The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-23
M'BRIDE'S MOCCASINS.
How They Were Dampened
by the Dews of this Valley.
SO MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.
He Poses as a Pioneer and Tells
Poetic Tale-His Views of
the Mormons.

WASHINGTON, January 18th, 1850
Especial Correspondence of The
HERALD Judge Mcbride occupied the
time of the House Committee on Terri
tories this afternoon. He prefaced his
argument by informing the committee
that he had resided in Utah some fifteen
or sixteen years, and was, therefore,
thoroughly acquainted with
THE CoNDITIoN OF AFFAIRS
in that Territory. He was one of what
Mr.. Caine termed the anti-Mormon
ring, having been for ten years chair
man of the Liberal party, local
organization made up of Republicans
and Democrats, or what his Mormon
friends termed an agitator, or as his
friend. Mr.. Richards, designated it,
adventurer, one of certain political
band, etc. Whatever he might be he
now stood before the committee to give
an account of the faith that was in
him.
This was the Mcbride opening; and
right worthy of that gentleman might
it be said to be. Standing as he was
in the presence of intelligence of high
order, there was neither tremor of the
voice nor CULVER of the knee. A man
of iron frame and massive brow, q
champion of battles (of the windmills),
veteran of the Liberal" oause-there
he stood in the very majesty of his
calling, the personihcation of self con-
fdence, about to deliver himself Gas he
had delivered himself many and many
a timeibefore), the noblest, the shrewd
est, the smooJhest of them ali. Death
like stiffness reigned. The judge said
he conceded it 10 be the fifth time that
Utah had come asking to be
CLOTHED WITH STATE SOVEREIGNTY
The first time, however, was in 1850,
when the population numbered only
some 10 600, q request at that time any
thing but modest, but since then the
area had been cut down, and the popu-
|
in concurring with all that Mr.. Rich
ards had said with respect to the Terri
| tory's boundaries, wealth, resources,
| industries, commerce, products, etc. 4,
and he acknowledged the courtesies of
that gentleman in allowing him to ex-
anime his argument to inform himself
as to points. The judge claimed to
belong to the pioneer class, having
been in the Salt lake Valley before the
| Mormons set foot there. The country
was lot the barren waste described by
i.r. Richards; it wes fertile and invit-
ing; ne had wet his mocasins with the
dews on the tall grasses as he rode
| through the rich meadows. CAS- the
| committee did not ask the Judge how
| be came to find himself at so early g
date thousand miles from the borders
of civilization, whether alone or in
company with others, the judge, from
sense of native modesty, perhaps, did
not enlighten the committee. For the
! want OF information to the contrary,
therefore, the committee were left to
picture the judge noun led On his pio-
neer Pegasus, in snaps aud spurs and
beaded mocasins, monarch of all b
surveyed.) And as to the wagon re ad
that led to it, why, it was as well beaten
a track and highway as easily followed
as was Pennsylvania Avenue wash
| lngtou's grandest thoroughbred from
the Capitol TO the White House, thou
sands of teams having traversed that
country before the Mormous under
took it. 1t was fine natural highway.
He had no doubt the people suffered
THE PRIVATIoEs AND HARDsHIPs
incident to the settling of such coun-
try; he had been there and knew all
about it. The judge said, however
that he did not take issue with Mr..
Richards on this point for the purpose
of detraeting from the merits of the
Mormon people, but merely that tins
facts (naked facts) should be known
With regard to the point that the Nor
mons had been driven because of Lheil
religious belief, the judge said he would
pause to inquire why it wss that this
people alone should have been Obliged
to change from one locality to another
because of their religious belief. Ii
was prSnrG fdcie evidence that some
thing wrong applied to them that ap-
piled to no other people. The strong
proofs Of ''hi tory cited by this
aStute anu hOTmOu CHAMPION TO snow
the reason of this popularity vas based
on Stenhouse's history, whose author
among other things, tells of Orson
Pratt and Orson Hyde's skipping by
the light of the moon (from Kirkland,
cause. debt: referred also to civil
action brought against Brigham Young
for the same cause CONNECTED with
Kirkland Bank, and he pleaded the
statute OF limitations. It was history
that the Mormons left Missouri charged
with the grossest of crimes. The mas
sacre at Raun's Mill he admitted wa.
nnproyoked, although there were, per
haps,
FAULTS ON BOTH SIDES.
The judge knew Mr.. Haun very " ell
in fact was his executor. Haun wa.
not Mormon, but his wife was. Haur
was a victim, and his own account
showed that smokehouses were robbed
cotton Ids Tt lpped, horses stolen, and
the victims o. thes, depredat:ons / o
lie Ted thai the Mormons. who set them
selves above all law, were the guilty
pa tiss These were the circumstances
Inder which the MormoRs left Ohio.
Wherever the Mormons had been, j.
was a matter of history that they could
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