New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-25
UTAH.

The recent difficulties between Governor
Harding and the people of Utah found very
decided expression in a public meeting held III
the Tabernacle in Great Sal. Lake City on the
Sd u March. The meeting was crowded WIN
the Saints, and the speeches and resolutions,
which we find reported at length IN Inc
Desere. Netrs, were Of sufficiently violent
character. The business OF the meeting was
simply TO give shape and tone to the charges
against the Governor aud against the Associate
Justices of the Territory, Charles b. Waite
and Thoma, J. Drake, aud to take steps to
secure their removal.
Gov. Iardngs message aud official condGct
we're savagely assaed in speech BY Mr..
John Taylor-Otherwise the Hon. johnny
Brigham Young, aQme.iges e&!ed Governor
Young, and by series Of incorporate resolu'
tons. Tine Governor 10 charged with falsely
impgtng disoyalty to tho people of the Terri.
tory, with attempting to possess himself of the
military power by the appointment Of the mi.
li,a officers, with interference with the selec-
ton of jurors under tho Territorial laws aud
ordinary forms Of trial, with controlling the
Legislative power b. his veto, and with hosttl-
ity to the peculiar institution of Utah, Polygamy.
The message of Gov Harding which is
complained of was published at the East not
long after its delivery, aud was chiefly re-
marked on here for its very delicate banding
of the subject Of poly gamy There have been
inf, al. IN a re Al.
the Mormons, no doubt, but 80 far az We re-
member they came from other sources. 1t Is
safe to say that the devotion OF Utah to the
Union has not been supposed to be beyond
suspicion, though it is true that Of lato it
has been more ostcntatiOusly protested than
formerly. If the military power of the Terri
tory were not TO be used against the Govern
mrIt il is difficult to see what objection there
is to is coutro by Government officers. The
Mormons appear TO forget that the authority of
Congress over them is supreme, aud that Gov.
liarding's recommendation was entirely within
the llne of his official duty.
so of the Jury question. 1t is notorious
that in many cases convictions under the | nited
States laws are impossible, because the accused
aud the Jurors who are TO try them are of one
ulind about the crime. and very Likely equally
guilty. A Gentle never had chance in any
suit agains. n SAINT before Jury OF the same
faith. 1t was proposed to remedy this obvious
Injustice by giving tho Marshal authority to
summon as jurors any persons within the dis
trct in which the Court is held. The approval
of these measures by Judges Waite and Drake
seems to constitute their only ollensc.
Polygamy is, OF course, at the bottom OF the
trouble. No policy by which that institution ia
not respected and protected will be popular
with tho Mormons, any more than III the
Rebel States would al Anti-slayery measure
be acqIicsccl in by the Pro-Sayery majority.
Gov. Harding very moderately disapproyes
polygsmy. and has recommended certain meas
urcs not likely to promote or extend Its III
tercsts. Herein consists his Oilcnsc, and hence
arso the tumuts in the Territory over which
he is placed. The meeting went so far as to
appoint Committee to wait on the Governor
and Justices nnd request them to resign their
Offices aud leave tho Territory, and, apparently
that their impudcnt request might
not be- complied with, pett.oned the President
to take tho matter in his own hands. II is not
stated what reception Gov. Harding gavo this
Committee, or even whether they presented
Themselves before him.
Tho sum Of tho whole business is that the
Mormons are willing to DO governed by such
authorities as will respect their institutions
foster their State with polygamy as ita "nrO"r