The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-04-23

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across the prairieis anything but pleas.
ant Pornp is sldso, for the wild grass ia
not very spirited food for horses, bat I'M
apply the whalebone soon to hasten his
locomotion. All! I've oyertaken soli-
tary pedestrian, satehel and cane in hand.
honest looking soul, think must give
him ride. He gives some distressing
accounts of the suffering about Fort
Dodge. Many frozen to death, living
| without doors, no floor nor chimney, for
winter came on like thief in the night,
before they were prepared for it. and this
going almost two hundred miles for many
of the necessares of life, is no trfTing
matter. We both came to the conclusion
that you could not find more miserable.
home-sick, growing people, than in the
Central and Western portions of Iowa.
Mormonism as Revealed by the Chief
Justice of Utah.
RESIGNATION oE JUDGE DRUMMoYD.
To the Hon. jeremiah s. Black, Attorney
General Of tie United States, flashing
ton City, D. c.:
My Dear Sir:-As | have concluded to
resign the Office of Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Territory OF Utah, which po-
sition accepted in A. D. 1854, under the
administration ofPresident Pierce, deem
it due to the public to give some of the
reasons why do SO. In the 6gst place.
Brigham Young, the Governor Of Utah
Territory. is the acknowledge head of the
..Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day
Saints" commonly called "Mormons,
and as such head, the Mormons look to
him and to Him alone, for the lasc by which
they are to be governed; therefore no law
Eof Congress is BY them considered binding
in any manner.
SECONDLY, I know that there is secret
oath bound organization among all the
male members of the church, and to ac-
knowledge no law save the law of the
s'Holy Priesthood" which comes to the
people through Brigham Young, direct
from God, he. Young. being the vicege-
rent Of God, and prophetic successor of
Joseph Smith, who was the founder of this
blind and treasonable organization.
THIRDLY, I am fully aware that there
lis set of men set apart by special order
of the church to take both the lives and,
property ofpersons who may question the
authority of the church, (the names of
whom l will promptly make known at a
future time.
4 FouRruLY, That the records, papers,
&C., of the Supreme Court have been de-
stroyed by order of the church, with di-
rect knowledge and appreciation of Gov
ernor B. Young. and the Federal officers
Egrossly insulted for presuming to raise a
single question about the reasonable act.
FIFTHLY, That the Federal officers
of the Territory are constantly insulted,
harassed, and snnoyed by the Mormons.
and for those insults there is no redress.
S1xrHLY, That the Federal officers are
daily compelled to hear the form of the
American government traduced. the chief
executive of the nation, both living and
Idead, slandered and abused. from the
masses, as well as from the leading menr-
Ibers of the church. in the most vulgar,
loathsome, and wicked manner that the
evil passions of man can possibly con-
ceiye.
, Again: That after Moroni Green had
; been convicted in the District Court before
; my colleague, Judge Kinney, of an as
sault with intent to commit murder and
afterwards, on appeal to the Supreme
Court. the judgement being affirmed and
said Green sentenced to the penitentiary.
Brigham Young gave full pardon to the
}. said Green before he reached the peniten-
ltiary; also, that the said Governor Young
s pardoned man by the name of Baker.
o who had been tried and sentenced to ten
/ years imprisonment in the penitentiary fol
N the murder of a dumb boy by the name
's, of White House, the proof showing one
10 of the most aggravated cases OF murder
lie that | ever knew being tried; and toinsul'
ds the Court and Govsrnme ut officers, tnis
in man Young, took this pardoned criminal
Oh with him. in proper person, to church On
a nsxt Sabbath after bis conviction, Ba-
~ ker in the meantime having received a full
20 pardon from Governor Brigham Young
Sc These two men were Mormons.
e On the other hand, charge the Nor
le mons, and Gov. Young in particular, with
* imprisoning five or six young men from
g Missouri and Iowa., who are new in the
penitentiary Of Utah without those mel