BRIGHAM YOUNG.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1486, 9 May 1873, Page 3

BRIGHAM YOUNG.

[MEIBOUJRtfE XEIEOBAPH.] Brigham Young's flight is marked by a difference from his previous disappearance from Nauvuo. He took with him then the entire of the church, which was then, poor in t£ia,, world's^ goods, and altogether a struggling coriraftinity. ; At Utah the brethren and sisters became a consolidated power, rich in farms and great in public works ; and Mr Young has fled solus. As yet we are not informed of an exodus of the sympathetic saints, who will wail a good deal perhaps,, but will stick to their property. The cause of the last flight of the prophet we have yet to ■ learn. One supposition is that the discoveries regarding the cruel murders by Young's body-guard of Dannites, committed fifteen years ago, are coming home to him, in which case he would have to fly not only America., but the entire civilised world. England would afford him no refuge, nor Australia. If he sheltered in Fiji, Cacobou would surrender, him up to justice and the gallows. This theory is not consistent, however, with the fact that the high priest has merely retreated to a faroff United States territory. It is more probable that the energetic Mr Justice M'Kean has instituted new proceedings for the suppression of polygamy, which the high priest saw it was futile to resist. The last American papers brought the news that Mr m'Kean had prepared the plan of another campaign, and that the President was inclined to endorse it! "The final issue with Utah," said General Grant in January last, "cannot be much longer avoided." A poetical justice would be that Mr Young could no longer stand his twenty-nine wives, that his troubles have turned his hair grey, and that he is ready to sing (after Cowper)— "Polygamy, where the thy charms That sages have seen in thy face." The unfortunates, whom one wife in a house has made mad, are firmly of opinion that Young has been enduring tortures for years shut up with twenty-nine.