Salt Lake Weekly Tribune | 1875-09-18 | Page 4

‘THE: WEEKLY TRIBYNE SATURDAY MORNING! SEPT. 18, 1875 ‘THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE| GEORGE’ A. SMITH BEARS | SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1875. -; EMONY; ~ TES. . Our old friend, Capt. Codman, like: Mons. . Tonson; has “‘come again.’’ This time he appears in. the columns Tue New York ‘Herald says: “‘In the west, where politics are’ most lively, we-see. the Democrats sup- of the New York Evening Post, with a long letter addressed to him by the late ‘‘ bishop” George A. Smith, whom he reverently pronounces ‘a man of unimpeachable integrity.” porting inflation, which means repudiation, dishonor and general ruin; and no man ot them all with courage sufficient to enter a manly protest The severe comments of the press upon the Mountain Meadows Mas| sacre, have led this devout worshiper against the blunder of his party.” of the everlasting priesthood to produce the prophetic epistle. The butchery, (the old sult nonchalantly Tue Memphis Appeal declares that “the one great question which above “all others will agitate the people of tells his readers, was ‘‘ perpetrated Tennessee next year will be the dog by a combined force of Indians and jaw. ‘The funding bill, state credit, the senatorial contest and the election of doorkeepers will be mere side issues, not engaging the great minds of -eross-roads politicians.” outlaws in Utah, eighteen years ago, for his book—which the perverse publie will not. buy—with the remark jority of the inhabitants among whom “J desire an era of honesty, economy and justice in the administration both of our State and Federal governments, and peace and prosperity and progress not only in Kentucky, but in every part of the Union. I want to see'the records of secession, coercion and reconstruction filed away forever, and the people -of the whole country earnestly advocating peace and reconciliation, and all looking to the Constitution as the guaranty of our liberties and the safe~ guard of every citizen. ae GovERNOR Sirs, of Georgia was | serenaded since, in Augusta a few evenings and in response delivered a brief speech, in which he alluded in glowing terms to the prosperous con- dition of that State. The Governor said that if it had been predicted several years ago that the bonds of Geor- gia would sell for par in New York in 1875, no one would have believed it; yet these bonds are not only selling at par; but they are sought after more than the bonds of any Southern State, and as much, perhaps, as any Northern State. He expressed the hope that in less than twelve years there would not be a single bond of the State outstanding. He attributed this prosperity to the fact that the people of Georgia stayed at home, worked hard, and attended to their Own business. | THERE is a favorable movement on foot for the holding of a hard-money convention in Cincinnati next month, The return to specie payments will be the principal question for discussion, and the best methods for the consummation of that purpose will be thoughtfully considered. I sojourned, has been made the —to be the organ of the minority.” The letter was written in St. George,. and bears date, Dec. 4th, 1874. ° The cause of the First Counselor writing if was the perusal;of a presentation copy of Codman’s book about Utah and Mormonism, and his inquiry of» the hierarch in regard to railroad extension in this Territory. After giving the information de-' sired, the ecclesiastical courtier proceeds to tell the story of his life. Like many another of the earth's great ones, he was born of poor but respectable parents, and, strange to say, ‘‘ was reared rigidly in Presbyterianism.” ‘‘Our,people,’’ he says, ** have never been, in any. particular, as seclusive aS my Presbyterian ancestors were.” arly reeollections cause his bile to rise, and he lays aside the plunge pen into of the historian to furious sectarianism. The august form of God’s chosen Servant, Joseph Smith, rises before his vision, “a tigidly moral, virtuous and purejman.’’ When the Mis- souri mobocrats got sirable neighbors, rigid monogamists,” lations of plurality, after their unde“we were then and ‘“ the reveof wives caused Joseph be Smith with some character, sense of to embarrassed difficulties of * a° social * and nothing buta the awful responsibility of disobeying the Almighty caused him to teach or practice a'principle which firm metallic basis are so great, that The deceased romancer then pro- ceeds to give his version of the butch- ery at Mountain Meadows (in which the whole affair judicially investigated, and the guilty parties brought to justice. The Morrisite the consequence missed, The Jips repose our love has’ But where’s their memory’s Yon churchyard’s No, in ourselves their souls ' A part of ours! ‘Now sod, under the becoming: in Batera Some months ago when increased manifold the responsibilities and burdens of men,” Perhaps this may be cited as an