Show I II KNOW KNOW UTAH l IL-By IL By ALBERT ALBERT- F. F PHILIPS PHILIPS I History records tho the Buchanan war as ns without as us a CL colo nl l blunder This conclusion con con- was reached b by the nation at nt large The arm army was dispatched to Utah on tho the statement of oC disgruntled dis dis- officials who had be bc been n appointed by dent Buchanan To receive mall from Crom the east t re required required re- re almost nix x months and when tho the order ordel was wai wasis is issued to General Harney to mobilize the forces and proc ed to Utah nothing had been he heard rd In Utah from the national capitol for Cor six months S S SIt It Is pointed out In history that there had bad been no postal lostal communication between Utah am and tho the e eastern stern states stales The malls mans had failed Utah had been shut out rom from the rest of oC the world by an car early and extraordinarily severe seven winter Tho handcart handcar companies of or Mormon emigrants nearly perished on tho plains in iR tho snow and tho the entire territory had hac risen Isen to the tho rescue The leaders had been absorbed in n saving tho ho community from 1 perishing in hi tho the valleys val vat leys cys in of oC the famine and their companies com corn panie on the plains from a disaster which but for the rescue would havo have been as frightful as tho the retreat of oC Napoleons Napoleon's army from Moscow All the devoted dc people eople whoso whose homes were threatened with invasion and their theil social and religious organizations with utter uttel dissolution were oblivious of or the war wal clouds gatherIng gathering gather- gather ing ng over their heads S S S So patent was vas it tb to the country that the stories stories' sent out from Crom Utah were manufactured on the l sippi the country that the New York Herald denoun denounced ed tho the stories and declared that no no journal had lad any c correspondent in Utah S S Of oc tho tio facts In tho tim case of oC Ut Utah h. h h It is s very dIU- dIU cult to form reliable Judgment the Herald said simply because tho the most reliable nuth authorities liu buch h as Judge Drummond who is is now in Washington arc tainted with a suspicion of interested motives S S S While the preparation for Cor the moving of oC the army were under way the people of oC Utah were in convention convention con- con preparing t to adopt n a constitution and senda send a a. dele delegation atlon to Washington to present the constitution constitution tion ion to congress so that Utah might bo tie admitted to the he Union I Less than one year ear after the circular order ol of oC General Scott a a. resolution was passed by congress requesting the tho president to communicate to o the house of or representatives all aU the information which gave O rise for tho the military expedition to Utah Tho request est st wn was complied with by Lewis Le Cass Casso tary ary of or state who ho accompanied one 10 document witha with n a letter stating that It was Jho he on only 1 one ono on file me It was vas the letter of ot W. W M. M Magraw to tho the president written wrItten in the previous October S S S SJohn John B. B Floyd Fiord secretary of or war val ar when called for forthe ho the documents and correspondence In the case could only furnish the Har Harney ey circular order in including the reclamation proclamation of or Governor GO Brigham Young and the correspond correspondence en co between him and Colonel Alexander Alexandcr From rom the Interior came several letters letters' from Crom D David H. H I. I Burr Burr surveyor general of or Utah a bu budget et from the Indian department and a a. letter from the tho attorney genei general |