Show jn impositions positions spoil utah mu much ch has been beens said sald d and written in by gene gone da days y s about the conduct of great britain towards ier her ler colonies in north america and the patience with which the people bore it until they were viere ni ere compelled to revolt arid and assert their rights which resulted in their independence but Z if the colonists were ever imposed upon insulted and abused more than the people of utah have haye been since the organization t of the territory t or y we wa do not not hot ki know now when it was done nor where the record of ft can be found it is not our business now to recite in detail the abt abuses es that have been heaped upon the th pe people OP ae of this territory as we have not time n nr nor r inclination but simply wish avish to io refer to the appointment of the officers that have been beeri sent here to execute the laws odthe of the united states and of the territory and especially the judges 6 ilow how many of the class in question have been appointed from time to time we do not know but their number is legion though only eight have ever come to tha territory of those a lew few have been respectable men but the majority of them have been men of tile ille most corrupt wicked and ani abominable practices that could be he found or that ever disgraced the human I 1 race the following extracts of a letter written by mrs drummond to her sister in this county shows the predilection pred election of oneff the judges judes 0 and the aurli author or of many of the he scandalous re ports that have been published against the mormons cormons Mor mons clothed glother with the sanctity of judicial charges against polygamy and other robes lobes of oft hypocrisy for forthe the scarlet lady lidy or ohof i her daug daughters liters which lie he brought here an and d passed off as his wife and who sat with him oil on th the judicial bench w when hen sitting silting in in jud judgment ment upon of offenders flEnders against the penal statutes of this territory and of the united states I 1 and cind places the creature creatura as he cannot be called a gentl erkan ertan in no very desirable position as an officer of the government invested with the judicial ermine neither as a mau of truth we publish it by ret request dest for the benefit of those concerned and for the reason that the individual ii in question is a fair sample of most inot of the other judges sent here lind and of all who ho have howled so long iong on and nd loud about the peculiar institutions of utah I 1 with IVA such men we never had and do not wish t to 0 have much to do and nd when we get to chinkin thinking about the damnable impositions practice d u upon on utah by the appointment of such men to encute judgment Z and juaice jus ice amono among among the deop people we feel like praying that all akl thoi thos those e ho have been in sending them I 1 here may be politically and eternally damned OQUAWKA henderson count county iii lii sept 4 1856 S dear brother and sitter I 1 received your letter ietter last night and am now seated to answer you mr drummond left here in april to start for utah we heard from him twice in april and then we heard nu more until august and that that wad wai was after he lie reached utah we read once in the paper that he be had a woman with him he got her in washington tob tOP city district of columbia her name is yda ada aja caroll ile he never was married to her while luie iuie lule lie he was wad was i in n the states As aei to living in chicago I 1 do not nor we were living in oqual i kachen he went away and instead of leaving us plenty he lert left but little ile he sent me a draft a few days aio ako ago from california ile he was in sacramento ity city but saed sahid that lie he was going to utah to hold courts in september I 1 adver never have nor never will get a divorce from frol him I 1 never thought of such a thing in my life lire awe we patted aa hobb and and wife he said sald s a would return this fall if he could 1 1 1 |