Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-04-23
PLYMOUTH THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1857
BRIGHAM YOung's Outrages

Brigham YOung's Outrages.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Herald, writing from Salt Lake City on the
7th of January, says:
have to chronicle one of the most dar-
ing and insulting national crimes ever com
mitted in the United States. and that, too,
under the direct care and control and under
the immediate order and direction of this
man Young. Early in January, and just
in advance of the meeting of the Supreme
Court, a party of Mormons, in high stand
ing in the church, and under the advice of
Brigham Young, repaired to the office of
Hon. G.. p. Stiles, one of the U. S. District
Judges, law office of L. S. Williams, Esq.
and the office of the Clerk of the Supreme
Court, and took therefrom all the papers
belonging to the Supreme Court, consis-
ting of records, dockets, opinions, filed
away, together with nine hundred volumes
of the laws, furnished by the Federal Gov
ernment for the use of the Territory of
Utah The reason given for the treason
Gus act was, that Congress would not ad
nit them as State, and that they would
not allow the Federal officers to remain in
the Territory; and that what officers were
now in the Territory must leave as soon as
grass grows, or he will send them to hell
across lots. Now, sir, can you find par
allel to this act of treason since the organi-
zation of the American colonies? If so,
please note the time and place.
1t seems now to be settled fact that
the laws of Congress cannot be carried out
or put in force in this Territory-the only
known or obeyed are the laws of the
church, and that is the will of Brigham
Young, who most clearly is the most bru-
tai tyrant now on earth, and in point Of
reasonable designs, without an equal.
Often have the courts decided against the
enactment of the Utah Statutes, but all in
vain. The Mormons go on after their own
order of business, wholly disregarding and
setting at defiance the opinions and descis-
ions of the Supreme Court of the Territory
and openly declare that they will not obey
nor be governed by any one unless he IS
Mormon; and that any who thinks other
wise can lose his life by trying the expert
ment, which most emphatically will be the
case unless strong military aid is given
by the u s. government. In vain may
one try for justice where the mandate of
one man is the supreme law of the land,
when you have Mormon jurors, Witnesses,
officers &c, all bound by Il secret oath OF
hostility, not only to all the laws of Con
eress, but toward all the officers of the t.
S. government. from President down to
that of Marshal of the Territory of Utah
At this time sir, there are five young
men lingering out weary lite of misery
and wretchedness. groanng beneath heavy
loads of iron in the damp and dismal
calls of the Utah Penitentiary. for no crime
known to the laws. other than expressing
opinions of disapprobation of the doctrines
of Mormonism, which. here, is the black
est crime man can commit. 1t is worthy
Of remark that these young men are not
Mormons, but were passing on their way to
California from Missouri Poor fellows
they are doomed to sickly and torturing
death, and that soon, for il Is not possible
to survive sucn treatment very long
Quite recently young man by the name
Of Lewis. was convicted of assault and
} battery, and sentenced to five years inn
prisonment in the Penitenliary; and while
on their way to prison. band of ruffians
took him away from the officer, and depri-
we'd him Of his, and then put him into
the prison to die. These things are too
common to be endured much longer; and
unless the Federal Government speedily
lends aid to her officers now In the Terri
tory. the miserable ends of both Mormons
and officers of the Government can be bet
ter anticipated than told.
THE MOTHER MoULDs THE MAN.--That 1t
: is the mother who moulds the man is a