Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-08
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door OF Brigham Young. The foul shouts
al ,Ier,siye mirth arising from the Beaver
court- house are yet echoing in the air.
and the memory of the unfortunate emf
grants. "butchered to make Mormon
holiday" is as yet desecrated by at
temptedl pleas Of excavation for the
Cantain who obeyed his Generals
orders. The bullet that shot Joe Smith
TO the heart. by the wall OF the Jail in
Carthage. Illinois, in 1S4S. pct an end to
whatever Of purity Of purpose or we'll
mesnirgness of design that Mormonism
ever contained. Smith was q fanatic,
sincere in his belief, and viewed himself
as a martyr. Brigham Young, though
possessed OF the disciplining qualities
essential to an organizer, is TO full OF
gall, venom, rancor, cruelty, Inst, brut-
ishness, ferocity, barbarity.. humanity
and malevolepce to allow the most in
Intestinal portion of spirituality or re-
ligion to exist in his splenetic frame.
Ayarice, greediness, rapacity and venal.
i,y form his principal mental character
is,ics, and the lovely qualities ascribed
10 him being coupled with an overween-
inc sense of his own dignity and most
exalted opinion Of his power. he is now
about as fit to kill as he will ever get to
be. For twenty seven years Mormonism
has been a fostering sore in the great
body polite and foul stain on the ma
tional honor. There is pestilence in its
touch, contamination in its surround
: ings, vice aud lust in its component
parts. and blight in its influence. The
Congress OF the United States meet next
December. The press of the country is
ventilating this most awful affair, and as
new facts are brought out. and new
enormities shown up. the feeling becomes
most intense. The whole matter
may be resolved into this: Nor
monism has long since ceased to
be a religion. It can be viewed
as species OF compound felony; and as
such, is amenable to United States laws.
Brigham Young can no longer boast that
be "has bought the United. States Con.
press and can do it again" The legisla'
tive power OF the Senate or House OF
Representative will not be exceeded oil
overreached II they repeal the Territorial
charter, indict Brigham Young, reorgan
izs the Territory and inaugurate nev
form OF government. Mormonism - lik
the tabled LAGOON, encirciipq "a II
deadly folds all that is snesJSdng in me
or exsl.ing in hanxEnty, and crushing
by the const-. ictIon Of its powerful fold
rsts3esSs. pussIy, dignity and virtue
wanting, and the present relaxation
its deadly coils is the incipient paralyz
ton OF its powerful and far-reaching o
ergy. The Acknowledgement of the d
luded common herd, who have bee
picked up in the highways and bywa.
OF Europe and shipped like cattle to Il
home Of the Saints, is necessity and
needful measure, the arrest, trial al
punishment of the leaders another, al
the installation of new regimen al
political executive government still a
other. Pratt, in his autibiograph
maintains that If the exigencies OF IL
case demanded it, lying was justifab
Brigham Young. in 1864, swore that ,
Mormons took part in the Mounta
Meadows massacre. Congressman Hoo
er did liknwise. Geo. A. Smith perjur
himself on two occasions. Geo. q. Ca
non lied in the Fall of 10 in q comm
nicstion printed in o Mormon pap,
soiemnly declaring that the murdert
were solely Indians; the Mormon pre-
lies to-day, and not only prevaricates
truth. contemns justice, ridicnles
laws dignity. and dstorts defensive e
denoe, but also blasphemously compal
Brigham with the Redeemer Of manki
ami the Saviour OF the Universe, Je,
Christ. In 1868 Klingen Smith v
given by Mormon officials sundry c
tifcates Of good character and h
standing. Then he was only hi
assassin. q murderer of common hum
ny in the name of the Lord aud belo,
Oh Brigham. Now he is an spostt
anu MS character is gone among his
low devils, who rescind oil indorseme
n0 'h'nS he ought to be swung ON
same eallows with Lee. When Mokar
the yelled Prophet Of Kborassan for
that his blended followers we've non
less to aid him. and heard the shonts
the enemy at his gates, he plunged /;
bath OF aqua.fortis and DESTROYED h
self. We fear that the dissolyinp ac
of that powerful resolvent would hav
effect on that diabolical compound
concupisoence. ayarice, cruelty and L
heartedness that under the nam
Brigham Young has for twenty-s
years been a curse to the country a
destroyer of his race. This is no
affair confined to Utah or to the Pa
nope. 1t Is matter OF National
cern, and National Intervention is
quired to aid in bringing the murde
before the bar of human justice. ]
SAID the judgments of God are di
ent from the judgments of men" b
tnere ever was case where the Law
God and man were alike broken
transgressed II il the one under dis
sion. determination and dispersion
but measures of the simplest JUS
condign punishment and the full
Of the criminal law but their proper
ton. The Government is to blan
this matter. The murder and after
circumstances should have been
oughly investigated years ago, and
that the full facts are coming to