Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-06-20
The Mormons.

seem to chicken. The eastern mail has
been cut of. Indians in great numbers
are threatening various Military posts
east of Salt Lake. Knowing Lomethinp
of the Indian character, we are slow Ia
believe what some have ventured to as
sert, that the Mormon elements has had
something to do in the array of Indian
force against the whites. Still it iswith.
in the range probability, that such nay
be the case. Wes.ould not condemn
without sufficient evidence of the Truth.
fulness of this charge. Suhtringa as We
have from Indian hostility, depreciation
and brutality, the vengeance visited uron
the heads of a people profess to be white,
guilty of such crime, should, and
would be terrible. OF this charge, we
will be better qualified to judge in the
future. Certain it is that the Mormon
people since the occupancy of the valley
about Salt Lake have been source of
great annoyance to the Government
They have been at war with the best in.
terests of the people since their associa
ton as distinct class. 1t is believed thar
the Mormons are responsible for many
acts of brutality committed on the i'm
migrants upon the plains 10 the past, at.
tributed to the Indians. We know thar
they entertain certain peculiar tenets, and
carry them out in practice which are rel.
les OF barbarism, and in this age Of refu.
ment, and enlightened civilization, de.
nounced as Infamous crimes. To da,
that people are living in direct violation
of law. 1t is therefore no strain upon
our credibility to believe that the Indians
upon the plains may have received suule
aid and perhaps advice FROM that PEG
pie in their present warfare. The few
weak Military posts captured, and the
wagon trains plundered by Indians would
not sufficiently supply them with the
means for making such warlike demon
STATIONS as they are now making. They
must bave received aid from some other
quarter. The vast bodies Of red. kns
that are threatening our borders and de-
stroylng our lines of communications eeul
to be well mounted and supplied They
seem to be equally well supplied with
arms and other accoutremeuts necessar,
for their bloody work, The Government
1t appears, is now alive to the necessity
Of immediate and vigorous actinn.
We suggest upon the successful tcrmi
nation of the Indian war now inevitable,
that agents Of the Government use their
best endeagors to ascertain if posshlr
whether the people Of whom we have
spoken, have any completely in the COW.
ardly and Infamous work. II will do
them no harm if they are innocent, and
If they should prove to be guilty, an op
pertunity will De given to remove forever
the prime moving cause Of our troubles,
and visit upon them the ju,t punishment
due to such an infamous crime against
the people and the nation.
We feel no disposition to arraign the
Mormon people at his time for what we
conceive the immortality Of their chef
institution. This has been done fully,
perfectly and completely both by the
parson and the politician; but what we
desire now, is simply to show, that some
peculiar tenet has made them the suspi.
cious characters they now are. The fact
of those people entertaining and propa.
eating doctrine at variance with nearly
all the rest of the world, has forced them
into excuses in its ainteIaIce, ubWar.
ranted, TO say the least with the mot
loosely constructed law known to civil
cation. Since such suspicious actions nn
their part, necessary perhaps for their
purposes, are known to the national au
thorities and the people, respect for our
honor as people, the preservation oflhe
property, and the lives of our citizens,