The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-02-08

he eninliry = no church dgnart,s. mayors o. cities
and oh eftin mi ica tho crimes that have heen
c.anme, dttna stras tLat tase csiinrs ~esc church
cflhFs' a Z lshin tht heai a ~ en- fth. Aimli
with unitnded in,wer hearts AID lives y his
sopie, !higam uehsaiy drives barbartc chgrio "
M"hon 20 bery, mu der, o. ygans ard incest over ~
law, IN defiance OF all tha federal 90 C.ls IN tie territory
lio hros tho legislation and the courts Tn 80 facts
he proceeded 20 tdoso The attempt Of the Mormons U
interfere ~llh Tho administration at the law and to
courts the great their difficulty with ITO
fedora dges " nearly twenty judges sent 10 Utah,
Judge Lemb he snow, Mormon, and thief Justice II
kinney-the latter known the tool and creature o.
BRIGHAM iocne, are the only ones who have nos peeA
removed by tho present admin straiion. His testimony
uniformly the effect the laws could not DO
enforced with these exceptions. not one Of tho judges
could serve out their term OF four years Some left Ia DIS
gust, andydhers driven away by force Mir Cradle
baugh then gave his experience ~ one Of tho former Asso
cate Justices Of Utah. While sitting committing
magistrate complaint after complaint made before
him Of murders and robberios or which he mentioned
particularly shocking the murder OF Forbes tho assasa
naons OF Parishes and Potter 81 Jones and his mother
am aud tho cold blooded. coyardy massacre aud
robbery at the Mountain Meadows. At that tns there
st lay all CHASTITY under the OF Utah. the unburicd
skeletons Of hundred and nineteen mon aud
children the hapless, hopeless victims Of the Mormon
creed Time would not allow that he should read the
ahdayits taken lie should pubish portion ~ them IA
an appendix TO these remarks that u might BIO that
no justified charging that tho Mormons guilty.
aye that the Mormon church 10 guilty, OF the crimes "
murder and robbery taught in their books fata
motv tho Mormon5 had in the In seeking
revenge Tor the killing OF Farley Pratt leading Mormon
while 10 tho act Of running o another mans wife and chill
dien through Arkansas 10 Utah. He was oyetaken by the
outraged husband and slain The Arkansas courts refusing TO
punish the pcrpetrator Vengeance IL visited the
heads OF these poor emgrsns by tho Mormons, who In
addition, no doubt, also acuated by tho great
amount OF stock and property Of tho cmgras supposed
n be worth sixty seventy thousand dollars This
emphaticaiy getting the lords hospitality, Heber
kmball expresses II, "withoN getting In debt 10 tho
lords enemies" great portion OF tho property was
taken u Cedar City, deposited In tho thpR Office, aud
then sold out So much or The clothes especially the bed
clothes upon which the wounded ha1 been lying, and
those taken from the dead pi cd 10 the back
OF the tthng Office and allowed to remain for great
length Of tmo that when no Car. Cradlebaugh) was
there eighteen months aftor the room was still offensive
What commentary upon tho condition of ains In our
countryl MorInonism rovelling upon tho spois
obtained by murder, while seventeen orphan
children are turned pennlless upon tho world
After abiding to other 0yrages Mr. Cradlebaugh said
the weak tmid, teMf6rlzng policy which has ever
pe2p pursued towards Utah by tho. federal govern
men Only led 10 Reorganization and anarchy aud open
violation Of the most sacred rights and has exhibited
Utah before the world the gloomy theatre whore
der and robbery alternately shift ~ Ie might
continue tho catalogue necessary The dead rise up In
awful Judgment against Mormouism. IT. conclusion he
IL contend that duty 70 manifest
dsapprobnon OF practices and doctrines so odious and
that Il is our duty this Mormon people undcr
the general Jurisdiction Of the government 80 that their
utons may be reached by federal legislation II
necessary thus show In most induoitabls manner
lling that the stain aud disgrace shall
be fnstoned upon US In duty enoned on us by the
solemn obligations Of justice and humanity.
without further proceedings tho House adjourned ny
two majority.