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Show "THE L'TAII CONSPIHACY." i The following from the Omaha Ar- : 7, under the above caption, is ko crtinent attd h forcible tint wc vivo , entire : A week or more ap private iinelli-encc iinelli-encc from Salt Lake .-d u- to predict j upending serious trouble between t!.e i 'ederul authoriti- and the poplc ul io Territory. That prediction was seated yesterday in a paragraph J 'hich was printed before we had seen lie telegram confirming it, that 1'rig- ' :ini Young, and other Mormon lead-r, lead-r, had been indicted arid arroh'd, not I J icrcly for the crime ol" poljamy, but ; lo for tho higher crime of iiiupIi.t. 1 t wan a knowledge of what was cm)- j ig that led in to anticipate what is no jijcr a secret. Sitting upon the t Jlah biMich i- a , ' :i:ui by the name of McKrui. Like: mist other Territorial jtidct, this rip.n j 1 a Ni:7 York e.xporl, a broken! own and lii-appoinied m.ut, wlioe ' ;l'e lias been hitherto devoted to grali- ' ying inordinate lu-,Ls for public htation j 1 ml power. Hi.-: appointment ai chief 1 ustice of Utah wais in the n;iture of a . 1 liraculoiis resurrection from the dead, j ured by the relighted embers of almost I i xlinui.-hed hopc.-i, MeKeaii Ijegan to ' tudy the way, and conjure up the ; i neart.i, of rogainitjg in Utah what, had j i lecn .-o liojir!i:-ly lo.-it in New York, j , li.- throiii; was the bench and hi.-; , ; rciipun the law. He was scarcely Warm I n his .seal, hel'orc he Wa.ithe recognized i i ie;id of a ion.piracy lo destroy the i icaec, rae the institutions, and, if I i tosMblo, take the lives of selected vie- iins in (he Mormon leadership. J u-i ; licial deeisioiirt and sectarian orations ; i j,.r .leliv.-n-d JVoi.i (lie l.on.dl will) ' eijual frcijueiJcy. When they did not excite the contempt, they provoked pro-voked the ridicule of the press and peoplo of the country. The : Iragnet of religious hate and political . ambition was spread out for those, who, ; parties lo former tehisms and conflicts in the Mormon church, confessed murderers mur-derers and desperadoes whose homes j irirl nrov worn in tho moil tit n t ni. inn! I I similar wretches, who, to save their own lives, or to wreak long cherished revenges, could bo induced to swear away the lives of the best men whom , we have ever known. Tho notorious Bill Hickman, a self-confessed murderer, mur-derer, whoso hands aro said to bo red with the blood of many innocent vie-' vie-' tims, is the boon companion, as well as tho tool, of these Utah conspirators. It is presumed to bo on his and kindred kin-dred testimony that Brigham Young, and other leading Mormons, have been indicted for murder. But all the Hickman hell-hounds and Morrieite outlaws which McKeau and Baskin, his attorney, can fish up from the lower depths of infamy cannot convince tens nf thousands who know those men, that they are really guilty of Mich crimes. This conspiracy began with the advent ad-vent of tho existing herd of federal mercenaries to Utah: It crystalized under tho agitation of the Cullom bill which was drawn in Salt Lake. Tho object was to break down fho political power of the people who had conquered Utah from a desert waste into a beautiful garden. This was to occupy, possess and control it. With the fall of the Mormon power McKeau, Woods & Co. were to bring Utah into the Union as a State, and become senators of tho United States and heroes in a land already suffering from a surfeit of such. The Cullom bill failed. lir fetched edicts of the law, promulgated through stump speeches from the bench, likewise failed. fl he s-'eenlre. not vet erannd. was departing. Something must be done. Criminal statutes must bo invoked. .Proofs of crimes other than that of polygamy must be secured. But before this is permitted, in pursuance pur-suance of a deliberate plan, decisions must be promulgated whereby, under a thin disguise, Mormons, on account of their religious belief's and practices, must bo excluded from juries which would bo thus necessarily constituted of their deadliest enemies men who would do the known wish, if they did not obey the actual behests or their desperate masters. And this is but a brief outline of a conspiracy which aims, at whatever cost, to destroy men and institutions in a Territory whose civilizing and industrial achievements are the admiration of mankind. i iputwimp' ri nonr-o |