The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1857-12-03

We shall not b. surprised il il shall turn
out that Senator DOUGLAS plan OF disposing
the Mormon question is the more feasible
one. 1t is To repeal the law organizing
Utah Territory, which will bring the whole
country inhabited by the Mormons imme-
diately upder the jurisdiction Of the laws Of
Congress applicable to all unorganized ter
rtory. Ths would be an extraordinary re-
sort, TO be sure, but the ground upon which
the Senator proposes 1t il, that the Mormons
are alien enemies and outlaws. denying allie
glance to and defying ,he laws Of the United
States We quote the Senator's own state
ment Of his proposition:
The Territorial government once abol-
ished, the country would reycrt To its primi-
tive condition prior to the act Of $50, "ua-
der the sole and exclusive jurisdiction OF the
United States" and should b. placed under
the operation OF the act Of Congress of the
30th OF April, 1890, and the various acts
supplemental thereto and amendatory there
Of. providing for the punishment of crimes
against the United States within any fort,
dock yard. magazine or any other place or
district II country, under the sole and exclu-
sive jurisdiction OF the United States All
offenses against the provisions Of these acts
are required by law TO be tried and punished
in the United States Courts in the States or
Territories where the offenders shall be first
apprehended or brought for trihl.' Thus it
will he seen, that under the plan proposed
Brigham Young and his confederates could
be apprehcnded and brought 10 trial 10 Iowa
or Missouri, California or Oregon, or to any
other al dacent State or Territory. where
fair trial could be had, and justice admins
tered impartialIy where the witnesses could
be protected and the judgment Of the court
could I've carried into execution without VIC
lcuce or intimidation.
do not propose to introduce any NEW
principles into our Jurisprudence, nor to
change the modes Of proceeding or the
rules Of practice IN our courts. only pro-
pose 10 place the district Of country en-
braccd within the Territory Of Utah under
proceeding that Kansas, Nebraska, Mime
sofa and other Territories were placed be-
fore they were organized Territories. The
whole country embraced within those Terri
tories was under the operation OF that same
system OF laws. and all the offences com
mltted within the same were punished in the
manner now proposed 40 long ~ the cOun-
try remained "snder the sole and exclusive
jurisdiction OF the United States ! but the
moment the government was organized into
Territorial governments. with Legislative.
executive and judicial departments, il ceased
To bc under the sole and exclusive juris-
diction of the United States, within the
meaning Of the act Of Congress, for the rea-
son that it had passed under another and Il
different jurisdiction. Hence, II We abolish
the Territorial government Of Utah. preserv.
ing all existing rights, aud place the coun-
try under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction
OF the United States, offenders can be ap-
pretended and brought into the nd discent
States or Territories for punishment, in the
same manner and under the same rules and
regulations which obtained and have been
uniformly practced, under like circumstances
since 100.
II IL obvious, from all the accounts We
have, that the Mormons do not mean 10 sub
init to the government which has been ap-
pointed over them. They not ouly declare
that they will not, but their movements in
dicate actual resistance. Capt. Van Welt
who had been detained by the government
to visit Utah Tor the purposes of reporting
upon the state Of things there, and whose Of.
fetal report we published three or four days
ago. makes no doubt Of their determination
to resist; and fact quite as significant in
that direction as all which Capt. Van Welt
heard and saw is, that the Mormon settle
mcnts away from Salt Lake are breaking up
and repairing To head quarters Thus. We
have intelligence by the way Of California
that the "Saints" who have been lnhabiting
Carson Valley, numbering one Thousand
heads Of families. with their households.
goods, cattle and property 81 every sort,
had left for salt LAX in obedience to the
mandate Of the great high priest and Gover-
nor OF Mormon,lom Brigham Young" A
California paper rmarking upon this exo-
dus, says:
lit is pretended that this emigration iron
California, is 10 be the basis OF another from
salt Lake 10 Washington Territory, and
that the Polygamists intend planting their
peculiar Institutions on the borhrs Of the
Pacific. This We do not believe. The
meaning OF the Mormon exodus from Carson
Valley simply is tha, Brigham Young ~
quirs all the force which be can gather IN
the walled Iion. We arr not Of those who
believe in the theory so generally received
by the newspapers IN the %" tern States,
that th, Mormon lliCrarr .. on tie sp-
p,aranos Of the Cnitei states troops and
military and judcal officers, yield oboiicncc
fully and frvyiy 10 the laws Of our country
which they will attempt 10 enforce. We
believe tina, he is preparing ard ha. Tor the
las, thne years been preparing for war. tor
a war OF defense agsius, the United States
Fer this pnrp~e wall has been thrown
about the wilderness city for this purpose
the nc,ghboring tribes Of Indians have hecu
propl,iated and made friendly with the Nor
x.h.L, =. .l.s a,.,,.,.. II.