Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-05-12

possession of all his property, and there
is no means of recovering it. In a sermon
delivered in December, 1858, Brigham
said, eff an elder has borrowed from you,
and you find he is going to apostatize,
then you may tighten the screws upon
him; but if he is willing to preach the gos-
pei, without purse scrip, Il is none ofryour
business s0Iat he has done soah the money
he has borrowed Of you.'' In accordance
with this doctrine, they never permit man
to leave their church with any property
Fictitious suits, and taxes, or even rob-
berry will be resorted to by these 1Rscally
saints to keep it all. The taxes and tithes
amount to 32 per cent, and the prophets
have frequent revelations calling for more.
They have passed laws expressly authoriz-
ing slavery of negroes and Indians, and
actually hold both in slavery. They have
a secret society among them called Dan
ties, Shanpipes, or Destroying Angels,
whose object is 20 assassinate those who
come under the displeasure of the heads
of the church. Elder Hyde (who has re-
Gently left the Mormons) stated publicly,
before the Legislature of California, that
he and one Hickman were set apart spe-
cially, by the DANTE band, to murder
Judge Drummond. The deed was to have
been done last July, while crossing Carson
Valley. Many persons, whose disappear
ance has been charged to the Indians, have
undoubtedly been murdered by this band.
They habitually break open the United
mails, and nothing can come in or 90 out of
the territory safely unless by private car
riers. Whipping women is common oc-
currence. Judge Drummond says that
Brigham Young's hired man whipped one
of his Young's) wives in his presence,
till the blood trckled down her back, and
that while the woman was within one month
of her confinement, for dsobedience to
the laws of the church. Gov Young con-
tinually exercises the pardoning power
Mormon juries find verdicts as they are
instructed by the priests. The Mormon
u s. Marshal robs the government of thou
sands of dollars, by enlisting large possess
and with great noise and confusion captur-
ing vagrant criminals, who are at once ac-
quilted by Mormon juries.
But why enumerate farther. A more
infamous gang of scoundrels never infest-
ed the earth, than the leaders of these
Latter Day Saints, and their deluded fol-
lowers are the most miserable, priest-rid-
den, God -forsaken wretches ever huddled
together.
One or two queries naturally suggest
sal in yit1,
/. Why was Brigham Young-a prophet
and high prize st of Mormonism-appoin
Governor of Utah? G. Why have their
abominable practices been so long tolerated?
3. What is the prospect for the future?
Had Zachary Taylor lived, it was his in
tention to bring the rascals under whole
some discipline-peaceably if he could
forcibly if he must. Before his death, he
had taken the initiative steps. But either
dispensaton of Divine Providence, or
a wicked device of man accidentally placed
Millard Fillmore poor, weak, timid soul
in the Presidential chair. Lacking the
nerve to carry out the plans of his illus
trious predecessor, and preferring tempo
rary quiet even at sacrifice of right and
justice, to lasting peace, obtained by vigor-
Gus measures, he was easily persuaded by
designing men that all the difficulties in
Utah might be settled satisfactorily with
out resort to arms, by the appointment
OF the leader of the Mormons as Governor
of the terrItory-in other words by a sacri-
flee of the honor and dignity of the United
States for the benefit of these outlaws
granting them official permission to con-
tinue their denominations. It is said that
Brigham Young was appointed by Fill
more at the express solicitation of Senator
Douglas. Douglas was ambitious and un-
scrupulous. He looked forward to the
time when Utah should become a state of
this Union, and when even the vote of Utah
might determine who should be President
He had known the leaders of the Mormons
in Illinois, and had received favors at their
hands. He stepped forward, therefore, as
their ''patron saint" in their time of trou-
bic, urging Brigham's appointment, know
ing at the same time, that two indictments
were pending against the rascal, in the u.
S. District Court of Illinois, for making
and passing counterfeit money. What did
he care for the character of the man; he
knew Fillmore must bear the responsibility
while he would reap the benefit of the APP
pointment.