Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-04-09
Outragcs of Brigham Young,

Herald, writing from Salt Lake City on
the 9Th of january says: S
j have to chronicle oneEof the most
daring and insulting national crimes
ever committed in the United 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 advance
of the meeting of tie Supreme Court, a
party of the Mormons, in high standing
in the Church, and under the advice of
Brigham Young, repaired to the office
of Hon. G. p. Stiles, one of the United
States District Judges, the law Office of
of T. S. Williams, Esq, and the Office OF
the Clerk of the Supreme Court, and
took therefrom all the papers belong
ing to the Supreme Court, consist
ing of records, dockets. opinions filed
away, together with nine hundred vol
uimes ofthe law, furnished by the Fed
eral Government for the use of the, Ter
ritory of Utah. The reason given for
this ~treasonous act was that Congress
would not. admit them as a State, and
that they would not allow the Federal
officers to remain in the Territory, and
that what officers we're now in the Ter
ritory must leave as soon as grass grows,
or he will send them to hell across lots.
Now, sir, can you find a parallel to this
act of treason since the organization Of
American Colonies? if so, please note
the time and place.
It seems now to be a settled fact that
the laws of Congress. cannot be. carried
out or put in force in this Territory; the
only law known or -oboyed is in the law
of the church, and that is. the will of
Brigham Young, who most clearly is the
most brutal tyrant o on earth, and, in
point of tr~easonous designs, without an
equal. Often have the courts decided
against the enactments of the Utah stat
yates, but all in vain. The. mormons go
on after their own order of doing bust
ness, wholly disregarding and setting at
defiance the opinions, and decisions of
the Supreme Court of the Territory, and
openly declare hat they will not obey
nor be Governed by any one unless he
is a Mormon; and that any one who.
thinks otherwise canlose his life by try
ically will be the case unless a strong
military aid is given blythe 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 Mormons jurors, witnesses. officers,
&C., all bound by asecret oath of hostili-.
ty, not only to all the laws of Congress,
but toward all the officers of the United
States Government, from Prcsidentdown
to that Of Marshall Of the Territory of
Utah.
At this time, sir, there are five young
men lingering out a weary life of mis-
cry and Indebtedness, grooming beneath
heavy loads %ofiron, in the damp and dis
NAL cells of the Utah Penitentiary, for
no crime known to the laws other than
expressing opinions disapprobation of
the doctrine Of mormonism, which here
is the blacklist crime that a man may
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 to a sickly and torturing death,
and that soon, for it is not possible 10
survive such brutal treatment very long.
Quite recently young man by the nam
of Lewis was convicted of assault and
battery, and sentenced to five vars i'm
prisonmcntin the Pcnitcntary, aud while
their way to prison aband of ruf1ians
took him away from tie of:cor and &C.
prircI him Of lis. and then put him
into prison to die. These things are too
common to be endured much longer;
and unless the Federal Government
speedily lends aid to her officers now in
this Territory, the miserable ends of
both l1ormons and officers of the Gov
ernmcnt Can better be anticipated than
told.