The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-23
BRIGHAM, THE COWARD.
A Few Reasons Why the Mormons Will
Never Resist the United States Troops
Unlimited Sway Unscrupulously Ex-


Few Reasons Why the Mormons Will
Never Resist the United States Troops
Unlimited Sway Unscrupulously Ex-
ercised.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
From the tenor Of your Utah dispatches and the
comments on them in the press many persons will
very naturally infer that a conflict between the
people OF Utah and the military power of the gov
eminent is imminent. Such q conflict it is conf
IDENTIFY predicted, can never by any possibility take
place during the lifetime OF Brigham Young. 'The
President" as he loves to DO called and as
his adherents love to call him, is very tai
ented, exceedingly cunning. vain, selfish and
perfectly INSCRIPTIONS. He holds the Mormon
population literally in the hollow OF his
hand. The mass Of them will do anything
he says, and sometimes need only wink wave
Of the hand to act But he is, withal the most ar
rant coward and with fox-like sagacity knows Just
when to run. He has never failed In any single
instance when met by q firm decided stand on the
part OF United states Official to back out OF any
position he might have assumed, no matter how
much buster he had up to that point used and
this retrOgrade movement has always been made
In the nick OF time, when his cunning intellect told
him he could safely go no further. That he Is a
manner in which he has always treated persons
who were In his power and In his way. Brigham
oons tn nereo1e % ,et never
and the forces Of the United States. He may blus-
ter, as he did In 1857 and declare that no army
shall enter the City OF the Saints, but when the
army reaches there 1t will find, as it did then the
guilty leaders flying from the place. Or he may
swear literally that no United States ofncer shall
ever arrest him, and he will quietly YIELD as he did
a few months ago. During his lifetime. then, no
conflict can ever take place. He will not permit
It. He has too much at stake, and Is fully aware
that such conflict can have but one termination
But he will fight as eng as he lives through others
and Will push them to the very verge OF temerity
Like Artemus Ward, but with a bigger bank to
draw on, he Is ''willlng to sacrifice all his wives
relations In such way.r
What, then, Is the point at issue2 Simply to pro-
erty Will be properly protected and securely guar
anteed In that Territory and then permit free re-
publican Institutions to work out their own saliva
ton, which, with the help Of rich mines. railroads
and telegraphs they will do very rapidly. The
people" of Utah are Is industrious, Woodworking
honest lin their way and ignorant as any that
can probably be found on the face OF the globe
The leaders, INSCRIPTIONS, selfish and false boast
fuly assert the virtue Of Goods chosen people,"
and falsely claim that nowhere Is property and life
more secure. sufficient answer to this assertion
Is found In the fact that OF the very large number
OF cold-blooded murders and outrageous assaults
which have taken place In Utah for years past not
one single prominent case has ever been brought
to punishment.
Nc Mormon ever has been, ever will or can be
especially II the act-as Is generally the case-has
been dictated by the priesthood, that is. by
Brigham Young Just so long as every ballot de-
posted by an eiector Is marked with MS name or
number will the Mormon Legislature be the
creature OF Brigham Young, act on his every hint,
pass laws which enable the Mormon Provost
Courts to nullify the acts OF United states Courts
and defeat the ends justice, and for these things
Congress should provide remedies. Respectfully
yours. JOHN GlBD0N.