The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-08


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Late from UtaIl-BrighaM Young's Platform
Important Edicts-A New Enemy In the
Camp-Rebellion Among the Women.
We have received, with the overland mails
from Utah. our files down to the 18th July of
the DESERT Ne,cs the official organ of the Latter
Day Saints at their headquarters at the Great
Salt Lake, and in another part of this paper
we give digest of the intelligence by this ar
rival from Mormondom.
The leading feature of this intelligence is
embodied in the two speeches, which we pub
lish, from Brigham Young, Governor dc Jdcto
of Utah Territory, and Autocrat, High Priest
and Prophet of all the Mormons. From these
speeches it appears that the saints were sorely
troubled by the presence, during the past win
ter, Of Col. Steptoe's detachment Of U. S.
troops at their holy city, and that the High
Priest, the Elders and Apostles experienced
great relief at the departure Of the gallant
Colonel and his command for California.
Father Brigham, Governor Dc 1acto, very clearly
explains the objections Of himself and his asso-
ciate polygamists to the guardianship Of the
U. S. Army. Having no enemy to fight, the
troops according to the usage in such cases
Of all good soldiers the wide world over did
their best to make themselves agreeable to the
ladies and it is manifest, from the confess
sions. representations and awful threats Of Father
Brigham, that they succeeded to a lamentable
degree, and to an extent really dangerous to
the peaceful enjoyments Of the patriarchal in
stitution of polygamy.
While the government troops We're at the
holy city of Great Salt Lake we heard nothing
OF their wicked and treacheroas proceedings
among The sisterhood but with their depar-
ture the Governor dc tdcto gives them lit
of his mind. after his own peculiar fashion
We are astourded at his disclosures, and the
only wonder is that all the saints Of the city
having from seven to fifty wives and upwards,
did not combine in a holy alliance to eypel
these impious myrmidons Of the government
by fire and sword. Only look at their con
duet. Was there ever such "open treachcry ~
These soldiers sent out to preserve and enforce
good order appropriated every opportunity to
take the wives and daughters Of the saints out
walking and riding-especally sleighriding-
and the havoc which they thus made among
the beauties Of the principally may be partly
onjectured from the announcement that they
carried OFF with them an indefinite naniDer OF
the Mormon fair ones, for "hetter or for
worse -" sink OF swim, survive or perish -
IN route ior California. We may also guess,
to some extent, from this startling disclosure,
the terror of the High Priest, the twelve Apos-
ties and the seventy Elders; the scenes in their
seraglios, and the rising spirit of in-urrection
there. At all events, the volunteer daughters
Of the regiment, enlisting in the regular army
from the Mormon camp, account very satisfae-
torily for " the milk in the cocoa nut " Of
Father Brigham's latest proclamations.
And what is the remedy which he 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 de-
creed for such conduct as that Of our troops
among the Mormon ladies last winter. is
death-a quick and sudden death. They are
to be slain, and slaughtered, too. without the
benefit Of Judge, jury clergy, or christian bu-
rial. They will be slain, wherever the Pro-
phet and his Amounted Apostles and Elders
may find them trespassng upon their patriar-
chal rights, mo matter how guilty the women
may be- A special edict of Governor Young.
Let it be respected. He also proclaims it to
the four winds Of heaven, and the uttermost
parts Of the earth, through his official organ
that no matter who may be sent out from
Washington TO the ADMINISTRATION of the Terri
torial affairs of Utah, Bri CHAM Young Is dc
fdcto and will 50 continue to be the High Priest,
the Father, and the Governor of the Mormons.
lie will fight for this position, and for the pre-
servation intact Of the patrarchal institution
Of polygamy, come what may.
This is momentous news. and very sgni-
ticant withal. 1t shows that the Nor
mon women are ripe for rebellion, aud
that detachment of the regular army is
a greater terror to the patriarchs Of the
Mormon Jerusalem, than Indians, or drought,
or grasshoppers 1t indicates the way,
too, for the extinction of the peculiar
institution Of Utah. The astonishing results
of the expedition of Col Steptoe, in this view.
DO most distinctly suggest the future policy
Of the government touching this nest of Nor.
mons. II is TO send out to the Great Salt Lake
fresh detachment of young. and good looking
soldiers, and al the end of two or three months
order them Off to California, and replace them
by new detachment at Salt Lake City, and
so on, till those Turks OF the desert are re
duced, by feminine desertions, to the standard
Christian regulation of one wife piece. I'm
questionably, If, with a taking detachment Of
the army in new and snowy uniform, the
President were to send out TO Utah, at this
crisis Of impending famine, corps of rcgu-
larly disciplined women's rights women, TO lay
down the law to their. sisters among the Nor
mons, they would soon compel the patriarchal
authorities of Salt Lake to an exodus to some
o'her region beyond the reach of our gallant
army ana our heroic warriors in petti.oats,