Show DESERET NES NEWS st RE r wlbert ALBERT albent EDITOR wednesday october octobers 13 1858 WOOD and HAY wanted at th the Deseret news office ag advertisements to insure insertion in the curre current nt issue must be handed in previous cu to tes tuesday ay morning rooming it A is most amus amusing 1 ing to anettra observer to see the tricks and chicanery of political parties to which they resort for self support when beaten in the race we were a aware yare that among politicians division was universal and ad vindictive opposition mutual and general but we had supposed there were esome some ingredients die dle in our government that claimed the equal support and fair treatment of all pari parl parties ies les we must confess however that the freaks of politicians dans have outstripped our most generous allowances and that the day is passed when a union of sentiment can be f found i in n the land t upon anything with all our remembrances of hostilities I 1 and the expressions of bitter feelings oc occasioned casio caslo ned by the relative positions jbf of the army and eitl gitl citizens 1 zens of utah last winter we were not prepared for the f following unwarranted which we find in aute a balte number of the st louis democrat jobs and plunder have we think attained their cul initiation in the contracts for the utah itah army but we will not dwell on this at presents present as a we propose directing attention to the claims of 0 an individual who has won rank andi andy and perhaps reputation by the exhibition of unparalleled inactivity gen johnston jonnston joh Job has gained his brevet by no deed of heroism or display 04 ol 01 generals generalship hip bip but by bi obstinate immobility for eight or nine months for vor that length of time he remail nad moti motionless onless in camp within miles of salt lake city olty and within 60 mies or less ot of the rebels because his bis means of transportation were defective i doring during the winter the whole country was ina lna in a state of anxiety lest his command should starve but the tha fact that his provisions lasted to the loth of juney juner june and that his men had been exempt from sickness proves previes how groundless were the fears entertained it cannot be doubted tor for a moni moul moment ent that the irretrievable error in the conduct of the mormon war was the inactivity of col johnston it he be had ad advanced va cical on salt sait lake city the mormon kormon armor would have been disentangled the question solved it the cormons mormons had fought it would have but accelerated the final and conclusive settlement of the difficulty he would have anticipated the offices of eane kana and th the peace commissioners the salutary celerity of 0 martial law would have disposed of the dan ites the incendiary apostles and all those found with arms in their hands bands it the mormon church would have been enriched with the blood of martyrs the authority of the united states wo would a id have lave been established on a firm basist basis and fi fifteen or twenty millions would have been saved to tile tire treasury it ft cannot be b gain gainsayer sayed that colonel johnston was guilty guilli of a grave error of judgment that he was strong enough to meet the enemy I 1 is proved by his own subsequent conduct for he be had bad resolved on making his way into sait malt lake city before the arrival of the reinforcements indeed he was eager to anticipate the advent of generals smith and harney by striking a decisive blow but he f found that an opportunity once neglected can never be recalled he ile had subsistence and men but it Is said that ha he overrated rate dibe the of the ground and the strength of the mormons cormons Mor mons nis his means ot or tran transportation may have been limited but with the enemy within two or three daw days march this was no inseparable obstacle ills men could have carried with wilh them five orsia or six bix days rations and the supplies of the enemy would have fallen inho info ino their hands before they had consumed their own for the victors geithe get the spoils and that the troops would have been the victors hardly admits of doubt well known instances may be referred to in which the united states troops have carried ten days provisions without the tha aid of pack animals much ies legs wagons it was done icons in ons of the tha indian wars in florida and the history of all campaigns contain instances in which generals have been surrounded by circumstances far more embarrassing than those which wh ca drew a round the utah army last winter the war department Is justly condemned for detaining the troops in kansas during the summer but ool col johnston has hag forfeited all claims to generalship by detaining them at port bridger during the winter the administration was only solicitous tous to put down freedom in kansas Johnston was excessively pruden prudent tp and between them thelo they tty tey have treated the nation to a farce without giving the Mor mormons cormons mons a frig fris fright ht at the cost ceet of twenty sot dollars where the he democrats notions of kerol herol heroism m and generalship originated we are not prepared ed 1 to s say bay ay 10 corcan 46 an we inform our readers how extensive its experience in the details of the florida war and the