs impossible in that Territory Impossible, of
course, while Courts, charged with the admins
traon of justice, are left without protection and
without the means of executing the simplest pro-
cess OF the law, and exposed to the insults and
open violence of the Mormon chiefs and people.
III IS governed practically by system which is
IN total disregard of the laws or constitution of
1.-THE land. The laws of the Mormon Church. and
1.-THE will of the Hierarchy are alone potential there
Beyond mere show of acquiescence in Federal
authority, they are as irresponsible to it as any
foreign nation" How Mr.. BUCHANAN could have
suffered language implying such contempt for his
policy, and imputing such criminal neglect of
duty to HIMSELF TO appear in the report of his sub-
ordinate, to be transmitted by him to CONGRESS
and thence communicated to the public at large.
we are at a loss to imagine. How happens if
unless through the fault of the EXECUTIVE that one
OF the dependant territories of the UNION is s'goy.
"erned in total disregard Of the constitution and
1.-THE laws of the land'? Through whose COM
phcity or weakness has it come to pass that ''the
flaws of the Mormon Church. and the will of the
Hierarchy" have superseded the laws of the
UNITED STATES and the will of the National Legis-
lature? No graver charge could possibly be
brought against the PRESIDENT of the UNITED
STATES than that of suffering such state of things
to exist as is described by Mr.. FLOYD. And
the SECRETARY tells us that affairs in
Utah have not changed since his last
report. 1t is no sudden outbreak or sue
cesstul rebellion which has led to this overthrow
OF the federal authority" or imposes upon the
PRESIDENT the necessity of resorting to Congress
for advice and extraordinary powers to enable
him TO restore the supremacy of the laws. As
things are now, they have been according to
Secretary FLOYD for twelve mouths past-"the
''same'-and nc worse. Nor has it been
for want of the necessary means at hand
and easy of access that the PRESIDENT has failed to
1880, Wv
which, two years ago, was sent to Utah, for the
express purpose of reducing that refractory people
to submission, is there now s'It is Inactive
says Mr.. FLOYD, and Islands in the attitude of
''menacing force"-menacing where it should
long since have been permitted TO strike. And
even this show of idle menace, the SECRETARY
does not think it necessary to keep up. "There
'is in the present attitude of affairs scarcely anv
necessity for the presence of troops in Utah, and
'they will be otherwise disposed of during the
looming season." When this shall havo
been DONE and the last detachment of General
JoHNsToN's command shall have been Withdrawn
from Utah, the parallel will be complete between
the policy of President BUCHANAN and that of the
famous King of France, who
with 10000 men
Marched up a hill and then
Marched down again"
But we have so frequently and so recently COM
mented upon the facts connected with the Utah
expedition that we do not propose at present to
recur more particularly to its lame and impotent
conclusion. We simply desire to direct attention
to the present condition of the Territory, and this
we prefer to do in Secretary FLoYD's own words.
After announcing his intention of Withdrawing
the troops from Utah, in justification of this mea-
cure, he says: ''There are no complaints of In
dian hostilities towards the Mormon people. All
"other territories and people upon our vast from
tiers suffer from Indian depredations, but the
Mormon people enjoy an immunity from all their
'outrages. Murders and robberies of the most
'atrocious character have been perpetrated in the
TERRITORY upon emigrants from the States Jour
"neying towards the Pacific, and in some of the
''most shocking instances, by white men disguised
''as Indians The general impression so far as I
"have been "ne 10 ascertain it, amongst those
''having opportunity to know, is that these muir
'ders are the work of the Mormon people them
''selves, sanctioned, if not directed, by the au-
thority of the Mormon Church." Here then. we
have the Mormons in state of actual hostility to
the UNITED STATES, and guilty of outrages upon