Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-11-27

sssssu-s-.z.s DEPARTMENT. News.
WAR DEPARTMENT
IMPORTANT News FROM UrAH-Subioned :, Al
letter and proclamation of Brigham Young, aludod e
IN our issue OF yesterday morning: 7"
GOVERNORS OFFICE, Utah TERRITORY
treat Salt Lake City, September 20, 1877
10 the OD'cer Commanding the Forces q,o,p Eor0J;
Utah Territory:
DIR ny reference to the actof Congress passed Sen
TENDER p 1871 organizing the Territory of Utah. you
Sec. 2. And be 1t further enacted That the exac,
tive power and authority in and over said terrtor of
Utah shall be vested in governor who shall hold his
office for four years, and until his successor shall he an
pointed and qualified unless sooner removed NV II
President of the United States. The governor sbaT
reside within said Territory, shall be commandments
of the militia thereof &c.
am still the governor and superintendent of Indian
affairs for the Territory successor having been an
pointed and qualified, provided by law nor have
been removed by the President of the United States
By virtue of the authority thus vested in me- have
issued and forwarded to you copy of my proclamation
forbddng The entrance of armed forces into the Terri
tory This you have disregarded. now further direct
that retire forthwith from the Territory by the same
route you entered. Should you deem this impractca
be and prefer to remain until spring in the vicinity If
your present encampmentBlack Ford on Green river.
you do in peace and unmoeste on condition that
you deposit your arms and ammunition with Lewis Rob
nson, quartermaser general Of the Territory and leave
IN the spring as soon as the condition of the roads will
permit you to march and should you fall short of nro
Visions they be furnished you upon making the nro-
per application therefor
General d. ii. Wells will forward this and receive
any communication you may have to make
Very respectfully
BRIGHAM YOUNG,
Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs
The following is the proclamation referred to by Brig
ham Young:
Proclamation by the Governor.
CITIZENS OF UTAH We are invaded by a hostile
force who evidently assailng us to accomplish our
overthrow and destruction. For twenty-five years we
have trusted officials of the government, from consta
bles and justices to judges, governors and Presidents
only to be scorned held in dersion nsued and betray
ed. Our houses have been pundered and then burned
our fields laid waste principal men butchered while
under the pledged faith of the government for their safe
ty and families driven from their homes to find that
shelter in the barren wilderness and that protection
among hostile savages which denied them in the
boosted abode of Christianity and civilization.
The constitution of our common country guarantees
unto all that we do now or have ever claimed If
the constitutional rights which pertain unto Ameri
can citizens extended to Utah according to the
spirit and meaning thereof and fairly and impartialy
administered it is all that we could ask-all that we
have ever asked.
Our opponents have awaited themselves of prejudice
existing against u.s. because of our religious faith to
send out formidable host to accomplish our destruction
We have had no privilege opportunity of defending
ourselves from the false, foul and unjust aspersons
against us before the nation The government has not
cOndescended to cause an investigating committee or
other person to be sent to inquire into and ascertain the
truth as is customary in such cases. We know those
asperslons to be false but that avails us nothing
We are condemned unheard, and forced to an issue
with an armed mercenary mob which has been sent
against at the instigaOn of anonymous leter-w-
ters ashamed to father the base slanderous sehoods
which they have given to the public-of corrupt Off
cas who have brought false acquisitions against us to
screen themselves in their namy, and Of hreling
priests end bowling editors who prostitute the truth for
filthy lucres sake
The issue which has thus been forced upon us COM
pes to resort to the great first law of sepreservaOn
and stand in defencea right guaranteed to us
by the genius of the institutions of our country and
upon which the government is based Our duty to our
selves to families requires not to tamely submit
to be driven and slain without attempt to preserve
ourselves. Our duty to country, holy religion
our God to freedom and liberty requires that should
not quietly stand still and those letters forging around
us which are calculated to ensave and bring us in sub
lection to an unlawful military despotsm, such as can
only eminate, in country of constitutional law, from
usurpation, tyranny, and oppression
Therefore, l, Brigham Young, governor and superin-
tendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Utah. in
the of the people of the United States in the Ter
ritory of Utah. forbid
First all armed forces of every description from
ing into this Territory, under any pretence whatever
Second that all the forces in said Territory hold them
selves in readiness to march at moments notice to re-
pei any and all such invasions
Third martial law is hereby declared to exist in this
Territory from and after the publication of this proca
nation, and no person shall be allowed to pass Or
pass into, through, from this Territory without
permit from the proper officer.
Given under my hand and SEAL at Great Salt Lake
City, Territory of Utah. this fifteenth day of Septem
ber A. D. eighteen hundred and fftyseven and of the
independence of the United States of America the egh
tysecond. BRIGHAM YOUNG.
F1RE.-The dwelling house of Ed. Graham Haywood,
ESQ., in the Southern part of this City with all the out
houses attached, consumed by fire on Thursday
morning last. The flames first discovered about
O'clock issuing through the roof The fire originated in
a room on the second story used as kind Of lumber
room, but how it communicated is unknown. The
building of wood, and the flames spread rapidly
that very little of the furniture saved. Indeed the
inmates of the house had barely time to escape. Mr.
HAYWOOD had very large and valuable library all of