Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-10-31
THE TwO TERRITORIES.

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THE Two TERRITORIES.
The late infamous and tragical events at
Salt Lake, detailed in a late number of this
paper, furnish striking resemblance ofthose-
of Kansas. Both are the natural and nee
essary result of the ''twin relics of barbar-
ism, which the Administration has eneour-
aged and sanctioned there. Even the mails
cannot arrive or leave without an armed Co
hort of spies see that nothing is smuggled
in or out unfayorable to their institutions.
The tyrants of Kansas, however, in the
lpiratical and murderous atrocity Of their.
crimes, have far outstripped their brethren
in Utah. Their crimes bear blaeker hue
inAict deadlier wound, and exert a wider
range cf wrong and outrage upon the w6ole-
country. Nor are they mitigated in their
effect or enormity by the sanction and en-
couragement they have received from the
central power at Washington.
Brigham Young, one Of the officials un-
der President Pierce, from his throne in the
Tabernacle, forbids the sale of a bnshel of
wheat to ''the accursed Gentiles," and de-
Icrees their murder or determination. With
his mouthful of blasphemies-on Sunday
in the midst of his Latter Day Saints, he
proclaims his vengeance, and excites his
ldupes to bloody deeds by declaring that,
"If you are all real good Mormons, such as
l should like to see you, not a single Gen
tile would remain in this place single min
ute. It would be too hot for them here
You would make it hotter than the south
east corner of a Methodist hell" Forthwith
a horrid assassination was attempted by his
minions, Bill Hickman and others of the
"Danite Band, upon an United States off
Ger for barely questioning the divinity Of
their faith under the sanction and authority
of the "Mormon Church" And is Justice
invoked for crime! No. As in Kansas,
the assasins are at large, boasting of the
bloody outrage, threatening It's renewal up
on every Gentle and defying all law. As
in Kansas, no effort is made by the author
thorities to bring the offenders to Justice
at is useless" continues the account, ato
make complaint, for there is not the least
shadow of law or justice in Utah. Brigh-
am Young Is absolute monarch, and his word
is the only law acknowledged"
How perfectly this describes the condition
of Kansas under democratic rule. As
none but pro-slarery and pro-polygamy Nor
mons are permitted by the monster, Young,
to remain with life and safety in Utah; so
under the reign of Pierce and his Buchanan
Governor, no man who prefers free institu-
tons to those of despotism and slavery is
permitted to remain in Kansas. The i'm
munity of crime in both Territories is the
same. Free thought, free speech, and free
discussion, which the Constitution declares
inviolate, are forbidden and crushed alike in
both.
But it has been reserved for the invaders
of Kansas and the Buchanan party, which
sustains them, led on by the slave-power, to
enact bloodier code, whose operation pre-
sents darker picture of human wrongs than
Mormon wickedness has yet invented; more
damning than ancient or modern history re-
cords;-a code, under which rapine, murder;
robbing, treason and persecution have run
riot over individual life and freedom, and
trampled on the constitutional liberty of the
citizens "a code under which towns have
been sacked, presses destroyed, hotels and
houses burned, women violated, freemen
shot down and almost an entire population
driven into exile from their homes by the
paid troops of the slave power, and with the
sanction and approval of the party which
now seeks to consummate and perpetuate
the wrong by the election of Buchanan
And while the authors of these wrongs arc
permitted to go unwhipped Of justiee-not
one of them having been arrested by order
of the Government-we have seen hun
dreds of their victims either murdered IN
cold blood, or seized and held as prisoners
for no other cause than the assertion of the
first law of Nature-that of self-defenee.
But who can recount the wrongs of KAN
sas? Or who can compute the weight and
extent of that deep and damning execratioR
which impartial history will accord to the
guilty authors who have planned, and the
servile wretehes who have carried them into,
bloody executioul
If Northern voters desire to share in this
untold guilt, they will soon have an oppor-
tunity, of making it their own, by voting
for the continuance of the house-burning,
robbing, slayery-extending poll
cy pursued by the present Administration.
. vote for Mr. Buchanan is nothing moro
nor less than vote for such a policy
Think of this San. Register.