and climate of that country countr but that it sho shows wo as unpardonable ignorance of the climate of utah as of the country and people we W do not dot hesitate to avow that it mas has become the settled opinion of a great many leany people who profess to prompt the channel TT reward and favors that slaughter tei and desolation are the only legitimate steps to brevets or the more substantial promotion of full titles we admit but the justice and legality of the opinion we deny the balaklava charge of the earl eari of cardigan made I 1 him a hero for months in every picture shop in great britain but the calm reale reflection aion dion after the storm had bad subsided brought bought his lordship and the earl of lucan before the scrutiny of the horse guards and the graves of their siau blau slaughtered squadrons hissed forth ignominy and contempt upon them it is an illusion absurd as bloody that the fleshing shin of the sword of an n am american erlean soldier in ia an american citizen under an any y circumstances can bring permanent par manent honor how much more the chance of future regret and de degradation r ada when there can be a question as to the justice of the cause in which he bights fights let us glance lance bance cpr a moment at the be position of general johnston on his arrival at hams iford fork it was now nearly pearly a month beyond the time generally considered safe for even small trains to cross the mountains before him at the same period a year previously previous lYa iya company of emigrants were w ere barely saved from perishing his supplies were scattered the rear of his army w was s ploughing sloughing hing its way among dying chargers t through the snows of the e south I 1 pass the more veteran portion of his hiis main column had bad just emerged from a f fatiguing ati 11 guing C campaign aili aill among the sultry swamps of florida and for I 1 it lie h e bad good reason to apprehend a P serious serious I 1 effects from exposure in the biting frosts of the rocky mountains the whole army was weary and needed rest again apart from the situation of his army his bis position as as its chief was a most embarrassing 0 one inan organized e territory of the united states he found himself as he supposed in an country and no war declared ile he had not been sent with an enunciation of war in his hand but as the posse comita comitatus fo b a civil governor the best jurists define posse comitatus to be the power of the county or country in which jtB it should ouid act and not a power to be brought 1 against it lie he had bad no right b to declare the citizens of utah in a state of rebellion nor initiate a war with witla them by bomb barding their cities nor should it be forgotten that the civil government of utah for whose particular protection and installation the army was sent was yet 1 in his rear and the precise pre sise iise time of its coming very uncertain moreover as the future developed very plainly 0 te e governor was not disposed to enter upon his duties sword in hand orbe introduced to his constituency by a Pd parisian coup de main but granting that he bad a all ali 11 the a authority U necessary and war actually declared would he have been justified in advancing to advance and protect his long iong on train of supplies ilis liis at the same time was impossible and antecedents proved to him that to abandon them was to insure thil their destruction he could not hot be justified I 1 even supposing that be he had bad hewn a bloody passage to the settlements in anticipating supplies for his army at the termination of iti its march the winter itself would have shut out his bis retreat and cut him off from his bis rear detachments and what would he have accomplished would the slaughter of troops and band the blood of american citizens honestly contending 0 for for their constitutional rights have satisfied the democrat and entitled gen geni johnston to his brevet we may not ha e the experience of the democrat in the conduct of campaigns and the duties duties of a general commanding an army it is our opinion however that the conduct it has recommended could alone have been justified had bad the army of utah been selected as the forlorn hope of a greater I 1 force we are not prepared to discuss the ability of general johnston to conduct the machinery of an army in battle his former history however will compare favorably with most anost odthe of the comman commanders ers in in florida which the democrat appears to have selected sele acted as the parallel of 0 utah the dark swampy graves or blasted health he althof of many very mamy of our brave soldiers tell teli a asad abad sad tale odthe of the results of the I 1 generalship edour ledour ed our gall gallan anI lL troops through thee the vergi ads adt with ten days rations oat on ont their beir scalding backs back s t a io to be e b butchered if tche redby reaby by the ambushed am tiu sh seminoles Semi noles leavin leaving 9 our mends friends abroad io the enjoyment of their own opinions as to wb what t would have given a claim to genera generalship iship under the circumstances it ft is in our mind a fixed fact that the course of a prudent wise commander was waa that pursued by geni johnston last winter he found the army in a stormy mountain land and detachments of it