instance of pious fibbing. a Then the indignant man of God bears his testimony against the human race. Forty-seven vexatious law But convention, it may do the incalculable good service. country | printing presses, goods pillaged, peo- unscrupulous politician was the most active agent, to gobble up and control the mining properties of all treasure-producing States and the Terri- tories. The California Senator was openly and audaciously playing inte Brigham’s hands, and it was obvious to the least reflecting that this new Credit Mobilier had perfidious designs for monetary engine of this grasping cabal—the Bank of California, to-wit—has laid bare some of their dark practices, and enabled the public to comprehend with some clearness what was then but darkly guessed at. The doctrine of Blood Atonement, as gingerly alluded to by the delicateminded author in his book upon Utah, this “man of unimpeachable integrity” pronouncesan entirely new thing to him. A well-informed of the Boston Globe comes forward with such suggestive revelations, that we cannot do better than give him a hearing in our col- umns. Telling about what he calls ‘the Ring’s official baby at Washington,’ he says: WARRING UPON THE DEAD. whole communion % out into the wilderness to perish, A ‘an anti-Catholic organization, brought GRANDMOTHER seems to derive a fresh settlement in Caldwell county, suit to compel the admission of great deal of solace from a letter and the same bitter experience of her husband’s remains to consecrated written by Governor Bennett, of “beating, stabbing, robbing, plunder- ground. The court decided that the Idaho, and published in an Hastern ing, house-burning, ravishing, and. Church possessed the right to regudriving late its ecclesiastical affiairs without ‘paper, deploring the Territorial sys- finally exterminating and - tem, which he is pleased to. call ‘‘an about five thousand people from the Jet or hindrance. She then ; carried _vanomaly in free: government.’’? This letter is republished by the Mountain State of Missouri in midwinter.” Meadows organs for thé purpose of making the Saints feel that their these furious perseeutions. present form of government outrage upon their is an rights; but let . every :Mormon stop for .a single ’ moment, recall ‘the’ oaths he has taken inthe Endowment House, swearing _ obedience to the priesthood on pain of certain penalties, remember how the legislative power that is already vested in the territory, is manipulated. In Hancock county, Hlinois, the grangrened zealot tells of a repetition of ‘In 1845' one hundred and seventy-five houses were burned in different parts of Hancock county by parties led by Christian ministers; and culminated in driving the entire people in winter, numbering many thousands, home- less and destitute, into the wilderness, the suit up to the Court of Revision, which overruled the decision of the court below. . Whereupon the Church Court of appealed Canada. to the This Supreme tribunal composed of three Protestant and two Catholie judges, affirmed the decision of the court which originally tried the case. approved, This decision was generally regardless of religious predilections, and there the. matter leaving the hard toil of six years, their should have. ended. But not so. magnificent temple, mills, factories, The case was carried to England and farms and “neighboring ‘villages, a submitted to the Queen’s Council, by a ring of priests, who force their dupes into’ unconditional compliance prey to their Christian tutors.” And which court reversed the action of ‘with their ‘wishes, or with the most this despiteful usage was. provoked | the: Supreme; Court of Canada, and bitter hostility.. Itseems that every Mormon, if*he. has one spark ‘of manhood left in him, will say: “€ No, do ‘not :‘give: Brigham Young, nor any ‘the ‘sovereign State; for this Church power of corrupt ring, a free hierarchy vested with the ‘majesty of constitu~ tional law, would demolish the ‘tew liberties now enjoyed under the terri- torial system.” “Let every man’ who feels interested in the welfare of our - ‘Territory, be careful how he cries for more’ power to be placed in the hands * of ‘such’ a ring” of ‘perfidious «priests. by no excesses on the part of the vic-. ordered that the uneasy bones be tims, for the inspired writer then pro-. buried in consecrated ground. An ceeds to vaunt with becoming modesty the shining virtues of his people. Besides being tolerent to a fault,., We fed the Indians; we fed the emigrantg who came here hungry by the thousands; dug them out of the snow in the mountains, and nursed them when sick; and although thieyes and ropbers among them plundered our ranges of the most valuable cattle and horses, we extended to them the protection of our laws. Some of them were taken, tried and ‘imprisoned, were reprieved by Governor Young,in the spring and’ aided on their journey, ‘The rights of no apostate or stranger were compromised while ho was Governor, We