The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-04-14
ourRAoHs OF RRraaAM YoRNe.

oUTRAoBs OF BRIGHAM YoRNG.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Herald, writing from Salt Lake City on the
9TH of January, says:
II have to chronicle one of the most dar-
ing and insulting national crimes ever COM
mitted in the u. States, and that, too, under
the direct care and control, and under the
immediate order and direction of this man
Young. Early in January. and just in ad-
vance of the meeting of the Supreme Court,
party of the Mormons in high standing in
the Church, repaired to the Office of Hon.
G. P. Stiles, one of the United States Dis
trict Judges, the law Office of L. S. Will
liams, Esq, and the Office of the Clerk of
the Supreme Court, and took therefrom all
the papers belonging to the Supreme Court,
consisting of records, dOckefs, opinions filed
away, together with nine hundred volumes
of the laws furnished by the Federal Gov
eminent for the use of the Territory of
Utah. The reason given for this treason
Gus act was that Congress would not admit
them as State, and that they would not
allow the federal officers to remain in the
Territory; and that what officers were now
in the Territory must leave as soon as grass
grows or he will send them to hell across
lots. Now. sir, can you find parallel to
this act of treason since the organization of
the American Colonies! if So, please note
| the time and place.
1t seems now to be settled fact that the
laws of Congress cannot be carried out or
put in force in this Territory-the only law
known or obeyed is the law of the Church,
and that is the will of Brigham Young, who
most clearly is the most brutal tyrant now
on earth, and in point of treasonous de-
! signs, without an equal. Often have the
Courts decided against the enactments of
the Utah Statutes, but all in vain. The
Mormons go on after their own order of
doing Business, wholly disregarding and
setting at defiance the opinions aid deci-
! sions of the Supreme Court of the Terrific
ry, and openly declare that they will not
be governed by any one unless he is Nor
can lose his life by trying the experiment,
which most emphatically will be the case
unless strong military aid is given by the
United States government. In vain may
one try for justice where the mandate of
one man is the supreme law of the land,
when you have Mormon jurors, witnesses,
officers, &C., all bound by the secret oath
of hostility not only to all the laws of Con-
gress, but toward all the officers of the
United States Government, from President
down to that of Marshal of the Territory of
Utah.
At this time, Sir, there are five young
men lingering Oufa weary life of misery and
wretchedness, grooming beneath heavy loads
of iron, in the damp and dismal cells of the
Utah Penitentiary, for no crime known to
the laws other than expressing opinions of
disapprot alton of the doctrines of Mormon
ism, which here is the blacklist crime man
can commit. 1t is worthy of remark that
these young men are not Mormons, but were
passing on their way to California, from
Missouri. Poor fellows! they are doomed
10 SICILY aud rUrIuring deatn, anu til at
soon, for it is not possible to survive such
brutal treatment very long. Quite recently
a young man by the nome of Lewis, was
convicted of assault and battery, and SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment in the
Penitentiary; and while on their way to the
prison, q band of ruffians took him way
from the officer and deprived him of his
--, and then put him into the prison to
die. These things are too common to be
endured much longer; and unless the Fed
eral Government speedily lends aid unto
her officers now in this Territory, the mis-
cradle ends of both Mormons and officers of
the Government can be better anticipated
than told.