The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-28 00:00:00

MORMON INSTITUTIONS IN DANGER.

(From the New Fork Herold.)

We have received with the overland mails, from
Utah, our files down to the 25th of July.
It appears that the saints were sorely troubled by the
presence, during the past winter, of Colonel Steptoes de-
tachment of the United States troops at. their holy city, and
that the high priests, the elders, and apostles experienced •
great relief at the departure of the gallant colonel and hie
eosainand for California. Father Brigham, governor dos
Ado, very clearly explains the objections of himself and his
associate polygamists to the guardianship of the United
States army. Having no enemy to fight, the troops, accord-
ing to the usage in such cases of all goon soldiers the wide
world over, did their best to make themselves agreeable to
the ladies ; end it is manifest, from the confessions, espostu.
lations, and awful threats of Father Brigham, that they sae-
ceeded to a lamentable degree, and to an extent really dan-
gerous to the peaceful enjoyments of the patriarchalinstim.
tioa of polygamy.
While the government troops were at the holy city of
Great Salt Lake, we heard nothing of their wicked and
treeeberens protombegs among the sisterhood; bet wish
their departure the governor de facto give* them a bit of
his mind, after his own peculiar fashion. We are astounded
at his disclosures, end the only wonder is that all the saints
of the city, t•aving from seven to fifty wives end upwards,
did not combine in a holy alliance to expel these impious
myrmidons of the government by fire and sword. Those
soldiers,
soldiers, sent out to preserve and enforce good order, ap-
propriated every opportunity to take the wives and daughters
of the saints out walking and riding—especially sleigh riding
—and the havoc which they thus made among the beauties
of the priocipality mey be partly conjectured from the
announcement that they carried off with them an inde-
finite number of the Mormon fair one% for " better or
for worse "—.. sink or swim, survive or perish "—en route
for California. We may also guess, to some extent, from
this startling disclosers, the terror of the high pries%
the twelve apostle% and the seventy elders, the MUM
in their seraglio., and the rising spirit of insurrection then.
At all estate, the volunteer daughters of the regiment, em-
listing in the register army from the Mormon camp, account
very satisfactorily for " the milk in the cocoa ant" of Father
Brigham's latest proclamations.
And what is the remedy which be proposes? For the
information of the " President of the United States and all
others In authority," and especially as a warning to all
government officials and soldiers in Utah for the future, we
regret to announce that the penalty decreed for such con-
duct as that of our troops among the Mormon ladies last
winter, is death—a quick and sudden death. Such offens
den hereafter are to be slain, and slaughtered too, without
the benefit of judge, jury, clergy, or Christian burial.
This is momentous news, and very significant withal. It
shows that the Mormsa women are ripe for rebellion and
that a detachment of the regular army is a greater terror
to the patriarchs of the Mormon Jerusalem, than Indians,
or drought, or grasshoppers. It indicates the way, too,
for the extinction of the peculiar institution of
Utah. The astonishing results of the expedition of Col.
Steptos, in this view, do most distinctly suggest the future
policy of the government touching this nest of Mormons.
It is to send out to the Great Salt Lake a fresh detachment
of young and good looking soldiers. and at the end of two
or three months order them off to California, and replace
them by a new detachment at Salt Lake City, and so on,
till those Turks of the desert are reduced, by feminine de-
sertions, to the standard Christian regulation of ens wife a
piece. Unquestionably, if, with a taking detachment of the
army in a new and showy uniform, the President were to
send out to lAA, at this crisis of impending famine, • seeps
of regolarly disciplined women's rights women, to ley
down the law to their sisters among the Mormon., they
would soon compel the patriarchal authorities of Salt Lake
to as exodus to some other region beyond the reach *feet
gallant army and our heroic warriors in petticoats, who
know their rights, and knowing, dare 0 maintain them."
The spirit of insurrection among the femsles of the
Mormon settlement must be alarming and positive, when
we see the great high priest and lawgiver of the te;ritem
sinking the grasshoppers and the threatened &Mimi in d►
nunciatioss against the familiarities of the Gentiles MOW
the saintly sisterhood, and in decreeing the death penalty,
without trial, for such conduct hereafter.
We call upon our women's rights women to volunteer is
this great and gond work of the liberation of their sisters in
Utah. Read the governor's edicts which we publish to-
day. They betray the vulnerable point in the Mormon
system. But what will the administration do? Will Mr.
Pierce again venture to dispute the authority of the prophet
—the governor de facto—or will his organ tell us who is the
governor defuse of Cosh ? Pee should like to know.