Show A retrospect ami abial valedictory irwill it will ie be seen byh by this ts number part niah ith the wey tan a little nur in the mountains and probably endeared to t us u on account of 0 its very infancy and weakness in leaving leai ing a little retrospect of the present and past condition of utah would probably riot not be inappropriate should the question be asked does peace exist in utah it should be a sufficient affirmative to answer that no engagement has taken place between the united states troops and the mormons cormons Mor mons and that there are not two risible opposing forces in in the field then there is peace in in utah we have however no parallel in in our history to tte anomalous condition of affairs now existing here all christendom has looked earner earnestly fly on from the commencement to see the end of 0 the troubles in in this distant territory and events which have recently transpired will mill eig quicken icken the interest whit which ch the mormon question ba has a ev every ery vicere bere excited the record of the proceedings connected with judge Cradel baughs late coart art at prow prove has ben been anade a ada up cpr aDdis and is now before the cabinet at washington the distinct and unavoidable issue is is now presented to the american people bether crime is is to be smothered up in utah and al go unpunished or whether as is the case every m where here else an judiciary is is to be sustained inea in its earnest and laborious bo rious efforts to vindicate the majesty of the ia law while the question thus stands we bear the notes of preparation on the part of the mormons cormons Mor mons setting their squad squadrons in the held field should their insolent and extraordinary pretensions not be regarded in whatever judicial action is 13 to come the governor in th proclamation la published last week informs us that the peace and good order of the territory is about to be jeopardized by persons associated socia ted together in a military capacity throughout the populous portion of atthe the territory we defered last week to t the circumstances which elicited this document and which we characterized as a condition of affairs treasonable in in its animus aw iava and insulting to every loyal american citizen we have a word or two more to say about this proclamation we repeat w hat we said aid wore that its ita result will be just nothing whatever we are in the habit of dealing with ft ith facts as they are and not as in in our judgment they ought to be from the lana language mage of the proclamation who could tell what persons persona were meant by it it could not be the handful of who are here of course coarse it does not refer to the army or any of its it meant the mormons cormons it meant meana disloyal people long iong residents of this territory and it ought to have said baid so mr buchanan in his proclamation so designated them it ought to have been placed in the hands of the marshal for the territory appointed under the authority of the united states both of the federal judges have concurred in in the judgment that the attempt to create a territorial marshal and thrust him upon the federal authorities is is an attempt at legislative usurpation of the terms of the organic act yet the Gover governa nF assumes to himself to review their decisions and to recognize his JO hir KAY KAT as invested with the authority of a marshal ot of the territory every body knows that the recent effort of judge cradlebaugh at provo to bring to jus justice the murderers of 0 the alo mountain buntain medow meadow massacre the Parris hes and potter and oth ers erg has hag caused all Mormon dont to howl in in its dark and secret recesses and every expedient has bag been employed in resisting his big efforts to protect society against organized ansas assas sing BUS where are now the president denti of 0 stakes bishops teachers and territorial officers who have fled to the mountains in fear of jat punishment for their criz crimes aes these The seare are high authorities in in the church against whom a chain of circumstances has haa been elicited by testimony monyo showing a confederacy in crime all of us u know that the mormon church is is a secret oath bound organization as aa united in aggression as it is compact in defence all of us have a belief amounting 1 almost to knowledge low ledge that it if brigham young vi almost ere to etolie direct dr c t the surrender of snow john nil on earland ear and the whole list of fugitives from justice today to day it could cou id be effected tomorrow to morrow all of us know that the testimony taken implicate these men in crimes which make humanity shudder all of us conclude con dude therefore that when the lawful process of the judge is running for the arrest of these murderers tire the whole v hole mormon church is is acting as an after the fact to conceal them and prevent their arrest if necessary by y force but enough of this whilst we have lave no unkind word personally tor for governor cumming we feel ourselves purs thes bound by our duty to our readers and the public to express our unqualified condemnation of this official act now the issue which has hag lately been presented cannot be shirked sh irked it is is childs play to talk about military despotism and all that in in the face of present circumstances general johnston Job as a man and a general has in in his character nothing of that sort in with his bis instructions and acting upon that discretion with which they clothe him he has seen proper to furnish his aid ard aid countenance to the administration of criminal law in utah without that material aid all recent efforts could have ended in utter failure with it painful howsoever it ma may be to contemplate a dark catalogue of 0 crime has been revealed the good fruits of which may be the punishment of the offenders and the protection in autu future re of the law abiding portion of these people against A recurrence of sim similar 1 I ar feasts of blood lit in the exposition of thess these we have hare lent the aid of our little journal and we have the satisfaction of knowing that we have placed a wedge edge in the rotten cut m which aich some more vigorous arm hereafter may open it may not be inappropriate here to refer to matters more particularly concerning our we had scarcely commenced our publication before the utah legislature declared the valley tan tail a libelous and scurrilous sheet it if we have misquoted it is because we have been onalle to obtain a copy of the resolutions such however was the language of their speakers upon the occasion this was an official act and although the resolutions were subsequently repealed it shows and w we e so stated it at the time the feeling that existed upon th the e part 0 of a ordinate coordinate co to branch of oe the government we challenged then asme as we do now anything pertaining to libel and scandal unless the republication of the filthy and beastly harangues harang ang e of f their apostolic leaders might be considered libelous etc in in which case we plead guilty guilt the judgment ho however pronounced upon us by a mormon senate we most graciously accept and only trust that it will appear upon their records expunge e and all for should it not so appear it would only save us the trouble of referring to it by recollection tobx while their journals in in its absence would be false and le it false in one instance the integrity of the whole might well be doubted our otence fence of however consisted in in the establishment of a free press and here is is the rub and we can assure them that a press must and will exist here and so far as we are concerned the shaft has fallen harmless at our feet but like the boomerang of india it may recoil with force upon those who hurled it we can say that our personal relations with this people have been of a friendly kind and we have no animosity against them we have warred against the borrup eions eions and crimes that have existed here against the church which aich has protected it constituting as it does a power whose dig nty anity overshadows all other authority we have lave taken our last latag tag we have haie no apologies to offer no retraction to make |