New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-24
LAST DAYS OF BRIGHAM.
rs EXPEDITION SOUTH.

SALT LAKE CITY, March l2.-Brlghams OK
plorng expedition south, undertaken on the 2a'h ui' Is
tho one subject OF conversation He was accompanied
bv his fayorite Amelia, one Of his Counselors ana
dozen or so Elders and Apostles Quilted lot t"o
or three months trip Orders had been previously sent
20 Sc George for 40 TO hold themselves IN
with 40 days rations to move at moments notice. OF
George 500 miles south OF this city. is the souhernmoS.
considerable settlement OF the Mormos, and the lurhe'
,cleeraph station in that direction. Brigham and his
marty arrived there last night According to the soy'
there is q rainy belt Of country about SoV iniiV'
south Of St. George. large enough for STATE "in0"
the Mornons know Of. Now, In view Oh po'
sible emergency, Brigham has gone TO take another
and more critical look at It, An ldea vi "no i
,,ortauce attached to this movement may De had on
the fact that the April Conference when cohVehes an
nuay on the anniversary OF the organ~"uO" VI 'No
Church was postponed for it, the hrst Time SUCH 's
has been done. r,
Nh. arr, ,e snrmises as 20 the object in vicw The
which seems 10 me most likely TO be true is that 1t is
10 And il possible, another suitable place 10 lay te
foundations Of Zion "Oue TO which the poygamists, ana
oy such others prefer to cast their lot with them
may retire and be safe from moestaton in case the Gov
eminent does fenforce the antlpoygany law OF 1862
BRIGHAM evidently believes III himself aud tile mission OF
his people as fanaticay They have been called
raised up and chosen fill and rule the earth Theirs
i the Kingdom of God and His Christ which is to cover
tic earth a. The waters the If the time has
not yet when they may cease to fly before their
cncnics because of their unfathfulness That the
Lord is on their side, and will finally prove too
much even for Congress and Gen. Grant, they
arc convinced. Meanwhile they are not with
out a good deal of what Is called worldly
policy Brigham that the isolation OF his people IN
Utah is no longer possible Isolation Is necessary to
their growth 10 their existence even 1t is futile TO
think" says President Wells, that could live our
religion where not in the majority" Brigham
secs that the attrton OF the world his people are
growing and bursting shackes their limbs AS for
fln 4 oh re.
ne Will die Brigham Now he has by all the gods
lie worshps he will submit to dictation from
the outside the matter OF poygamy or anything else
lac deems religion He has psychological part OF his
PEOPLE so that they think his thoughts and do his WILL
What proportion Of hemi About Oheeighth OF the men
are polvcamiss and 10000 would be large estimate Of
tie number of their ablebodied men, Some Of these
have been careful to violate the antipOygamy law
q; 1862 and it is not presumabe that any possible
action Of the Government trouble those who violated
10 existing entering the practice OF polygamy
they will not be forced TO fee SO that 1900 would be
liberal estimate OF those straightest OF their sect who
would be likely any event, to follow Brigham to the
lew aud isolated "ZOn" And that about that num-
should do it, does probable, In case the law
should be enforced 1t is understood that the School OF
the Prophets where public policy lis most and most Sc
crctly discussed among them, hasscOncuded that the
Cuom bill Passes and is enforced 1t will be best for such
cannot stand the pressure TO quietly withdraw south
ward and woe" they say, to any who shall dare to
IN not long since that he would not have to flee
90 escape the law the Cullom bill should
because he had taken additional wives since the pas
of the antpOygamy law OF SG2 II stands to reason,
II may be applied to people who would seem to
have taken leave of it, that few who not amenable TO
the law will join in vamOsng the ranch" The number
no are amenabe to the law cannot exceed 1900 With
would 60 the iron reign OF terror Brigham has
in mountains for 20 years. and the treby
oah-bOund priesthood, which embraces every man and
the Church, and accounts for their unity,
would soon crumble from the sturdy blows of men who
lave Tor Of years felt its iron In their souls.
THE BLOOD ATONEMEST.
The Mormons fanatics. Theirs minds darkened
by the terrible doctrine Of blood atonement The
enlightened world may not be able TO believe it, but their
Published dscourses full of it, How far 1t has been
practiced would be difficult determine. There have
schsns in the Church before, started by Glad
den Bishop in 1853, and by Norris ten years
later. Each drew followers, Morris many 5OO
but they all driven from the country extermi
mated Tie hunders Of the Church, the prescription of
society the machinery Of the law, and the rancor OF
fanatical militia all invoked to crush them.
brigham said, the first OCCASION Rather than that
apostaes should flourish here will unsheath my bowie
knife and conquer die" at which there great
motion in the congregation and simultaneous burst OF
feeling asserting the declaration. "NOw you nasty
aposates continued he clear out, judgment will be
laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet Voices
generally, Colt! Goitrl Ii you say 1t is right, raise
your hands IAN hands upl Let US call upon the Lord
in this and every good work. AS to the doc
time Of blood atonemen Brigham said occasion,
s'Do you think 1t would be any TO kill me il TO
break my coyenantsi Do you believe you would kill me
broke the covenants of God you had the spirit OF
Godi Yes. and the spirit of God had the /
should strive TO your soul by splitting your blood
when you had committed that could RENTED
by baptism"
These quotations are from Brlgham's discourses as re-
ported and published by the Church paper. The Desere
Ne,rs They precisely illustrate the spirit OF the
and the people from year year continually. quote
1hem TO show what the present schismatcs. Godbe &
co. have to fear. They live, now, only by Brighams
suferance The sword Of Damocles is impending
thcm but does not fall while Brigham absent If it
Is not dropped subsequently in spirit Of revenge or
sanity love-; by the Providence Of God and possibly
of the Government they SHAH live through the contem
plated passage OF the Cullom bill, and the hegra OF the
poyeamists as above then will the modern Jesuitical
order of priesthood he destroyed by their sturdy blows
The English and Scotch Elders, men who began 10
preach MOrmOnsm a quarter Of o century ago, when
they were young and enthusiastic and before poygalny
had been engrsfted IT, who converted and baptized
fourths OF the people of Utah. who have Travelled with
ihem slept with them. eaten and drunk and prayed with
ihem. who have furnished the human material OF the
kingdom of Brigham, yet who have been suppressed Dy
that potentate and his Yankee associates broken on tne
wheel, shelvcd, crushed, the fruits OF their Iaors per
Ntrted to their own OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are the men,
Who, favored by circumstances have attempted 70 DC
heard IN their own cause Ihey are IN the prime OF me-
le Brigham and his set tOtteTng the brink of
tho grave They the bone and snew and nerve and
brain Of Mormomdom. Among them are 1900 missiona.
les Let the G0dbe leaders be relieved OF the constant
fear OF assassination which haunts Them and let them
get the willing OF their brethren by blood, 0y com
associations by sympathy interest, hope ana
ambition and Utah would be advanced 20 years IN as
many months some OF them openly dehouheS p9lyRay
IOw and all Of them they are willing II should stand
own merits, admitting il pressed that 1t has none
60 stand on fouThiths OF those VINO lOIo" then are
pronounced earnest antEpOlyganlsts.