The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-29 00:00:00

THE MORMONS.

The following is the official report, of Judge
Drummond, of the Supreme Court of the territory
of Utah, to the ion, Jeremiah S. Black, Attorney-
General of the United States, Washington City,
D.C. :

" My dear sir,—As I have concluded to resign the.
office of Justice of the Supreme Court of the territory of
Utah, whi3ll position I accepted in A. D. 1854, under the
Administration of President Pierce, I deem it due to the
public to give some of the reasons why, Ido ea. In the
Srst place, Drigham Yotifig, the Governor of Utah ter-
ritory,!is the acknowledged head of the Church of !Jesus
Christ cf Latter-•lay Saints,' commonly called ' Mor-
mons,' and as such head the Mornions look to him, and.
to him alone, for the law by which they are to be go-
verned ; tkerefore, no law of Congress is by them con-
sidered hieding in any manner, .

" 2. I know that there is a secret oath-bound organi-
sation among all the male members of the church to ac-
knowledge no law save the law of the Holy Priesthood,"
which comes to the people through Brigham Young, di-
rect from God, he, Young, being the vicegerent of God
and the prophetic successor of Joseph Smith, who was
the founder of this blind and treasonable organisation
" o. I am fully aware that there is a set of men get
apart by special order of the church to take both the
lives and property of persons who may question the
authority of the church (the names of whom I will
promptly make known at a future time).
"4, That the records, papers, Icc., of the Supreme
Court have been destroyed by order of the church with
direct knowledge and approbation of Governor Young,
and the Federal officers grossly insulted for presuming
to raise a single question about the treasonable act.
"5.- Teat the Federal officers of the territory are con-
stantly insulted, harrassed, and annoyed by the Mor-
mon', and for tbo.e insults there is no redress.

" o. ,That the Federal officers are daily c3mpelled to
bear the form of the American Government traduced,
the chief executives of the nation, both living and dead,
slandered a• d abused from the masses, as well as fro,n
all the leading members of the church, in the most vul-
gar, loathsome, and wicked manner that the evil passions
of man can possibly conceive.
"Again.—That after Moroni Green had beta con-
victed in tha District Court before my colleague, Judge
Kinney, of assault with intent to commit murder, and
afterwards, on appeal to the Supreme Court, the judg-
ment being affirmed, and the said Green sentenced to
the penitentiary, Brigham Young gave a full pardon to
the said G'reea before he reached the penitentiary ; also,
that the said Governor Young pardoned a man named
Baker, who had been tried and sentenced to 10 years'
imprisonment in the penitentiary fur the murder of a
dumb boy named Whitehouse, the proof showing one of
the most aggravated cases of murder that I ever knew
being triad ; and, to insult the Court and Government
officers, t. is man Young took this pardoned criminal
wi/la him in proper person to church on the next Sab-
bath after his conviction, Baker in the meantime having
received a full pardon from Governor Brigham Young.
These two men were Mormons.

On the ether hand Lcharge the Mormons, and Go-
vernor Young in particular, with imprisoning five or six
young men troth Missouri and lowa, who are now in the
penitentiary of Utah, without these men having violated
any criminal law in America, but they were anti-Mor-
mons, poor uneducated young men, on their way to
California ; but because they emigrated from Illinois,
lowa, or Missouri, and passed by the Great Salt Lake
City, they were indicted by a Probate Court, and most
brutally and inhumanly dealt with, in addition to being
summarily incarcerated in the saintly prison of the tend-
t try of U tab. I also charge Governor Young with con-
stantly interfering with the Federal Courts, directing
the grand jury whom to indict and whom not, and,
after the judge's charge to the grand juries as to their
duties, that this man Young invariably has some mem-
ber c t the grand jury advised in advance as to his will in
relation to their labours, and that his charge thus given
is the only charge known; obeyed, or received by all the
grand juries of the Federal Courts of Utah territory.
"Again, sir, after a careful and mature investigation,
,I have been compelled to come to the conclusion, heart-
rending and sickening as it may be, that Captain John
W. Gunnison and his party of eight others were mur-
dered by the Indians in 1853, under the order, advice,
and direction of the Mormons ; that my illustrious and
distinguished predecessor, Hon. Leonidas Shaver, came
to his death by drinking poisonous liquors, given him
tinder the order of the leading men of the Mormon
Church in Great Salt Lake City ; that the late Secretary
of the territory, A. W. Babbitt. was murdered on the
plains by a band of Mormon marauders, under the par-
ticular and special order of Brigham Yonng, Heber C.
Kimball, and J. 11. Grant, and not by the Indians, as
repOrted by the Mormons thetrisel, es, and that they
were sent from Salt Lake City for that purpose, and that
only ; and as members of the Danite band they were
bound to do the will of Brigham Young, as the head of
the Church, or forfeit their lives.

"These reasons, with many others that I might give,
which would be too heartrending to insert in this
communication, have induced me to resign the office
of Justice of the Territory of Utah, and again return
to my adopted State of Illinois. My reason, sir, for
making the communication thus public is, that the
democratic party, with which I have always
strictly acted, is the party now in power, and there-
fore is the party that should now be held re-
sesnsitle fir the treasonable and disgraceful state of
affairs that now exists in Utah Territory. I could, Sir,
if necessary, refer to a aloud of witnesses, to attest the
reasons I have- given, and the charges, bold as they are,
against those despots who rule with an Iron hand their
hundred thousand saula in Utah, and their two hundred
thousand souls out of that notable territory, but shall
not do so for the reason that the lives of such gentlemen
as I should designate in Utah and in California would
not be safe for a single day.
"In conclusion, Sir, I have to say that in my career
as Justice of the supreme Court of Utah territory I
• ave the consolation of knowing that I did thy duty ;
that neither threats nor intimidations drove me from
tha:-, path. Upon the other hand, I atn pained to say
that I amouvliehtd. little good while there ; that the