Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-17
1aiIg WatiOnal 1rmotrat.
statement of Mormon Ourrages, by an
American Citizen.


FprroI DEMoCRAT :-Believing from the
circumstance of the nstonishingly sudden
alliance of a number Of Indian tribes in the
war which is having such bloody begin
ING on our eastern border, and from the fact
that white men are participants in it, that it
has been instigated and is prosecuted by
Mormon emissares, | herewith furnish YOU
with same manuscript scraps of a report made
by me ut the request of near thousand en-
;rrants to California and Oregon, who vim
tered in Salt Lake Valley during most of the
winter of so and 81. do so to show the
culpaLleness of Filmore's administration an.
pontng and continuing in Office as Governor
of Utah that traitor and pestileDtial brute in
human fOrm-Brigham Young. The report
Of which speak, was forwarded to the Hon.
Daniel Webster then Secretary of State. And
about the same time. resolutions of the same
character. signed by about three hundred
California emigrant5. were sent to Congress.
But neither the report, or the resolutions re.
eeiyed any attention from the quarters to
which they were addressed
The following are such portions of the re-
mort as we're saved in my portfolio from the
fire Of 80 in Sacramento -
"The loss Of my drivers and other discour-
spiug circumstances common to California
o1i,trauts in 1850. caused me to div erge from
the direct route at Fort Hall and go to Salt
Like Valley with the intention OF peaceably
,vinterinp there. While there it was my
painful lot to experience as well as witness
conduct on the part of the Mormon leaders,
outrageous in the highest degree to citizens
of the United States, and in my humble opin-
ion. reasonable to the Government.
When the emigrants entered the Valley,
all was apparent kindness and good feeling
toward them but no sooner had winter lock-
ed us in, than the suppressed hatred of the
Mormons to American citizens broke forth -
In some cases the property of the emigrants
was destroyed in sight of its owners, and in
other cases their property was seized and
coniscated the owners oft deprived of their
personal liberty and loaded like the worst of
felons with balls aud chains; and all without
the form of a trial and without being advised
OF the accusation against them Having ap-
preached the Valley by an unusual route.
the suspicion was started that | was Gov
ernmept officer whose station was at Fort
Hail. and that had been ordered to repair
10 Salt Lake Valley for the purpose of spying
out and eporting to Government the condi0
tion and practices of the Mormons. Such
suspicion, rs the result proved, had but to be
expressed to obtain general credencc among
them, notwithstanding tha fact That ionln
eyed there unprotected, with family COM
posed mostly of females in CONVEYANCE
Enp la II. 4
being an officer of the u. s. Government
charged with the business stated. was con-
denied to suffer death, 10y high council. held
ut the city Of Ogden. 1t was also decided at
the same time that the Rev'd Goodeil. an
emigrant from Ohio, should share the same
fate.
am not insensible to the serious character
Of the foregoing churge, and therefore would
not make it, if did not know that it can be
sustained by testimony that cannot be i'm
peached. And to sustain the truth of the
mcts which Will follow in this statement,
equal reliance is placed in the known respec-
iaOlllty Ut the witnesses. That the character
oil The witnesses, whom ! will hereinafter
name, may be properly known it is desirable
that this paper be made public SO that the
newspapers Of the States from which the
witnesses enlgrated, generally publish it. In
that way, think II satisfactory attestation of
the character of the witnesses can be obtained.
1he cases Of Mr.. Goodell and myself are
mentioned first in the order of charges, be-
cause they arose few days previous to the
general demonstration Of hostility against
American citizens, made in obedience to the
officially and publicly proclaimed command
OF Governor Young. and tie members of the
High Council. Those commands were given
immediately after report, regarded as au-
thentic, had reached the city of Salt Lake
that Gentle had been appointed Governor
OF Utah and was em route for that place. The
report was believed by them. and duly and
significantly commented upon in the Deseret
News, edited hy member of the High Coun-
Gil. Brigham Young lost no time in commu
nicsting the intelligence to his followers, and
in calling upon them to sustain him in his
determination to resist the attempt of the u
Government 10 exercise jurisdiction over
the State of Deseret.
For the purpose Of more effectually arous
ing the people, he visited in person all the
settlements in the Valley, whe,e infamma-
tory addresses against the U. ). Government
were delivered 10y himself and others. On
these occasions as the temporal and spiritual
head of the people of the Estate of Deseret,"
he proclaimed the Independence of the State
lie declared that no Governor but Brigham
oung could act there, that he was Governor
Tor life; in his own words, "thdt udS dbOH the
time he was elected for. And he cuntinu
eu, as your Governor aud as the law and the
o'Ger which am, declare, that if the Uni
teu states sends "A Governor here and at
'TthPtS to extend its authority over this peo-
PIe' II will he resisted to the Death And lis
Governor VIII soon be humbled enough to be
g"td !" black my boots. acknowledge no
jurisdiction here on the part If the United
states and therefore | will say to you that
you need not plead your rights and privileges
US American citizens as has been done at this
pace When in the United States | defied
uhe combined powers of the Government and
an nell. And now say to the brethren here,
that there is more of the Gentiles among us
than there may ever 6e again, therefore to
CUT your Id throats. Yes, hear it ye Gen.
tlles! say, cut your id throats, and If
they don't attend to it, III send the boys
from the city who will, and if they don't DO
the work I'll come myself and cut your id
throats. I'll slay you by the spirit Of the AL
mighty God And know when the sIirit
ofthe Almighty God is upon me-" In this
report you have a true statement of some of
the declarations made by Governor Young
against the U. 5. Government and of the vim
dictive course he commanded his followers to
take against its citizens who were there in
his power
general CONSERVATION prevailed among
the emigrants Many were arrested and fet-
tered like lelons with manacles great num-
bers fled to the mountains, while the Mormon
bloodhounds, the "Danites," were to be seen
on their tracks securing the country and
thirsting for blood
Simultaneously with tba traoeonobla de-