The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-04-21
The RESULTS OF LAWLEssNEss.

The Vlgnantes Of Idalio Territory are not alone.
AT Salt Lake the Mormons have organized com
ulittee and are en- gaged ia the usual business of
those institutions. The shooting of Brassfield is
SAID to be le of the res Its followed up by no.
ces|upoll the lealing Gentle citizens to quit the
country or take the consequences. friend at
Salt Lake under date Of April 10th writes u that
the leading Gentes in Office have been notified
to leave. If the. troops are withdrawn from th is
post. we are ALI gone up.p Sueh is the state Of
affairs in Utah. rfa,,ys, as[7ro 49,
In Mon ana the organization is also active. The
latest murder committed there. was that of J lmes
Daniels, executed inthe minner described by onr
Montana correspondence. We hads me personal
acquaintance with Daniels extending threugh
several years, and knew him an enter prsing
honest citizen, leading al Industrious ire proach
able life. Without conclusive evidence of his
g8iIt; we cannot but believe he fell a victim of
the malice OF personal enemies, or to conceal til e
crimes committed by the very men who placed a
rope around his neck. HHsAa81 lSf8
Thus nacii eor Vigilanteisn1 in Montana.
In Colorado another Vigilance committee has
Poverridden all law, and set itself up as the hfalli
bic arbiter Of fife and death. H.ng:ng and ban
ishment have been the general order of The day
carried at last to an extreme that has reused the
worst passions of many of its people, who deprived
Of every protection and guarantee of safety, have
turned upon their hwloss prosecutors, and re-
taliated with homicide and arson. The latest pa.
pers received from Denver are filled with accounts
OF attempted burning of the city, three fires occur
ring within twenty four hours. CONSERVATION
prevailed among the citizens and meetings were
held, guards appointed, aud even The troops sta
toned near the town, called upon to save Denver
from threatened destruction.
Such is the results of Vigilanteism in Colorado
A general lawlessess prevails thr ough all these
Territories, resolving Itself in the form of these
organizations; and everywhere they have brou ght
trouble upon the community which tolerates them
The remedy for existing evils is greater than the
evil-and the results have everywhere been most
deplorable In the nature of things, these organ.
zatiOns are bound to fall into the hands of the
worst men of the country. Two classes of men
invariably secure the control of Vigilance Com
mites: first, oneidead fanatics who turn them to
account by reVenging their own personal wrongs,
real or faneied, by strangling their enemies or
driving them from the country: and second, those
who are compelled toqentcr them to cover up their
own crimes and get dangerous mon who might
expose them, out of the way A third element
eventually obtains control and wields the organi-
cation for political purposes, using the members
as blind instruments to carry partizan ends.
The end is the breaking up of society-the de
Istruction OF public CONFERENCE.-The rum of the
material interests of the town or section.
Rhe Mormons drive out the GentIles, forgetting
thlt to that element Salt Lake owes vary much OF
its past prosperity, and all of its future security
In Idaho committee animated with the same
feelings are bndy driving to the same end mere.
AS the pendulum swings back, it will carry retri-
button with il. If continued blood may cali aloud
for kindred blood, and retributive destruction
| cry outfor revenge. Every good citizen as he
Ideprecates such state of things here is bound to
oppose these lawless proceedings, and to insist
upon the enforcement Of the laws, and the pres
ervation of the public peace.