Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-08-21
Prom the New York Byoning Post
Brigham Young.

That sturdy old autocrat, brigham
Young, is asserting himself lust now
with an emphasis that is positively anna
zing. He has recently met the distn-
giiished statesman who tested the power
of moral masion over him with q dcci.
dcd rebuff that argues the utmost au-
dacity, or asclireliance born of conscious
strength. Argument he met with argu-
ment, and it must be admitted that he
had rather the best Of it. Threats he
treated with the loftiest scorn. Promi
ses of any kind he would not make, and
altogether comported himself in a man
ner that is not exaggeration to style dis
respectful to a great republic. He evil
IDENTIFY is rcsolute, firmly entrenched
despot who means to yield nothing I'M.
less he yields life and everything. Biga.
my defies monogamy, and bids it be off
for hidden premises,
When we think OF the terrible war
from which we have so recently emcrg.
ed, the armies that poured from every
State, tho tremendous losses in men we
were able to sustain a prospective foe
like Brigham seems pigmy indeed. But
rot so much as we think OF his position.
He is as much an absolutist as the Gar
OF all the Russias. Every Mormon to a
man will die for him if he commands
it. Every one, too, is first-class militia
man, proficient in the manuel of arms.
disciplined, well.cquippcd and Jealous.
killing Gentle is as great n delight TO
them is as killing n red skin to border
rattan. The whole United States army
would be no match for the Mormon
braves The contest would be UNEQUAL
under ordinary circumstances, for theirs
would be a valor and desperation inspir-
cd by fanaticism Besides, if fighting
for one wife endows a soldier with OK.
ttaordmary strength, each Mormon fight.
ing for several wives and countless chill.
dren would become possessed with the
courage of n hundred men condensed in
one. Combat under such condition OF
things wod be Indeed mortal.
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 will swell the present colony.
Every man is drilled and put in soldicrly
shape as soon as possible after his arri-
val. lie adopts the Mormon code OF
morals and government without hesita-
ton, acquiring the intense hatred OF
Gentilcs with rapidity almost instinct.
i've. The city Of Salt Lake advances in
population with marvellous rapidity.-
And as it advances in the number of in
habitants, its trade and prosperity indi.
cate commensurate progress. Young
watches, inspires, administers, terrifies
and seals with unhroken energy. His
serm ,ns are rude but epigramatic, are at
once careful counsels and commands to
his hearers. lie rarely explains but con
tinually executes. The State is Young
i'll every sense, f1r no other individual is
identified with its existence or presumes
to guide it. He and his are disgrace
to the continent and mockery of tls
civilization and majesty of the Republic
But how to get rid OF him and his aggre
cation of harems is problem fraught
with trouble, and the longer it is unsolv
cd the more knotty it becomes.