New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-13
INTERESTING FROM UTAH
RESIGNATION OF CHIEFJUST1CE DRUM
MOND
From The yer. oyiean, Courier Apra ..


va had fbe Qualification Yesterday morning of call
ron Judoe w ". Drummond. of Chicago, late Chief
Justice Of Utah Territory. he was IN that cohaltoh
Of fine health and spirits IN which we always rejoice 10
ace Good sturdy. manly Democrats lie entertained
us for considerable tine with an account of his per
sopal and judicial experience among the saints, and OF
their msnncrs habits history, notions and purposes.
Although disgused with this set OF miserable
fanatics from accounts which had already reached us,
some relations given By Judge DrummOnd, in addition
TO those contained in his letter to Attorney General
Black, added many revolving shades TO the picture.
The Judges position, administrator Of civil and
criminal law in the Territory, has been such as to give
him better and probably more intimate knowledge
of the workings of the whole Mormon system than is
possessed by any one out OF Utah or in it. His
duties the representative of federal Judicial author
ity have shown him where the supreme rule of that
supers0n-fetered host rests, whose is the will that
sways the destines Of considerable nation, what the
motive that binds hundred Thousand inhabitants to
the Prde of Brigham Young, apd what the use made
Of their power by that astute, capable and bold hypo-
critic and his subOrdnates.
leading characteristic of the followers Of the
dern MahOmet seems TO be settled and abiding
hatred Of all Gentiles they are pleased TO style
all who do not subScrbe TO their d3gmas ana conform
to their unique and revolving creed Although they
come mainly from the northern portion of this repub-
lie they look upon the United States with no other
feeling than hatred. Patriotic love of the country
which gave them birth and which they disgrace has
look upon the United States Government IA an OPP
pressive one whose authority they have right to
sist All who without the pale OF the Church OF
Latter-Day Saints, whether in out of the Territory
which they have usurped, they regard their enc
miles, They either set at open defiance the DEGREES OF
our courts dictate to Grand Petit Juries the In
dctments they shall report or the verdlcts they shan
render In notable cases, where the guilt of criminals
has been as apparent the day sun, Young and
his fellow prophets have forbidden Mormon jures to
render verdict Of conviction In one instance,
where n poor helpless dumb boy was tortured in many
ICav form his b0rbarOu@ly beaten.
in the agony of his mortal wounds, fetered and
drowned in brook, when his brutal murderer was
sentenced to the Pcnitentiary, Brigham Young took
him from the hands of the officers, led him into the
tabernacle proclaimed hi. absolute pardon, forbade
any one to arrest him, and gave him seat at his
right hand
are punished without delay scrupe but if they rob
or murder EGentes' the Prophet extends his pro-
lection, and forbids juries to pronounce them guilty
No law except what emanaes from the supreme
hierarchy receives the slightest regard.
The right of private property among the Mormons
il almost unknown. Whatever the rulers need they
always find means to obtain. " The Lord needs 1t,
is warrant sufficient TO enable Young and his Coun-
Gil to seize upon any property III Utah, and remon-
STRANGE or resistance is not only useless but danger
Gus. If wealthy disciple arrives from the States,
the Church Young Immediately lays hold OF just
such share of his goods as he pleascs The portion,
of which the former ia suffered to retain nonl-
nal possession he is compelled to manage according
TO the dictation of some prophet or priest: II the
prophe saws 10 his neighbour " Plant that field with
potatoes" the former would lose his lands, and per-
hams his life were he TO refuse. The counsel he il
thus obliged TO obey, he is also compelled to ask.
The result is that the actual possession OF the great
mass of all the real personal property in Utah Is IN the
foul olgarchy OF Young and his immediate subordl-
dates. 800
But if the control over the property of Mormons Is
tyrannical that exercised over their most sacred PR
yate and family affairs is still more If father has
child fair and innocent whom he loves and cheIshes,
and If She captvates the fancy of some leading Nor
mon she will be taken from her home by the decree oil
the elders and given up by the ceremony of sealing
10 become the fOrtieh ffieh wife of an old villain,
while her predecessors, who have grown old IN me
same guilty and aboininabe connection, become ms
household cornfied servants. 1t often happens that
n man is sealed to two women at the same ceremony,
and cases are not when one OF the wives 80 ac-
aured is lost by divorce before breakfast the next
morning.
The account given by Judge Drummond of many of
these connections, where mother and two or three OF
her daughters were all sealed to the same man, pre-
sents picture of beas;y barbarity. Could correct
idea of these horrible transactions be made known
throughout the country crusade would be preached
against this foul horde that would put end TO
their sway.
We were not little gratifed to learn that none or
but very few of these MOmons natives of South
ern States Such fact speaks volumes in refutaton
of the mean SANDERS Of abotonsts against Southern
society We would, congratulate our fell0w-cltlI6ns
of the Northern States upon being md of so many OF
their fanatics by emigration to Utah, did we not know
that for every one THAI has left there are hundreds
more whose superstuon and bigOtry are equal i'll
degree if different in fOm MOrmOnism, communism,
Maine Lquor-Law agrarianism Millcrism, spirit
ualisin woman s-righ ts-sm and abOlonlsm. are an
OJSGn0e 1OlcT(S of the same plumage, none OF which
are made less odious by any mutual hatred that may
exist among them.