The Mormon Prophet and His Harem

to Justice.-Doings of Judge Cradlebaugh.-Governor Cumming and the Military Officers.-Judge Sinc

ts of cruelty and wholesale butchery to be found in the annals of this or any other country. In doing so, free use

ge Cradlebaugh, delivered in the House of Re

s of public notoriety, both as to the offence and the persons who had perpetrated the same; (for none of these things had "been done in a corner"). Their perpetrators had scorned alike concealment or apology, before the arrival of the American forces. The jury thus instructed, though kept in session two weeks, utterly refused to do anything, and were finally discharged, as an evidently useless appendage of a court of justice. But the court was determined to try a last resource, to bring to light and to punishment those guilty of the atrocious crimes which

the Parrishes and Potter, of Jones and his mother, of the Aiken party, of which there were six in all; and, worst and darkest in the appalling catalogue of blood, the cowardly, cold-blooded butchery and robbery at th

rrence,-my district extending from a short distance below Salt Lake City to the south end of the Territory. I determined to visit that part of my district, and, if possible, expose the persons engaged in the massacre, which I did in the early part of the year 1859. I accordi

ir camp with a piece of paper, which, he said, Brigham Young had sent, that directed them to go and help to whip the emigrants. A portion of the band went, but did not assist in the fight. He gave as a reason, that the emigrants had long guns, and were good shots. He said that his brother [this chief's name was Jackson] was shot while running across the Meadow, at a distance of two hundred yards from the corral where the emigrants were. He said the Mormons were all painted. He

the divide between the waters that flow into the Great Basin and those emptying into the Colorado River. A very large spring rises in the south end of the narrow part. It was on the north side of this spring the emigrants were camped. The bank rises from the spring eight or ten feet,

t daylight firing upon the men who were about the camp-fires,-in which attack ten or twelve of the emigrants wer

barricade of stones along the crest of the hill as a protection. The siege was continued for five days, the besiegers appearing in the garb of Indians. The Mormons, seeing that they could not capture the train without making some sacrifice of life on their part, and getting weary of the fight, reso

and mothers only can judge what they must have been. Far off, in the Rocky Mountains, without transportation,-for their cattle, ho

. A general shout is raised, and in an instant, a little girl, dressed in white, is placed at an opening between two of the wagons, as a response to the signal. Th

also proposed to intercede, and settle the matter with the Indians. After several hours of parley, they, having apparently visited the Indians, gave the ultimatum of the Indians; which was, that the emig

migrants were marched out, the women and children in front, and the men behind, the Mormon guard being in the rear. When they had marched in this way about a mile, at a given signal, the slaugh

of the small children were saved, the eldest being only seven years. Thus, on the 10th day of September, 1857, was consummated one of the most cruel, cowardly, an

rt there, should Gen. Johnson furnish me protection, and also protect witnesses, and furnish the Marshal a posse to aid in

, Ira Allen and son, Thomas Cartwright, E. Welean, William Halley, Jabes Nomlen, John Mangum, James Price, John W. Adair, -- Tyler, Joseph Smith, Samuel Pollock, John McFarlan, Nephi Johnson, -- Thorn

d me that he had received orders, for his command entire, to return to Camp Floyd; the General having received orders from Washin

t, and gave a full account of the matter,-intending when protection was at hand, to become witnesses. They claimed that they had been forced into the matter by the bishops. Their statements corroborated what the Indians had previously said to me. Mr. Rodgers, the Deputy Marshal, was also engaged

cans,'-for such is the designation of those not Mormons. They say they never were in the custody of the Indians. I recollect of one of them, 'John Calvin Sorrow,' after he found he was safe, and before he was brought away from Salt Lake City, although not

of this House, who may have the least doubt about the guilt of the Mormons in this massacre, a

es and mules. As near as can be ascertained, there were about 150 men and women, besides many children. They passed through

s (so read the revelation), attack them, disguised as Indians, and with the arrows of the Almighty make a clean sweep of them, and leave none to tell the tale; and if they needed any assistance, they were commanded to hire the India

ed, discussed, and adopted, and the men designated to carry out their hellish designs. Instructions were given for them to assemble at a small spring, but a short distance to the left of the road leading into the Meadows

this transaction, the testimony is here collated, and circumstances given, which go, not merely to

d in the affair, as shown by the statements o

ebaugh and Rodgers, but by a number of military officers, and by J. Forney, who was, in 1859, Superintendent of

the children saved

ound in possession of the Mormons, and that possess

as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Also his failure to make any allusion

er then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre, until severa

ty in the Mormon Church and State, when this affair w

nt in the spring of 1859 to Santa Clara, to protect travellers on

, Assistant Adjutant-General U. S.

he neighborhood as they could force or persuade to join), and massacred, with the exception

tary in the self-styled Church of Jesus Christ of Latter D

ting briefly the

id remember, and could tell of the matter; fr

. J. Forney, Superinten

ndian Affairs at Washington, dated Pro

re was distributed, a few days after the massacre, among

ioner, written from Great Salt Lake Cit

s engaged in this terrible affair have already been given to the proper legal authorities. . . . The children were sold out to different persons in Cedar City, Harmony, and Painter Creek.

