Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-16
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soon outnumber him at the ballot-box,
he instantly gave woman the ballot, and
trusted the institution itself to her keep.
ing. She car vote IL ou, of the Terri.
tory any day she chooses. It is but a
few DAYS since 250o of them petitioned
the President TO remove the very Judges
who are attempting to enforce the law
against polygamy, closing their petition
with an assertion ot religious belief in
this infamous practice that sounds al
most like blasphemy. The consequence
OF this universal prevalence of pesti-
lential disease among the people is, that
the court which is TO prosecute II with
all its machinery and instrumentalitios,
is set down by the side of it, and not in
its midst. No one OF the people over
whom it is commissioned 80 hold the
scales, and among whom it is to admin
ister and expound the laws, is permitted
TO participate in it's function. This is
necessity, or the wheels will stop. They
work only by the use of most extraordi.
nary means, to keep every taint Of the
prevalent sin out of the jury box, and
every other place of trust connected
with il.
Just what is called elsewhere packing
jury, is necessary to conviction. This
is always and every where a terrible
drawback TO success IN the administra-
tion of Justice And so much evil is
ever mingled with judgments thus OBJ
tanned, that the ultimate good is more
frequently overbalanced thaa otherwise.
Nothing but a crowning necessity should
ever be permitted to bring this reproach
upon the administration Of law.
/ Let us look for some other possible
/ way out OF this dismal darkness, and see
what its promise is. No one can study
the internal policy of Utah and its
changing relations to the outside world,
! without discerning the presence OF ele-
ments Of disintegration aud dissolution,
silent in their workings but potent and
rapid in their results, which no impa-
tience or mistake in ADMINISTRATION should
be permitted to c0unteract or check.
Brigham Young, the center of power
both secular and spiritual, has already
reached seventy years of age and
only keeps up the little physical strength
his mode OF lite has spared, by journeys
to the Soda Springs in the North during
the summer months, and to the sunny
climate of St. George in the South Ill
winter. With him the end is nigh.
There is no one to succeed him with the
brain, the wisdom, or the influence which
can promise success. Even his assump-
tion of leadership on the assassination
of Joseph Smith, when the band were
fugatives and beggars, brought about
rebellion, though he is acknowledged t6
Il L 4 - L. II
any other Mormon in all the endowments
of leader Implicit faith that the Lord
by special revelation guides all his foot
steps, and accomplishes through him the
wondrous things on which Mormonism
lives, is largely the secret of his power
over the people. There is no man who
has the ability to succeed to all this, and
on whom he can cast the superstitious
reverence, awe and authority which have
made him tyrant.
Then great pecuniary reckoning is
, at hand. The untold millions accumu-
, lated from tithdings, contiscatious and
mysterious appropriations, now depos-
| tied in his name III :he Bank of England
: aud elsewhere, which he calls Church
5 Funds when the discontented threaten,
: but the sheen of which is too plainly
: seen in the royal harem, and too plainly
: felt in the royal sway, will from their
; very magnitude, when he dies, occasion
r dissensions with which no master spirit
, yet appearing can cope. Dissensions,
also, OF another character have already
sprung up and produced schisms threat
, ening the very existence of the very
| power itself, and beyond all the arts OF
The Prophet himself to quell. A few
t men have grown rich within the very
!, shadow of the church and in spite of all
t, its tithes and exactions, by dint of their
a own energy and gift at acquisition.
! They are tired of tithcs and church in
e reference. Brigham Young refused to
4 compound with Them, ,buteXacted his tenth
# without diminu;ion, and the consequence
n is they have apostatized and set up fol
e themselves. Godbe and the Walker
: brothers have each n considerable follow
!. ing of this sort, and are each powerful
d leaders of factions of Mormons them
j. selves against the existing order of things
e All this and much more is smolderins
il under the very framework of the Tab
v ernacie, threatening the peace and au
j. lhority OF the church, whose doctrines
c including polygamy, these men still pro
IS TESS and openly practice. They unhesti
h tatingly avow their determination oil
II the death of Brigham Young to institut
,, reform and reconstruction, more likel,
L. to end in dissipation than in renova
r ton of the Mormon power. Being them
selves poygamists, they cannot OF cours
= cooperate with the prosecutions nov
$. pending in the courts, and such meas
- ures, if they have any effect upon them
p will tend to drive them back into tn
N church and into common and united op
Sc position.
X Other causes not to be overlooked are
W at work, silent and unseen, but not les:
D. effective in their results, against whicl
n poygamy and the unclean orgies IL
n which Mormonism wallows can make n
Is stand. This people is no longer inscees
n. si3le nor isolated, but the railroad anC
a. the telegraph and the march of Empir
,e haye brought around and upon them al