Identifier: explorationsurve002stan (find matches)
Title: Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains.
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Stansbury, Howard Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 Birard, Charles Frédéric, 1822-1895 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880 Torrey, John, 1796-1873 Hall, James, 1811-1898 United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: Washington : Robert Armstrong, Public Printer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tive, and judicial functionaries, was in regular andharmonious action, under the constitution recently adopted. Thejurisdiction of the State of Deseret had been extended overand was vigorously enforced upon all who came within its borders,and justice was equitably administered alike to saint and ^en-tile—as they term all who are not of their persuasion. Of thetruth of this, as far at least as the gentiles were concerned, I soonhad convincing proof, by finding, one fine morning, some twentyof our mules safely secured in the public pound, for trespass uponthe cornfield of some pious saint; possession was recovered onlyby paying the fine imposed by the magistrate and amply remu-nerating the owner for the damage done to his crops. Theircourts were constantly appealed to by companies of passing emi-grants, who, having fallen out by the way, could not agree uponthe division of their property. The decisions were remarkablefor fairness and impartiality, and if not submitted to, were sternly
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UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE. 131 enforced by the whole power of the community. Appeals for pro-tection from oppression, by those passing through their midst, werenot made in vain; and I know of at least one instance in which themarshal of the State was despatched, with an adequate force, nearlytwo hundred miles into the western desert, in pursuit of some mis-creants who had stolen off with nearly the whole outfit of a party ofemigrants. He pursued and brought them back to the city, and theplundered property was restored to its rightful owner. While, however, there are all the exterior evidences of a govern-ment strictly temporal, it cannot be concealed that it is so intimatelyblended with the spiritual administration of the chwfch, that it wouldbe impossible to separate the one from the other. The first civilgovernor under the constitution of the new State, elected by thepeople, was the president of the church, Brigham Young; the lieu-tenant-governor was his first ecclesiastical counsel

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