Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-09-10

October, that those Supply Trains, With
out even an armed corporaPs guard in their
vicinity. had been surprised aud burnt by
a Mormon band, who thus in effect made
war on the United States. Indignantly
but still without leader aud without def
uite orders, the Army struggled on to
Bndger / l3 miles from Salt Lake, which
the Mormons abandoned on its approach.
Bridger is many thousand feet above the
sea level, and the ground was here so buried
IN snow that It's gauni animals died by hun
dreds, aud the residue were unable TO drag
the baggage over the rivers aud steep
mountains which still separated it from Salt
Lake. So the regiments halted, bnilt hnts
to shelter themselves from he Winters in
clemency, and lived through the snowy sea-
son as they might on half allowance OF
/ their loan, grisily animals, without salt
Spring at length came the day long
hoped aud impatiently waited for, when
they could advance, arrived they had been
/ promised warm reception in the narrow
defes Of Echo Canon by Lieut. Gen Wells
and his Mormon host, aud they eagerly
eohrted that reception. II Gen Wells
were able, as he boasted, to send them TO
/ The right about, they would have nothing
to do bat TO go. They had grown rusty
/ from inaction, aud stood ready to be polish
| ed. even 10y 50 rough an implement as Gen.
/ Wells. Blu news came that the whole af
fair I'd been somehow arranged-that Col.
Kane, Brigham Young, aud Gov Cumming
had fixed matters 50 that there would be no
/ hghting-not even further train-burning. -
Yet the Mormuns fed from Salt Lake Cty
in anticipation of their entering it; they
were required by the civil power to eucamp
as far from the Mormon settlements as
possible; and they have ever since been
treated 10y the Federal Executive as though
! they had con- acre on their own motion,
in definnre o! fn;her than in obedience TO
that Executives own orders.
Whether truly or falsely, this Army, pro-
badly without an individual exception. un-
doubtingly believes the Mormons as a body
to be traitors to the Union and it's Govern
ment, inhpxibly intent on establishing here
power Which shall be at FIRST independent
Of aud ultimately dominant over that of
the United States. They believe that the
ostentations, defiant refusal of Brigham
Young. in 1851, to surrender the Terrific
rial Governorship, and his declaration that
he would hold that post until GOD Almighty
should tell him to give it up, were but the
natural development of polity which looks
to the snbjugatiou Of all earthly kingdoms,
states, empires, sovereignties, to a rule
nominally theocratic, but practically auto
cratic, with Brigham Young or his dcsig-
mated successor as deSpot. They hold that
the instinct of sef-preseYatou, the spirit
Of that requirement. of the Federal Consti.
tuition which eujoins that each State shall
be guaranteed republican form of Gov
ernment, cry out against such despotism,
and demand its overthrow.
The Army undoubtingly and universally
believes that MOrmoniSm is, at least on the
part of the master spirits of 'the Church."
an organized, secret, reasonable conspiracy
to extend the power, increase the wealth.
and crafty the lecherous appetites Of those
leaders, who are using the forms and terms
of religion to mask and shield systematic
adultery perjury. counterfeiting, robbery,
treason, and even murder Ii points TO the
wholesale massacre at Mountain Meadows,
the murder of the Parishes, and hun
dred more such, as Instances Of Mormon
assassination for the good of the Church,
the chastisement of its enemies, or the az
grandizement of its leading members-ro
the imposSibility of bringing the perpetra-
tors of these crimes to justice, to the Ter
ritorial laws of Utah which empower Nor
mon tuncti0narieS TO select the Grand aud
Petit Jurors even for the United States
Courts, and impose qualifications which in
effect secure the exclusion of all but Nor
,t,a L.
form refusal of those jurors to iudict or
convict those who have committed crimes
in the interest of Mormonism.* as proof
positive that all attempts to punish Nor.
mon criminals by Mormon jurors and Off.
GERS must ever prove aborlVt, aud demands
Of the Federal Government that it shall
devise and put in execution some remedy
for this unbearable impunity TO crime. II
is uniformly believed in camp that not less
thar seceRtyfp distinct instances of murder
by MormonS because of apOStacv, or some
other form of hostility 10 1.-THE Church." or
mainly for the sake of plunder, are known
to the authorities here, and that here is no
shadow of hope that one of the perpetra-
tors will ever he brought to justice under
the sway of Mormon Popular Sovereign.
y" as now established in this Territory =
The Army, therefore, turns an anxious eve
to Washington, aud strains its ear to hear
what remedy is TO be applied
Mnilesdy, the recent responses from
that quarter are not calculated to alay this
anxiety The official rebuke recently and
publicly given 70 he Federal Judges here,
for employing detachments of troops to ar
rest and hold securely Mormons accused of
capital crime elicitS low mutterings of dis
satisfaction from some, with grave silence
on the part of many whom discipline re-
strains from speaking As tie recent or
ders from Washington are understood here.
no employment of Federal troops to arrest
or secure persouS charged with or even con-
victed of crime is allowed, except where
the civil power Intensely Mormon) shall
have certified that the execution OF process
is resisted by force which it cannot over
come by means Of cvll posse. How op
posite this is to the orders gwen and obey
ed in the Fugitive Slave ca eS at Boston,
&c., need harlly he indicated
Very general, then. is the inquiry 10 the
Amy Why were we sent here and why