The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-10-20

selves from the Winters inclem ency, and
lived through the snowy season as they
might on half allowance of their lean
gristly animals, without salt
Spring at length came; the day long
hoped and impatiently waited for. when
they could advance arrived; they bad been
promised a warm reception in the narrow
defiIes of Ech Canon BY Lieut.. General
Wells and his Mormon host, and they
eagerly courted that reception. Ii Gen.
Wells were able, as he boasted, to send
them to the right about, they would have
nothing to do but 20 60. They had grown
rusty from inaction, and stood ready to
be polished, even by so rough an imple-
ment as Gen. Wells. But news came
that the whole affair had been somehow
anged-.that Col. Kane, Brigham
Young, and Gov. Cumming had fixed mat
ters SO that there would be no 6ghting-
not even further train burning. Yet the
Mormons fed from Salt Lake City in an-
ticipatiop of their entering it; they we're
required by the civil power to eucamp as
far as possible from the Mormon settle
mcnts; and they have ever since been
treated By the Federal Executive as
though they had come there on their own
motion, in defiance of rather than in o.
bedience to that Executives own orders.
Whether truly or falsely, this Army,
probably without an individual exception.
undoubtingly believes the Mormon as
body to be traitors to the Union and its
Government, inaexibly intent on estab-
fishing here a power which shall be at
first independent of and ultim ately domi
nant over that of the United States. They
believe that the ostentatious. defiant refu-
sal of Brigham Young, in 1857, to sur
render the Territorial Governorsbip, and
his declaration that be would hold that
post until God Almighty should tell him
to give it up, were but the natural devel-
opment of polity which looks to the sub
jugation of all earthly Kingdoms, states,
empires, soverignties. to rule nominally
theoratic, but practically autocratic, with
Brigham Young or bis designated success
or as despot They bold that the instinct
of self-preservatipn, the spirit of that re-
quircment of the Federal Constitution
which eDjoins that each State shall be
guaranteed republican form Of Govern
ment, cry out against such despotism,
and demand its overthrow.
The Army uudoubtingly and univer-
sally believes that Mormouism is, at least,
on the part of the master spirits of "the
/ Church." an organized, secret. treasona-
bic conspiracy to extend the power, in
crease the wealth, ad crafty the leehrous
appettites of those leaders who are using
the terms of religion to mask and shield
systematic adultery, perjury, counterfeit
ing, robbery, treason, and even murder.
/ 1t points to the wholesale massacre at
Mountain Meadows, the murder of the
Parishes, and hundred more such, as
! instances of Mormon assassination for the
good of the Church, the chastisement OF
its enemies or the aggrandizement of its
leading members-to the impossibility Of
bringing the perpetrators of these crimes to
Justice. to the Territorial laws of Utah
which empower Mormon functionaries to
select the Grand aud Petit Jurorors even
for the United States Courts, aud impose
qualifications which in effect secure the
exclusion Of all but Mormons from the
Jury box, and to the uniform refusal oil
those Jurors to indict or convict those who
have committed crimes in the interest oi
Norm onism,* as proof positive that al
attempts to punish the Mormon criminals
by Mormon jurors and officers must ever
prove abortive, and demands Of the Fed
eral Government that it shall devise end
put in execution some remedy for this
unbearable impunity to crime. It's uni.
formly believed ip camp that not less thar
SeUenty fCe distinct instances of murder
by Mormons because of apostacy, or some
other form of hostility to ''the Church
or mainly for the sake of plunder, art
known to the authorities here, and thai
there is no shadow of hopo that one o
the perpetrators will ever be brought L
justice under the sway of Mormon Pop
ular Sovereignty" as now established il
this Territory. The Army, therefor,
turns an anxious eye to Washington, ant
strains its ear to hear what remedy is t,
be applied.
Manilestly, the recent response from
that quarter are not calculated to ALA,
this anxiety. The official rebuke recent
ly given to the Federal Judges here, fo
employing detatchments of troops to ar
rest and hold securely Mormons accused
of capital crime, elicts low mutterings o
dissatisfaction from some, with grav
silence on the part Of many whom disci
plne restrains from speaking. As th
recent orders from Washington are under
stood here, no employment of Fedora
troops to Arrest or secure persons charge
with or even convicted of crime is allow
ed. except where the civil power (intense
ly Mormon) shall have certified that th
execution of process is resisted BY fore
which it cannot overcome by means of
civil posse. How opposite this is the OF
ders given and obeyed in the Fugitiv
Slave cases at Boston, &C., need hardl
be indicated.
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