The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-08-21
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conversation, aaroitly 81 Asayoring ID commi
lie 10 the opinion that $Siie and lis people hi,
been grossly tradpced Il yilittd. He becam
excited rs he repudistHI the charge that Capt
Gunnispn was murdYssSa BY the Mormons, D
that the bonks and ids Of the United State
Court were Destroy Upon which represenle
LIEN alone he profeN%Y,ao understand thaattffFFh
army Had been sent OUT here. He ~Nsaitted
however, that the libraries OF Jldsssstiles AMI
Thomas s. Williams verb destaGSedb by violence
nt the same time, when, ns There is an abun
dance Of Gentle esssAlence. the records Yer,
missing. He declnr1Mess he was snrry whcg n,
heard TINT the b&fs hlNsN done that; bntd33th,
hypocracy Of the decIg&ation is palpaM Il
every man who. spends p hour here ; itd# per
feclly evident that " the boys would aMs8 theil
own threats sooner than perpetfatgSS8 Ech a
act without the cognizance and :assnSSsd appro
val of their lenders. Besides. it was not Il
Z the boys but to the church. that William
aid Stiles had become obnQx;gus, both Of The
having apostatized. Certym ii is that Brig
ham aud his followet& hsSN neverrebnked lathe
boys ID the least fot tB1s Or any other outrn
Iges which they have Committed, from time t.
-Tiurv, aguinsf the pesSnls and property Of Gen
tiles or offending SMga5aints,' which have beer
heretofore detailed ip your Utah correspon
dcnce. sas~sas.r,.,.
/ suggested III Brigham Sgsa.Sdshce.
ia relation to The. breakio Isl HE United
States Conr:s by vinlent Md seemed TO he
very strong. He denied them all, and next
called several witnesses about him to declare
that all the foundation for the story was q
motion made by Gen. Ferguson to strike VIII
Hams and Gen. Bars names from the 70 OF
attorneys because they had insulted the Court.
You will remember in answer to this, that
The Judge himself did not know that these
gentlemen had insulted him, and that he testi-
fed to the violence exerted to dissolve bis
Court. In confirmation Of this testimony, let
me state, that on my way hither, 4 was driven
from Weston, Mo-, to st. Joseph;s by an ap-
parently honest man, whose name escapes me
at this time, WIN voluntarily told me that he
was present in the courtroom here at The time
spoken Of. AT my request he related the par
ticniafs Of that scene, and l found it tailed in
particular with the story as told III your
correspondence about "A year ago, and as it has
been related by all Gentile witnesses. 1t is
not for ME to decide which is the true version,
but the reader may Judge for himself. The
Governor, like all the people we meet here,
was profuse 10 his professions of love for the
Constitution. suggested, Of course, tina,
there could be no trouble which he evidently
still anticipated) if he recognized fully the OBJ
OF that Instrument, aud renlined hin,
hat we OF the East had been led to bel eve
hat he and his people had refused to have over
hem officers whom the President had selected
'hder bis constitutional right and power. He
with q TRADE against Federal officers.
sgainst most Of whom his chief objection seem.
q to be that they had written letters to The
EAST "full Of lies about this people. Their
petitions for their removal had been utterly
l~isregarded. he continued, In reply TO his
whesber the people of Utah ough,
lnt to be relieved OF unworthy officials. | re
'lled, OF course, in the Affirmative. reminding
am however. that If the President did not
hink them unworthy, the Constitution made
nm The sole jndge and albifpr-aud that il he
allied 70 redress such grievances, it was the
oil good citizens who love The Constitution
leave The Executive to his responsibility to.I
ne people in the only method pointing on, hy
tat instrument: Brigham rejoined, excitedty.
nat II The President would lot redress their
rlevances, they world redress them for them
slycs-nn eyntess;o, ,,b,oI, ooata;.. -
.sence Of all tie sedi,ion and ,rsasnn NY
.hicll the aruv was semi ont l,are ~ a,ass
indid reader must see.
Bripha !, e., ifa,a a, tl,a "a. ~.
+ nolvoamv was anr',ia. W. Va La 'ne system
ri indncsj he w a;h p',a =. .ne causes winch
that it was the grussest hunbur.
- honest nhharraes. LOU a;, nus a,tM' expressing
viewed in ths Sta,e, NV WEI Po'ygamy
llowiuu daclsrat;an ! NJ, eAp'1tpeu Wild the
toceI bsr ,ha a,.e,s'; So: laying, ASIDE
q Univ d;iarenoa 1870 VIEW VI polygamy,
ast and mrs i ,b m,"s rsnn iour system Of me
ID ,reaf them Iike hr,ia. n.y. sunr WIS
ID trent ,ben Ene hn n' aau We keep m.s
m that wa Of he L.ast ~ ! ,h s" ~ assured
aritv CHARGED nnon - :" ~ Tue iack OF
rsn a term to Normon mnn aa'sp applieu SO
Proube, had himsaif ';n ,". 10. az 'hat wnlch
rned tba cnnnansa'9ns JasI USED i%ie'hen
: charres mada anains, ~, Js"S'ls up some OF
) that thev ware all 4 u y w mof.,ons; oec'ar-
:esident l.ew = e,n =. ies, ana mat the
Ike them was ali placsd : ;a 1 IVY % re-
nds a, w.sb;motnn p n"a, ~ lhe PRESIDENTS
near then that Air. Ranhs as1, ~ woalu
Or The ey;da,,ca a,;se'a,n anah u'a NOT con
min upon the subject If nnlrranan e oaa'ge
ted liza the city Of New VI NV us
rrty thousand IeyaIlv licensed a.'.a''ea
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