Latter-day Saints in Utah. Opinion of the Hon. Z. Snow, judge of the Supreme Court of the United States for the Territory of Utah, upon the official course of His Excellency Go. Brigham Young. Plea of George A. Smith, Esq., and charge of the Hon. Judge Snow, upon the Trial of Howard Egan before the United States District Court, on Indictment for the Murder of James Monroe. Verdict. A bill to establish a Territorial Government for Utah. The Names of the Territorial Officers, etc. etc.

[Snow, Zerubbabel]

Published by F.D. Richards, Liverpool, 1852

About this Item

24pp. Octavo [22 cm]; unsewn pamphlet. 'Dr. Richards' written in contemporary ink at the upper right corner on the cover. Minor smudging and bumping along the margins and edges, a couple of small pinholes at left margin, and some light staining and foxing throughout; still in very good condition. This is the first state of this work, with the word "are" printed as the first word in the last paragraph of page iv. We located eight institutional holdings at the time of cataloguing. Uncommon. According to Crawley "the pamphlet opens with an exchange of correspondence between Willard Richards and Zerubbabel Snow, an associate justice of Utah Territory, with Snow's opinion that Brigham Young proceeded properly in taking the census and organizing the territorial legislature prior to the arrival of the territorial appointees - all reprinted from the Deseret News of November 29, 1851. Next are the plea of George A. Smith in defense of Howard Egan at Egan's trial before Snow for the murder of James Monroe and Snow's charge to the jury. These are followed by the text of the act of organizing Utah Territory and the names of the territorial officers appointed by Millard Fillmore, September 28, 1850. The preface, signed by Franklin D. Richards and dated March 12, 1852, opens with the declaration: "The following compilation may be considered a complete refutation of the charges contained in the Report of the returned Judges for Utah, against His Excellency Governor Brigham Young, and the citizens of that Territory" - a reference to the tract 'Polygamy Revived in the West,' which Lowe had used in his lecture. And in the next-to-last paragraph: "The Organic Act is also introduced, that all who wish may know the foundation upon which the organization and government of the Territory of Utah rests.'" Crawley 679. Flake/Draper 7226.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Latter-day Saints in Utah. Opinion of the Hon. Z. Snow, judge of the Supreme Court of the United States for the Territory of Utah, upon the official course of His Excellency Go. Brigham Young. Plea of George A. Smith, Esq., and charge of the Hon. Judge Snow, upon the Trial of Howard Egan before the United States District Court, on Indictment for the Murder of James Monroe. Verdict. A bill to establish a Territorial Government for Utah. The Names of the Territorial Officers, etc. etc.
• Publisher: F.D. Richards, Liverpool
• Publication Date: 1852
• Binding: Pamphlet
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)