Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-04-25
THE SENTINEL.
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L1T'rLEFIELD & NfAGINNIS
W. w. PHELPS, Editor.

W. w. PHELPS, Editor.
THAT OTHER s<RELIC."
The Republicans have lately he'd anothe,
spasm Of morality another attack Of tha
feeling which at Philadelphia caused then
them to exclaim with horror against tn,
Twin relic o: barbaris,n,"-
They are periodically subject to such At
tacks-once every four years-and they
sometimes last through an entire Presiden'
tial campaign. This last attack was 70
'narkab'y MISUNDERSTANDING acute. Thu
question was taken hold Of As it arisen bu
yesterday, and Members Of Congress bus
tied around, anxious to say something, o.
to do something, they didn't much car,
what as if they had just awoke to u con.
seriousness Of the existence Of polygamy-
and 30 bill for its suppression vas got up,
and hurrahed into the House by Repub
Leans and slavc.codists, (all anxious t.
show what Congress had a right to do.) a.
if tho fate Of the nation depended on it.
Immediate passage. The Democrats &c
against the bill, and are charged with favor.
ing polysamy. Let US argue that point.
The pretense upon VII Oh the Republicans
worked themselves into this paroxys'n,
was certain stories, which have been atloa,
in the public prints, in regard to outrages,
thefts. murders and ,reasons. plotted and
perpe'ra,ed by Mor,nons, who being upheld
By their Church. fear no punishment there
for. These stories, if true, represent 4
state Of things existing in Utah which calls
for immediate action The Republican So
Ions assumed them to be so, and what &C.
ton did they take? Did they repeal the
organization act Of Utah Territory. Did
they abolish the Government which coun.
tenancsd such misdceds Oh no Utah
is still to b a territory: and the Mormon
Elders at whose instigation oil sorts Of
crimes are committed, are still to a1m;aister
the laws; emigrants are still to be plum
dered and murdered. aid the United States
authorities set at defiance and Congress
passing over these things, is to pounce upon
polygamy-a virtue, compared to tho awful
crimes Of which Mormons are accused
pass bill for its suppression. and then send
tho law out to Utah to be enforced by Brig
ham Young, who has sixty wives and by
the Elders who endeavo, to emulate his no !:
hls example. What would We think Of =
Legislature that would charter. that would
allow, A. organized gang Of bandit,i to plum
der aud ravish and murder, aid then pass
lew forbidding the members the use oftobac-
co, and-to cap the climax, to reach the
very summit Of the ridiculons--leaye the
execution Of that prohibitory enactment en-.
tirely to the chiefs and members Of the band.
Yet would it he any mere absurd than this
bill against polygamy, which the people Of
Utah are to enforce; Mormons who are a.
most rebels, are to prosecute brother Nor
mons. for a practice sanctioned and taught
by the Mormon Church !; and the accused
are to be indicted by Norman Grand Jurics,
and tried by Mormon petit juries, selected
by Mormon Sheritfs FROM . Mormon COM
munity. What blessed way to "suppress
pelygamy;" and yet because the Democrats
would not give countenancs and support to
such miserable, .imless, digracsful act As
that-a measure more worthy Of tho tooth-
less old women Of an eleemosyaary sewing
society than Of the combined represe nsative
wisdom Of the United States of America. in
Congress assembled--a measure which wo'd
render IN enactment Of the Federal Gov.
eminent matter Of contemplating arc
iorsooth. polygamists and supporters Of
polygamy.
Proceeding upon the hypothesis, that the
State Of affairs in Utah il fully ~ bad as
represented !; that the Mormous are hos
tile to this Government; that enisrants
and unbslisving settlers are murdered with
immunity; that mons except Mormons,
can obtain redress Of grievances IN the courts;
that there is connection existing between
their Church and State, entirely repugnant
to American principles, and which continual.
ly interferes to defeat the the aims Of jus.
sics and thwart the operations of the law
surely it is the duty Of Congress to repeal
the act organizing that territory to divide
it up between several ether territories; thus
breaking up the unity Of the Mormon peo-
pie, politically. and consequently the con-
nection between ecclesiastical and secular
authority putting the government in the
hands Of good, loyal citizens, who will make
proper laws, and enforce them too-doine
away forever with the crimes and misde.
meanors Of tho Mormons, polyga.ny among
the rest. Well, an amend msnt to The bill
to that effecs-dividing Utah between the
Pixies peak gold territory, and the Carson
valley silver territory--was offered by Nc.
Clerland, (Dem.) Of Illinois, and voted
down bv the Rennh!icans Th.y ~.