New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-19
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In the fret place, permit me to correct rsport
rb;ch though entirely unfounded, seems likely 70 be
generally believed. Brigham Young has H0t lef SAT-
Lake City. That item Of news came from Car-on
Valley 10 San Francisco last February There were
then 800 miles Of snow between Carson and Salt Lake
Valleys hence they could not have obtained 1t even
if true. When fnt reported in California, II was
,nept;oned ns ouly "runor" it took some time OF
bs;no handed about before it grew into report.
know Rrigbam intimately and the relation he susalns
toward the people and with his influence, power,
vealh and family at stake, he must ride on the waves
or sink. Wherever the body Of the Church sway
him there he will be. His authority is unquestoned,
his influence universal; and If the majority OF the
Church be at Salt Lake, there Brigham is. There are
a.. 800 Mormons TO about 800 Z" Gentiles in Utah;
hence it cannot be outside influence. The report is
without foundation and to delay action from such
report would be impolitic and unwise.
Whatever may be the of conduct TO determine
on with regard to the Mormons, it should ever be re-
membered that the vast majority of them are already
too much inned against and not SHINING The sorrows
and sufferings endured by their deuded votares en-
shared in Europe and beguiled to Utah prove them
at least sincere. ImpostuTe is confined 10 very
limited circle il is deiuson that is spread 1t is SAD
N nj thew be 20 deluded but il ia mOnstrous 10 attempt
to punish them for their misfortune. Some call for an
" act of justice TO sweep them of the earth. iney
may cali such an act justice, but should call it
murder.
lie veal owe il to the honest and sincere portion OF
the Mormons themselves to act in the premises IL Is
sound policy ordinarily not to notice some deluslons
They will collapse with their own bloated rotenness
II has been otherwise with Mormonism; for it has
been too long neglected. | confidently and knowingly
assert that had the proper men been sent 10 otan
years ago, MOrmonsm would not have appeared as u
does to-day Utah is not field for wOrn-Out political
hacks sinecures for supple favorte One man VINO
was sent there had not been there three months be-
fore he allowed an Indian squGw to make him the
laughing stock Of the community. Against another
was charge of allowing gambling for high stakes in
his cellar. Against another was charge oil being
accessory to an attempted assassination. 1t was ru-
mored that another had permitted bribery ana corruP
ton Another permitted his oath as Judge TO SUBJ
serve his obligations as Mormon. Others were
druI kards and Opium-eaters. One, a soldier and
gentleman, was bedazzled and befooled by Brigham,
and while the little street vagabonds were laughing at
how completely Brigham had drawn the 'coot orer
has eyes" be threw up his own appointment as Gov
erpor got up memorial to President Pierce and in-
duced his friends civil aud military, TO sign il, praying
the reappOntment of Brigham Young As the only nj
and PROPER person TO be Governor Of the Territory!
Had Col Septoe but seen things as they we're at SAT-
Lake, it would have been good thing Tor the world
had he remained there. The men whom they send
must not be poor enough TO be bought, nor weak
enough TO be woman-lsd, nor simple enough TO be
hoaTcd, mpetuOus as TO be chaied into prema-
ture and nconsderate action, nor 80 iaccd az to be
their money, waste their time, but as public la
bOrers for the public good.
The majority of the Momons are poor, and many are
discontented Promises of emOlument and assistance
were made to them in Europe They did not come to the
United States in admiration either Of republican IN,
situations of the American nation. Their poltlcai
prOciyites were rather adverse tor epubcanls, ana
hence they tolerate more easily Mormon tyranny.
Religious tanaticsm did much 10 lead them there, but
incentives Of gain did more The same inducements
that led them to Utah would lead them from Utah.
IL a.. 1.a, httfa tffa in
able TO leave. Providing every day for that days
food drained by outrageous civil taxes, and still more
by e1tOrtonate ecclesiastical demands, they cannot
provide the requisite two or three months food IN ad-
vance TO say nothing Of the wagon to carry, OF the
team to haul IT, With the eye Of the authorities con-
stany on them the slightest sign OF apostasy iuTlous-
" denounced the first movement toward leaving In
dirnanty threatened mouthing defamation, disgust
ing ISLANDERS, merciess anathemas and often arrests
for pretended debt seizure of property and IN some
cases murder, the consequences OF the attempt tney
are unable to leave. If Messrs. Coleman aud other
friends of California TO spend one-thrd OF the
money, employ one-third of the talent and occupy
one-third Of the time i'll Utah that they do IN these
Eastern States, they could obtain Ill one year three
times the amount of emigration to their adopted State
from among the down-trOdden and grooming MorlnOns
themselves. When Col Steptoe's command LETT Salt
Lake there many women who lmplored ms pro-
lection to California and Notwithstanding the ieroeous
calunuies hurled against them by the Mormon dign-
taIies left. Could such means be adopted ~
| not only TO secure their lives from the boodstalned
hands OF mdlauulnE
regulations from the faint of suspicion, hundreds OF
| women would gladly leave who now signing III
want and grooming in anguish. may, with your per-
| mission, propose such plan at another time.
As TO the duty of Congress toward Utah, what
| know Of the secret organizations and positive and
avowed intentions the authorities" there, permits
but opinion. | may take an opportunity to
lay these matters before the public. few days be-
fore leaving California in April met Mr. Tobin,
who you will remember was with Col. Petroe on the
Santa CLARA River 81 miles :. of Sal. Lake City when
they were attacked in the night three OF their party
seriously wounded and their horses stolen. Mr.. Tobn
attackers being Mormons. Mr.. T. went TO Salt Lake
with Capt Stansbury IT. E., got acquainted with
Brigham, interested in his daughter Alice and
became Mormon. After an absence on business in
the States he returned to Utah in 1856, and renewed
his correspondence with Alice Young, lived IN Brig
ham Young's family and worked with his son, Brig
ham, jr. He began, however, to see that Moimonism
asst is and il was represented to he were Two very
different things; forced also very unwlhngly 10
believe that his betrothed wife, Alice Young, had
sacrificed her purity; and he therefore broke up the
engagement and fled with Col. Peltroe. Mr.. l. had
aroused the ire Of the MOmons at home excited their
fears for the influence he might exert abroad and the
MormOns have but one course toward those VINO en-,
kinde their hatred their terror and that Is DEATH
Miss Alice Young, though under another ana ',rHtGH
engagement to Mr. Wright, now i'll the Sandwich
Islands, where Brigham sent him 10 get nd oil
him. was hastily and conveniently married 10 one Oh
Brighams creatures These facts Mr.. Tobn stated to
me in San Francisco and he expressed his willingness
to make affidavit thereto. Confirmed as they are by
what myself know of part OF them, cannot but
believe the whole. As to his would-be assassils being
Mormons, make not the slightest question. It's but
one out Of many.
We have been lately startled by an account of the
murder of Squire Rabbit United States Secretary for
the Territory of Utah, Mr. Sutherland, and others
going 10 Salt Lake and Messrs hargets, Conroy ana
families Mormon ap0StateS, coming from Salt Lake.
The Mr.. Thomas Sutherland ,cGS my 0rn eoHstn, and
the whole were my acquaintance. WIN Messrs.