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Show THE PIIE3S ON UTAH MATTERS. MAT-TERS. Tho situation in Utah has called forth a very general expression of views from tho press. A selection from such articles will give our readers a better idea of the mannor in which affairs af-fairs hero aro looked upon cast and west than any mero summary of thorn would do. Tho New York Herald, which seems to gloat over a prospective prospec-tive annihilation of the Mormons, in its issue of tho 3rd inst. briefly says: Brigham Young was arrested yes tor-day tor-day by the United States marshal in Salt Lake City on an indictment charging charg-ing him, under tho Territorial law, with lewd and lascivious conduct with sixteen different women, whom wo may presume were, according to his creed, his wives. This brings tho Mormon t ditliculty to a ohms, and we have ! j nothing to do but await his utter de- ! i molition in the courts and the iinmc- I diatc downfall of the last relic of -barbarism in this free country. ; The Leavenworth Built tin, of the hh, thus speaks of President Young's ' arrest, and the manner iu which it 1 deems circumstances uiaywoik; 1 The telegraph this mornine; infuiiuH ; us of the arrest of lirigham Young by the United Suites authoiitiesof Li tab, i to un.-wer an indictment for bigamy. ; "ami," the dispatch says, ''trouble is 1 anticipated. " it is leaved that the followers of the prophet will rise in 1 anus to ic-i-t ihi- indignity offered in' the head uf the church, and therefore troops are b"ing sent lo Salt Like to be held in readine.-s to enforce ihc laws. ! lint liie.-e tears arc altogether minec-js-a:; the Mormons don't intend to. light: ntuhevdo they intend to re-, non iite puiy;r.t:ny. The arrest of Uiig- ' ham may be the tibial lor the Lu'ciu. ning of the c:coiusof the saints from "the valk'y" tj mj;i;o more remote corner of the ;;Ioix but not I'ur armed resistance; l hey recognize the power uf the uatw;;i goeri!meat, and will not ' war ag.ti:i.-t it: but they will not give up f their "p-vuhar in.-t:tution;" it "is their fjith and they will no; renounce it. -j The pioa-e.-s of ciwlizatiou across the comment will r-oon drive polvgamy ftoui the valleys and mountains of l:tah, but it will evor have an abiding ; place in the Mormon heart. The 1'oi- lower of IJiigham, like the red &un of j the iuie.-t, must .-uou retreat Lelorc the pirit of the ae, bat wherever he sruss he wiil take hi.- w:es. with him. fc Iu the Sacra uieulo Cniuu uf the tith, a paper that has never been accused of Mormou predilections, .we liud the following fol-lowing common sense article, containing contain-ing unanswerable positions relative to law and its administration ; The arrest of Brigham Young, and j Paw el U. Wells, another of the high , functionaries in the Mormon church, : with a view to test the stability of poiycamy as a Mormon institution, excites more than usual attention. The public is interested in knowing ; what the upshot of the whole affair will be. There is a prejudice, whether ; well or ill founded it is not the pro- j vinee of this article to say, against tho Mormons as a sect, entertained by a majority of tho people of the United ( States, and it is only made stronger by their polygamous doctrines audaciously declared to be sanctioned by revelation from heaven. Tim prejudice is deep-routed, deep-routed, and it asks for the conviction of the leaders of thr: Mormons lor practices which the civilization ot the day does notaoproe. The demands of the whulo world have nothing to d i with the ease of these Mormons, aud should have no widaht when they are to be tried and 1 gaugeJ'by eabli.-hed law. They are entitled t j tho protection of ail the I law i hero is, aud are amenable only to ' the laws there arc, and for luiadecds . committed whihi thorC laws have j existed. These Mormons went to a distant region, a-, our forefathers tl-d from Ktijilaiid, uud founded institutions institu-tions of their own. They Went where no State laws Wcra made to extend, and the eoiHtitulion of the United States aud laws made in accordance i therewith Imw: not in the pa.it inter-i inter-i fl-red with the laadly relatious. Mar- riage is not otic of l lie iu-titutioiis liie sovereignly of tho United States ukes ! cognizance of, and the declaration ! that the common law steps in, iu thu absence of uuj thing oise, and makes the polygamic auicimbi.;, is made in ignorance of tho fact that the ULited .States knows no common huv, and it cannot be recognized anywhere except by statute. Up lo a veryreceut period, the Mormons having full sway in L'iah, no law-xi-ted that militated against (heir peculiar in-tltutious, but wre in consonance with them. "Where no laws are no offeine abound.'." An act of late dale cannot go back of its enactment en-actment to punish. L.c pott jad-i laws are prohibit:.