state; that word served but to recall the degraded tribes who had
contested the settlement of the valleys. Deseret, a Book of
Mormon name for the honey bee, was more appropriate. The
petition of the people was denied in part, and, in 1850 was
established the territorial form of government in Utah.
Concerning the period of the provisional government, such men as
Gunnison, Stansbury, and other federal officials on duty in the
west, have recorded their praises of the "Mormon" colonists in
official reports. But with the un-American system of territorial
government came troubles.

At first, many of the territorial officials were appointed from
among the settlers themselves; thus, Brigham Young was the first
governor; but strangers, who knew not the people nor their ways,
filled with prejudice from the false reports they had heard, came
from the east to govern the colonists in the desert. Of the
federal appointees thus forced upon the people of Utah, many made
for themselves most unenviable records.

Some of them were broken politicians, professional
office-seekers, with no desire but to secure the greatest
possible gain out of their appointment. With effrontery that
would shock the modesty of a savage, the non-"Mormon" party
adopted and flagrantly displayed the carpet-bag as the badge of
their profession. But not all the officials sent to Utah from
afar were of this type; some of them were honorable and upright
men, and amongst this class the "Mormon" people reckon a number
who, while opposed to their religious tenets, were nevertheless
sincere and honest in the opposition they evinced.