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Republican platform compared the doctrine of "plural marriage" to "slavery," and they adopted a decided stand against the Mormons. It was resolved that the constitution gave Congress power over the temtories of the United States and that it was the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit both polygamy and slavery. The Chief Justice of the Utah Temtory prior to 1854 was Lazarus H. Reed, of New York. He and his associates were well received and became highly respected by the Mormon people. Leonidas Shaver was the associate justice. With the resignation of Chief Justice Reed in 1854,John F.&ey was appointed & his stead and proved an honest and impartial judge, honored and esteemed by Mormon and nonMormon alike. But in 1855 there came to Utah as associate justices two men who were to arouse the resentment of the Saints and eventually cost the United States govemment forty miliion dollars. One was Judge William W. Dmmrnond who replaced Judge Zembbabel Snow, whose term of office had expired. The other was George P. Stiles, A Mormon apostate who replaced Judge Shaver who had died. Drummond was an immoral and unpnncipled man. He left his wife and children without support in his own state of Illinois and appeared in Utah accompanied by a woman whom he introduced as his wife, and who often sat upon the bench with him. His dmnken and dissolute habits caused the Saints to despise him and their feelings were ill-conceded. Later, when his immorahty and neglect of his own family were revealed, he left the temtory in disgrace. The churning n debate over federal control of Utah came to a head i 1855 with Drummond's ill-timed appointment to the Temtonal Bench. No figure in the developrnent of the Utah War proved to be more troublesome to the Saints than did this unknown Midwestem attorney, and no man expended more effort working for Bngham Young's downfd. Even &er his resignation fiom office he continued to spread a rnultitude of false accusations against the S a i n t ~ . ~ Ifit could be made to appear that the Mormons were in rebellion against the United States, the danger of Utah as a new "free state" would be inevitably postponed, whether the facts supported that view or not. Outsiders, therefore, eagerly seized upon the charges of
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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