The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-09
Awful Revelations Made to the
Utah Grand Jury.
BRIGHAM YOUNG'S VENGEANCE
How He Butchered the Morisites with
the Aid of Marshal
HINTS TO SECRETARY SHERMAN.
SALT LAKE CRY, July 81, 1877.

SALT LAKE CITY, July 81, 1917.
tits to BE- hoped that when this letter reaches yon
the railroad troubles which have agtated the country
will have 20 far died away that readers will renew
their interest In the "Mormon question:" which has
assumed now and exciting phases.
The Grand Jury which reassemt'ed in Salt Lake on
the 10th inst has been unprecedencdfy digent and
successful in indictng criminals. Owing to the nces-
SAINT and sKilful Efforts Of United States Attorney
Howard, who during the last few months tracked
numerous important Witnesses 10 their LARS in and
outside the Territory, the Grand jury task was much
simpiifed yet IL deserves, as does the District Attor
ney, praise Tor fidelity and resolution under crcum-
stances somewhat adverse AT the moment when II Is
summonng future justice next TO the most eminent
OF priesty miscreants aud therefore exciting the ire
Of tho whole powerful Mormon hierarchy, nearly all
tho United States troops are removed from Utah. leav
ing the Grand Jury and federal law officers to fight
the batte unprotected and alone
sxvESrY-PrvE INDICTMENTS.
During the present term, beginning in April, more
than seventy-ve indictments found by the Salt Lake
Grand Jury include numerous Indictments OF Nor
mon priests. Although several OF the worst crimes
committed by Morm0ns have been investigated, "a
number still remain to be examined. The jury will
continue It's sessions TO the end OF this week, when II
Will adjourn until September, and sit
weeks in that month. Sufficient testimony is already
in to hang number Of the chief saints in Zion.
Brigham Young's neck will DO saved only by the omis-
sion OF Congress enact In October rational jury
law, which will prevent Mormon serfs sworn In the
Endowment House never convict Mormon brother)
from acsecratng the jury room by perjury like that
which acquitted John D. Lee on his hrst trial.
A scHIsM CRUSHED.
Perhaps tho greatest crime to which the present
Grand Jury has the clews the Morrsite massacre
of 1862.
Since the establishment Of the Mormon Church by
Joseph Smith, JE, it has sustained from eight to ten
schisms. Among the most formidable of these
schisms caused after the accession of Brigham
Young as Pr Ophet. by Joseph Morris, who had been
Brghams faithful follower Tor many years. but who at
length, distrustng bis master, concluded 10 turn
prophet his own He appears TO have boon
q man of some remarkable gts he drew after him
several bishops and elders and lay men, numbering
five hundred. His chief counsellor was john Banks,
oil Manchester England, we'll educated and very
courageous Between the doctrines OF Brigham Young
ahd Joseph Morris there was no marked difference
in one particular-Brgham taught that he the
Prophet .sanonted OF the Lord" anu Morris that he
was Goods anointed." Both claimed to have the
'sgt Of tongues" the power Of heuiing. and "laying
of hands" and 'casting out devils" There was
room the Mormon empire for these two Caesars.
CATTLE STEALING EXTRAORDINARY.
Early in 1862 the Morrisltes, as they called,
left the Mormon settlements Utah and gathered s'in
the name OF tho Lord" on the Weber River, forty
miles north of Salt Lake City. They took all their
movable property with them, including largo guam
tty Of grain Various charges were made against
them and legal executions quickly followed. Fines
were assessed for their refusal drill in Mormon
militia; of their cattle execution
and others were stampedcd. Many cattle, there Is
good evidence, found their way into tho Church
raj. This carried that several instances
poor mans last wss taken and his little chill dren
made to 60 supperlsss 10 bed. Such the persc-
cutions and orucles inflicted the Morrisltcs by
Brigham Yoahg's followers that Morris goaded to
retaliation. In mis- turn no ordered raid upon the
Mormon stock he even directed that the Of
the stock should be captured and held hostages In
this primitive way the and foolish Prophet
Morris hoped to cripple and intim,date powerful
enemy He but provoked his own destruction.
BRorHERLy LOVE-
No railroad had then penetrated into tho country
NO outside influence had begun be iclt here 200
miles separated Brighams kingdom from the rim Of
American civilization. In spite Of the fact that a
federal Governor had been appointed to the Territory
he vas mousrch not only over that Governor but OF
all else he surveyed He determined to crush out the
Morrsitcs. Following legal forms for FORMS sake he
obtained wrts Of habess corpus and warrants IRON
Chief Justice Kinney, which placed in tho hands
of Deputy Marshal Robert T. Burton. He called on
the acting Governor, Secretary Frank Fuller Ia
brother of the notorious Fuller, of the Mormon Salt
Lake Herald for an armed posse The request was
granted and Burton lett the city with 500 armed men
and five pieces Of artillery. On the way he received
volunteers TO the number OF nearly five hundred
more Many Of these joined Burton's forces, us they
said, 10 $50 the fan" Theymarched within hall
mile of the Morrisite CAMP which consisted
OF few log houses and several others made
of willows intcrlacod with basket work and plastcred
nsidc--as unfit place of defence be imagined.
The Mormons first took possession OF tho Morr,site
herd and killed such mails they required for beef
while tho boys In charge OF the herd in by
Burton with paper containing notice to Morris that
ir he did not surrender Internationally within half an
hour tring would begin. Burton then placed his can
non In such position as to rake the camp.
STRANGE RESPONSE TO PRAYER.
In the Morriste camp at this time there wcre not
moro than ninety able bodied men, with over three
hundred and children. Morris called his pco-
pie to the Bowey, great shed rooted with limbs OF
trees for consultation, or rather to await 'revela-
tjon' from on high He told them the Lord would re-
veal their duty, and stationed himself u platform,
with I'M loring hands and eyes turned heavenward
Banks his chief counsellor, stood by atti-
tude both believing the revelation would come IN
answer to their prayers. From time to time Morris
encouraged the congregation, reminding them OF the
promises :ssThey who wait on the Lord shall per-
ishn zone shall chase thousand and two put ten
thousand 10 flight"
But no revelation came. As the last haleluah died
away the sound OF a cannon smotc upon the melody
The shot foil short oil the camp. Some OF the Brig
hamue posse testify that II was blank shoL) The
next instant another cannon was ired; the shot
struck the Bowers; two women fell dead, horribly
rnapc,ed aud girl Of twelve years had her chin torn
away. One OF tho women who fell held child in her
arms, which uninjarsd.
This cannon shot caused fearful oommotion In the
Morrisitc camp, in the midst Of which the doomed