The New York herald., 1871-10-30


! lions Against Tiem-Tso The Policy Of .bs
Governments.
The HERALD specials from Great Salt Lake
City which We publish this morning show
that the crisis of life or death to Mormondom
in Utah has come at last that the United
States judicial authorities are pursuing the
guilty chiefs Of the ''Latter Day Saints" with
the remorseless rctributions of the law; that
the leading apostles and elders of the Mormon
Zion are not only being indicted, arrested,
tried, convicted and sentenced for adultery,
but that Mayor Wells, General Hosea Stout
William Belden, Elder Kmball and Farley
Canyon have been arrested and locked up on
charge of murder; that warrants ara out
against the Great High Priest and Prophet,
Brigham Young, and his son Joseph, on the
same charge; that they, with the notorious
Orson Hyde, are among the sanity fugitives
from justice, and that dire confusion and con-
sternation prevail among the faithful of the
Holy City of the Prophets harem.
The glory of the Prophet, like that Of Mr.
Tweed, has departed; his power is broken !;
his prestige is gone, and, stripped Of his
hypocrisies and false pretences he appears as
fugitive in far more pitable plight than
Garvey or Woodward; while compared
with the Indian stoicism of the "Boss"
in his present trouble the runaway Nor
mon Dictator become truly contemplate. But
what is the meaning Of this vigorous and
remorseless campaign of justice against the
Mormon chiefs for their high crimes and mis-
demeanors? 1t means simply the extirpation
of Mormon polygamy from Utah, root and
branch that General Grant has resolved to
abate the nuisance, and that his Territorial
ministers are carrying out his instructions.
For twenty three years, through all the admin
istrations of Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce,
buchanan, Lincoln and Johnson, and down to
this year, this thing of Mormon polygamy in
Utah has continued to faunt itself before the
world and flourish. Had General Taylor
lived through his Presidential term he might,
perhaps, have grappled with Brigham and his
great scandal successfully, for Taylor was a
soldier. Fillmore tried the task, but signally
failed, and was compelled to an armistice with
Mormon polygamy. Pierce tolerated it.
Buchanan attempted military invasion of
Utah; but his expedition was cut off and he
was reduced to compromise. Lincoln had
his hands full in the war with jeff Davis, and
Mormonism in Utah left undisturbed prospered
exceedingly. johnson was so completely
absorbed in his fight with Congress in defence
of the constitution that he had no time to spare
for the Mormons; and so, after twenty three
years of toleration of Mormon polygamy in
Utah, the duty has fallen upon General Grant
to take hold of it, and from these proceedings
at Great Salt Lake it is abundantly made
manifest that he intends to wipe it out.
'Let US have peace" is the Generals motto.
Hence his great treaty with England; hence
his Quaker peace policy with the Indians;
hence his abandonment of his favorite st.
Domingo sch eme when satisfied that he was
kicking up fight with it in his party camp
hence his policy of non-intervention in the
affairs of Cuba. So resolved, indeed, Is Gen
eral Grant to have peace that where the ordi-
nary means of peace fail he will fight it out
with the disturbers of the peace. Hence he
fought it out with Fenton and Greeley for
peace in the New York party camp at the
Syracuse Convention, and waS too much for
them. Hence he brings his cavalry to bear
upon the Southern Ku Klux Klans and
United States Courts, marshals, juries and
soldiers in this decisive campaign upon Nor
mon polygamy. The only law through which
this polygamy can be reached is found to be q
Mormon Territorial law against adultery and
''lewd and lascivious conduct"-a law intended
by the Mormons to save polygamy, but
clearly interpreted by United States Judge
as intended to punish polygamy. To make the
matter worse, these prosecutions against the
Mormon leaders for their murders committed
from time to time through a series of years
are coming in thick aud fast against them.
But worst Of all for Mormondom in Utah
have been the discoveries of the precious metals
in all those new Territories and States of the
far West and the building of the Pacific
Railroad. The greatest crimes of Mormondom
have been against the Gentes as spies and
designing emissaries in their Territory. In
1000 Cdptdiu y. W. UuuHlSou, Oi Tue Oulseu
States Typographical Engineers, ard his party,
engaged in reconnaissance for Pacific
railway route, were slaughtered at their camp
on Sewer River, in Utah. The massacre was
reported to be the work of Indians but it has
been circumstantialy charged upon the Nor
mons, and that it was the work Of ''high
council" against the exploration. Red Cloud
understood at first sight that the Pacific Rail-
road was death to his bufaloes and bis In
dams, and there can be no doubt that from
first to last the Mormons did all they could to
Pacific railroad, even to the extremity Of
murder. The number of suspected Gentle
spies, informers and explorers cut of by the
DANTE hand of ndpstroyinr an rela" will never