The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-15

r,cri was n when ven had listed the patience
Of our audience on the Sth, alter having given
personal challenge TO any one who would accept
Was il proper time 10 challenge for single combat,
before a general assembly Of the people, convened
especially for religious wsrship!
How could you. then, have promptly and gladly |
relieved yourself FROM any erroneous impression |
your auditors mig have derived from the substance
and tone of your remarks when you knew not |
rom what source your auditors derived those inn |
pressons And was il your boasted privilege, your
proper time 70 FIRE and Eight your battles Ger
again." quick you had given challenge, with
out waiting 20 see if any one accepted it II 30,
who would you have been likely 70 ht-lades or
gentlemenI
II wac true sir, what said, at the close Of your
speech and repeat il here, that my expressions
may not DO mis.aken-l said in reference TO your
speech, Judge Brocchus is either profoundly igno-
rant, wiltally witked-one of the two. There are
several gentlemen who would be very glad to prove
the statements that have been made about Judge
Brocoaus, and which he has tempted TO repel; but
vail hear nothing more on either side a. this con-
ference.
Ard why d,d say it I To quen the excitement
which your remarks had caused in that audience;
not to give accept challenge but to prevent any
one tof which there were many present wishing the
peortUniiy), and every one, from accepting your
challenge, and thereby bringing down upon your
head the indignation of an outraged people, IN the
midst Of conference convened for religious iDstruc-
sien and business, and which, your remarks CONT
sued, must have continued the excitement, until
there would have been danger /" Of pulling Of hair
and cutting OF tnroats, perhaps, on oOth SIDES, IL
parties had proved equai-for there are points in
human actions and events, beyond which men and
women cannot be controlled Starvation will revo-
ptionize any people, and lead them TO acts OF afro
city that human power cannot control and will
not mother Feelings, in view Of her murdered off
spring, her bleeding husband, and her dying sire,
by hands Of mobocIatic violence be equally strong
and uncomfortable, and especially when tantalized
20 the highest pitch by those who stand, or ought
TO stand ait, with dignity on the Judgment seat,
and impair justice alihe TO all
Sir, what confidence can this prosecuted, murder
ed, outeast people have in your decisions from he
bench after you have tantelized their feelings from
the stand, by informing them there is yet hope in
their case, ifthey will apply to Missouri and Illinois
| ask you. sir, if you did not know, when you was
thus making your plea, hat this people AVE plead
| with the authorities OF those States, which are
doomed TO iretrievable ruin by their own acts,
from their lowest magistrate to their highest Judge,
and from their halls legislature to their governors,
times and times, and times again, until they, with
force of arms have driven ne from their midst and
utterly refused The possibility of the cries Of muir
dered innocence from reaching their polluted ears!
| | ask, sir, did you know th'sl II not, you
| profoundly ignorant; yon were possessed of iguo-
not TO be tolerated in children OF ten years in
! these United States. But, on the other hand, if
you were possession Of the facts you wilful
ly wicked in presuming to tantalize, and rouse in
anger Dire those feelings Of srail humanity on one
hand and offended justice on the other which it is
our object to bury IN iorgetfuiness, and leave the
| issue TO the decision Of o just Sod
Your motive, action, or design, you wholly con-
eealed, or you could never have gained hearing on
such an occasion.
nit any man to accept your challenge? No. sir, you
| know did not; ana could you, as gentleman,
| ask the privilege to defend your challenge be-
fore it was accepted! Don Quixotte should not he
named in such farce No, sir, out Of mercy to you
prohibited any man from accepting your challenge.
And until the challenge was accepted you had moth
ing to reply to, When, then, was the proper time,
you refer TO, when you would have replied, and the
privilege was denied youl No such time as you mad
/ supposed existed
And now sir, as it appears from the whole face of
! the subject, that tomorrow might have been the
first proper time" that might have given you the
privilege Of explainiDg, and as this courtesy you
have utterly refused, end thereby manifest choice
to leave incensed public in incense still, against
| your (as they now view iD dishonorable course,
| shall take the liberty cf doing my duty, by adj
verting still further to your reply of yesterday.
| Charity would have induced me TO hope, at least,
that our speech, in part was prompted by the i'm
| pulse Of the moment; but an forbid this pleasing
| reflection, by your note, wherein you state that
my speech in all its parts the result of delbe-
! ration and care not proceeding from a beatcdmagi-
nation or maddened impulse" intended to
cay what did say" Now, fyou did actually Sin
tend to say what you did say, it is pretty strong
Iresumptiye testimony that yen were not ignorant,
! for if you had been ignorant, from whence arose
| your Intentions! And if you were not ignorant
| you must have been wilfully wicked; and / cannot
conceive of a more charitable construction to put
upon your conduct that occasion than to believe
| you designedly and deliberately planned speech to
excite the Indignation Of your hearers To extent
that would cause them to break the bonds of pro-
priety, by pulling you. hor or cutting your throat,
willing. doubt, the utmost of YOUR Denevolence
to die martyrs DEATH if you could only get oeca-
sion 70 raise the hue and cry, and reminder vir-
tuous people, as Missouri and Illinois has so often
done before you, Glorious philanthropy this; and
corresponds mos. fully with the declaration which,
1t reported, on pretty good authority, that Judge
Brocchus made while on his journey to the valley,
substantially as follo.s-'lf The citizens of Utah
1n "a I, IL.
| God, I'll use allmy influence against them and will
| crush them. have tho influence and the power to
do il, and viii accomplish it if they do not make
me their delegate"
whether your honor made those observations that
rumor says you did; but will leave it to an intelli-
| gent world, or 80 much of that world are ac-
quainted with the facts in the case to decide whether
your conduct has not fully proved that you harbored
those malicious feelings in your heart when you de-
hberately planned speech calculated in It's nature
to rouse this aunity to violence, and that, too
on day coAsecrated to religious duties, your de-
caraton to the contrary Notwithstanding, that you
Z" did not desgnto offer ind gnty and insult When
a mans words arc set in direct opposition to his
| acts, which will men believed His acts all the
! time. Where, then, is the force Of your deniall
| One item more from your note, reads thus--'t Ny
cole design In the branch Of my remarks which
seems TO be the source Of offence was to vindicate
| the government Of the United States from those
feelings Of prejudice, and that spirit of detection
which seemed to pervade the public sentiment &c.
Let me inquire what "public sentiment you refer
red to! Was il the sentiments Of the States mt argel
If SO, your honor missed bis aim mos. widely, when
be lett the city Of Washington to become the au-
| thor Of such remarks. You left home when YOU
left Washington. II such prejudice and defec-
ton represent there existed, there you should
have Numbered your anathemas. mud made the peo-
pie feel your patriotic allegiance but, if ever you
believed for n momentifeyer an idea entered your
soul that the citizens of Utah. the people generally
whom you addressed on tho sth, were poaiGssed of
of detection towards tlp
or that they hsrbored preudces against it unjustly
SO far you proved yourself profoundly ignorant
of the subject in which you was engaged and OF
the views and feelings of the people whom you ad-
dressed; and this ignorance alone might have been
sufficient to lead you into all the errors and fooeries
you were guilty Of on that occasion But had you
known your hearers, you would have known, and un-
derstood and felt that you wa addressing the most
Iflinht nnad ntn - IL