Show SENSATION STORIES r boz boi BETWEEN tren tres east PAST AND THE tur present rne paE sENT r ACCORDING to the eastern papers some little feeling has been aroused in certain circles in the east about affairs in utah at story having been industriously circulated that a camp of men had been formed at it a point not far from this eity that was intended to afford both defensive and aggressive aggress ive ivo advantages the reason assigned for the formation of this camp was that the people of this territory might bo be prepared to resist the enforcement of any legislative act which might bet made against their peculiar institution ution at the ap approaching pro aching session of congress there was a time not iong long ago when such sach a story louia would have have received wide ere cre credence denee donee throughout the east and have become firmly rooted in the public mind before any contradiction could coull have appeared eared it was by the systematic circulation ution of such falsehoods that a public opinion was created in the tho east in 1857 to justify the administration in sending out an army to utah any number of slanders vanders and false statements could be circulated without check throughout ghou c the eab Eoa tenn tern southern and western states in those days for this territory was quite remote and almost inaccessible and maii mail communication even when tep kept up regularly was not oftener than otice a month but now all this h has as changed today to day we have consta constant nt tele gra graphia hlo hio e communication 0 m m uni cation catlon and the railroad roat brin hrin brings g s us u s papers and letters three or al fourn four days old from the populous cities of the east and carries news from here thero there with equal facility it has been said that a I 1 lie will travel a league cleague while truth is putting inputting bahe oahe on her hen boots but though lies still outstrip truth in the rapidity of their movements truths facilities for traveling are steadily increasing it does not take the latter so ion lon long iong to equip herself for her journeys as it did previous to the dayson days of railroads and tele telegraph raph lines she can now keep somewhere liere near in sight of her moro more nimble and unscrupulous rival arld arid falsehood in our case does itala its own way as it did once on this account and many others the people of this territory feel greatly interested in railroads and telegraph lines by their aid we have better opportunities port unities of being understood arid though our enemies are as bitter ana and vindictive as ever they cannot work in the dark as they once could with the I 1 easy means of communication which now exists between the east and utah no administration could ret pet up a crusade against the people of utah upon the grounds that buchanan cited as the basis of ochia his action in 1857 the charges which were then circulated were wholly faise false but parties having a feeling interest in the Treasury anet anol ancL others who had an interest in getting the army out of the way and in diverting attention from their own rebellious rebellions schemes were busily employed in various parts of the union in making them appear to be true and communication wm waar then so difficult and at such long intervals that the administration could make these false representations an excuse for fbi aggressive gies gres sive action but now if the war department wishes to know whether there is a camp of men being formed near this city or of not it can inquire fuire luire and in a few minutes get a reply if f the president of the united states should hear heat from some lying source from seme some one of our numerous enemies that the people of this territory are assuming a menacing attitude towards the government or that they are in a state of quasi rebellion he need not be many minutes in suspense about the report a telegraph jine line is convenient and by its aid he can learn the true truo condition of affairs here an illustration of the advani advant advantage ag which these speedy means of com commini mulli muril catl cati the people of this territory was i afforded in the bi afield case bome some orne orde keksi persons ans aim aie U f ta guess their names we would notile notice far astray telegraphed east EA tafter after the occurrence that the lives of citizens who we re not latter day saints and especially those who were officers rg of the government were word in peril in this city general 1 sherman who was then in oom mandof mandos the department of the mississippi jin lin mediately telegraphed to president hot bot young and inquired if the leport which had come to him were true he promptly received a reply si signed ned by numerous citizens which satisfied him that the first statement was false and which must have acted as a caution against giving ing C credence in the future to any t thing ing that might emanate from the same source in a few hours after the lie left this city truth was upon its track and when they met the former formet was stricken to the ground vanquished and powerless in past years every lying ac scribbler every corrupt official who did not happen to be suit edwith the belief or conduct of the people of this terr territory etory atory discharged ed his venom through the columns of some newspaper and ahe fhe falsehood went the rounds for months butt but now notz their statements receive but comparatively ively little notice their letters are anticipated by the telegraph and the public learn to at attach tachino no importance to their contents we are pleased to see the change for it compels men of this class to change their tactics we wip were in the E eastern states in the winter of 1858 1853 9 and every time the mail came in from this territory which was monthly we noticed that a long misstatement mis statement of occurrences in this territory appeared regularly among the dispatches of the associated press mr craig who was then the agent of the associated press at new now york in response to our inquiries upon the subject informed us that these reports were received from the west mit but he could give us no particulars as to who the i author was to aid us in investigating investigate ng the subject he kindly proffered us a letter of introduction to the agent at st louis from this gentleman we learned that these dispatches were sent bent from leavenworth further inquiry revealed the fact that the operator at the iatter latter place was in the pay of parties who were interested in kee keeping ping up the impression that the army was needed in utah ments which were either utterly false or garbled reports of actual occurrences were gotten up as news items and were doubtless prepared in this city and sent by mail mall to leavenworth from which point they were sent over the wires to every corner of the union this was the tho method which was then adopted of manufacturing public opinion ion lon ar the people of this territory and it answered the purpose for awhile but a reaction afterwards took place and no now w every well informed person knows that the crusade of 1857 58 though vice president colfax lately reiterates the stale falsehoods was a piece of atrocious villainy from beginning to end such buch a method of creating public opinion could scarcely succeed succeed to today day |