had successfully contended. with two grasshopper wars, far more destructive than the present ohne in Kansas, attempt to comply with this last order resulted’ in the driving away of the funeral procession by. a crowd of severalt hundred: persons who had collected at the cemetery for that’ yurpose.: The ‘bishop seems as fanatical as his followers, and carries ecclesiastical resentment beyond the graye, by declaring that ‘‘had Guiford’s body been buried in the ceme- tery in defiance of the laws, of the Church, the place where he lay should be immediately interdicted, room on his return from St. in the spring of 74. in the di- (knowing the former power of the collapsed ring,) has fled the track, and of all of Utah’s insidious enemies-—the corrupt. Emerson alone remains. -This dangerous man it will be our next business to dispose of. Then with an amended jury law and a free ballot granted the honest citi- . zens of Utah by Congress at its next just before the adjournment of the last ses. sion of Congress. It was im the shape of a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to employ counsel to ascertain what title the New Idria Mining Company had to the mine, and whether it belonged to private individuals or to the United States. To mention the New Idria Mining Company in Congress has always been equal to displaying a red flag before an infuriated Spanish bull. Ixemember the scene presented upon the introduction of Buitler’s resolution. In a second the whole House was in an uproar, It was as if a dozen pickpockets had entered and made 3 dash for the members’ pocket- books. Half a dozen lawyers in the employ anarchy and regard the era of misrule in Utah as DONT WANT HIM. Judge George Emerson has returned to There he de- Sali Lake, and some of his friends slared that if his followers would express the hope that Governor wallow Enoch he would bankrupt ‘Emery will. assign his Honor to this every Gentile and Apostate merchant, and drive every ‘‘ cussed scoundrel” district for one day, in order that we out of the Territory without a crust to may have a Grand Jury for the next term‘of court. We trust the Gov- support him on his Jong journey over the plains. The strong support of the ernor will make no such assignment. The cause of justice and the interest Poland Bill in the Senate rendered its defeat impossible, se Senator Sar- enough at the gent performed service in his the most. malicious power, by offering pelled to adopt in order to avoid discursion and consequent loss of the bill, until when it finally. passed it Here allow me to digress for a moment for alittle explanation. ‘For fifteen years there has been before Congress and the seducer of their wives or daughters. courts a famous cage, commonly knewn as After these mild specimens of the the ‘‘McGarrahan Olaim.” The property involved is the New Idria quicksilver mines deceased bishop’s ‘ unimpeachable in California. The ranche upon which it is integrity,” we'cannot wonder at the located was originally purchased by a poor named William McGarrahan, editor of the Post’s remark, ‘“‘We do Irishman from a Spaniard named Gomez. ‘The not suppose that the vehement dia- story is a long one, and is extantin a library of legal. briefs, arguments, speeches in tribes of Mr. Smith against different Congress; and an unwritten history of religious organizations will be accepted intrigue, lobbying official © corruption before which Credit Mobilier, Pacific as proof positive of the truth of his Mail, Washington ring; and _ everyof that sort must ‘pale accusations.” But why is such a ly- thing their ineffectual fires.” Briefly, McGarraing letter published ? han’s claim fell into the hands of ‘‘ gsquatters,” who discovered its hidden wealth, and it was soon gobbled by the Bank of California. From that day to this McGar‘rahan has been asserting his claim to his in the courts and before Congress, The riotous proceedings in Mont- property but the bank has been too much for him. real over the burial of the body of It has taken more than $11,000,000 worth quicksilver from the mine, and the yield Guiford in the Catholic cemetery of igof still enormous. This has been the ring’s that ancient city have been receiving. special baby at Washington. It has cost hundreds of thousands, I may say millions, prominence in our telegraph reports of dollars, but still, after paying everybody of late: Wevhave paid some atten- in its employ, the ring has realized handsomely. Therehave been but two men of tion to the development of this case, any prominence in Congress who have dared to fight the ring upon this question. One ‘not on account of any merit it conBenjamin I, Butler, of Massachusetts, tains, bit because of the. exhibition was and the other was James B. Beck, of Kenof narrow bigotry which — attaches tucky. ment to his bones in soil that had been dedicated to such use. His widow, of Saints driven | incited by the ‘‘Canadian Institute,” ment of the Prophet’s dominion