Year: 1871

them 70 the commission Of any crime that


would destroy an enemy as a religious duty,


and he had himself learned to defy the general
government and to proclaim himself as above
it In the service of the Lord, and his supersti-
tious followers believed him.


Such, then, are the dark deeds Of the Nor
mon prophet and his satellites in their despe-
rate game of building up polygamy in Utah,
Of excluding the Gentiles and of vengeance
against the enemies of their faith and their
priesthood. They are the Ishmaelites of our
country, whose hands, outside of their tribe,
are against every man, while every mans
hand is against them. They know no country,
no faith, no authority but that of their
false prophet, and polygamy is the corner
stone of their religion. During their twenty
three years in Utah they have become ninety
thousand strong, and twenty thousand of them
are in Salt Lake City. The number of Brig
ham Young's wives is not known. We have
seen list of twenty mine of them; he is in
dicted for adultery with sixteen; but it has been
said that they number at least fifty. His chief
apostles and elders have from twenty down to
three, four or five wives each. Assuming that
there are fifteen thousand Mormon families in
Utah averaging six persons each, and that
seven thousand of these families are repre-
sented by three thousand husbands and
fathers, we shall, in simply reducing these
men to one wife each, cut off four thousand
wives and their children, not as widows and
orphans, but as loose women and their iliegiti-
mate offspring; for this is the law.


What, then, are we to do with these people
Let the law take it's course against the guilty
men; but let the law be enforced in the
division Of their effects among these unfortu-
nate surplus wives and their children. It is
probable that Brigham Young has cleared out
from Salt Lake City, never to return. He
may push down into Mexico to escape this
indictment for murder. Under any conditions
it is hardly probable that he will consent to
submit to the law Of one wife. It would be
the surrender of his religion, and so it may be
said of his priestho cd and of large body Of
his followers. They will prefer to 60 to some
other country; but where can they go9 We
believe there is q land company in this city
which has secured from President Juarez, of
Mexico the right to colonize and develop
Lower CALIFORNIA; fine, open, almost unin-
habited semi-tropical country. This company
wants settlers. Brigham Young is their man.
He is in condition to accommodate them on
easy terms And what is Lower California
to Mexico any how9 A blank as it is; but,
under Brigham, it may be made strong
Mexican border protectorate against Indians,
revolutionists and fillibusters. General
Grant, meantime, is certainly pushing his
crusade upon Mormon polygamy with the
fixed purpose of abolishing it. But chaos is
threatened, and, if great care be not taken,
the Gentle miners now crowding into the
newly discovered gold, silver, lead and tin
mines of Utah may repeat there the Mormon
expulsions Of Missouri and Illinois. We ap-
prove the purpose Of General Grant in
reference to Mormon polygamy, but passing
events should warn him Of tho danger of the
rising of an anti-Mormon mob in Utah.


JUDGE SANFORD E. CHURCH says New York
will 20 democratic on account OF the apathy