Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-23
The Utah Difficulty,

The Territory Of Utah presents spectacle Of
moral dcpravity and social degradation to which
the annals of civilized man furnish no parallel,
and which is foul reproach to the Government
of this country. Mormonism is the most wonder
full and atrocious phenomenon in modern history.
1t positively conradicts every theory of the moral
and religious development of mankind, and is a
marked exception of Mr. Jefferson's famous apoth-
egm, that error may be tolerated when reason is
left to combat it. The hideous offspring of the
heat-oppressed brain of an ignorant and crazy fan
attic, the most glaring and palpable imposture ev-
er conceived appealing solely to the vilest passions
and pandering to the most brutal appetites and
instincts of the human breast it sprung up in tho
very midst of civilization and enlightenment has
continued to grow with marvellous rapdty and
swelled into such malignant fungus upon the
body polite, as to demand the instant application
of the seyercst remedies.
The accounts we publish in another column, re.
veal n monstrous scene of iniquity and vice, from
Il contemplation Of which humanity sickens and
rccoils. In open rebellion against the Federal
Government, Brigham Young and his saints have
succeeded in establishing despoism more abso-
lutte than that Of Russia and upholding n system
of crime which shocks the moral sense OF the world
The self-anointed Prophet is the supreme arbter
in both civil and religious matters his will is the
law from which there is no appeal--iu his nod or
beck. repose the lives, liberties and property Of
his subjects Besides being an infamous despo-
tisni. the territory is the scene of constant out
RACES upon dccency and morality, which would
disgrace the tanmibas Of New Zealand and Central
Africa.
IL is high time the Unitcl States Government
was directing its serious attention TO the condi
t;op of Utah. Already it has shown Il reprehcn.
sihle Indifference to the affairs Of the Territory,
and guilty Of gross dcrcliction Of duty i'll not har
inc obedience 10 the laws enforced at the point of
the bayonct Had this vile crew Of vutlIws anil
reprola.cs been subjected to rigorous prosecution
vcors aan. before they had become 50 formidable
in strength and numbers to defy The Government,
wc sl,o,Ild not now be under the necessity of re-
sorting to extreme measures. Mr.. Fillmcrc's fail
urc TO appp;nt Il Governor to Utah, was an un-
parlonable nGn fcasance in Office. The appoint
I,sut at that time Of man Of determination and
tirmncss, who would have executed thelaw at all
hazars. and not hesitated to call the military to
aid the civil arm, would have crushed this iniqu-
t., and spared us the impending troubles. Mr..
Pierce. too. deserves censare for not endearor;nG
to suppress these enormitics.
True. he made an abort!yc attempt in commits
sionng Col Steptoe, Governor, with instructions
to see that the laws were duly enforced. But
Brigham would not brOoR any INTERFERENCE Win
his internal regime, set the laws at defiance,
threatened personal violence, and the Governor,
finding it impossible to secure the CO operation Of
the Military, left the modern Sodom to its fate.
Since then brigham has ruled with omnipotent
sway. and tremtcd Judge DrummOnd's authority
with .cornful II, r>ion and contempt. Long i'm
punity had rendered him insuCerably insolent,
and the mbccle policy OF the Government served
to produce the impression that it is pOwerless to
crush the mnmstCr.
What Mr.. Buchanan intends to do, remains be
seen. 1t is rumored that heis determined to exc