Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-05-01
Resignation of the Chief Justice
of Utah.

DrummOnu, addressed TO the Attorney
General of the United States, in which
he resigns the office of Chief Justice of
the Territory of Utah. Judge Drum
mond's letter sets forth so plainly and d.
rectly the whole enormity of the out
RACES and crimes of Brigham Young and
his satellites, that we copy the principal
portion of it. After announcing bis res
ignation, Judge Drummond says:
ain the first place, Brigham Young,
the governor of Utah Territory, is the
acknowledged head of the : Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, COM
monty called 'Mormons,' and as such
head the Mormons look to him, and to
him alone for the lar by which they are
to be governed; therefore no law Of
Congress is by them considered binding
in any manner.
Secondly-I know that there is Sc
cret oath-bound organization among all
the male members of the church, and to
acknowledge no law save the law of the
Holy Priesthood which comes to the
people through Brigham Young, direct
from God, he-Young-being vicegerent
of God and prophetic successor of lo-
seph Smith, who was the founder of This
blind and reasonable organization.
THardly-F am fully aware that there
is a set of men set apart by special order
of the church to take both the lives and
property of persons who may question
the authority of the church-the names
of whom l will promptly make known at
future time.
Fourthly-That the records, papers,
etc., of the Supreme Court have been
destroyed by order of the church, with
direct knowledge and appreciation of gov
ernor B. Young, and the federal officers
grossly insulted for presuming to raise a
single question about the reasonable act
Fgfhiy.-That the federal officers Of
the territory are constantly insulted, har.
raised and annoyed by the Mormons, and
for those insults there is no redress.
Sirthly.-That the federal officers are
daily compelled to hear the form of the
American government traduced, the chic
executive of the nation, both living anC
dead, slandered and abused from the
masses, as from all the leading members
of the church, in the most vulgar, loathe
some and wicked manner that the evi
passions of men can passibly conceive.
Again: That after Moroni Green haC
been convicted in the District Court be
fore my colleague, Judge Kinney, of al
assault with intent to commit murder
and afterward, on appeal to the Suprem'
Court the judgment being affirmed ant
said Green sentenced to the penitentiary
Brigham Young gave full pardon to tht
I said Green before he reached the peni
Tertiary; also the said Governor Young
pardoned man by the name of Baker
who had been tried and sentenced to tel
years Imprisonment in the penitentiar.
for the murder OF a dumb boy by th
name of Whitehouse, the proof Showing
one of the most aggravated cases of nun
der that ! ever knew being tried and t
insult the court and government officers
this man Young took the pardoned Grim
inal with him, in proper person, to churc
on the next Sabbath after his conviction
Baker in the meantime having receive
full pardon from Gov. Brigham Youn:
: These two men were Mormons.
On the other hand, charge the Mo-
mons, and Gov. Young in particular, wit
imprisoning five or six young men frol
Missouri and Iowa, who are now in ii
penitentiary Of Utah, without those me
having violated any criminal law in 4
merica, but they were anti-Mormon
poor uneducated young men, on the
way to California; but because they en-
igrated from Illinois, Iowa or Missouri
and passed by Great Salt Lake City, the
were indicted by Probate Court, an
, most brutally and inhumanly dealt wit
in addition to being summarily incarc
rated in the sanity prison of the Teri
r. tory of Utah. I also charge Go
! Young with constantly interfering Wi
r, the federal Courts, directing the Graz
l. Jury whom to indict, and whom no
and, after the Judges charge the Graz
Juries as to their duties, that this ma
Young, invariably has some member
the Grand Jury advised in advance as
~ his will in relation to their labors, al
y that the charge thus given is the on
. charge known, obeyed, or received by
the Grand Juries of the Federal Coul
of Utah Territory.
E. Again sir, after a careful and matu
as Investigation. have been comnelled