The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-10

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"Positive Philosophy" or Spencer's "Psy-
GEOLOGY"
Tho Administration and the Nor
mons-The War Against tho Twin
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Demanded.
General Grant has evidently made up his
mind against that 'twin relic of barbarism,
Mormon polygamy. Our special dispatches
from Washington and Salt Lake City indicate
o revival of the 'irrepressible conflict" with
the fixed resolution ON his part of decisive
settlement with Brigham Young and his bier
archy. In conversation on Saturday last
with republican Senator it appears that the
President expressed himself strongly in favor
of an enforcement of the laws in Utah if it
takes the whole available military force of the
country to sustain the civil authorities. It
further appears that General Sheridan has
been summoned 10 Washington to give his
advice, from personal observation, touching
the best localities within q days railroad
distance from Salt Lake City for temporary
encampments of troops; from which it is
apparent that the existing conflicts Of jurisdic-
ton between the civil authorities of the United
States and of the Territory of Utah are of such
q character thai in order to enforce the sove-
reign authority of the general government in
said Territory the President is prepared for
that last alternative which he thinks he may
be required to adopt-of making war upon
the intractable Mormons.
At Salt Lake City, meantime, as our special
dispatches from that quarter inform us, the
intelligence indicating vigorous repressive
policy from General Grant against polygamy,
connected with the report that troops are to
be concentrated in Utah, has caused an intense
excitement among the Latter Day Saints. The
special organ of Brigham Young, the Ne,os,
says that ''the people must look at things
in their true light or many of them will go
down before the Presidents aggressive
policy" that if the United States are to be
employed against the Saints s'those who are
faint-hearted would do we'll to embrace the
present opportunity and get out of the way;"
that
1--WE want no towards in our ranks
Who will our cOlOrs ny;"
that they who stand firm even to death evil
be sure of o crown Of life more glorious than
q few short years of existence gained through
manifestng the white liver and showing the
craven soul of an apostate," and that "if
public spectacle of unfaltering integrity is
needed to save the nation, and Utah be the
predestined stage, let it be So" The Salt
Lake Herald, the Mormon secular organ, COM
pares President Grant to the Duke Of Alva,
and betrays much bitterness. But while all
this excitement prevails in Salt Lake City
Brigham Young, as usual at this season of the
year, is enjoying the softer atmosphere of the
southern part of the Territory, and was prob
ably ignorant on Saturday last Of the new
danger so imminently threatening him and
his so-called divine institution of polygamy.
But, by the Utah Southern Railroad and pony
expresses, he is, doubtless, by this time fully
informed of the probabilities of another mill
tary occupation of his dominions.
But what are the laws which the President
proposes to enforce? Some twelve months
ago, under processes from the United States
Courts, numerous arrests were made by the
United States Marshal for Utah of Mormon
dgnitaries, including Brigham Young, on
charges ofmurder and other high crimes. These
men were still held as prisoners when, from
q decision e The Supreme Court Of the United
States upon the question Of jurisdiction in
volved. they were instantly released and the
prosecutions against them were dropped. The
judicial authorities of the United States for
the Territory claimed the right to arrest these
men and to empanel the juries in their cases
and to try them, and to decide through these
channels upon their guilt or innocence, and
to enforce their punishment if adjudged
guilty. But the Mormon Territorial govern
ment had given to their Probate Courts a con-
current jurisdiction covering oil these cases,
and the Mormons, adhering to their Terri
torial law, appealed to the Supreme Court Of
the United States against the proceedings of
the United States Territorial Judge, Mexican,
and his associates. The decision on the ques-
ton, delivered by Chief Justice Chase, was to
the effect that under the organic law Of the
Territory the Probate Courts established by
the Territorial Legislature were lawful, and
that the jurisdiction assumed by the United
States aut horities in the premises involved an
unlawful aggression upon the vested rights Of
the Territory. Hence the immediate release
of the aforesaid Mormon dignitaries who had
been held as prisoners by the United States
authorities; and hence from that day to this,
from the continuance of the conflict between
the national and the local authorities in Utah,
there has been, practically, in many cases, no
enforcement Therein of the criminal Ia ws If