Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-08-11
From the New York Evening Post
Brigham Young.

That sturdy old autOcrat, Brigham
Young, is asserting himself just now
with an emphasis that is positively
amazing. He has recently met the
distinguished statesman who tested
the power of moral suasion over him
with a decided rebuff that argues
either the utmost audacity, or a self
reliance born of conscious strength.
Argument he met with argument, and
it must be admitted that he had rath-
er the best of it. Threats he treated
with the loftiest scOrn. Promises of
any kind he would not make, and al
together cOmpOrted himself in a man.
ner that is not exaggeration to style
disrespectful TO u great republic. He
evidently is a resOlute, firmly en-
I tTenched despOt who means to yield
nothing unless he yields life and
everything. Bigamy defies mOnOga-
my, and bids it be Off for hidden prem
| ises.
When we think of the terrible war
/ from which we have so recently
emerged, the armies that poured from
/ every State, the tremendous losses in
men we were able to sustain prospect
[ i've foe like Brigham seems pigmy
| indeed. But not so much so if we
| think of his position. He is as much
an absOlutist as the Car of all the
/ Russias. Every Mormon to a man
will die for him if he commands it.
| Every one, too, is firs. class militia
man, proficient in the manual of arms,
| disciplined, well equipped and Jealous.
Killing a Gentle is as great a delight
to them as is killing a red skin to a
| border ruffian. The whole United
/ States army would be no match for
| the Mormon braves. The contest
would be unequal under ordinary CIR
| cumstanees, for theirs would be a val
or and desperation inspired by fanati-
cism. Besides, if fighting for one
wife endOws q soldier with eXtraOrdi-
nary strength, each Mormon fighting
/ for several wives and countless chill
dren would become possessed of the
| courage of a hundred men condensed
| in one. Combat under such a eOndi-
| ton of things would be indeed NOR
| tai.
/ The prOselytizing goes on all over
/ the world. ShiplOad after shiplOad OF
men and women arrive from distant
countries and accomplish the weary
march to Utah, where they swell the
/ present colony. Every man is drilled
and put in soldierly shape as soon as
I prssible after his arrival. He adopts
the Mormon code of morals and gov
ernment without hesitation, acquir-
/ ing tie intense hatred Of Gentiles
with a rapidity almost instructive.
| The city of Salt Lake advances in
population with a marvellous rapid
| ity. And as it advances in the num-
Der of its Inhabitants, its trade and
! prosperity indicate commensurate
/ progress Young watches, inspires,
administers, terTifies and seals with
unbroken energy. His sermons are
rude but epigramatie, are at once care
| full eOunsels and commands to his
hearers. He rarely explains, but con-
/ tinually executes. The State is Young
in every sense, for no other individual
is identified with its existence or pre-
sumes to guide it. He and his are a
disgrace to the continent and a mock
cry of the civilization and majesty of
the Republic. But how to get rid of
him and his aggregation of harems is
a problem fraught with trouble, and
the longer it is unsOlved the more
knOtty it becomes.