al Report of Superintendent Fo

ate all white men from any participation in this tragedy, and saddle the guilt exclusively on the Indians; but, unfortunately, every step in my inquiries satisfied me that the Indians acted only a secondary part. . . . White men wer

by giving entire a letter from him

ndent's Of

ke City, Sept

he names of white men, if any, implicated in the Mountain Meadow massa

Judges, the names of those who I believed were not only implicated, but the hell-deserv

r City; John D. Lee,[69:A] Harmony; John M. Higby, Cedar City; Bishop Davis, David Tullis, Santa Clara; Ira Hatch, Santa Clara. These were the cause

ully, your obe

Fo

ian Affairs,

. B. Gr

an Affairs, Was

oncerned, the evidence is not so dir

dians, already referred to; in addition also to the facts concerning the revelation sent from him,-facts communicated by one intimately acquainted with the secret hi

train which had lately passed through the place where Young resided, and his feelings and views in relation to it would be well known to the leaders of the church. Can it for a moment be admitted, that members of a community so organized would und

ming so much responsibility? Reason and evidence all point one way; and add this to the many other acts which stam

the Mormons. It was soon after the killing of Parley P. Pratt, in Arkansas, by McLane, whose wife Pratt had abducted. It was at the time, too, when the United State

very wealthy one. The spoil of the gentile was before

, deposited in the tithing office, and there sold out.

ed, no doubt exists in my mind that they were influenced ch

he authority or connivance of the Mormon Church. This is given as the most notable one,-"ex uno disce omnes." Those wh

ed their functions, and proceeded to transact business. Federal courts were held, a

to bring several noted criminals to justice, but everything failed. In the grand jury-r

. He then proposed to plead guilty; but the Judge said, as it was alleged that a Judge of the United States had been insulted and intimidated, when in the discharge

ly, in this case, make th

calculated to intimidate Judge George P. Stiles, U. S. District Judge, while in the discharge o

Miller,

es of extreme necessity, involving the safety of a whole people or community. The Mormons, with their usual shrewdness, take advantage of

he Tabernacle, Jedediah M. Grant, then on

clearing away the fog which surrounded them, and in removing blindness from their eyes? No, for they could go to their room

tion, Grant, speaking of

suck and eat the filth of a gentile

shment of his schemes. How could he strike a more fatal blow at our free institutions, or at the rights and liberties of American citizens who may happen to l

and conclusive in the case of Ferguson,

bring criminals to justice unavail

had frequently been called to the necessity of so doing. Their object was to throw all the business into the probate courts; and in this they eventually succee

Rush Valley. Upon capias issued, Pike was arrested, and brought to Great Salt Lake City. The day following, August 11, 1858, about twelve o'clock, M., as Pike was entering the Salt Lake House, on Main Street, Spencer stepped up to him from behind, saying, 'Are you the man that struck me in Rush Valley?' at the same time,

Arnold were stopping at the house of a friend in Salt Lake City, when Hickman, with some seven or eight of his band, rode up to the house, and called for Drown to come out. Drown, suspecting foul play, refused to do so, and locked th

three human victims is shed upon the very threshold of the court; and although the grand jury

f court in Provo City, commencing April 8th, 1859. An account of his efforts to bring to

d and energetic man is from the

stigated the Mountain Meadow massacre, and the murder of Jones, Potter, Forbes, Parrish, and a dozen others, he determined to bring them to punishment. . . . . He spoke and acted with the fearlessness and res

ery quarter, and created a consternation in the camps of the saints, greater even than was occasioned by the arrival of the troops within the walls of Zion. At last accounts, terrified elders and bishops were decamping t

, but, under the pretence of impartiality, sought

augh on the other; and on one occasion the Governor went so far as to publish

of one of the most distinguished physicians of Boston, a

s Mayor of Augusta, Ga., and is said to have rendered

war he was at Point Isabel, and afterwards on the Southern line, attached to General Scott's staff

was very vain, and fond of attention, and was unable to withstand the seductive influenc

n the Territory of Nevada; whence he has been twice sent as delegate to Congress, and we look to

ointed Associate Justices, to succeed Sinclair and Cradlebaugh. Judge Cradlebaugh did not resign, and not recognizing t

appointed by President Lincoln Governor of Utah, to succee

anguage, was "imposed on." The Senate relieved him from

enate, and speedily ejected Dawson from the governors

ulties from which he was unable to extricate himself. He had not the nerve and ability to sustain himself in his position. The Mormons saw this, and at once resolved upon, planned, and accomplished a brilliant coup d'état, similar to that practised upon Ste

hreats were made so freely, that the Governor became very much alarmed, and precipitately fled the Territo

ch most to condemn, the lawless spirit which prompted such tre

by telegraph, and recommended the appointment of their successors. Accordingly on the 3d of February, 1862, Thomas J. Drave, of Michigan, and Charles B. Waite,

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is an adopted son

ed a beam, some twelve or fifteen feet in height. Upon one of the stones he caused to be engraved, 'Here lie the bones of one hundred and twenty men, women, and children, from Arkansas, murdered on the 10th day of September,