Year: 1875

SALT LAKE CITY, March 9, 1875.


We are OH the eve of stirring times,
and every person is preparing for the
contest 1t is not difficult to see how
the trouble will commence; but it will
be extremely hazardous to predict how
it will end, except upon the general
principles of a winding up Of theocracy
and the rule Of the Mormon priesthood.
The beginning of the cOmmOtion sset
for the 5th Gf next month. Then com
menc+s the judicirl investigation into
th+. Mountain Meadows massacre, and
during that investigation there will be
brought to light everything that is neces-
sary to fix the guilt, not only upon the
direct actors, but upon the church lead
ers whose influence made the commits
SION Of such n terrible crime possible.
The evidence will be- heard in the Second
Judicial District Court, before Judge
Boreman, AT Beaver. 800 miles south of
this city.


: TRAITOR AMONG THE BRETHREN.


The Mormons are preparing for very
trying developments, and are not insen-
sible to the fact that, where least expect
ed, "a traitor TO the kingdom may
spring into notice. Brigham Young had
never more reason TO say Good Lord
deliver me-" and above all from my
friends" Hiding in mountain gulches
4 e
concealment 10 another is not calculated
to increase that unflagging faith which
has hitherto characterized the fanatical
Mormons. Lee had for fifteen years
kept out of the way of the officers Of
justice, and during all that time lie was
never off his guard, ever armed and pre-
pared for defense, and determined to die
rather than be captured; but, at the
very moment that he thought himself
| perfectly safe and free from arrest, the
officers of Justice were close upon his
heels and arrested him without firing a
shot


The fanatic who could see in these
long years of evasion of the law the pro-
tecting care of the Deity is the very man
to hastily stumble over to the other side
and question his long and former pleas
ant faith. Lee is precisely i'll that posi-
ton now, and there are half a dozen
| Others, and some of them as prominent
| in the history of the murder as himself,
who are as tired of flight and conceal
ment as he was, and are just as likely,
when the proper time comes, to divulge
the whole of the secret. Not one of
them can be trusted, and no one knows
this more and feels it more keenly than
does Brigham Young to-day.


THE LINE og DEFENSE.


If | am correctly informed and | think
can depend upon my informant, there
is already evidence furnished by Lee to
the United States Marshal that will un-
ravel the whole story. Once that the
flood gates are opened, the rushing of
the mighty waters will come that will
sweep before them the foundation of
rubbish on which Brigham has attempt
ed 20 build his mighty empire. The
Prophet trembles for the issue and wish
es himself in the heaven of his dreams.


In Lees defense it will be necessary to
show up the fanutical and blOodthirsty
spirit that reigned in Utah in 1S57-and
all that, too, the result of the mad
teachings Of the Tabernacle, for which
no one but Brigham Young was respon
sible


THE WORK OF BLOOD


1t is heyomd question that not only
were obnoxious Gentiles put out of the
way" without any ceremony of accusa-
tion and trial, but even many of 1.-THE
brethren" were watched when cut of
doors and quietly led to place convent
ent for butchery, and there had their
''throats cut. " for the double purpose of
keeping them from Opposing the king
doIn" and atOning for their sins of unbe-
lief. IL is said of Isaac e. Haight, who
was the Lieutenant Colonel of the mill
tia regiment that committed the massa-
ere at Mountain Meadows, that lac grew
so fanatical and was so farremoved from
any supervisory authority that he did as
he pleased and disposed of the lives of
the obnoxious with all the freedom of Il
DOge of Venice. H. the little town of
Cedar, tine headquarters of the militia, lie
is said to have kept two of the brethren
Stewart aud Aiacfarlaue-fo that spe-
cial purpose, and to aid at odd times in
harass;ng and stealing from the passing
emiyrant Genties.


| TEN NEN ASSASSINATED.


No fewer than ten men We're taken down
into the cellar beneath Haight's house,
and from there they never came ont
alive, and the only answer that was ev-
er made to any inquiry about missing
person in those days was the lacOnic SEN
tence, ''He has gone TO California"


The priesthood had Numbered into
the ears of the people that the Lord
had begun to purify the Saints and 10
winDow from their midst the sinners and
all who offend, and what between fear,
credulity and the danger of being sns-
pected of apostacy the mass Ol the Saints
accepted their oppressed and debased
condition and schooled themselves into
the belief that "they should be as clay
in the hands of the potter" Their
preachers gained such an ascendancy
over them that if "A headless corpse was
lying on the street, not a soul passing by
would have ever stopped to look and see
vino it was They had learned empllat-
ically that the Mormon creed was
Mind your own business"


BRIGHAM'S DREAD.


To listen to the t lies that are now told
by men and women of those times oI
b.ood one feels carried away III reflection
to dark ages and barbaric nations, and
it is this history that Brigham has good
cause to dread being brought to light in
the Forthcoming investigation of the
Mountain Meadows massacre, ard dc
not see how he can prevent its expos
ure.


The investigation, when once begun
will be like the letting out of water-tht
dam, once pierced, the breach will wider
and widen until it is all out, and the rev