The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-11-04
The Mormons-Erish Young.

Grace Greenwood, writing from Salt
l. Ike, expresses the following views:
] know that there are at this time many,
not ONLY politicians and SPECTATORS, but
good, honest, Christian people, who look
on these prosecutions in Utah with joy ard
full approval. They see under the iron
glip Of the INV polygamy not only struck
With death, but already IN drhculo morris J;
but ! must confess that, whichever way
regard the probable issue, l feel some
anxiety and misgiving. Unless the princi-
pal prosecution be carried through sternly
and triumphantly, and this powerful, de-
tiant representative of q "Polygamic The
ocracy," this new world Mohammed be
BUNDLED, rebulled, dispossessed OF his do
mlnion and his harem-uness he is
punished as any poor man would
be punished for the same crime under
| the same law, if there is any giving way,
| any retreat, any failure on the part of the
Government, 1t seems to me that the result
can but be Il disaster for us and triumph
| for MornlOniSm. On the other hand, If the
| law be memorable and its utmost penalties
inflicted, there will almost inevitably fol-
| low trouble, confusion, strife, even blood
shed. Whatever evil can be said Of Brig
ham Young-however dark and blood.
stained pages of his record may be-the
man loves his feIow-men In his way, and is
loved by them. The poorest and hunblest
| of his followers love him the most de-
yotcdly and blindly. The little they have
| and are they owe to him. He took them
| from the black mines and crowded facto-
ries, from the garretS aud cellars and slums
| Of Europe, brought them to Il land Of pre-
| mise, taught them how to work, to live ex-
pounded to them religion simple, perhaps
| gross, enough for their comprehension, yet
having about it something that appeal )
| strongly TO their undisciplined imagiIa-
tons. Arbitrary, ambitious, avarcious,
though he be, he has been to them prince,
priest, prophet and father. / believe they
will never quietly look on and see him i'm
pfisOned Or any way harshly dealt with.
Resistance against the whole power of the
United States may be rash and hopeless,
even to them it must look so but nothing
| Is so rash, so mad rs fanaticism. I believe
that in the last extremity they will fight tor
him, even against his viii, and there are a
hundred Thousand of them. IS no Nor
| mon can be expected to render eiust
verdict, according to the law and the tes-
timony," i'll this case, as no polygamlst
! can possibly he qualified, the jury must,
Ut course, be packed. What it was thought
| not good or safe thing to do in Richmond,
| in the case of the Chief of the Coniederaey.
may, perhaps, be rghteously and safely
done in Salt Lake City in the case of The
despiscd leader Of an outcast people; but
| i'll establishing SO perilous precedent may
we not pay too dearly for even the great
good Of the destruction of polygamy and
Mormonism together, the breaking up of
this wicked, thriving, community, The Scat
lcring of this deluded people as mendicants
| ard missionaries over the world, and the
restoration Of all this perverted region to
its primitive innocence and desolatl0n?