The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-08-04
From the Portland Bulletin.
THE UTAH GANG.

ihe UIhh 6An6.
Old Brigham Young is about to get
his deserts. We have had ap abiding
and comforting conviction for several
years that this latter-day saint and
Iibidinous old scoundrel would finally
come to grief in some way, and receive
such complete recompense of reward
for the deviltries he has in times past
concocted and executed, as would in
some degree satisfy the demands of
outraged justice. And when, years
ago, we read Of the villainies of the
Danites, and the robbing and murder
ing of overland immigrants TO Califor-
MIA and Oregon, and the degradation
of the poor, deceived and misguided
women of Utah, we felt that when the
tide of retribution did overtake Brig
ham, we should be prepared and quail
fed to rejoice thereat. Bnt now that
this day has finally come, the punish
ment appears to rs to be so much
more degrading and crushing than
ever Brigham, with all his crimes and
follies, seems to deserve, that we feel
the gnawings of compassion for the
helpless Mormons in their present dis
grace and misery.
Years ago we were told that when
the railroad got to Utah, Brigham's
career would be ended; and that as
soon as a free press was established
his oppression Of the people would be
dissipated; and that when the Mormon
women could leave on the railroad,
the jig would be up with the polygamy
and brigandagc of that remote Terri
tory. But we did not believe it. We
were confident that such genius as
Brigham would invent expedients to
neutralize any aggressive influence
which these things might have on his
rule in Utah. And we were not mis-
taken. The railroad engineers came
along, and Brigham took contracts
and made money enough out of it to
build road of his own. A free press
was set up, and Brigham set up an
other, The women could go on the
railroad if they wanted to, but they
did not want to. Finally, in the full
ness of the appointed and foreordained
time, and at that juncture of circum-
stances in the body polite which would
allow of the murder of the inno-
cents,n and the starvation of the
"babes in the woods" the remedy for
Mormonism, and the triple curse OF
Utah, appears on plundering carpet
bagger's banner-"Woods, Fitch &
| Co" sod at -se M
1t will be shown by the future that,
taking Brigham and his Elders at their
own special forte, concubinage, Woods
and Fitch will discount the whole
tribe, and rival the operations of the
worst Mohammedan Prince in Asiatic
Turkey; while for talents and schemes
in the accumulation" of the substance
of the people, Brigham's tithings col
lectors and church-store swindlers will
pale their Intellectual fires before the
laws as interpreted by interested
Judges and enforced by an interested
Governor. Defeated, repudiated and
played out in their respective States
/ our quondam celebrities of Oregon
and Nevada betake themselves to
Utah, where, it was believed, the al
ready congregated and accommodating
elements of social corruption, political
adventure and mining rascality, swept
in from the sinks of Chicago, Omahs
and other railroad centres, or stranded
ON those ill-starred shores from the
! wrecks of dissolving stage lines and
abandoned army camps, would consti
tute a congenial and encouraging com
munity in which to plant the banner
of their political fortunes, and where
like dead bodies cast into filthy pools
] they would surely rise to the top wher
| fully rotten, to emulate Clay's allegor
ical mackerel to ssshine and stink, anl
stink and shine Bankrupt in charac
ter, wholly irresponsible in every sens
of the word, and without the leas1
i recommendation of any sort in tn,
world, unless the brass Of the mounte
bank and the effrontery of Satan b.
!, Recommendation, these men bege
|; themselves to official position in q tai
!, in the same way that the contemptibl
! ass arrayed himself in the skin of tn
{ noble lion, and the thieving VOL
] donned the array of the innocent an,
l. unsuspecting sheep. AS was expecte'
{ by every one who knew of the rai6
{ the ultimate object ofwhich was seat
in the United States Senate, Wood
had not been in Utah three month
: until that Territory is made the aren
of such squabble to secure valuabl
/, mines and other property, through th
t machinery of the Courts, as to put {