The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-18

comes doleful intelligence that in
Idaho as well the circuit courts are
grinding at the same grist, and at least
one poor wight who had married not
wisely but too well, is doomed to
durance vile. Then finally, horror upon
horrorl in Arizona not less than five of
the faithful in single batch, and three
of them bishops, have been torn from
the embrace of each one of several
wives and consigned to dungeons"
The old taunt and defiance, it is said
are gone. Belligerency has given
place to meekness. "Pious protest
and profession of virtuous and patriotic
intention shape the utterances of edit
ors and church orators. And what is
much more significant, a wholesale
stampede of eminent apostles and
prophets has been going on for weeks;
two hundred Salt Lake elders of high
degree, and probably as many more
from other towns, have fled the scene
in mortal fear of call from the deputy
marshals, and, in concealment or on
missions in the East or over sea, await
the end of the present stress, and the
dawn of days in which grand juries will
be more considerate of the feelings of
such as endeavor to { live their religion
in patriarchal marital relations. John
Taylor and his counsellors, Cannon
and Joseph F. Smith, are each and all
among the missing, with not less than
ten out of twelve apostles, while credi
BILE report has it that Penrose, valiant
manager-in-chief of the church paper,
in his panic-terror and flight, had re-
course to sun-bonnet, veil and petit
coats. 1t is evident now, if it was not
before, that martyrs do not grow on
Mormon soil. All through the noun
tains the non-Mormon population is
convulsed with laughter at the specta-
Gle of the high and mighty of Israel
taking to their heels in hot Bull Run
fright from the faces of the terrible
Dickson and Zane. 1t was bad enough,
their former deceit and lying; but this
downright cowardice and panic fear are
too much" The hope of the convicted
and the fugitives is in the supreme
court and the new administration. If
the former does not overrule some of
Judge Zane's decisions, and if Presi-
dent Cleveland does not interfere with
faithful and courageous officials, the
outlook for the law-breakers is gloomy
and tempestuous." There may be a
second exodus to Mexico. Negotia-
tons, it is believed, have been opened
for the purchase of the country in the
valley of the Yaqui, in Sonora, on the
Gulf of California But the conclusion
of the advertisers correspondent is
that "not a Mormon leader proposes
to fight, or bleed, or even to smart
much for his religion. And just as
soon as it becomes evident that Dick
son and Zane are to go on and be I'M
molested, and that the edict has been
registered that polygamy must go and
go now, there is no doubt that Taylor
Cannon e Co., will make haste to treat
with the government on the basis OF
future obedience to the law, promising
not to teach or allow the practice OF
plurality, and, bya supplementary reve.
lation, will bid the faithful to postpone
exaltation until the dawn of better
days, when the Gentle heart shall be
less hard" Vermont was the birth
place of Smith and Young, the founder
and the great bulwark of Mormon
ism. There is poetic justice in the
fact that two Vermont statesmen, Pc
land and Edmunds, are the authors o.
the laws under the rigid enforcement
of which this latter-day kingdom Of
Satan is tumbling down.