New-York tribune., 1875-08-07
TIE M0UyTAIN ME4D0IyS M4sSACRE
A HORRIBLE STORY BY MORMON WIT
kESSFS

A HORRIBLE STORY BY MORMON WIT
NESSES.
THE fxcIrrMENT ~ UTAH DuRiXG THE TRIAI-THl
MoEhONS DIT .BMINED 10 LIT lliE HfkDlCI GO
ACCORDING 70 THE EyIDESCE-IlIE TtsIAoNY
Against BRIGHAM YOUNG.
Nom e GsareT, LG. ID dg % tor 0aGce Of Tie Cne'-
Utah is boiling as never saw it before.
On zoe pari O SAINT ard Gcntiio theie Is nnsnl oi
rage fear hopc aud ~ ocint Tor Tie truths revealed
Wien this trial te Mo'dtain Meadows Aia95acrcI b.
ne. He haG T'' dctnud to ' make CaS ANU bSast
IT, and that If teS did The result ould be an apal-
,ii,r Ne VINO nave wll.,en L.stn,i les oi ial. have
tc,n charged laying Oh IN coioIinS pretty
heavy, bat oar blGckes! oolor3 do not hegn 70
cGud tie reality. Even Mrs G. " WaS's
narration written in 1855, though Ilcn'iirly
s,i.e with no.. OIa, falls Short O Inc Icaili. no W.
mans nagiu.on % oriuc ooaid az 10 Wha; those
mon we're calahc of doue. Ald let il bc remembered.
too. thai taie story told ID court y noi ,n ' 500" r
wit,.essos aic MouHo, aud Inost % th,m ~
cooa st-ndms io.iaf. Ind =. j. ;l.i'c'F
surrounding thc1, Gnd Jna Chr'ch oi'uslJ exciting
ali is power TO supI,ss as much O. i-c riit - ssi
kOr two days t,iefc wee thou :'n1s oi ubJ
Inmols mere. Ono r's lAt. u .n, J'-. ac,i",'cu -
.-e &cc oi "ucA tcsld'c testimony 'Ac lain ""uu
take and .f hl ANA lar1 re- a. 5, oG yy N N, ~" hGs "a
All. eIsl! dcitl "uidilOn O ai me lJhc on Jus o"st
th.t - some way or oj justice Ia'tt nc G"le.
tnE, Gcein The Ai"tnloh 'ci..Is 10 io hc verdict
sOa'coi ing TO Ilc c'"cirS Ire ID, uir GIfsS
=
Op'iS ~lS e e. sc Is A"i.'1S 'n4 ~ - -In0 & 'V3
viii miiiG3tc Hr cas-" and tl I~c S ao"' man
o." -s''Tns nv 90 ' , " ,i ~, ne cf ~ iI. ItIr I
G.. sutherland. 1OnirrIy o. s' nav, M'ci. ai' ne j.
all III, s0!trOicca, and unpIcicndiu% ma, b:t;n MY
ni,rs Judee t.au IN advocate; tno "as a Judg' III
.c,a niie fresh bis OF evidence against Brigham
Young CON 10 Eat every day. ssc nov oily what
has been sworn court, or can b. proved bel ond
controversy by documents rood uou: Frs, Tie r"-
ords ,n1~ hat as -oon 81. received notice ia,
le
he culninonced threat, Mig all eni9iant, WHO
ulA., i9-s thfoVsh tle IUc!tory. lie a-an a''d
q.:In threatened uoat.i (, ali apos;a,.s. ) doI n
or sclio i.dD!i~ed i INC O1nJnS themselves con-
.,Iu a I>ur,s tins dctcr. At can be sno"n .ua
hc sent GeIrcc A. Smith south acid 0f tAcn to oFbij
To-, people every whore 10 s-A ten supplies, and one
~. n .lccsc cad o. tbeir having uo"5ie WITH te
Iudiaos It .s iuiy SHOWN td"t tne Indians SOD ttem
eaiu aitr he saints had refused j.. Ih'n wneh me c-
iiants had LOT we On ta' way sGAti' hhSh4n iAd"e
's tunous proclamation oi manual law concluding N''i
Au. 40 p,s,n san b. permitted to pass into or
tnl',h O. I0m the lcltoIy "i.honi prItht i"h t-c
H. i, iTltlcr snown and not denicl by Brishams
friends that lie rcccI, I,c notice Of The ltcai"G Hlas-
Cse Dcilt II occurred. Fniihcr, N hl.lim U.3t %
:ether 'oi'or q rredar cdi from Coi. D4'G AZ l'.'
Command tnicL n Dane lied in claiming - b.
had orders trulG Brigham, tAen III" Lar -f idi ''t
r,te,n &, bring LiGi 10 account an offender at
cuce o@in,; evil a4d milit.iy lay ana tnt POI
li sGppcited aom that day to TIL, This one act
}, ,co-l>itc WITH tn0st VINO have INVd m ttaA ions
caDuh ~ know thc thorough organization O tins Canoa
H a. uilS evidence lnes after the n:sSdcT.
