The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-30

terrible MANIFESTO FROM BRIGHAM YOUNG.
MAKE Room FOR THE MoRMoNs.-We spread
before our readers to-day most terrible aud
important proclamation from Brigham Young,
Governor, High Priest, protecting Patriarch
and Grand Turk of the Latter Day Saints at
the Great Salt Lake. His defence of the Nor
mons, their politics, religion, and their rights
of all kinds, including the ancient, Oriental add
royal institution of polygamy, is a clincher
Louis Napoleon's vindication Of the campaign
in the Crimea is fool to it. He is man of
mark, that same Brigham Young. With bis
forty wives aud six omnibus loads Of children,
he aspires to the wisdom of Solomon; with bis
sharp and caustic criticisms upon the politics
of the day, he eclipsss Henry A. Wise; with
bis keen, pungent, plain spoken denuuciations
of hypocritical professors of religion, he excels
Henry Ward Beecher; and his denunciations
against sinners, great aud small, living and
dead, are given with the JUNCTION of an anointed
prophet.
His political programme is very clearly laid
down. He is for the constitution, the Union,
and for the patriarchal rights of the saints at
all hazards. He agrees with Gen. Cass in the
doctrine of popular sovereignty, and insists that
the people Of Utah have as much right to it
as the squatters of Kansas. Upon this
point he is jealous, vigilant, and bold and
courageous as q gamecock among a flock
of favorite hens in a barDyard On the negro
question he is sound as roach. He says that
the children of Ham are doomed to servitude
by Divine command, and that they are bound
to fulfill this divine decree. In religious view
Of the subject we cannot, Of course, presume to
Judge whether the Prtriarch is right or wrong
in declaring that the bad conduct of some mas
tiers often sends both slave aud master to hell.
If such be the case we are sorry for it; and we
are also sorry to be assured by the Prophet
that he knows the report to be true that Gene
raj Taylor has gone to hell. There is some
thing satanic in this assertion, and we can't
believe it. In what way good old Zachary
Taylor could have afflicted the saints, so as to
deserve this awful roasting, we should really
like to know.
Upon another point we are inclined to sus-
pect that the Mormon patriarch is more than
half right, and it is where he says that it is
"the sanctimonious hypocrisy of old sectarians
that is stirring up the devil all the time" Upon
another point he throws out very useful
suggestion to the administration, as to the
sort of government officers that ought
to be sent to Utah. 1t is very evident
that Governor Young objects to young bache-
Tors, as chaps that are likely to get into trouble
in Utah. The saints in most cases have a plu-
ra)ity Of wives, ranging from five to forty,
and even to seventy, as some reports have it.;
but outsiders are not to infer from this that
they have any to spare. Father Young is par
ticularly solicitous upon this point, in order to
avoid all misunderstanding for the future;
and we admonish Mr.. Pierce to remember it in
the selection of his subordinates for the Terri
tory of Utah. The Mormans construe the doc
trine of squatter sovereignty as involving the
sovereignty of the saints over their institution
Of poly gamy; and, if they are right in this, 1t
is the duty of the administration to aid in pro-
tecting them against all outsiders, instead of
sending wolves among them in sleeps clothing.
A saint with twenty or thirty wives in dozen
different adobe cottages is in some danger from
intriguing fnterlopers, and the government
should act accordingly.
We commend to the President and the Cabi-
net, and especially to Gushing and Marcy,
careful and thoughtful perusal Of this great
pronuncianaento Of Governor Young, for their
future guidance in the territorial affairs of the
saints of the Great Salt Lake.