struggling far in the them rear with a most roost hostile climate the supplies were scattered and as he had good reason to suppose liable to be cut off at any time lime ha lie collected his bis supplies consolidated soli dated his bis army and established good comfortable for table healthy winter quarters jid utah been an enemy and her subjugation the object of the administration we are decidedly of the opinion that a rested army agniv 1 in n the hopeni opening ng spring with preparations to protect its rear and furnish supplies and reinforcements was much more suitable to the purpose than we weary ary columns in the snows of winter with an unprotected ra rear we have bo however wever occupied more space than we had bad anticipated on this part of the subject we wanted simply to s say bay that whatever slight errors he kiy have committed through the of a pride which we could not commend geni johnston wears his brevet with as much honor almany whose path to theirs was a dark and bloody abne one any crackbrained crack brained captain may leid lead lead his troop to death against a blazing battery it takes a cool brain and good judgment to maintain a contented army and healthy camp through a stormy winter in the wahsatch Wah Wab satch mountains our readers will believe us when we bay say that lis ils it is not generally our province or or disposition to be complimentary yet would we be guilty of a neglect of plain duty to withhold the credit WR we consider fairly due to general johnston jonnston joh Job for the discipline he be has maintained tai tal nekia in his army not only during his march through our city but as far as we can learn since his halt hait halt a at t camp floyd Oar experience alwa always yi led aed to our disapproval of his hia present 1 location as being Z mn unpleasant pleasant unhealthy and inconvenient but while we have been aware that thit evil designing men have sought to stir til all up bitterness and hostility between the cit citizens zens the civil goverman go verran rit lit and the army we wei have also to ta our very great pleasure learned that the disposition of general jonnston Jol and the more experienced officers in his command has been for peace and good I 1 will the preservation of the line between a garrison and settlements so indispensable to peace and good order has done credit to the army and speaks for our future tranquility th the e laurels are thorny and sit heavy an i ugly that have been p purchased bic ased by the dispensation of leath leathand leat teat hand yand band ee desolation over our native soil the cypress is withering and bloody that bedecks bedecki the grave of the conqueror of his countrymen but for him who with the weapons of wr war in his hands dispenses peace and harmony throy the land and u ses them only to Z guard securely and strong the honor honorof of his country and the constitutional rights and liberty of his bis countrymen th ereis reserved a laurel that greenb greena forever ani and over his grave shall wave a cy press preserved fresh and immortal by the tears of the virtuous and good ATTEMPTED last night about 8 mr win cooke while on duty as policeman at the lock glock lockup upa up was shot through the thigh by a ruffian named mcdonald alias cunningham gunningham a teamster recently arrived by Y hobbs train it appears that mcdonald and two men named foster and ingram went to the guard house for the purpose of forcibly releasing r two prisoners there they had bad declared in another part of the caty efty that they would go there and liberate I 1 the men foster bad but lately been confined there but during that time examined the lock and key of the sleeping g apartment very minutely and sated stated I 1 to the prisoners that they were d d fools for remaining there under such a lock they however had been treated kindly by the several policemen who had charge of them and showed no DO inclination to receive his hia insinuations the three men gained access to the prisoners through professions of kindness and while ae there foster offered another key for the lock to one of the prisoners who refused it when it was then forced into the pocket of his trousers in the mean time while conversing apparently in a friendly manner mcdonald jumped up drew his big pistol cocked it and presented it to the breast of one prisoner cursing at him and telling him to run or he would shoot him the man anan hesitated and on ithe the other persisting in his threats mr cooke told him firmly that he i filst desist and would I 1 d n not 0 t go r ile he th then e D d discharged ic ca r g e d b his bis 19 r revolver at mr cooke 11 the poli policeman eman andhor bi himin I 1 inthe the rig night right b t thigh severely fracturing the bone the ball reaching near thre skin on the opposite side from which it has been baen bince since extract extracted completely om pa ebely flattened to about an inch in diameter the three intruders then escaped ingram ingrain has been arrested but butlre the tha others have escaped as yet the he search of the officers tue toe foregoing are the facts fasts so far as we have learned much sympathy has bas been excited in behalf of mr cooke choke who is a gentle gentie mint mirt ra r every re spec tand some little excitement pi as cir a such as these have hitherto been unknown |