Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-04 | Page 12 | Know Utah

I KNOW UTAH I By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS It was as on April 6 6 1858 that President James Buchanan stopped the th threatened var between the United States government and find the Mormon people On that thet date he Issued a proclamation In which he promised amnesty to nil all who returned to their theIL allegiance In his proclamation he pointed out that officers of the government had been driven out o othe of ot the territory for tor or no offense offense- but an m effort to do dother tIer ther sworn duty that others had been prevented from going there by threats of assassination that judges have hove been violently In ted In the tho performance per- per of their thIr functions end he the records o oi of the courts seized and destroyed or conc concealed end and many miny other othet acts of violence perpetrated and the right to repeat them openly proclaimed This hostility has grown so great that no no officer bearing a a. commission commission commis commis- sion slon from the chief magistrate of the the- un union on can cnn enter the tho territory or remain ren there with safety No one among the inhabitants could express an nn opinion favorable to this government or 01 even cven propose propose pro pro- ro- ro pose to obey Its Us laws without exposing his life and property to peril S The proclamation then continues continues' I accordingly d a detachment of the army to march for the city of Salt Lake or ot within reach of that place and to act let In ease case of need as ns a n posse for the enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment of the laws Then ho he adds But In n the meantime the tho hatred of that misguided people leople forthe for forthe the the- just end and legal authority of the government has hos become eo so Intense that they resolved to measure their military strength with that of the union and organized a force armed and far for from contemptible In point of numbers and have hays trained It t If not without without without with with- out skill at least with great assiduity arid mid perse perse- I verance Provisions ns and stores of the government I I have been wantonly burned In short their present attitude is on one of decided and unreserved enmity to the tho United States and to all their loyal loal citizens I Their determination to oppose the authority of the government b by military force has not only been expressed In words but manifest by overt acts of oi I most moat unequivocal character I IThe The proclamation then points out that this is rebellion rebellion re re- re- re bellion against the government of 01 the United and involves the people In the guilt of 01 tre treason son It then adds that the land which the Mormons settled set settled set set- tied upon lies geographically in the heart of the union that It was purchased by the United States and paid for lor out of Its treasury that the proprietary etar right and title to It Is 13 in them and not in the Mormon Mormon Morrion Mor Mor- 1 ri on mon people Utah it was further pointed out is bounded upon all sides by states and territories whose I people are arc true to the union and that it Is absurd to believe that the they will permit the tho Mormons or anybody else to erect In their ver very midst a gov government government govern govern- ment of their own not only Independent of the authority authority au au- authority au- au which they all but hostile to them and their Interests S 'S S S The president then declares that this this- is Is not a crusade against the Mormon n religion that bein being a question between God and the Mormons In which the president disclaims all right to Interfere He then In the pro proclamation offers otters a full and free pardon to all aU who will ivill submit themselves to the just authority n of the federal government The proclamation gave om off offense nse to both oth Mormon Mor no and Gentile