Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-07-17
aRICHAM 70 BE ExoNERATED.

We have by telegraph from Beaver,
Utah, something further in relation to
the forthcoming confession of John D..
Lee, with reference to the Mountain
Meadows massacre. 1t seems that the
authorities have agreed to accept the
statement of that worthy, and he is
now engaged in writing it out. Among
other things, we. sre told that this
demon, Lee, will entirely refute al.
the charges that have been made
against Brigham Young and the lead
ers of the Mormon Church in Salt
Lake City. Indeed, it is to be proven
by Lee, and other witnesses at Beaver,
that Brigham Young even went SO far
as to send an emphatic command that
the massacre should not take place.
Now this may all be very well, but it
strikes us in the light of a carefully pre-
pared job to screen the guiltiest OF
the parties to that horrible butchery.
Brigham Young and the other Nor
NOR dignitaries have for years asserted
that they knew nothing whatever
about the massacre until some days
after it had been committed. Nay,
more, they have as stoutly denied that
M6rmons had anything to do with it.
alleging that a band of hostile Indians
in the immediate vicinity of the mead
ows were alone responsible. All this,
and more, too, has been claimed by
the priesthood Of Mormondom, while
the facts stand out, uncontradicted,
that the stock, wagons and other prop
erty of the murdered emigrants
openly and VIGOROUSLY distributed
among some of the most devout of their
followers in the southern settlements:
jewelry and other valuables even 60
ing to the numerous household of
Brigham himself. Again; if Brigham
Young knew nothing about the mas
sacre until after it had taken place,
how came he to send that emphatic
order prohibiting its commission? In
the common parlance of the day, the
story is entirely toe thin.
John d. Lee was the ringleader of
the fiendish crew who slaughtered in
cold blood, in territory of the United
States, more than one hundred peacea-
BILE men and m A more revolt
ing crime, VIXEN considered in all OF
its shocking details, was never before or
since perpetrated in the civilized world.
Outraged justice and humanity have
been crying for vengeance for eighteen
years. The chief actor, the devil in
carnate, John d. Lee, is at last, after
long. weary years, arraigned for trial,
and the public begin to take hope that
he will be visited with the punish
ment he so richly merits, when sud
denly the announcement is made that
he IL to be turned loose; and for what I?
Simply tor narrating, with circumstan-
tial precision, just how the bloody work
was accomplished-this, and this alone.
II Lee and Brigham Young and all OF
the apostles and scribes are to go free,
who is to be punishedf The answer
is easily furnished-no one. 1t is the
old, old story over again Of Utah JUS
tice. This last farce is but the parallel
Of the Hickman case.
Two or three years ago Bill Hick-
man, for many years chief of the De-
stroying Angels, was arrested and
placed under guard at Camp Douglas.
As the time approached for his trial,
he set to work systematically to i'm
press the Gentle authorities with the
belief that all Mormondom had turned
against him, and that his highest earth
ly ambition was to be afforded an OPP
portunity to get svaii with his associ-
ates In crime. Accordingly. he was
allowed to turn States evidence, which
shortly afterward appeared In book
form, styled "The Life and Adven-
lures Of Bill Hickman, Chief Of the
Destroying Angels" containing the
blood -curdling particulars of q score
or more Of foul murders, some oI
which were planned and sanctioned by
the highest authorities Of the Church
Of the Latter Day Saints, aud there.the
whole matter ended. Lee, it will
have been observed from our dis
patches, in humble imitation Of his
iIlustrious predecessor, the guileless
Hickman, assumed to believe that he,
too, was to be sacrificed by the even
greater criminals of the Mormon faith;
whersupon he also asked and obtained
leave to--writs q book. Out upon. all
such mockery Of justice and lawi 1.-THE
Federal Courts in Utah are to be thus
easily imposed upon year afer year,
it were better that they be abolished
altogether, and with them all idea OF
yer bringing tojustice the murderous
cut.throats Of Zion.
LETvrHRa rocaived from the Superin-