Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-17

then foot in depth and the weather ripor-
ouslY cold. We were not permitted how.
ever, to pursue our journey further than the
first encampment, when Mormon ,,osse
armed and equipped, ms if for war, came unon
rs and made Wholesale arrest of our nor.
sons and seizure of 1ur property.
10 prevent escape from the Valley band
OF Indians, known rs "the Salt Lake band {"
was stationed in the pass from the Valley
Ihls band was provided with a quantity of
guns exceeding il numbers the Indians and
were furnished with arms, munitions and
hlankets ly the Morm1ns in view of our
camp. This band Of Indians, the captain of
the military posse boldly told us, was in the
service of the Mormons to operate against the
enigrants. After a delay of several d,ys our
prosecutors granted us permission to resume
our journey
But the destitute condition TO which many
OF us had been reduced rendered the pros
pcct before us truly discoumgeing. Thus,
with scanty supply Of provisions, with
women and children insuflicienty clothed
amid the inclemences of II severe winter.
through mountain dehles filled with snow.
against the hostile opposition of savuges
armed, muniioned and set upon us by our
more savage prosecutors. we fed from the
Mormons' wrath and their acursed designs
upon our families.
Not without, howe ier, being again over
hauled and made to pay a State tar and sub
NIT to the imposition of an enumeration thnt
was designed to swell the census of Utah
Our taxes were receiptcd for as State taxes
and the receipts made o.t in the name of the
State Of DeSeTet, us were all their official
papers, except such us were to he sent to the
Atlantic States. Few of the emigrants but
had been rendered too destitute not to feel
the inconvenience of the tax levied upon
them
After we had started, a considerable num-
Der Joined us who had been released from i'm
prisonment. Having been commanded to
leave within ten hours after their release
they had in most cases to throw themselves
upan the charity Of their fellow emigrants.
Not day after leaving the valley, until
we got some distance down St Marys (IIum
boldt) river, passed without harassment to
the forward company of emigrants from the
Salt Lake band Of Indians and others who
had joined them.
In their last attack they were repulsed
with considerable loss in killed and wound
ed. Before that they wounded several emil
grants and had killed number of our ami
mails, and succeeded in driving off about 80
head of horses and mules.
The fact that the system
of polygamy exists there to an unlimited ex
tent, coupled with the fact of their determi-
nation to drive us from our families, will I'M -
erringly direct every mind of ordinary sa
gacity, to the painful conclusion that if they
had carried out that discrimination, our un-
protected and defenseless wives and daugh-
ters would have become victims to their
brutal power Secure in the government of
their State 10y the appointment of Young.
from motives Of policy, the determination of
our expulsion was abandoned. But their
vindictiveness to ns was not assuaged; its
purposes somewhat changed were but trans
ferred to the indiscrimi ate cruelty of the
wild savage, to be executed alike in the blood
of our wives and children.
Their system of polygamy
elsewhere denied, is there practccd to not
only an abhorrent but to the most brutallv
incestuous extent. Mothers, daughters and
husband and sister and brother occupy in
marriage union the same polluted bed. S.
P. S. The following are the names of the
witnesses alluded to in the above communi-
cation: In California-Dr Philips and w.
Ii. Wilder, from Ohio. A. G. Cali, from Hi
nois; Rev. II. Henderson, T. 5. Hays, N. X.
Hammond, John McGimpsey, J. A. McGimp>
sey, and NJ. Dean, from Missouri DR.. Parker
from Pennsylvania. In O:egou-Rev. }. W.
Goodel, from Ohio: DIR. Cherry and brother,
from Illinois Mahlon lIarlo, from Missouri ;
Mr.. and Mrs Chase and son, dissenting Nor
mons. In Michigan-Judge McCnbe