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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 12: (search)
y; From a reference to the instructions from the General to General Harney, the President could not have inferred the existence of any such protest. On the contrary, General Scott explicitly states the fact that they had been prepared in concert with the War Department, and sanctioned by its authority wherever required. In these instructions General Scott, so far from intimating that he had protested against the expedition, states that the community, and in part the civil Government of Utah Territory, are in a state of substantial rebellion against the laws and authority of the United States. A new civil Governor is about to be designated, and to be charged with the establishment and maintenance of law and order. Your able and energetic aid, with that of the troops to be placed under your command, is relied upon to secure the success of his mission. And the General, as we have already seen, expresses the belief that the honor and interest of the United States were deeply involved