There is reason to believe that Governor Young has long contemplated this result.  He knows that the continuance of his despotic power depends upon the exclusion of all settlers from the Territory except those who will acknowledge his divine mission and implicitly obey his will, and that an enlightened public opinion there would soon prostrate institutions at war with the laws both of God and man.  He has therefore for several years, in order to maintain his independence, been industriously employed in collecting and fabricating arms and munitions of war and in disciplining the Mormons for military service.  As superintendent of Indian affairs he has had an opportunity of tampering with the Indian tribes and exciting their hostile feelings against the United States.  This, according to our information, he has accomplished in regard to some of these tribes, while others have remained true to their allegiance and have communicated his intrigues to our Indian agents.  He has laid in a store of provisions for three years, which in case of necessity, as he informed Major Van Vliet, he will conceal, “and then take to the mountains and bid defiance to all the powers of the Government.”

A great part of all this may be idle boasting, but yet no wise government will lightly estimate the efforts which may be inspired by such frenzied fanaticism as exists among the Mormons in Utah.  This is the first rebellion which has existed in our Territories, and humanity itself requires that we should put it down in such a manner that it shall be the last.  To trifle with it would be to encourage it and to render it formidable.  We ought to go there with such an imposing force as to convince these deluded people that resistance would be vain, and thus spare the effusion of blood.  We can in this manner best convince them that we are their friends, not their enemies.  In order to accomplish this object it will be necessary, according to the estimate of the War Department, to raise four additional regiments; and this I earnestly recommend to Congress.  At the present moment of depression in the revenues of the country I am sorry to be obliged to recommend such a measure; but I feel confident of the support of Congress, cost what it may, in suppressing the insurrection and in restoring and maintaining the sovereignty of the Constitution and laws over the Territory of Utah.

I recommend to Congress the establishment of a Territorial government over Arizona, incorporating with it such portions of New Mexico as they may deem expedient.  I need scarcely adduce arguments in support of this recommendation.  We are bound to protect the lives and the property of our citizens inhabiting Arizona, and these are now without any efficient protection.  Their present number is already considerable, and is rapidly increasing, notwithstanding the disadvantages under which they labor.  Besides, the proposed Territory is believed to be rich in mineral and agricultural resources, especially in silver and copper.  The mails of the United States to California are now carried over it throughout its whole extent, and this route is known to be the nearest and believed to be the best to the Pacific.