Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-03-18
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our regret that Chief Justice Nc.
Kean of Utah had deemed it due
TO the dignity Of the Court to send
Brigham Young to the Penitentiary
for twenty-four hours, on the
ground of an alleged contempt for
the Court on the part of the
Prophet.
From our acquaintance with the
history of the Mormon people, and
from a personal knowledge of their
habits of thought and speech, we
could readily see what use they
would make of cry of per
secution," and on that ground only
we deplored the decision of Judge
Mexican. From dispatch else
where in our paper, it will be seen
that President Grant and his ad-
visers took the same adverse view
of the Judges proceedings, and,
with severe haste, decided upon
his removal from office.
We sincerely regret this phase of
the controversy in Utah between
the chief of the Federal represent
atives and the Mormon hierarchy,
for the humiliation of the Judge
will doubtless be interpreted by
the fanaticaf Mormons as grand
triumph for their Prophet and
their cause; and for a time those
who have co-operated together for
the liberalization of Utah from
priestly tyranny, will feel more or
less paralyzed by the removal from
office of the man who was the fore
most among them in his hostility
to the grinding oppression Of the
Priesthood
In the gloom of this humiiiating
defeat, there is, however, one con-
solation-that the promptitude
with which the President has acted
in the removal of Judge Mexican,
the sensible Mormons will see that
however injudicious any servant of
the Republic may be, the Govern
ment itself is not designed to be
oppressive, and the offender-what-
ever his talents, name and good
intentions, will not be screened,
when the general interests and
well being of any portion Of the
country are endangered.
For moment there will be a
jubilee throughout Utah ON the
overthrow of Judge Mexican, and
great sermons will be preached,
and the attention of the ignorant
mass pointed towards the sinking
of Pharaoh and his hosts in the
Red Sea, as standing warning to
all who oppose Brigham Young
hereafter; but the sober, rejecting,
intelligent portion of the Mormons
will put the better Interpretation of
this unfortunate Mexican decision
and removal in their right place,
and take the lesson in its proper
light.
The very fact that Judge Nc
Kean, in the very zenith of his
glory, is cut down and removed,
shows that the Government has O
policy for the settlement of the
Mormon Question" that they will
not permit to be endangered by
the most devoted of its servants
but when the time comes that the
Government is satisfied that it
should act, for the punishment OF
wrong in Utah, it will be done
with the same firm hand that now
cuts down the faithful, but toe
jealous servant.
Judge Mexican furnished the
Mormohs the ground work for the
cry of persecution" upon which
they would have for many year.
grown and fattened in the faith
but President Grant, in this re
moval, dashes from their lips thu
intoxicating draught, and un
sheaths before their vision til,
glittering sword of Justice, that i
welded for Mormon and Gentil
alike.
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