Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-23
will promptly make known at future

Fourthly, That the records, papers, &c.
of the Supreme Court have been destroyed
byorder Of Church, with direct knowledg,
and appreciation of Governor B. Young
and the Federal officers grossly insultec
for presuming to raise a single question
about the reasonable act.
Filthy, That the Federal officers of the
Territory are constantly insulted, harrassed
and annoyed by the Mormons, and 70,
those insultsthere is no redress.
Sirthly, That the Federal officers arc
daily compelled to hear the form of the
American government traduced, the chiei
executive of the nation, both living and
dead, slandered and abused, from the mas
ses, as well as from the leading members
of the church, in the most vulgar, loalh-
some, and wicked manner that the evil pas
sions of man can possibly conceive.
Again: That after Moroni Green had
been convicted in the District Court before
my colleague, Judge Kinney, of an assault
with intent to commit murder; and after
wards, on appeal to the Supreme Court
the judgment being affirmed and the said
Green sentenced to the penitentiary, Brig
ham Young gave a full pardon TO the
said Green before be reached the peniten-
tiary; also that the said Governor Young
pardoned a man by the name of Baker,
who had been tried; and sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the penitentiary for
the murder of a dumb boy by the name of
White House, the proof showing one of the
most aggravated casses of murder that |
ever knew being tried: and to insult the
court and government officers, this man
Young, took this pardoned criminal with
him in proper person, to church on the
next Sabbath after his conviction, Baker in
the meantime having received full pardon
from Gov. Brigham Young. These two
men were Mormons.
On the other hand, I charge the Nor
mons, and Gov. Young in particular, with
imprisonment five or six young men from
Missouri and Iowa, who are now in the
penitentiary of Utah, without those men
having violated any criminal law in Amer
lea, but they were anti-Mormons, poor,
young men, on their way for
California; but because they emigrated
from Illinois, Iowa or Missouri, and pas
sed by Great Salt Lake City, they were In
dicted by Probate Court and most bru-
tally and inhumanly dealt with in addition
to being summarily incarcerated in the
sanity prison of the Territory of Utah. I
also charge Gov. Young with constantly
interfering with the federal courts, direct
ing the Grand Jury whom to indict and
whom not; and, after the Judges charge
the Grand Juries as to their duties, that
this man, Yohng, invaribly has some mem
Der of the Grand Jury advised in advance
IS to his will in relation to their labors, and
hat his charge thus given is the only
;harge known, obeyed, or received by all
he Grand Juries of the federal courts of
Utah territory.
Again, sir, after careful and mature
Investigation, I have been compelled TO
,ome to the conclusion, heart-rending and
'ickenlng as it may be, that Capt John ".
Gunnison and his party of eight others
we're murdered by the Indians in 1858, un-
Ter the order, advice and directions of the
Mormons; that my illustrious and distin-
suished predecessor, Hon. Leonidas Shaver,
.ame to his death by drinking poisonous
liquors, given to him under the order of the
eading men of the Mormon Church in
Great Salt Lake City; that the late Sec
'etary of the Territory, A. w. Babbitt,
vas murdered on the Plains by band of
Mormon marauders, under the particular
md special order of Brigham Young, He
Der c. Kimball, and ]. NJ. Grant and not
~ the Indians, as reported by the Nor
mons themselves: and that they were sent
rom Salt Lake City for that purpose, and
hat only: and as members of the DANTE
3and they were bound to do the work of B.
Young, as the head of the Church, or for
eit their own lives.
These reasons, with many others that
night give, which would be to hear-rend-
ng to insert in this communication, have
Induced me to resign the office of Justice
f the Territory of Utah, and again return
o my adopted state of Illinois. My rea-
on, sir,for making this communication thus
ublic is, that the Democratic party, with
which 1 have always strictly acted, is the
'arty now in power, and therefore is the
'arty that should noac be held responsible
or the reasonable and disgracefu1 state of
fairs that now exists in Utah Territory
could, sir, if necessary, refer to cloud of
witnesses to attest the reasons l have Civ
N, and the charges, bold as they are,
gainst those despots who rule with an iron
land their hundred thousand souls in Utah,
md their two hundred thousand souls out
# that notable Territory, but shall not do
o for the reason that the lives of such gen
lemen as 1 should designate in Utah and
n California would not be safe for single |
lay.
In conclusion, sir, 1 have to say, that in
ny career as Justice Of the Supreme Court
# Utah Territory, 1 have the consolation
# knowing that 1 did my duty; that nei-
her threats nor intimidations drove me
rom that path; upon the other hand,
i'm panied to say, that l accomplished little
,ood while there; that the Judiciary is only
reated as farce. The only rule of law
~ which the infatuated followers of this
urious people will be governed is the lsw
If the church, and that emanates from
Governor Brigham Young, and him alone
do believe that if there were a man
,ut in office rs Governor of that Territory
Who is not a member of that church, (Mor-
non) and heE supported with sufficient mil
tary aid, that much good would result from
uch course; but, as the Territory is now