Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-08-03

THE NECESSITY OF THE DAY.
The fact that for nearly eighteen years
the most foul and horrible murder. for
which Lee IL nov being tried. has been
allowed to go unpunished. is disgrace
to our criminal laws and blot on the
escutcheon OF our Government. That q
clause in the Constitution Of the United
states guarantees religious liberty to all
IL no reason for allowing such nest OF
lusttul slime, such hot-bed OF iniquity
and red handed murder. such a poison
ous coil OF human vipers TO exist, as the
Mormon church and its leaders have
been proyed TO BE-. That the religion OF
the Mormons was, what it was and 10,
has thus far been the reason for keeping
Utah in a Territorial form. for were 1t
once sovereign State all governmental
action toward subversion Of its State
rights would be usurpation. The recent
developments In the Lee trial points to
the fact that Brigham Young. Geo. A.
Smith and others OF tho Mormon hierar-
chy are deep in the miro: The despot-
ism which, under the name of the Nor
mon religion, has for SO many years had
undisputed sway, surpasses In deeds OF
horror, in acts OF lust and assassination.
the dark record Of the Thugs Of India.
From the committai of the Wholesale
murder at Mountain Meadows in ~ to
the advent OF the railroad in 80 the uni.
versal voice wan indignant denial OF the
participation Of any Mormons in the
affair. Perhaps II the trans-contenental
railway had not now been completed. We
would yet be ignorant OF the real facts Of
the case. That religion has been in thu
case Of the Mormons but partial wear
ing OF the livery Of heaven to serve tn
devil In, In now clearly proved. tn
Mormon religion never existed, saw,
In the minds Of few ignorant fanatics
Of whom nearly all are dead. WheI
we visited Joe Smiths sons IL
Nauvoo. ILL.,. in 1871. they disclaimed
all belief in the doctrines preached by
Brigham Young, and predicted to us
what has now come to pass That the
Mormon religion as religion has no ex-
istencs is proved fact. 1t now becomes
the duty Of the United States Govern
ment to interfere. No punishment shor,
Of the death penalty is adequate for the
ring-leaders In this horrible stain on oui
much Wanted nineteenth century civil
cation. Had all this thing happened In
Canada or Mexico. the feeling about i
would be one Of adherence and hatred.
but there lays that horrible nest Of vi
pers. men with no God but thor lusts,
no idea but qualification, no desire but
gain and satisfaction. What man would
not exterminate q nest of venomous rep
tiles tina, lay under his hearthstone. This
plague spot exists under our national
hearthstone. in tho midst OF sovereign
commonwealth, and its existence and
partial fostering has too long been stain
on the fame OF our Government. 1t is a
three.fold duty that the Government
owes. viz. to itself. to the sovereign
states, whose dignity Is insulted and In.
stitutions Knocked, and to the civilized
world in general. Justice has too long
slept. The avenging arm Of the law
should condemn the leaders to tho pun
ishment they have thousand times mer
tied. The plea Of the actual murderer
that In killing innocent babes and raw
ishing modest girls they believed the,
were serving the Lord. is but q devilisl
lie. The law of nature is writer
on every mans heart, and and the
knew they were doing that 10
which they deserved a thousand deaths
Common justice demands that the MOI
mon leaders DO apprehended, rigid
tried and made suffer the full penalty o
their enormous crimes; that the common
herd Of blinded serfs be disfranchise,
and the Territory reorganized altogether
The same spirit exists in Utah in th
same Hendish degree 1t did sixteen an,
eighteen years ago. The reports W
print from Beaver show that. Mercy L
the dog that bites tho hand. the snak
that inserts HIS poisonous fangs in tn
flesh, is useless. determination il ne
eessary aud justi6able by the facts Of tn
case. The blood Of the slain cries +
heaven for vengeance. The spirit o
men murdered in dark mountain re
eessss, in dismal canyons. in the dead o
night by Danites, the 40 unfortunate
OF mountain Meadows, all these cal
with most powerful voice for an avens
ing hand' This measure is necessary a
much as defense to ourselves ss a nun
ishment for past crime. There il no q,
tsnuation, no excuse. no qualification
Nought but one hideous and loa,hsou,
record of murder and lest is furnishs
by research. and that it has already e,
listed too long is the universal verdict I
an awakening and indignant press an
people.
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