The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-06-27
The Mouasns-shail fhs Doctrine Of Popular
Sovereignty be applied 10 utah2

Sfong 10 pass iuuSsci oL1 stA40 SohslAsSnst
though it might do in Africa. Murders,
and robberies, and arsons are frequent,
perpetrated, it is alleged, by a secret soci-
ETY. called the DANTE Band, at the instance |
of His Most Potent Majesty, King Brig
ham Young, and the victims are always /
Gentiles. This state of things IN Utah |
is by no means new. 1t has been going |
on, under the eve of the Federal Govern
ment, for years, but Franklin Pierce and
his Cabinet have been so busy in the work
of subiusating Kansas, that they have had
no time to devote to such trivial matters
as those in Utah? What if explorers and
traders, and other American citizens, were
brutality murdered in the cities and on the
plains of Utah? What if Lieut.. Gunni-
son was murdered by Indians, q and
white men and women, Gentiles though
they were, most brutality murdered and
outraged? What if the United States
Judges and other authorities were insult
ed and defed? What if equity and JUS
tice were entirely at the disposal of King
Brigham? All these things were consid-
cred by the now defunct administration as
child's play, Gf considered at all,) COM
pared with the great work of niggerizing
| kansas-of subduing the free men of his
own and other States who had chosen this
for their home. Oh, yes; certainly. An
unholy, incestuous, superstitious and ig-
norant community can he allowed to grow,
and bud, and ripen into an absolute tyr
amy under the eye of the Government;
that seemed unworthy of the attention of
Pierce. But men who dared to question
the right of the Federal Government to
extend and perpetuate "the twin sister :"
Of Mormonism, American Slavery, over
new Territory declared free forever-men
who came from Free Soil to brighten the
face of this beautiful country with the
smile of Freedom-men who simply asked
that intelligence and free labor might have
an equal chance with autocrats and their
slaves-such men were hunted down like
villains, chained like criminals, watched
by spies and dragons, their property de-
stroyed, and every known indignity
, hesped upon them. But tyranny is the
, same everywhere.
| We are led to these reflections with DC
} desire to revive in the minds of our read.
ers the name or policy of Frank Pierce
: 1t were useless to kick dead dog. There
, is one word which expresses the policy
= the career, the administration and the
D estimate of posterity of Pierce, and tina
a word is infany. So mote it be.
But the great doctrine of Squatter Sow
t ereignty, the nursing of that same adj
: ministFation, the political founding o
t Cas-, the pet of Douglas, and the darlin:
t of Pierce, has turned up to be youn;
t giant in Utah. Brigham Young ha
l adopted him, and the naughty child ha
}. learned to repeat the language Of his ven
: cradle ancestor, that "new States hav'
: the right to shape their own destiny, b,
f embracing or rejecting whatever institu
n lions they please; that is, that the peopl
D have right to regulate their own domesti
n institutions These are words of com
: fort to Brigham Young. They wer
e catchwords for Douglas and Pierce, they
were catchwords for all the Pro-Slaver,
t ldemagogues of the North. They al
knew they meant nothing, and SO doe
: Brigham. We know that he intends t.
fight them with their own weapon. Tn,
t fight will be interesting to the nation, ant
to political historians.
e We were travelling, last Summer, up tin
: Missouri, on a steamer which was convey
Q ing distinguished citizen of Utah from
e one of the "outposts of Zion," on hi
e way home. 1t was Erastus Snow, "on
It of the twelve" We had read Mrs. Fer
T ris' picture of him, in Putnanes Jfonthla
: and were pleased with the accuracy o
: the description. We made his acquaint
o ance, and, as it was during political times
e we talked politics. We told him of tn
+ infamous acts of border ruffianism whicI
y had come under our own observation i
: Kansas. He appeared to sympathiz
with the Free State men, but denounce
y the Philadelphia Republican Platform a
L infamous, and said that every Mormon i
II the States, who were citizens, would vot
G. for Buchanan and the Cincinnati Platform
y Zone party" said apostle Snow, "make
Is a crusade against us one of the articles G
lie its faith; while the other recognizes tn
It right of new States to regulate their ow
5. domestic institutions as they please, an
> we will support our friends rather tina
IL our enemies"
y Republics are pFoverbially ungratcfu
d and it would not be matter of surpris
II if our new President would send an arm
ut to clear out degenerate and purify hi
Or Mormon supporters. Civilization, chris
tianity, humanity, all that is good, eall
ID for something to be done there. Intelli
ID gent freemen have killed one of til
IN "twin relics of barbarism % in this Terri
Te tory. let the General Government kill til
e other in Utah, even at the sacrifice {
n. Squatter Sovereignty.
Claim.
:. The whole town of Lawrence, in Kan
II sas Territory, is claimed by Robert Rob
,e tale, a Wyandot Indian, and land-holdeI
n have been notified by the receiver and rec
lister of the land Office at Lecomptop. tbs