The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-15
BRIGHAM'S NEMESIS.
Approaching Investigation of the Noun
tain Meadows Massacre.
COURT AND JURY.
The Prophet in Peril from His
Whilorn Friends.
SALT LAKE CITY, March Q, 1875.

we are on the eve oil stirring times auu every
person is preparing for the contest 't is not DIM
cult 10 see how tue trouble Will commence; but iE
Will be extremely hazardous to predict how it viii
end, except upon the general principles OF wind
Ing uD of theocracy and the rule Of tue Mormon
priesthood.
The beginning OF the commotion Is set for
the 5th OF next month. Then commences the
judicial investigation into the Mountain Meadows
massacre, and during that investigation there
Will be brought TO light every thing that is neces
sary TO fix the guilt, not only upon the direct
actors. but upon the Church leaders whose
influence made the commission OF such
q terrible crime possible. Tue evidence win Ia
heard IL the second judicial District Court, before
Judge Foreman, at Beaver, 800 miles south Of tina
city. lie Is an able lawyer ana has reputation iol
fairness that goes great way to establish conh'
dence In the public mind-a TACT which, regret 20
say, would not be associated with the court over
which His Honor Chief Justice McKean presides
IN this city.
IT, would be unjust to the Chief Justice Of the
Territory inter from this statement that he haa
not bindIy held the scales OF justice and dean
with Mormons and Gentiles alike; but II
has been the misfortune OF Judge McKeaa
that many OF his decisions against Nor.
mons have been reversed py the Supreme
courts both OF the Territory and OF the United
States. That His Honor could make an excellent
argument In support OF MS own decisions and
against those OF Chief Justice Caase goes for moth
ing In the Mormon mind; "the brethren,' and
''sisters." too only see In him dangerous man on
the bench who would do them much wrong-lf he
could. 1t is, therefore, fortunate IN the fortncom-
ing trials that Judge Mexican has nothing TO Dc
with them aud that we have, comparatively,
new ana uncnaenged judge to mount the bench
and expound the law.
No PACKING OF JURIES.
There Is another source OF satisfaction con.
nected with these forthcoming trias-the jury
cannot well be packed" In the Second Judicial
District and that closes Mormon mouths Here.
in this city, while every court Official would
storm at the accusation, il is none the
less true that with the selection of jurors
as now provided by law IN the recent Poland bill.
with the right OF challenge, &c. nothing is more
easy than 10 get jury ali Of one stripe 1t is SAID
TO be legal enough, and probably IL Is so, but
there are many things technically legal that in
enforcement very unjust. In Beaver district there
Will be fewer challenges for cause aud 'cause'
here is reduced to a very me point, and one that
ADMITS OF considerable question. Judge Mexican
excludes from toe jury box citizen because OF tue
has not yet 5, ruled. That man
should have lmnoed the idea from the
with u number OF wives at one time, that suca
association was very pleasant and amusing does
Judgment upon any one who IN the year oil grace
1875 mad violated the anttpolygamlc law OIL Con.
the beaver dis srict DO not entertain sucn pitrer
anlmostles agalnst each other as the M0rmon9
noancea They are more iseiS to resent uriss
ot q sarge CITY snan anysninx tnas can pc iogno
probability OF n lair trial being had.
TRAITOR AMONG TnE BRETHREN.
and are srd Us very e
that, where least expected, "a traitor TO The KIM.
dom" may spring into notice: Brigham Young
had never more reason 10 say "Good Lord dc.
liver NET and above ALL 'lrom nv friends." Ald.
Ing IN mountain Iulches and wandering about
from ono place OF cOuceamenr to another 10 not
calculated to increase that unnagging faith which
has hitherto characterized the lanatical Mormons:
Lee had for fifteen years Kept out OF the way OF
the officers OF justice, and during all that time no
was never OF his guard. ever armed and prepared
Tor defence. aud determined to die rather than be
captured put, at the very moment that he tnoughc
himself perfectly SAFE and free rom arrest. the
officers OF justice were close upon his heels aud
arrested MIN without firing shot.
The lanatic who could see IN these long years OF
EVASION Of the law the protecting care o, the
Deity is the very man 10 hastily stumble over to
the other side and question his long anu former
pleasant latin. Lee IS precisely IN that position
now, and there are han 4 dozen OthcrS-and some
or them as prominent in the history OF the murder
as hlmseii-wno are rs tired OF nignt and conceal
proper time comes, 10 dIvnlge the whole Of the
secret. Not one OF them can be trusted, and no
one knows this more and feels II more keenlY tnan
does Brigham Young to-day.
THE LINE OF DEFENCE.
III l am correctly informed, ana tn1nk can
depend my IN Dormant. there is already evidence
furnished by Lee to the United Sta,es Marshal
that Will unravel the whole story. Once that the
food gates are opened, the rushing OF the mighty
waters Will come mat Will sweep before them the
foundations OF rubbish on which Brigham has at.
tempted 20 build his mighty empire. The PrOphen
tremblcs iOr the Issue and wishes himself in the
heaven OF his dreams.
In Lees de,ence 1t will be necessary to show up
the Ianaucal and bioodthirstv spirit that reigned
IN Utah in lS57and all That, too. the result OF the
mad teachings OF the tabernacle for which no one
hnf
TIE WORK OF BLOOD.
1t Ia beyond question that not only were obnox-
ious Genules puC out OF tue way without any
ceremony OF accusation and trial, but even many
OF "thc brethren" were watched when out Of
butcnery, and there mad their "shroats CUT" for
the dOuule purpose oil Keeping them from "oppos-
unbeler It is said OF isaac &. Baight, who was
the lieutenant colonel OF the militia regimens
that committed the massacre at aou n Meaa-
moved from any supervisory aut hority Il at be did
as he pleased and disposed OF the nves OF the Oh.
noxious with all tho freedom OF doge OF Venice.
In the little town OF cedar, the headquarters Of
his militia he Is ad t. nsys Kept two 1ns Of me
ciaI purpose and to aid at odd tunes in bara sslng
and stealing rom the passing emigrant GentieA
TEN MEN AsSAssINATED.
No fewer than ten men were taken down into
the cellar beneath Haight's house, and from there
they never came out alive, and the only answer
that was ever made to any inquiry about q missing
person IN those DAYS was the lAconic sentence "Ao
the priesthood mad Numbered into the ears Of
the people ''that the Lord had begun to par.
iIy TIE saints and 10 wlnnow from their midst the
sinners ana all who offended" and what between
lear, credulity and the danger Ur being suspected
of apos,acy the mass OF the SAINTS accepted tneir
oppressed and debased condition and schoolsd
themselves into the belief that they should be a.
clay IN the hands oil the potter" Their teachers
gained such an ascendancy over tnom that II Q
needless corpse was lying on tue street not . soul
passing y would have have eyer STOPPED e SSn ana
that the Mormon creed" was, "Miad jour owa
business"
DRr1HAMY DREAD.
To listen TO the tales that ara now told By eravo
and other men and women OF those times OF blood
oae feels carried away IN rejection to dark ages
ana barbArc nations, and 1t II this history that
brigham las good cause to dread being brought
to light IN the orthcouing investigation OF the
Mountain Meadows massacre, and I do not see
Low he can prevent Its exposure.
The investigation, when once begun. VIII %
like the letting out OF water the dam, once
pierced, the breach will widen and widen until is