Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ns were induced to submit to theFederal authority, and accepted a freeoffer of pardon made to them by theUnited States Government as the con-dition of their submission. ORIGIN AND GROWTH 01- THE MORMONS. 49 Matters being thus settled, the Federaltroops encamped on the western shoreof Lake Utah, some forty miles fromSalt Lake City, where they remaineduntil withdrawn from the Territory ini860. On the close of our Civil War aFederal Governor was again appointed,and, in 1871, polygamy was declared tobe a criminal offence, and BrighamYoung was arrested. This action, however, on the part of The year 1877 was otherwise signal-ized in Mormon history by the trial,conviction, and execution of John D.Lee, for the Mountain Valley massacreof 1857. Of l^te years the question ofMormonism has occupied public atten-tion. In 1873 Mr. Frelinghuysen intro-duced a bill severely censuring polyg-amy, and declaring that the wives ofpolygamists could claim relief by actionfor divorce. In 1874 the committee of
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MASSACRE OF THE MORRISITES. tlie United States Government wasmerely spasmodic, and the Mormonscontinued to practice polygamy, and toincrease in wealth and numbers untilAugust 29, 1877, when Brigham Youngdied, leaving a fortune of $2,000,000 toseventeen wives and fifty-six childrun.He was succeeded in office by JohnTaylor, an Englishman, although theactual leadership fell to George Q. Can-non, first counsellor to the president,and one of the ablest men in the sect.4 the House of Representatives reporteda bill which reduced Utah to the posi-tion of a province, placing the controlof affairs in the hands of Federal officials,and practically abolishing polygamy. In the same year George Q. Cannonwas elected a delegate from Utah, andthough his election was contested it wasconfirmed by the House of Representa-tives. This decision, however, was ac-companied by the passing of a resolu-tion by a vote of 127 to 51, appointing .50 ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE MORMONS. a committee of investigation into

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