-d, and we conceive that any act of congress or of ihe Territorial Ugii-laturu cannot punish polygamy practiced before the enact mcnt. The leading Mormons now uuder arrest ar-rest seem to have teen caught up under an act to prohibit adultery, signed by Hi'ighaiu Vouug himself, i Now, that law is lo be 'interpreted by j tho spirit that dictated its passage. Manifestly not one who voted lor it, or J Brigham who approved it, recognized its applicability to cases of polygamous practice. Their plural marriages were j regarded as legitimate, and the law was passod to favor such marriages and discourage prostitution. Tho spirit of that law has not been broken by tho Mormon elders in taking moro wives than one, and it is not in tho duty of tho judicial authorities of Utah to givo the law a different construction from that intended. If that law is all that is relied on for conviction, Brigham and Wells may well entertain sanguine hopes of non-conviction, if a fair t rial be given them. A different order of things, it is apparent, is soon to eomo to Utah. Tho influx of (J entiles inimical to Mormon Mor-mon institutions and intluencc, is bound without much delay to overturn the hierarchy that has ruled not in accord with the ideas of modern civilization, civili-zation, and tho courso now being pursued pur-sued by the lederal officials at Salt . Lake is not justified by a wise policy, ; that should desire that the malign iu- tlueuoe of assumptions dogmatists may perish without the sympathy of mankind. man-kind. Au annoying course not likely to result in good only makes tho persecuted perse-cuted sect stronger, and defeats the ends that tho enlightened would like to see accomplished. The Aha of the same date has (he following among its "editorial notes," which is a mixture of flippancy and ignorance: Tho Mormon trouble threatens to become a very serious affair, and there seems to bo a pro.-pcet lor a little civil war iu li rig ham Young's domain. The Mormons do not take the arrest of Brigham Young and the Mayor of Salt Lako in a very amiable manner. They have indulged in polygamy so long, when other people have been punished for the- offense, that they began be-gan to think Uncle Sam was afraid to interfere with their institution. The Utuh system of concubinage has become be-come too offensive to bo longer tolerated, tolerat-ed, and, as was to have been expected, its delcDders and upholders do not proposo to give it up without a struggle. A gentleman who arrived from Salt Lake last ovening informs us that there arc indications of an effort to resist the United States and civil authorities, lie says the Mormous aro buying up all the firearms to be found, and that many of them express their willingness to dofend Mormonism wit.h powdor and ball if circumstances require it. If there are polygatuists in Utah who think they can whip out the whole of'Lhcso United States uud override over-ride law, schoolmasters and a few car loads of geographies and histories ol tho "unpleasantness" should be sent them at odco. The San Francisco Built tin, also of the Oth, says : It is not surprising that MormonJom should be excited over the recent invasion in-vasion of their most cherished institution, institu-tion, but the speech of lirigham Young, Jr., delivered yesterday at the Mormon Conference, as recorded by telegraph, is not of a character to throw oil upon the. troubled waters. His quotation from Cromwell about trusting in Cod, but keeping their powder dry, and the applause which followed it, can only be regarded as proceeding from an excited speech delivered to a crowd of enthusiasts. enthu-siasts. The good sense of the elder Young, if not that of his son, must in his calm momeuts, show to him that a rebellion in Utah would ouly be a storm in a tea-cup, and soon put down. If tho Southern States with their Jarge population, iesoure.es,. 'and negative European influence' were unsuccessful, un-successful, there would not be much hope lor the Moi-nions. The junior a oung may however rest assured that the good counsels of the people of the United States will diminish his opportunities oppor-tunities for gaining a martyr's laurels and reputation, to which ho seems to ! aspire. The Denver X-.tos uf the 7th, a paper that seems to consider it has a special mission to v:l:iiy and abuso anything and everything favoring Mormonism, Mor-monism, has a bit Ler an tele 1 1 om which we have on'y ;ace for cxtiacts. After relating the nuvst f President Young, an, I the ai rival hen- t-f troojs, ' it says: The only feature of tho o called Mormon religion which especially distinguishes dis-tinguishes it is polygamy. This they have practised for years in open viola" lio'u of the laws of the counlry of 1 eivilizitioii, and of (led That it j should so long have been tolerated is ! ample pavf of the k-uieni-y of the; government in il;i matter. The time ; has eunie when this jche uf bai bai i.-uj i hould be wiped out, and in attaekinu . its "head con in," and bunging him t'0 ; uuswertor a violation of law, a prupcr course has been pursued, it wo mis- ; take not, Ihe et il officers of the L'ov- eminent arc men of suilicient neivcaiid '. determination to do their whole duiy, ' and lacked as they are by the military t arm of the nattc-ii, as well as, by an ; enlightened public sentiment, wo see i uo reason why the re.-ult sbuuld no't be ' as is detircd by all of the opponents I uf this odious ?ystem. The plea of religious liberty will not' avail. Tho ruling of Judsro McKeao ! iu the matter of the grand jurors was unexceptional, and settled that point. : I reedom of thought cmuot be iutej- ' fered with, buteuiirc license iu putting theories iuto practice cannot bo al- j lowed. 1 ho Mormon should no more' be allowed to cohabit with two women j than a eanaibal should be permitted to celebrate his bloody rites in our ' iuid.-t, and excuse it in the name uf religion. h ' ; " " At the present situation we cannot conceal our satisfaction, and give our endorsement to the policy ' which is thus closing iu so tightly upon ! the pfeudo religion which" is based only on a principle and practise des-t truaive of the highest and nob-f re-' lations of mankind. The Omaha ,-.:, wbAU has been a manly advocate ol honest justice fur; Utah, cf the oth, says : ; In all tho past agitations in Utah, 1 relying upou the law-abiding character of a people by ail odds the mot order- ; ly, and in mo re-sptyts tbe U-st qy. , 1 erned. whom wo have ever known, we j steadily refused to accept the theory of I what has been called a Mormon war! j But there is a crisis now impending there involving imminent danger ol ; outbreak into open violence and bloodshed. blood-shed. Wo do not say that this will I positively occur, but the danger of it is j imminent, aud it will uot surprise us ! at any moment to hear of such a disaster. dis-aster. In view uf the vasts interest that ! would be involved in such au event, we ; look upon it as a possibility, nny, an imminent probability, that is calcu-: calcu-: tatcd to excite the. gravest apprchen-i apprchen-i bion.-?. Tho men who are bent on producing this calamity, must be checked in their mad career, or it will i be perfectly certain to occur. They can ' neither incarcerate nor hang Bruham , Young, Daniel II. Wells, George A. Smith, George Q. Cannon, and other ; mou of this stamp under the forms of ' law, without raising a storm which ; oven these men would be powerless to f control, and which would be turc lo ; result in a great destruction of prop j erly and other interests, as well as of i life. The mining and railroad inter-eats inter-eats would be vastly damaged if not ! temporardy destroyed by tueh a con-i con-i flicl. And there is no use in mincing matters. Plain talk is what is now wanted, and tho authorities at Wash-1 Wash-1 ington should be promptly invoked to , avdt these possible disn-itcrs They eoucern great interests outside of j Utah, as we shall most certainly as-! as-! certain if matters there are pushed to I extremities. The Mrrmon people are an honest people. They are terribly in carne.it in , upholding their religion. Deluded : they uudoubtedly are, but this docs i not alter tho fact that no people on tho round earth are more ready to do, dure, and die, than they are in defence ofthoir religious faith and institutions. Driven to despair of justice at tho hands of their sworn enemies, there is not a true Mormon iu all Utah who ; would not put the torch to his own homo, and return the garden which his labors and sacrifices have produced to its original wilderness of desert. Armies cannot prevent general ruin and desolation iu that Territory if ever 1 the llauio of war is lighted. ; Tho Reese River Reveille sees pros- i peotive troublo and puts it thus : j From tho signs of the times and tho apparently increasing bitterness of the I editorials in tho Salt Lake papers, i there is a chance for lively times soon. If tho present legal proceedings are continued, aud Young convicted, it is j hard to conceive how an open and sanguinary rupture oan bo avoided. Things look pretty squally there now. The Carson State Register says in closing a paragraph on the subject : J Wo doubt if a jury can bo found in all Utah even among Gentiles that will Grid Brigham guilty ;is charged in tho indictment. And the Idaho World winds up an article on tho condition of affairs in Salt Lake, based upon a letter received by tho editor on tbo subject from a genLlomau in this cify, with the following follow-ing language : Tho condition of affairs is certaiuly critical, and to tho outrageous and villainous course pursued by the federal judges and officials in Utah can be attributed the troubles, if any, (hat occur in Utah. j |
