THE MORMONS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1986, 17 December 1874, Page 4

THE MORMONS.

"It will be remembered," writes the eo^^NewjYork World,!^v" that in '1857, during the excitement caused among the Mormons by the movements of Albert; Sydney Johnston's army on the Plains, a company!' of emigrants^ numbering, more than 120 persons, were basely murdered called Mountain Meadows. The Mormons have been charged with this heinous crintey' although- they have let it i be understood that the murderers .we're' r 'The i •muro'erers ' undoubtedly appeared .. ,to, , be, and perhaps ' ' there 1 ' Were ■ som'e ' Indians 1 among them, but .the majority, are Relieved on well- j ' 'founded !o grouti3s of'" suspicion •-•• s tq i have been Mormons disguised, as' In- 1 dians. One George A. Hicks, of! Fort Hamilton, U.T., who was cut off from the Church of Latter-day Saints; last .Aprjlj r iot- apostasy,, after 30 years of service with recently wrote' to the "Salt Lake Tribune/ giving his viewsjas^o the real. criminals in the Moun,taip ( Meadows massacre. .He says that ll he' H °was : ; fl excommunicated- from the Mornion churcb for having reported -in the I "Tr'iburie t '' that John D. Lee,!a s pro^ , jainent leader and preacher of Mormonism,. ' had ridden into Kan&rafv otr ttieifth. of t April pf .this -year by the side of -Brighauf Young s carriage: Youug became angered ; at ,. this,; and •henceHhe excommunication" of' Hick's!^" Hicks explains the Mormon prophet's wrath by asserting that this Lee was the leader of the Mountain Meadows murders?- anjd^at-Ypung, who has made ait alohg-a^pretehce-tjl denouncing the murders, . was r ,proyoked ,by the publicity gived 'to the'' fact f of his intimacy with ,the suspected or mown ringleader; „,in; "the macabre' of the emigrants. Hicks .^relates further ; how in 1850 the doctrine of ' blood atonement' was promulgated byl" ; ; ;i,he, leading, men : ofc ,^he Church— a ddc-"- --" trm'e whereby the Mormons' were' : taught to close their, eyes to the killing of even? their nearest kinsmen if the sacrifice we're 1 demanded by- th,e Churchy. The -monument 'wTiiicb/'niarks -the : sj3otiwhere the'bones of murdered emigrants Jie is composed f B>f r>drb>bwn^gf*niteXßtsn.(BS, which cover a space 27ft long, and 9ft wide. The Rio Virgin flows, near by, and there is a probability that the graves will soon, be ; washed away, by.the floods. jSo.farnot a man has ever suffered retribution for the ; ..barbarous,crime.";> „:,,./,