The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-07-06

mand of General Harney which command
5. Johnson. On their approach across
the plains, Young issued his famous
proclamation, containing the folio ing
81, Brigham Young. Governor and Super.
intendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory
+ of Utah, In the name of the people of the
United States In the Territory of Utah, forbid,
First. Ali armed forces of whatever deScrip-
tion from coming into this Territory, under
any pretence whatever.
Second. That all forces in said Territory
hold themselves in readiness TO march at
MON snts notice TO repel any and all such in
yaslun-
Tbird. Martial law is hereby declared to ex-
ist ia tLis Territory, from and after the publ
cation Of thiS proclamation. and no person
shall be allowed to pass repasS, into or
through, or from this Territory, without
permit from the proper officer"
( Brigham Young tod Judge Brochus,
publicly, 'he would kick him or any other
Gentle Judge from the stand, If he in
terfered with the affairs of Zion lie
said publicly in one of his sermons. Il
/ live above the law, and so do this people"
I On another occasion he said:
J will be Governor I'll after you have done
eyeJythiGgy you possibly can To prevent it. We
/ have got Territorial government, and / am,
and Will BE- GoverpoT,and no power can hinder
II until the Lord Aln ighty says: Brigham,
you need not be Governor any longer" and
/ then am willing TO yield to another Cover
nor.
In a sermon, preached September 16.
of the same year, Brigham Young said
/ This people are free; they are not ia bon
dage 70 any government on Gods foot-stoOl.
We have borne enough of
their oppression and heliish abuse, and we will
not stand any more if il. They
say that their army is legal. and I say that
sucha statementi Is false as hell, and that they
are rs rOttOn a an old pumpkin that has been
frozen seven times aud then melted In a har-
vest sun Come on with your Thousands of
illegally ordered troops and will promise you.
in the name of Israels God, that you shall
melt away as the snow before July sun.
You might as well tell me that you can make
/ hell into a powder house as to tell me that
you could let an army be here and have peace;
and / intend to tell them and show them this
if they do not stay away
/ Heber c. KimbalI said:
/ Is there a collision between US and the Uni
ted States No we have not collashed; that
/ Is the word that sounds nearest to what mean.
but now the tOreau Is cut between them anu
US and we viii never gybe agaln-no never
worlds without end. Do as you are told, and
Brigham Young will never leave the governor
ship of this territory, from this time hence
forth and forever. No. Never. And there
shall be no wicked Judge with his w-eyer
SIT in our courts again for all who are against
Israel are an abomination to me and our God.
These sermons were published in the
| Desert Ne5cs.
/ To Powell of Ky and Ben Mccullough
who were afterwards appointed Com
missioners to Utah, Young and Wells
acknowledged they had destroyed gov
ernment trains with the army. Presi-
dent Buchanan, the man who had lived
past his day of usefulness, vascillating
doting nonentity. issued a proclamation
of pardon: The Mormon Church dictated
the movements and location of the Fed
eral troops; ; they were disposed of in re-
mote districts, and so ended the farce.
On the 9TH of January 1868, Judge
Cradlebaugh stated in the House of Rep
resentatives that "while he was an As
sociate Justice of Utah, the grand Juries
utterly refused to do anything and had
to discharged" He added
Sitting as a committing magistrate COM
plaint after complaint was made before me of
murders and robbeTies. Among these NAV
mention, ms peculiarly and sbockiugly promi-
nent, the murder of Forbes, the assassination
OF the Parishes and Potter, of Jones and his
mother, of the Aiken party of which there
were six in all, and, worst and darkest in the
appalling catalogue of blood, the cowariIy,
cold blooded butchery and robbery at the
Mountain Meadows, Sept. 10, 1857. At that
time there still lay, ali CHASTITY under the sun
of Utah, the unburied skeletons of one hun
dred and nineteen, men women and children,
the hapless hopeless victims of the Mormon
creed.
He stated that the wholesale murder
was committed by Mormons, partly
painted as Indians, by written authority
of Brigham Young. They were a train
of emigrants who had passed through
the city and been joined by disaffected
Mormons. U. S. officers reported offic-
tally the same thing. The train was a
wealthy one, was from those states from
which the Mormons had been expelled
and Revenge and Avarice inspired the
deed. 1t consisted of 40 wagons. SOC
head of cattle 90 horses and mules
and nearly $50 men and women and
many children. The people were all
massacreed accept the infants and Hon
j. Forney testifies to the Commissioner
of Indian affairs that few days after
the massacre their was distributed
among the leading dignitaries $685.
worth of property. Capt. Campbell
who was appointed TO enquire into