The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-10

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rifles have been received by the Mormon
authorities from the East during the last
fortnight; that the faithful are drilling In
meeting houses, stables and corrals, and,
finally, that last Sunday Brigham Young IN
expectedly broke ont, in the Tabernacle, IN
warlike address. in which he plainly said
that if the Gentiles wanted blood they could
have plenty of it-more than they would
like. Our correspondent adds-what does
not surprise us-that since then leading
Gentiles are quietly preparing to remove
their families from Utah. Those OF them
who have lived for any considerable period
in the Territory know how great is Youngs
authority and how certain his followers are
to obey him to the most desperate extremes.
There are about 100 600 Mormons and about
Is, 900 Gentiles in Utah; the army is small;
and if Young is desperate enough he can
command and procure general massacre.
Is he desperate? The important letter we
print elsewhere from our special corre-
spondent in Utah explains his anger. JUS
tice is evidently on the heels of Young and
many Of his most prominent followers. The
details of the dark crime of Mountain
Meadows have been investigated, until now
that justice has been boldly asserted by the
execution Of Lee, the government has OBJ
tanned further and most important evidence
connecting the Mormon chiefs with that
cruel and treacherous outrage and not only
that, but with many other murders. The
United States Grand Jury meets at Salt
Lake City on the 21st of this month,
and our correspondent telegraphs us that
subp9nas have been issued for large
number of witnesses, and it is be-
lieved that numbers of arrests will be
made in short time. Our correspondent
gives in his letter sample of the evidence
which will come before the Grand Jury, and
the tale of the Scotch witness, McGufie, re-
veals murderous deeds which will, perhaps,
astonish the Eastern reader, but will not
surprise any one who has been in Utah
within dozen years, or who has spoken
with the Gentiles who lived there before the
Pacific Railroad was completed.
Justice is reaching out her strong arms
toward Brigham Young and his chief agents.
The trial and execution Of Lee showed these
miscreants at last that they were not abso-
lutely SAFE They had defed the United
States authorities and public opinion so
many years with success that they believed
themselves secure against investigation and
punishment. They fancied that the Sc
crets Of their long and cruel rule
would perish with them; and now they
at last see that they are in danger. Natu-
rally, they are desperate. They are at the
end Of their rope. They can no longer hope
to resist the advance of an army by ordering
their poor dupes to burn their farms and
make desert before the troops, as Wells in
cautiously told the HERALD's correspondent
they did when General Sidney Johnston was
ordered into the Territory. Everybody
remembers, said the prophet Wells, chow
the people behaved when ordered out by
President Young to prevent Johnston from
entering the Territory, at what might have
seemed to another man most dismal mo-
ment of his career The President issued
an order which obliged us to burn forage in
advance, set fire to the grass at night, carry
off animals and do various other things to
hold back the enemy" the enemy being
federal army. That policy cannot be re-
runs through Utah. Resistance must take
some other shape.
But why are the Mormon prophets ex-
cited? What have they to fear from the
United States? Why should not the federal
officers investigate the Mountain Meadows
massacre? When the Grand Jury is about
to meet why should Brigham Young threaten
bloodshed from his pulpit? There were
many long years in Utah when no Gentile's
life was worth a days purchase if he in
when the Gentle traders spoke only in
whispers in Salt Lake City when the Nor
mon capital was entered by strangers as
men venture into VOLTS den-very uncer-
tain whether they would get out with a
whole skin The Scotchman McGuffie gave
our correspondent glimpse of those
dark days when no law or authority in
terfered to curb the vilest passions
of the Mormon leaders. The despatch of
District Attorney Howard to the Attorney
General, which we printed on Tuesday,
shows that the federal authorities believe
themselves to be able to connect Young and
other prominent Mormons with the Noun
tain Meadows massacre. Now that it is
seen in Utah that the federal arm is strong
enough to punish murder and to protect
the innocent evidence will not be wanting
to develop the circumstances not only OF
this, but of many other crimes against de-
fenceless travellers and residents.
We take the liberty to suggest to the
Presidcn. that he should keep his eye on
Utah. The federal authorities there ough,
to be made to understand that they are ex