by all his adversaries. That this latter result was in contemplation by the arch Anarch was shown by his speech in the Twentieth Ward assembly ruin-working president, revealed the mysterious. disappearance of three million dollars. of its. assets. What had become of this’ immense sum? carried it with him. tremists and some extreme men, but I never heard any one advocate the extreme doctrine you impute to us. The beautiful woman you describe as being killed by her husband I never heard of ; she must have been a myth. We believe in the death penalty. ‘Our territorial laws were enacted in accordance with our faith. Give the murderer his choice to be hung or to have his blood spilled on the ground. Utah jurors have refused to hang men who had killed the ple whipped, tarred and feathered; a rection sought, amendment after amendment, which our friends in the Senate were com- correspondent We have had some ex- inter- as the probability of legislation faded An examination into the affairs of the exploded bank, after the suicide of its The deceased banker could not have Lhave been in this church forty-two years and have been acquainted forty-four years refusing McKean, who ended. ‘The work then before us will be to Americanize this oppressed and benighted Kingdom, | mon persecution; I am satisfied your Church cessor to the martyred feared to proceed further sort. to physical force or the abandon- reference to Burton is untrue.” his loving chief justice, appointed ag suc- ant in Washington, and in proportion out, the safety of the liberal party in Utah became the more seriously imperiled. Defeat of this bill would have so encouraged the priesthood in their lawlessness, that all opposition to their tyranny and usurpation would have been futile; and as'the officers of The traitor Governor is set aside, a money Session, we may majesty of the law mnst be main: fained.” “It is therefore an injustice,” exclaims “Bishop” George A. Smith, ‘‘to construe this as a Mor- soil, struction. that-was digged for it. the law in this Territory could not aid the inconvenience of the change will suits against Joseph Smith, his tarbe. patiently submitted to by all ring and feathering in the spring of It hardly seems within the purport vital importance to the character of classes. The convention should be ‘'32, the murder of himself and the ground in which the decaying of this article to produce Butler becomposed of the ablest financiers. of brother Hyrum in'{Carthage jail in body of a poor fellow mortal finds fore the reader in a new role, but the the country; practical men, not theo- 1844, and the offenders not ‘brought sepulchre. The facts in the case are writer's sketch of the scene in Conrists, in order that their plans may tb tie The persecution of the: ‘substantially these: Guiford died in gress in which he figures, is so graphic - Immediately commend themselves to Saints in every place where they setand well told that we cannot refrain 1872,under the ban of the Chureb,and the intelligence and common sense of tled; in Jackson county, the tearing his body was buried in unconsecrated from following him yet further. the people. If the question of re- dows of their houses, destruction of Butler’s final assault upon it was made ‘Sumption shall be fairly met by the The Gentile interest in Utah has thus escaped the pit of de- the oppressed Gentile race, the con test would have been reduced to a re- he insisted that “the with its founders. in Utah,crime could not be restrained are exposed to public ig- ‘nominy..- searching blood. .. Brigham;Young and his sub- an issue. tion had effectually closed the courts employed, e about for an adaquate reason for Senator Sargent’s malign influence over Wtah affairs, we spoke of a Pacific Coast combination, of which this Justice Kenney’s obstinacy and craving are it would: only be THE DANGER WE HAVE ESCAPED massacre was of Chief the remains kissed. mansion ? bowers ? exist, _ property interests of thenon-Mormon element of Utah. Territorial legisla- nor criminals punished. Through the machinations of Senator Sargent, Is’t ‘Mormon influence was in the agcend- these angry zealots to let the crumbling dust repose in peace. to beg of him not to force things to seems,) The people with difficulties, and possible distress, but the advantages to be gained by placing the money of the country ona significan,, the United States mail was stopped. The people struggling with the desert said in their hearts, ‘‘This means -bloodshed.”’ and should be looked upon. hereafter as a spot to be held .in execration.” Campbell smoothes away this ill-seeming rancor by singing, That’s hallow’d ground where mourned and groundworkj.of personal abuse by a sequent first counselor were exerjournal in Salt Lake City, which cised over the threatened shedding of upon the mining interest of this Terasstmes— blood, and both called upon the Judge ritory. The collapse of the corrupt (Beems, Madam! nay it is, I know not are ready for resumption, but how to bring it about with the least-incon- venience is a problem not yet fully solved. In any way.it will beattended istration to cut out the loathsome ulcer, meaning Utah; and what was even more one of the whites having been ar- he took so criminal a part), and he rested and brought to trial.” Hej shows that it has been the one desire then deftly gets ina gratuitous puff’ of his master Brigham’s life to have | that ‘‘every passage (in the book of Kentucky, aforesaid) favorable to the great ma- @Gov. McOnzary, earries a lavel head. fin his inaugural address he said: gil on cricket war; till on the 24th day of a y, 185%, the news aryamed, while we were gaged in celebratins that memorable ay at big Cottonwood Lake, that Brigham. Young had been removed from being .Governor; that 2,500 infantry, two regiments offcavalry and two batteries of artillery were ordered to Utah; and that their outfit was the most complete ever. furnished to au Amcrican army ;. the command to be given to General Harney, who was known in Utah by the name of ** Squaw Kilier,”’ and whose very name carried with it among our people a feeling ef horror; and what was more significant, all the administration papers and many others were filled with threats of extermination, blood and slaughter, Even our old friend Senator Douglas, in a speech, requested the admin- *. . was so pared down and emasculated that it afforded the oppressed citizens of Utah scarcely any relief, = TLis was a part of the corrupt work assigned to the purchased Senator. One of the schemes of the ambitious, restless and audacious men who controlled the Bank of California, and corrupted every Coast Senator and Representative, was to gain possession of all the valuable mineral lands California, Nevada, Utah, and, indeed, wherever such were to be found. This project they sought to carry out through the services of Sargent, supplemented by those of of litigants Judge. have already suffered hands of this unjust Summoning a Grand Jury is merely a farce under our present jury law with the construction put upon it by the Supreme Court of the Territory. A Grand Jury: composed of fifteen persons, and the votes of twelve necessary fo find an indict- ment, what chance is there of bringing any saintly offenders to justice? The game is not worth the candle. As there is no Judge the public interest in this district will not suffer by letting the Grand Jury for the next term of court go; such a body, as constituted under the provisions of the Poland Bill, will only prove a vanity and vexation of spirit. Any way, lei not his Excellency . inflict upon this suffering community the malign presence of judge the First District upon the bench of the Third the Nevada Senators. They always managed to get control of the two District. Court. Nothing good can proceed from so unclean a. source. To adapt the saying of the Lord Protector Cromwell to present circum- committees in both Houses neoessary to their success—Mines and Mining Judge Emerson !" and Public Lands. The thing was worked so adroitly that only those from the Pacific Ooast interested in the:subject understood it. Even the the President fell into their toils. the recommendation of that On truly good man, Columbus Delano, (who was instigated by Sargent, of course,) Axtell was appointed Governor of Utah, but this miserable caitiff played his game so indiscreetly, that he had to be got rid off. Judge McKean stood in the way of the plans of the cabal, and powerful machinery had to be employed to get this incorruptible way. jurist out of the Says the Globe correspondent: stances: ‘* The Lord deliver us from TILTING AT WINDMILLS, Mr. Ralston may have been the mogt gene erous and public spirited man in the coun- ublic welfare is the true criterion of free journalism, by which all public men and measures should be tested, and the journalist who fearlessly applies this test to all living and dead, cannot be termed corrupt or cowardly, though he may be rough or impolitic in his method of dealing with those who can no longer defend themselves or explain their actions.—Salt"Lake Herald. Satan rebuking sin. These glitter- ing generalities come 30 unctuously I have already shown how the bank showed its hand in the Cabinet and in Congress. There is no question but its powerful influence placed Mr. Justice Field, of California, on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. Field, although from the Jerseyman, but their: application grievously offends his delicate Touching this, he may be as innecent as a baby, but somehow or other he has always public morals,’’ should be not only tested but heartily condemned. Suppose our cotem. were to apply his rule to home affairs, and have his say clothed with the judicial ermine, is commonly charged with belonging to the ring, championed all the measures of the bank, not only off the bench, but, in two or three susceptibilities. ‘* Traits” displayed or actions performed by