The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-08-22
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From letter il the Sacramento Utsion,
dated Pheeryillc, July II, We copy the
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Brigham Young ca heretofore report.
ed) had gone north with his expedition,
fully equipped, with three months pro
visions and ! train Of eighty wagons.
Various rumors were aAoat - TO its OBJ
ject. The most important and csnclu.
sive il, that he has gone in search of q
locality to defend the faithful against the
expected troops from the last. H. ex-
horts all the saints, If it comes to fight,
to kill each his man, and his salvation il
secured. .... ~ a..-s..a ....r..
The Destroying Angels are busily en-
gagged At their hcllish work, numbering
and robbing those who are apostates.
Mr. Wilkins, who came passenger, is
direct from Salt Lake, where he has
been residing for nine months, having
had to fee with his party to California.
Wilkins and party are composed Of
twenty-six persons, eight of whom are
women. After leaving Salt Lake, they
were arrested by large body of Nor
mons, and taken back on a charge Of
orse-stealing. As no evidence, even
for Mormon Court, was offered against
them, they were discharged, at the re-
quest of one Mesick, he being the Clerk
Of the Court. After that they were
hunted like wolves, night and day, until
they reached Goose Creek Nountaios,
over 100 miles from Salt Lake, when the
Mormons made = charge on them, and
killed six Of their animals.
One-half Of the population would leave,
and will dc SO, if the Government sends
= sufficient force to protect them.
Brigham declares that if the saints
will stand by him and the Church, he
will be President of the United States
in less than ten years.
Williams, the lawyer, had fed. The
Destroying Angels were on his track,
and it was not known if he escaped them.
Open and avowed murder of all who have
become and are becoming obnoxious, is
advocated in public assemblages in fact,
an offer was publicly made in meeting,
by one Of the faithful, to murder two
Gentle traders at Box Elder, near the
city, who had incurred the displeasure of
Elder Lorenzo SRow, if they did not
leave by the LIST of June.
A train Of one hundred wagons had
left Salt Lake bound for the States, all
of which belonged to apostles.
New dissensions are continually arts.
ing. That which makes the most ILL
feeling is Brigham sealing young girls
to old men. Several heads of families
have been put out of the way, = they
call it, on suspicion Of their being apos-
tates, by which means the family cannot
leave. Several who have heretofore been
in the confidence Of the high priests are
known to have been murdered in at
tempting to leave secretly.
Seven ladies, with their families, whose
husbands had made their escape, begged
to be taken away BY wilkins party, ex-
pecting daily to see some of their num-
Der dragged away to the harem Of some
Of the anointed.
Brigham breaches open rebellion to all
attempts on the part Of the Government
to establish foothoid in his territory
He has inaugurated new law BY which
he governs disobedient wives by degrad-
ing and making menials of them, and
depriving them of the right to marry or
have = protector. 1t is called kn Earth
ly He'll" 80