The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-19

TO AssAssINATE UNITED STATES OrFICER.--In
another column will be found letter from one
Of our correspondents at Salt Lake City, which
contains some curious statements in regard to
the extremes to which the Saints are pushing
their fanaticism. We give them as received.
So long as the practices of Brigham Young
and his associates were kept within, we will
not say decent bounds, but such, at all
events, as enabled them to steer clear of a col
lision with the general laws of the country, we
were averse to interference with them. We felt
that any attempt to control their peculiar doc
trines, obnoxious though they are to all Christian
minded people, would only react unfavorabIy on
the principle Of religious liberation, and produce
far worse evils than were likely to result from
quietly allowing the Mormon malady to work out
its own cure. The statements Of our correspon-
dent show that this view of the case was the
right one, inasmuch as the insanity that prccedes
destruction is now urging on the Saints to acts
which, if true and perseyered in, will call for
their total extrpation from our territories.
1t appears that to such an extent is the hatred
Of these people to the United States employees,
and others who have not been inoculated with
the beauties of Mormonism carried, that
in their dealings with them they treat
them in all respects az prescribed
race, with whom it is sinful to have any sort of
dealings. Thus, a Mormon owing debt to a
Gentle" is openly enjoined from the Taberna-
allow himself to be sued and have all his pro-
perry taken from him rather than disobey the in
junction. Again, Brigham Young tells his peo-
pie that any man who sells bushel Of wheat to
Gentle viii have to give the same amount for
the benefit of the church; and that if such
traffic be persisted in all his effects will bt con
fscated. This is carrying the principle Of re-
ligious exclusiveness and jealousy further even
than Moslemism, and further too than the policy
of the constitution in its liberation Of religious
eccentricities will permit.
But the worst Of these new frenzies Of the
Mormon mind remains to be narrated. Not salts
fed with this system Of social prescription these
desperate men, it is asserted, are now resorting to
acts Of brutal violence TO put down opposition to
their creed In the letter to which we refer there
is an account given Of the attempted assassination
Of Nlr. Troskolawski, United States Deputy Sur
veyor, by the notorious Bill Hickman and three Of
bis DANTE" associates for the expression OF opn
ions adverse to Mormonsm. Not only was this
cowardly act suffered to pass UNPUBLISHED by the
magistrates, but it received the approval Of the
Mormon elders in their addresses to the faith
full in the Tabernacle
in the extravaganza Of their vanity and self
confidence, these foolish people have committed
another offence which is likely to bring them into
direct collision with the federal authorities. In
order to prevent suspected persons (anti-Mor-
mons) from leaving the Territory, they have had
the audacity to send an armed band to watch and
interfere with the movements Of the convoy
carrying the United States mails, in its departure
from Salt Lake City. II was not until the mail
conductor percmptorily informed the escort that
he would not proceed If they continued to follow
him, that they were induced to return.
From these statements 1t will be inferred that
the reports which have been current Of an intcn-
ton on the part of the Mormons TO cut the con-
necton with Us and set up on their hook, are
not altogether without foundation. If they con-
tnuc after this fashion to set the authority Of the
general government at defiance, they may fnd
the movement anticipated in way that will
neither be very convenient nor agreeable to them