Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . A CASoN in SOUTHEEN UTAH. broke the roads to this country, redeemed the wilderness, madethe desert blossom as the rose, etc., etc., etc, ad nauseam. Ofcourse the Mormons carried the election, and Congress, whichnad just expelled Bowen (of South Carolina) for having twowives, graciously received Cannon with four! Nearly two years passed without any exciting event. The 456 POLYGAMY; OR, THE MYSTERIES Gentiles abandoned the attempt to enforce the laws
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . A CASoN in SOUTHEEN UTAH. broke the roads to this country, redeemed the wilderness, madethe desert blossom as the rose, etc., etc., etc, ad nauseam. Ofcourse the Mormons carried the election, and Congress, whichnad just expelled Bowen (of South Carolina) for having twowives, graciously received Cannon with four! Nearly two years passed without any exciting event. The 456 POLYGAMY; OR, THE MYSTERIES Gentiles abandoned the attempt to enforce the laws, and devotedthemselves to business, especially mining. The courts fell intoperfect chaos; the old system of empanelling juries was admit-ted to be illegal, and none other had been provided. Finally,in 1874, Congress passed the bill introduced by Mr. Poland, ofVermont, which provided that the Clerk of the District Court(Gentile) and the County Judge (Mormon) should each selectone hundred names, and from the two hundred grand and petit. NAVAJO GIEL. jurors should be drawn. So that autumn the judicial mill onoemore began to grind. The event was signalized in the SecondDistrict by the indictment of Lee and others for participationin the Mountain Meadows massacre. The prosecution estab-lished that that infamous butchery is rightly understood by theworld, the defence failed to shake the case, yet the jury, two-thirds Mormon, disagreed, and justice was finally done, asrelated, only upon John Doyle Lee. AND CRIMES OF MORMONISM. 457 District Attorney William Gary had been succeeded mean-while by Sumner Howard, of Michigan. The indictment ofBishop W. H. Dame was nollied. Higby, Stewart and Haightfled the Territory, and have ever since remained in could have been found and arrested by some trouble andexpense, but it is certain they could not have been convictedunless by the concurrence of the Church. At all events, no onehas thought it worth while to follow them up. Meanwhile
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