The confession oI iNc the testimony OF Klmgcnsiith
and dozen others, and the ;ihl,s'ons oi bi,sA1ns
,!icnds al show tdat LIE ami others wont 10 SAT
La &c City nnd gave o iai report to Brigham; that
he toa the Others to tam over all tbe pLop'i-y -
Lee: that he allowed 40 head OF The cattle 10 80
to Wm. H. Hooper late Decgato in Congress, an nat
lie changed tIcih particularly 10 nC|eT laL auJGl ..c
rssacIe nor mention Il, net even 10 Cdcn other! Ts
vis during TIE October Conference, ST. According -
custom " Tie Seventies -inaIe nehitlG ana IL as oi
the high priests quo. urici for secular business III the
Seventies iia after the conference There BRIGHAM
gave Tic paiiicuihs % inc hastcic ,,"h''ttihs
With these words: IN sOliy, hl1thi@i, ti.d
hut they did, and there was 10 help for
H." Tins was heard by several wines noN uVih%
The Lcxt point in TIE order OF time Is c dlva ri Lee
aud iasht as Representatives from Iron Cohay ~ ihe
Legislature ci January loJS Both Of them were most
took home young wife thea sealed 10 iih ~ Bt;4- Bt;4
ham IcGpg. in all the years between u At dad ISL
any of lie I%ipstda'orS 1lin' ~ ahH again. IN IN
tine iid once in 1854, when visited by Ineiii-
uers o Congress from INC iAd,n Committee, hc :0ony
co;.ld employ has been usei 10 cnt Judicial inquiry
And now cores E,calar Miller, the aged Mormon whO
before the iuy-saero Dliaham said u the on.igTAns,
They part OF our enemies; they aean NO good 10
the evidence. | do not SEQ fow an uh,Tclu-
decd man can review il al without being cOnvmtcd OF
ot tni5 Church and HoWe the lneNQFaNe s"al ihc
Prophet tLen and long after exercised, II y SIMPLY IN
Dos believe that any Ia tie SJu;A District
Woaid have dai. TO enter Oh sch an 1poiant under
labns without ms consent Then iod, Hey Lad, iit
mon graib. Ntte tnIS passage from Lees G.atcn|t:
lst % engaged Az t.s aniCItUSt a.iif N,Tc ei on
iurIcIcrs, C0IUry cali', fsnati and notu
i. a. Sod. agd Their GJi u Iii, tget
a. oi1 T." Cuf:0ct and uniatur.l act. beLe, He
the laluenlbo cacCl,
tacl nfcr orders that r.cy cai,fed dior
Gafy-ii Ia re- nUiyDJ obey. welt 10 sa!s
Ialo and reo "a nRhan Young he exact !dcts con
Heg.ol 1Iih tIC uauodctAiu.
iia ui AL he 6ioiuOGs IN Utah. the cas-" Of none has
excited such horror AID lcSret arOn- t.e t"nule5 aS
t.t Of the Hon. W. H. Hooper II is pIOsci tir j" -
CoyeG 10 head o the Idldeicd y.Gt, cattle nd il
srtIcciy possible Tat EC, MOlllUN l IA ,t CoIl-
d.nee OF tnc CAu!ch, could have been ignorant Of
the infl.Cr. and get hc has, through ~ has Con-
ercssiOial caIcCr, sSaln and sam, ana tlat U-ist
bitterly, lad the whole affair on the Indians,
ard than once, III company with Sen
atp.s We lias soclny worn that no ioitmn had any
tns 10 do Will IT, lie has even employ td ouinsa 10
Wiite NJ the Mormon vicw of Tie case And can II be
sihlc that all t4at time he knew IL ue lie
But among his GcD. friends there j. still
some hope. Ii Is barely possible that hs maybye been
deceived; tl.t Willie all OtLrr leading MOTIG0Hs knew
III he Kept III Ignorance. From every pIri Of
UfdA come nnlIoTinas Tor some eNI'nndt9n in his
faNO4, aud il it shOId appear tbtt hc acted IN
Iocr'tly ana lgnOradty ten bOUd Gciti.cs would he
grtiIcd. S.rce have begun writing, the defense have
developed tir pDiicj, and curious ftls Lawyer
G.. G. BiUs has gone 10 salt Lake Cy, and ems TO IVc
Withdrawn eniirciy nom le's case. HetWccn the rc-
mainaL counsel terc evident difference OF Opinnn
splccr and Bishop want to clear Lee by laying all The
bL,ns out iiger IN the Curoh bat Sutherland
is determined 10 stop tie thing Whtfe 20 ls IT'S gen
orally belle, ed here tEat Sutherland cares very ltic Ur
tie ilrI trial and that his real client Is frlghHn
Young u out occasionally IN the progress Of the
laa tit white Spic,r is really anxious b clear lee,
Sutherland E principally concerned 10 show that nobody
IL guiay but Lee