Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-01-08
BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE
The MOrmO0s...T1se Twelve In.
dfCted. .Ou1sa W..

NC W OTMn u asSsesl1 ne Twelve IN
dicted.. Ouisa vs..
BAcKENsTos, who was recently trie,
and acquitted at Peoria. on the charge O
numbering Worrel. has recently visi,e.
Springfield, as delegate to the loco foe,
Convention from Hancock county. H,
was accompanied by other Mormons. III,
whole Delegation from Hancock being i,
fact Mofmons or Jack Mormons. 1t ap
pears tina. some kind Of compromise la.
been entered into by which The Mormon.
or large part Of them will yet remain il
Illinois. The loco focos fear they canno
get along without their votes. Hence thu
compromise. This is bargain and cor
rupiion Of the worst kind. A party tina
can adopt such measure must indeed bt
rotten to the core.
Recently the Grand Jury found true
bill against the Twelve Mormon Apostle.
for connterfeiting. The Marshal applied
To the Governor for assistance to arres
these men. The Governor refused to or
der the Militia to assist the u. s. Mar
shall OIL The ground /. That the Militia
was not called on, By the Prssiden, Of the
United States; 2, The late disturbances
were to be settled upon The condition thai
all prosecutions for old matters OF accuse
tons should be dropped; and 3. That the
Mormons will not remove wi.hou. their
leaders or head men. and If these should
be arrested and imprisoned all the prepar.
atIon' now made for removal would stop.
The above are the reasons, in brief
urged by Governor Ford against lending
his aid to arrest these base connterfei.ers
We learn, by the Sangamo Journal, tina,
Mr. Roberts. deputy Marshal. was sent 10
Nauvoo to make arrests. When he arrv.
ed man was pointed out to him as Brig.
ham Young, the ackno wledged leader Of
the Mormons. Roberts arrested and took
him 10 Carthage. bu when brought I'D
for examination it was found that the re.
semblance to Brigham Young only con-
sisted in his outer garment. Brigham
in the meantime had slid out Of harms
way, and so had all the other principal
Saints"
The same paper safes that when the
"Holy Twelve" wee informed of their
being indicted. ,hsy impuden,ly sent to
their Counsel in Springfield that they
were ready to send 'ne Of their number
to be tried. and that hey would abide the
resui, Of his trial.
We copy the follwing illustration of
the adul,erous doins of the Mormons
from the Warsaw simal:-
Great Commotitn at Nauuoo.
as our paper was s"ng 10 press we re-
ceired intelligence rom Nauvoo. ,ha, The
Lord has accepted The Temple. and tina,
the long promised Endowment. for which
the SAINTS have bee SO long preparing, is
now being received
This endowment consists in an abroea.
ton OF all existing marriages and every
good saint is at liSr,y to cas-. away his
present wife and tie another VINO may
suit him better. he consequence is, all
Nanve0 is in comnolion and the Saints
are running about frfectly wild with ex-
element.
The reason whv,he Lord concluded 10
endow his saints il this singular n,anner.
was because, somehu.bands v ere willing
to 60 to Oregon AM their wives objected.
and rice versa; SO hey being mis- match
ed, the Lord CONCLUDED to prevent Difficult
~ by giving all wiling ones chance TO
select new parinersfor the expedition.
Who wonders tn old and vir,uous set.
tiers of Hancock Comfy are indignant in
having such mas of living corruption
among them as the Mormons; especially
as they are in the Majority and have the
entire control Of tie government. of the
County. The aboe does not comprise
1.-THE Of the wickedhess that Is pract ised
by this worse than Mahome,an Sect
They laugh TO soon the law and the ad.
m'nistra,ion thereof If The law canno,
reach them. what aaion will be consider
ed adequate and rilh. 10 bring them to
justice! Will no, ne Constitution offer
remedy! II crime can thus be upheld
and perpetra,ed, then have we fallen on
evil days. The leaders Of the Mermons
are outlaws and should be punished as
such