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It has, nevertheless, niway4.been the policy

and desire "of tile 'Federal government to avoid

collision with this Mormon 'community. ...Jt

has borne with the: insubordination, and this

forbearance might still Ani prolonged, if this

community occupied any,ether theatre, isolat­

ed and remote from the seatt,of

than Abe - one they note possess. But, unior :

tunetely for these views, their settlements lie

in - the great pathway which lends -from "our

Atlantic Stales- to the_.pew _and flourishing

co ußities • ,grotring -up-open...our, .Pacific

seaboard.,

Great care, the report - proceeds, has been

itken in preParing for the march to Utah, that

nothing should seem to excite apprehension

of tiny action on the part of the army - in the

least conflicting with the flit'ed,principles of

'our institutions, by w Web. the _military is

ititribtlyTtilffirdin - itterffi - fild - tivil n iitliori ty: ------

In view of. the .menacing attitude of affairs

in _Utah, the Secretary recommends an-nticii­

tional .reinforceitient of five regiments to the

force nlready detaded for service ( against the

. _ ..

The staff of the army.is the - mext subject- to

which the report' calls attention. --- 01 - 14 — t -- :orthe

greatest errors of detail, the SeOretary eays,

is-the-seParate independent character'of. the

staff corps, which removes them from their

proper position as aids or assistants to the

commander, and constitutesllietn as his equals.:

The defeat arising from rank in also alluded

to - , - antra remedy called for.- Another fault in

that of promotion by seniority, the correction

of which the Secretary urges with much force.

Age-and experience, he says, should bring ex­

cellence, but the test after all lies itt the ac­

tual possession of the latter, and not merely

in the circumstances which it is assumed

should produce it.,: