| Show MURDER ILI OUT AN incredible or CRIME ills mormon authorities having somewhat recovered from the effects of the shock of dread and tear fear aich which the discovery and exposure of their damning connection with the dreadful deeds of bloodshed rapine all and d violence committed of late years in in the territory under the disguise and protection of a secret organization for this express purpose are now nom exerting eer ting themselves to the utmost by every possible effort and 14 with ith the m whole hole power and an d authority of their confederacy to conceal the true principals in in the commission sion of these of fences an ani I 1 to endeavor to induce the belief in in the minds of the public that their opponents or as we e are styled by I 1 them their persecutors are making attempts to magnify and exaggerate petty quarrels and an sti beet broils long since since committed into of fences of the first magnitude and of most terrible and significant import I 1 with this view view the editor of the church organ the deseret Dc seret news in in his last number b er in an editorial comment upon the remarks made by judge cradlebaugh whilst I 1 summing up the evidence in in the case of the murder of the Parril lips and potter at fc pring ville says we have carefully examined all the evidence furnished by a remarkably accurate phonographic reporter and can only conclude that the evidence before the court goes to show allow that durfee potter and two of the Parris hes got into a row about matters lest best it if t rot ot only known to themselves and thit that potter and two Parris hes were killed 11 I 1 again the editor in in a previous comment in this same connection says with the utmost effrontery ahen a ai ol 01 where in utah has any persons throat been cut or any one I 1 in in the least personally ally anju red or in any way I 1 hindered from leaving tins this teri Teni tory on the ground of his or their apostasy apo stacy never and no nowhere here so tar far as a long and intimate acquaintance with civil and ecclesiastical territorial rit orial affairs gives us ua reliable information inform therefore the judges 1 I abik I 1 am angl t is is widely at variance variance with what we are sanguine are the facts upon this point under these circumstances we deem it a duty which v aich we oi owe e to the public to take a course which under orl ordinary on inary conditions conditi ors of society and of gohei ciment in in our couil country try would be considered hi injudicious judicious arid and impolitic we W e have procured and now publish to the world in in this number a portion of the evidence elicited before his honor judge cradlebaugh in in his examinations into the crimes in in his district we publish however merely such of the evidence as has lei hereto eto fore become public by repetition in in the court room and which relates to crimes i directly under irv investigation estimation withholding such as although confirming and strengthening beyond be ond the possibility of doubt or contradiction the fact now apparent that it is is the church which directed and instigated these murders m would defeat in in a amea suie e by their publication at present the ends of justice shocking and incredible as the truth appears that a community living in in the I 1 century in in the heart of a great great nation whose boast it is is that it Is ia the home of freedom of civil and religious liberty of enlightenment and of civilization should publicly sacrifice human being in in accordance with the tenets of a religious creed yet it now nom appears as an undeniable fact so bold are the high priests of this hideous arid and abominable system terri of religious fanaticism in in support of their practices that they have not only committed them we may say openly but they have proclaimed their purposes aloud and published them to the w world orld in the most public manner in the columns of the deseret news dated as far back as oct 1856 we find the authorized church report of two sermons preached in in the tabernacle in in this city to a congregation of nearly persons on the day of sept 1856 by YOUNG and his 2nd and counselor JEDEDIAH al GRANT the 3rd ard president of the church he is now dead in which the doctrine of human sacrifice Is openly proclaimed brigham young in this sermon serman says there are sins sins that men commit tor for which they cannot receive torgi forgiveness veness in in this world or in in that winch which is to omen come and if they had their eyes open to seo see their true condition they would be berf perfectly cc aly willing to have their blood spilt upon the ground that the smoke thereof might ascend to heaven as an offering 1 jig for their sins sins anil and the smoking incense would atone alone for their sins whereas if such is 13 not the case they will stick slick to them and remain upon them thein in in the tha spirit world I 1 know when you hear my brethren telling about cutting people off from the earth that you consider it is a strong doctrine but it is TO SAVE THEM NOT TO DESTROY THEM jedediah al grant addressing the people the same day at the tabernacle says 1 I say that there are men and women that I 1 would advise to go to the president baig ham hain immediately and ask him to appoint a committee to attend to their disc and let a place be a selected and let that committee shed their blood we have those among us that are full of all manner of abominations abomination i those mho need to hare haie their wood blood shed for water nater will not do their sins are of 0 too deep a dye you may think that I 1 am not teaching you bible doctrine but what says the apostle paul I 1 would ask how many covenant breakers there are in this city and in in this kingdom not territory ed 1 I 1 believe belaev e there are a great many and if they are covenant breakers we need a place designated u where here we can shed their blood talk about old clay I 1 would rather have clay from a newbar new bank lk than some we have had clogging the wheels for the last nineteen years 5 ears they are a perfect itu nuisance ivance and I 1 want them cut off of and the sooner it is done vie the better we have been trying tr ing long enough with thi this people and I 1 go in for lettin letting the sword of the almighty be unsheathed not only in in word but in in deed brethren and sisters we want you to repent and forsake your sins sins and you w m ho have committed sins that cannot be forgiven through throng mh baptism let your blood be shed and let the smoke ascend that the incense incense thereof may come up before god as an atonement for or your our sins and that the sinners in in zion ion may be afraid it now nom appears that not bring being able to find any voluntary victims ready to offer them r eltes up as a willing sacrifice on the altars of their hideous faith the church leaders determined ned to save severs several I 1 persons and secure to them an inheritance with the mor mo r mons in fie next world by cutting their throats froats in this this cutting of throats is is the prescribed mode of murder by which the victims of ec meley are invariably imani bly sacrificed i and is is the penalty a attached to the vio violation of the oaths in in the first degree of the mysterious arid and terrible endowment ceremonies ironies the penalty attached to the violation or of the oath in in the second endowment degree is is to have the throat cute cut and the heart plucked out with the most ag agonizing details in the third or last degree in addition to the above the most horrible mutilation of the body the ripping across of the naval and the jeanig out of the bowels in the most disgusting manner are the prescribed penalties of a N lo lation of the terrible se secrets of in our school days das we read and shuddered as we read the travelers accounts of the dreadful practices of the barbarous nations of the eaith of the burning of vO widows idos of ibe self immolation of hundreds beneath the m wheels heels of the car of juggernaut of the sacrifice of infants infanta at the terrible idol shrin shrines committed in order to obtain everlasting happiness in in a future state and w e then thanked heaven that we lived in a land and under a government and institution which in in our youthful enthusiasm we deemed omnipotent and faultless little could v v e imagine that in in our inai manhood hood we e should find ourselves in in our own great and glorious country living in in the midst of fanatical devotees claiming to be our countr countrymen men who vi ho are endeavor endeavoring ig to enact before our eyes scenes as dreadful and barbarous as any conceived by the imagination of man it was with incredulity that we heard repeatedly peat edly a few years ago ago that the mor mons practised practiced polygamy pol gamy and now with the full facts before us we can hardly believe our own senses and realize that another and it if it is is possible more hideous doctrine Is advocated and practised practiced here and yet it is too true and now we ask are these things to be permitted and these fanatics to be allowed to take life and property unrestrained and to spurn and trample under underfoot foot all tho rights guaranteed to us by the constitution of the united states and in which even the subjects of the most despotic government in christendom are secure if the laws lama of the united states now extant will not secure the desired end and rid are found insufficient to protect the lives arid and liberty of its citizens let the necessary laws be at once enacted and enforced if the laws lans of the united states at present in force can remedy the he t evil lot let those entrusted to see t those h I 1 laws a executed and enforced be sustained 1 f fully ailcy in in the discharge of their duties come what will of it taij the cormons mormons have been encouraged enco urged by the government in in the steps stepa which milich they have taken they have never made any secret of their intentions but have proclaimed them to alie world and have carried them out to the fullest extent unchecked by any one they the have hav e refused to be ruled by others than leaders ot of their organization and with tins determination they have been allowed to drive an away ay from the territory every single federal officer who mho lias has ever been sent here who sho has not lent himself to their views and purposes and sub served their interests if IE reports from the fast east be true they have even now succeeded in disposing and removing two of those last appointed and in such case also of another without indulging in in any farther reflections at this time we invite the earnest attention of the reading public to the testimony and affidavits which we present in this number read them and ponder them well even if they cause a shudder and make the heart sick |