any man ‘‘ te the detriment of public interests and instances, on if. Those who have attempted to fight the bank in the United States Courts openly charge that Field was in its about “ traits ’’ detrimental to public law 1n its favor. interests and public morals in this employ, and never failed to construe the The services of this man were en- listed, and Senator Howe, through some family relationship, was also rung in. Before the final assault was made, the President was plied with newspaper articles clipped from this community ; does he not believe hig labors would be more useful to his fellow-men, and his paper be sought after with more avidity? The people of Salt Lake have already rade up of the bank and the company were on their their minds upon this subject; they feet in an instant, each with questions require no canons of morality to guide of order or an objection which they deemed journal and attributed to the pen of parliamentary. Had Ralstun been secreted This fighting men of somewhere in the hidden recesses of. Judge McKean, his decisions on the their judgment. the hall, and moved a secret spring Straw is a profitless business; if he communicating directly with hig bench ‘were represented as fanatical wishes to. make his blows tell let him agents, they could not have gained their and extra-judicial, and finally his confeet with more alacrity. Butler seemed a aim ata. veritable mark, Ta Trrtroversy with an ill-mannered and little surprised, but he steod in his place, BUNE is @ good exemplar for him to and received the onset of the warriors with captious attorney—a relative of Jushis accustomed pluck and audacity. That copy after. . | tice Field—-was presented to the distinguished Christian statesman of Ohio, General Garfield, marshalled the opposiPresident in such distorted colors by tion, while, far in the rear of the seats, Pe Winning Ways. viewing the contest with unconcealed inter- the Supreme Court J udge and the Wis- | A good story is told on Judge George Mil" est stood Jerry Black, the Mephistopheles consin Senator,that in a weak moment of the scene. Over on the Democratic side ler, of Jefferson City, which we believe has towered the burly form of Beck, ready to he gave way to the instances of his never appeared. in ‘print.. The. Judge isa come to theassistance of Butler, but the memJudge McKean was basely »very successful politician, and atone time ber from Essex understood his men, and a betrayers. quiet remark about some ‘‘gentlemen on sacrificed. At the bottom of all this knew eyery voter in his district:. Time, the floor acting as if they were the attorneys —as a master’ magician workjnge’ by however, has faded the Judge’s memorya of the company,” settled Garfield, Houghton, of California, Loughridge, of Lowa, and his potent. philters—was the hand of little, although he will not admit it. He hands with, and pretends to know others who were eéxtraconspicuous. Butler the California Senator. ! shakes succeeded in passing the resolution, but everybody. ° Secretary Delano took good care to prevent Asif by the interposition of ProviHe was holding court in Miller county a it from disturbing the flow of millions into short time.ago, and was approached bya dence, this powerful and malifie con- long; the pockets of Ralston and his iriends of the lubberly specimen of the Ogage hills, Pacific coast ring. 'spiracy has been overthrown. Sar- who held out his paw and said: d’ye do, Judge; youdon’i know Our readers have a painful and dis- gent, the Diabolus of the piece, has ‘me,‘* How do you ?” q 7 e r - try, but. if these traits were displayed by him at the expense of the community, or to the detriment of public interests or public morals, itis within the province and duty of a free press to expose and denounce such acts, if need be to protect the community from their repetition, even though their perpetrator may have passed away. The . tinct recollection of a scene that occurred in the Senate the session previous.’ The last day of the session had arrived, and Judge Poland’s bill, has been rejected by his people, and: he is only allowed to seryé out his . © Oh, yes,” said your father ?” Qsager,.. ‘Oh, term in the Senate, upon the solemn years.” the Judge.) he’s been ) ‘*How dead is: : eleven ‘fin relation to Courts and Judicial Judge. ‘Sure enough; but how is your promise, a hundred times: reiterated ; “ | mother?” and sworn to, that he will never ask } Osager. ‘‘Why she’s been dead eighteen Officers, in the Territory of Utah,” was brought up for its final passage. office at the hands of his fellow citi-} zens again. The Bank of California Upon the success of that piece of legislation depended the hopes and has come to grief, its president a suicide, and all the corrupt creatures it years |’ eas 9 : ‘Well, how the 5 wae devilare you? You ain’t dead, I know !’’ . - This brought down thecrowd, which soon adjourned to the nearest grocery, to drink to the live man’s health.—Sedalia. Review,