, 1863-03-07
THE FEDERAL OFFICERS
WILL NOT RESIGN,
Trouble Brewing Among
the Many Wivea
Saints.
4 PROPHET AMONG THE PRO-
PHETS,
Sketch Of tile Territory Past
and Present.

Especial by Telegraph to tho Chicago Trlbune.1
SALT LAKE CIrE UTAH, March 9Th, 1863.
Governor Harding, as well as Judges c. B.
Waite and Drake, in very emphatic language,
refuse to resign or leave the Territory.
Governor Harding said to the Commit
tee: II will not cowardly abandon my post
Of duty until it shall please the President to
recall me. I may be in danger Of personal
violence bo remaining, but will not leave.
Twill not be driven from the Territory. As
this is eaid to be 4 land Of prophecy, too
will prophecy: If one drop Of my blood is
shed whilst in The discharge OF my duties, BIZ
your ministers Of vengeance, it will he ayeug-
cd, and not one stone in your city will re-
main Iupon another.''
TIE BEGINNING OF THE OUTBREAK.
RcpnblIehcd from the TRIBUNE, March4.>
SALT LAEE C1TT, March SIN mass meet
ing held to-day in the Tabernacle, Governor
Harding and Associate Justices Wuitc and
Drake were denounced as enemies to the ter
ritoEy and General Government The Govern
or's speech to the Legislature and other pa-
pers were read and severely handled. It is
rumored that they are to lie waited on and re.
questcd to resign and leave tho territory. 4
petition to the President for their removals.
in circulation.
UTAH, PAST AND PRESENT.
There is trouble brewing in the many -wiyed
Kingdom. Our news as above is to yesterday
by our special dispatch from Salt Lake City.
Previous dispatch received two days earlier is
explanatory Of the other. The Saints arc ris-
ing, and another ulcer is doubtless about to
break on the body Of our nation, SO Slavery
and Po1ygamy will doubtless como to be dis
posed oftogctler. Let US give enough OF the
past Of Utah and Of its present, to pre-.
pare our readers for what may prove
tho extent of this disturbance. Governor
Stephen 8. Harding was appointed to tho Ex-
ecutiye office in Utah by President Lincoln
early In the spring Of 1862, and assumed the
duties OF his Office on the 7th Of July. The
United States District Judges Waite and
Drake went out with him, The former,
Charles B. Waite, Esq, was a we'll known
hwyer Of this city. One wordas to Governor
Harding's predecessors in tho Gubcrnatoria1
office. Brigham Young was appointed in
September, 1919, by President Fillmore. The
Saints had left Nauyoo. in this State, in 1915
and 1916, and reached the Salt Lake valley,
the pioneers in 1S47, the main body one year
later. Aspiring to be, from the outset, full
blown State, they knocked for admission as
Dese':. lss9. Congress held the door fls,
against them, but organized the Territory of
Utah, its admission being NIL that was sue
ccssful in the famous Omnibus bill ~ for tho
organization Of the Territories, the struggle
over which formed a prominent part Of the
Congressional annals Of 1850.
The Saints accepted Brigham, Of course,
but speedily expelled the Federal Judges, the
Governor himself aiding to drive them out.
Brigham was removed, and Colonel Stcptoc,
c. s. A., was appointed to replacc him. The
latter did not dare take the chair. The Nor
mons now Ind it all their own way, and
their resistance was muscu1arizcd by four
Fears Of successfully having their own will.
Col. Stcptoc made show Of assuming his
duties In 1854, but was frightened away, and
j.. 80 II. -
:4'o, ~ '4,sl ~ 4s1'' u1s ,ei,o" pnlottun''es
!" eeues'1 appo1n'1acn's III o.aa arrived, 10
e'noafA on STORMY sea u trouole' iney
.ooA on's 1eeoie =, se'nu'anee u on'ce OF 1ane'
s'ons' oat e'en tn1s tne Aorinons resented,
and in 1856 the now not very illustrious Chi
cago lawyer, who bears the name Of "Utah
Dfummona, was forced 10 close his United
sta'es District Court, IN salt Lake, and leave
Brigham WAS then IN ful bloom as aGovegnor
"appomted OF the Lord" and not to be set
asioe pF Fcoerai mandate.
a1fed cumming superintendent OF Indian
-Aifai3s' oaekeo os ~" u :, Regulars was
next scnt OUT Us uoFefnor o1 utah, " tfesl-
dent bnchanah o1 1oul lame. ihe troops met
Will hostile SHOWS and more hostile Mormons,
anu only oy intervention and q fresh under
standing brought about BY mutual concessions
was Gov, Cumming allowed to enter the king
dom. This vas in 1855. Cor. Cummings
troops were stationed about 10 miles from the
capitol, where they remained until 1850, when
they were withdrawn. The appointccs Of
p,o.idon+ T ;nco1n in finn ero,aadoa +ho., -
-, .1.ll~1 1N..1 - .e 1u.e. tuos' "
the 'gnoole Aaneastran TOOL OF the rebels.
WHAT COY. HARDING HAS DONE.
Gov. Cummings chief excrtions seem to
have been to draw his pay Of q, 500 and "1et
alone contcDtion.n There Is this IN bn said
h.roro. 49, n,+;, 7eco 49, -, ss.,a. a'
uo"e'ef' lu.'s an1n 1eo'. ~ isuesai "etlon
vas taken affecting the great distinctive, So
c;al crime Of the Territory, In that year Con.
o-o,. ..eroa ~ ,.+ tt.. ...:., 49,; -.
Eiess l's1sseo ~ "cu, - panlsn anu pte'ent
the practice Of polgamy in the Territories of
the United States, &c"
This mt ;nto Cor H,na;np,s hand +hc 1srr
-N w 40"
lie neeoeo anu ne was not unwilling 10 exc
Of Utah was held in the fall Of 1869, chosen
by which on the sth Of Inst pecembcr tbc
Ta..;+oS:a, = - ~. =. - mos1 ~ ~
4e11'1otl:A Legislature convened The TRl-
noSk Of 'nfee weeks later contained in full,
the inaugural speech Of Gov. Harding, for