The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-05-02
Governors Proclamation.

THE ARMY sUSTANs THE JUDICIARY.
Governors Proclamation.
JUDGE CRADLEBAUGM,s REPLY.
The Mormon 7heocracy De6es the Lars and the
Courts Of the United States.
Correspondence Of the Press and Tribune.l
CAxP FLoYD, March 80, 1859. Il
enclose you proclamation Of Gov. Cum
ming, and also the remarks Of Judge Cradle
baugh, on the bench, when the expresman
handed it to him. send you BY this mail
also, the Valley Tan, and an Extra Of the
Church organ.
You will readily perceive that matters are
tending to point in the Territory. The
Governor ia beginning more and more 10
show his hand, and in the most silly way,
too. He had only to add one more sentence
--one that ID quite usual to put into q proc
lAmation, /. .: "And / call upou Ill rood
citizens" &c., &c.-and he would then stand
about where Brigham Young stood with his
proclamation against tho entry Of the army
in 1857. As it 10, Gov. Cumming stands ar
rayed in an exceedingly hostile sttitude
against the judiciary Of tho United States,
In Utah, and against the United States troops
and the CommsndA1. This state OF Affairs
cannot last. The governor must take deci-
dsd measures for one or the other. Either
the Judiciary, and the Military Commander
here must 60 under, and Gov. Cumming and
the Mormons, with oil their system and plum
dor, theft, murder and polygamy be foster
ed BY the country, or else Cumming and his
Mormon friends must be removed and the
Judiciary sustained. We are all waiting to
see which will be the course Of the homo gov
eminent. The Administration can not ride
three horses any longer.
| Would you believe it, that Gen. Johnston
has never received one line of Instructions
from Washington in all this matter, save and
except those given to VIM. s. Harvey in 1857,
at the time he Was under orders to come out?
Strange a. this may appear 10 you, il ID yet
the fact. Now, the objects IN this are evil
dent to General Johnston and every intelli-
gent officer here. The government at home
have not the courage to meet this Mormon
"1hsocracy," and they therefore wish the
commander to do just as be thinks best, and
they at home stand and wait till it il done,
and then condemn or approve his course az
the political stock market may render most
expedient. More than one here secs and
knows full we'll this dishonest game il be-
ing played, while there is every evidence OF
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Utah being quite in the confidence, support
and advocacy Of this horde Of robbers, out
laws and murderers.
| Great excitement exists, and it 10 hoped
that the ball will get in motion somehow
Cradlsbaugh 10 man, every inch Of him,
despite OF oil opposition from Mormon Gov.
ernors, and oil. He is sustained by every
military man here, and he knows it, and will
doubtless adjourn his Court TO the camp, hay-
ing already four murderers and being in chase
OF three more. CHIcA0oAH.
JUDGE cRADLKBAUGH DISCHARGES THE GRAN
JURY.
[The following are the remarks Of Judge
Cradlsbrugh upon the occasion Of discharg-
ing the urand Jury:]
This day makes two weeks from the time
you we're empanelled. At that time, the
court was very particular to impress upon
your minds the fact that it Was desirable to
| expedite the business as speedily ~ possible.
The court took occasion to call your alton
ton TO the difficulties under which We had to
labor. Ii told you Of the condition of the
| legislation; it told you OF the fact that the
Legislature had not provided proper means
to aid the court in bringing criminals to pun.
ishment; it told you that aside from that,
that the legislation was Of such character
as to embarrass the court in the discharge Of
it's duties; and that they had given criminal
jurisdiction to courts of their own creation,
which by the organic act exercise no such iu-
risdiction. They had sought to throw the
punishment Of Grimes into such tribunal.
The court also called your attention to the
fact that there had been, in connection with
this legislation, an attempt by persons with
in this Territory to bring the United States
Courts into disrepute with this people. II
particularly called your attention to the fact
that Brigham Young, the late Executive Of
the Territory, at the time when he Was q
sworn officer Of the Government--sworn to
see that the laws were executed-had taken
occasion to denounoe the courts az vile and
corrupt; also that he had taken occasion 80
denounce oil attorneys and jurors Of the
court, and that this was done to prevent the
proper and due administration Of justice in
the Territory.
The court felt it to be its duty to repel
such SANDERS that it owed to the position
it occupied aud to the members Of the bar,
who were looked upon o. honorable men.
and from it's association with them, it felt il
to be it's duty to repel such ISLANDERS, let them
come from what source they might. This
was done for the purpose Of showing the diff
fculties that you and the court laborsd un-
der in bringing criminals to justice.
Aside from this, the court took the unusu-
al course Of calling your attention TO partic-
nlar crimes-the horrible massacre at the
Mountainmeadows. It told you OF the muir
der OF young Jones and his mother, and Of
pulling their house down over them and ma
king that their tomb; it told you Of the muir.
der Of the Parishes, and Potter, and Forbes,
almost within sight Of this court house. Ii
took occasion to call names for the purpose
OF calling your particular attention TO those
Grimes; tho fact that they have been com
mitted is notorious.
Tho court has had occasion to issue bench
warrants to arrest persons connected with
the Parrish murder has had them hrnnoh,