Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-01-01
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eight columns upon the "Expcdition against
Utah." 1t commences with long dis
luisition upon the wrongs Of the Mormcps,
declaring
From the day iu which Joseph Smith the
Prophet began to receive revelations from
Jehovah, earth and hell have been moved
to compass the overthrow and determination
Of the Latter Day Saints, State after State
Ohio, Missouri and Illnois--has mobbod,
tarrod, feathered, killed and plundercd, and
expelled them, while the Government has
chuckled over such illegal and inhuman
treatment.
1t then proceeds TO show how tho Gov
ernment in the management Of the Pest
Office Department, Indian Affairs, DC, has
constantly wrongcd them, and thereby vio-
lated the Constitution Of the United States.
Coming at length to the "Expcdition" IT.
self, the ire of the editor bols over, and no
utters the following tirade
And in the most reasonable manner
have they concoctcd their plans, stopped the
mails and laid their wires to hold free
and innocent people still, while, under the
sham of law, vcxatious writs should be is
sued on perured acquisitions, and our prin-
cipal men arraigned and tried by the RAJ
kings of hell.
And If the people would not hold still
under such fiendish dcspotism and suffer tho
hot iron Of rottennoss and spiritual and tenn
porol death to be thrust to their vitals,
then indeed would arise the preconcorted
hue and cry of treason and the call upon
troops who have been ordered from the
swamps Of Florida, the threatened frontiers
of Minnesota and from tho length and
breadth of the land to attempt an utter ex-
termination of the known most peaceful and
really praiscworthy citizens in the Union,
because they arc worshipping and striving
to worship the "God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob"
Tell it not in the ears Of the least INTEL
ligent and virtuous, for such conduct puts to
blush that of the antediluvians, that of the
inhabitants Of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
is nearly akin to that of the Jewish nation,
for which they have been hiss and by
word for centuries. How long, think you,
can a republic exist, when it first sides with
mobs and then leads their van, using q
standing army as a cats paw for carrying
out devilish designs, by ordering them to
region where all is peace and good order,
with the carefully arranged plan for all hell
to follow after.
The editor then publishes the memorial,
recently sent by the Utah Legislature to the
President, requesting the appointment of
officers for that Territory from list of
names furnished, and proceeds to "pitch in
to" U. S. Territorial officers as follows:
We do not want and will not have such
men as were L. P. Brocchus, Messrs. Sec
retary Ferris, District Attorney Holman,
w. w. Drummond, G. P. Styles, and 9th
or lying, filthy, rotten curses of that GLASS;.
to scatter pollution among our citizens both
white and rcd, and to bring destruction up
on us so far as in their power, as their works
have proved. President Buchanan, does
that breathe 'defant spirt?" Or do you
wish to officer Territories with such sinks of
corruption, that they may have the aid of
official station in overriding every virtuous
and lovely principle9
1t is out of the question to believe that
you are Ignorant of the just position taken
by your memorialists in the above docu-
ments, and it is staggering oven to common
humanity to suppose that you will use tho
powers of your position upon tho side of
the oppression, moral death and extermina-
tion of your fellow citizens. But if the lat
ter be not the course you are pursuing, up.
on what principle have you ordered nearly
one-fourth of the standing army of the
United States to escort civil officers to Ter
ritory where such officers have ever been
received and treated with all the kindness
and courtesy their conduct merited, and
with far more than Brocchus and his class
ever deservedi
1t is self-evident that by fitting out such
an expedition AGAINST Utah" the Govern
ment had predetermined to sweep the
"Mormons" and "Mormonism" out Of exis-
tencc, by holding them still while mobo-
Gratis, blacklegs, thieves, liars, demagogues,
and all hell worked their loved and charac-
tcristic destruction of the virtuous and inno-
cent. 1t is folly and wickedness to allcge
that such body Of troops has been ordered
here for peaceful purposes, for such course
is in open defiance of all law and trampling
under foot every just principle.
The same paper contains discourse of
Saint Brigham, which is as follows:
do not often get angry, but when do
am righteous angry; and tho bosom Of the
Almighty burns with anger toward these
scoundrels and they shall be consumed in
the name of Isracl's God. We have borne
enough of their oppression and hellish
abuse, and will not bear any more Of it, for
there is no just law requiring further for
bearance on our part. And l am not GO
ing to have troops here to protect the priests
and hellish rabble in efforts 10 driye us
from the land we possess, for the lord does
not want us to be driven and has said, sIl
We will assert your rights and keep my COM
maudments, you shall never again DO
brought into bondage by your enemies"
Before will suffer what | have in times
g'ne by, there shall not be one building, nor
ono foot Of lumber, nor stick nor tree,
nor particle Of grass and hay, that will
burn, left in reach of our enemies. / am
sworn, if driven to extremity, to utterly Law
waste in the name of Israels God.
If tho troops are now this side of Lara.
inie, remember that the Sweet water Is this
side of that place. They must have some
place To winter for they cannot come