The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-10
AFFAIRS in UTAH.

AteCenB SUOTIeS Oh AbShSS1AdLbOn COuu
tradicted-DespAtches from General
sherman 10 Brigham YOun&-The
General Cautions the Mormon Chief
--BS1gham Denies that the Saints NO
lest the GenLiIes, Etc.
To the Editor of the Herald I'm the Herald of
May 8, "a Winter Mormon" suddenly awakened to
q sense OF his duty makes some extraordinary state.
ments concerning the ''inhuman barbarIsm'' OF the
Sa axe Mormons, as manifested curing period
OF four and half months passed by him in Utah.
The writer of the present note took up his rasi
dence Great Salt Lake City in the summer of 1861,
ami terminated it in the summer of 1854. During ali
chat PERIOD aud up 10 this hour he has looked upon
"MormonIsm" as no less delusIOn than tnat iDsu-
tuted by Mahommed, and upon Its followers from
the powerful head of the organizatiOn-Brighams
YOung-to the humblest convert to the singular
faith alike sincere believers in the dogmas pro-
pounded by joseph smith ana remarkably mis-.
Illogical harangues, their fierce denunciation of
our Government 1or wrongs claimed to have been
endured at hands, and their defiance of the anti
pOlyRamy law; but he is not willing to allow them
to rest under the mputation that in mysterious
way the Mormon leaders manage to destroy human
beings at the rate of "from three to five" every
night. According to q "Winter Mormon" this very
summary proceeding occurred throughout certain
The "winter" alluded to must have been that of
1s6162 the first OF my residence IN Salt Lake City.
ing heard of no sudden deaths save those of three
or four horse-thieVes who were seeking to avoid
arrest and certainty "Gentiles" other citizen
were "missng" except haf.dozen cuprits who
escaped from the peniuentary. d
1t B but simple lu>tce to state that during all my
residence in Utah was impressed with the TACT that
no place of equal size could be found on the cont :
nent which could well be compared with Salt Lake
City for the good order, industry and sobriety OF
Its inhabitants, and that encToachments upon the
rights oil others were not only less frequent but We're
more sterny reprehended and more adequately
punished Than elsewhere within my knowledge
Your correspondent OF Tuesday Is reminded OF MS
duty by reading an account OF recent assassina-
ton which occurred in the Mormon capital. fey
unpublished documents in my possession may shed
some light upon this deed Unfortunately these
sacrifices of human LIE, without authority OF law
are not uncommon IN the new States and Terri'
tories California has twice been In the hands OF Its
Ugilant committees" whose Dehests were executed
alike in the shadows OF midnight or beneath tue
MONDAY sun, and from whose secret decree no
escape was possible. Idaho, Nevada, and Montana
have each had their secret organizations to protect
life and property, and TO avenge real or tancied
wrongs, by the sudden destruction of the wrong
doer. ..Hf... fp ."I.U-
Utah has perhaps been as tree from secret out.
RACES the apparent necessity tor them, any of
the Territories The only barbarity OF the kind at
present remembered by the writer was the shooung
to death of 'Gentie" stage driver, by "Gente''
stage agent, during the winter OF l862-S. The un-
published documents OF which have spoken relate
to the assassination of one Brassheld and comprise
telegram from Major. General sherman to Brigham
Young, and the responses thereto together with the
statements Of prominent Gentle merchants mill arY
Il officers, and q OVernment Officials, in which they
exonerate the Mormon peope from all completely
in the killing of Brassfeld. The correspondence Is
| as follows:-- tr. rrr. .r H...E
GENERAL SHERMAN TO BRIGHAM YOUNG.
81. LOUIS, pril 10, 1865 TO Brigham Young :-Sir
telegram comes 20 me nom responsible Officers that
four men, styled "Gentiles'' have been murdered by
MOmOns, and that there is apprehension OF turthe
| danger TO this class BY Gentiles understand Amer
can Ao5 q - % ZsS am az PSa9S
faith, and shall do So Those muIderers must be pun
She'd and hy0uI people resort to measures Of ntimda