History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

RULE OF GOVERNOR DOTY. 621
diately beyond the northern limit of Utah," offering
to furnish conveyance for all who wished to form a
settlement at that point. More than two hundred
of the Morrisites availed themselves of this offer,
removing with their effects under the escort of a
company of volunteers.
This feud between the saints and the federal officials
was brought to an end in June 1863, Harding being
superseded as governor" by James Duane Doty, with
Amos Reed as secretary, and John Titus of Pennsylvania
being appointed chief justice in place of
Kinney, who at the next general election was chosen
delegate to congress. 45
Thus the president endeavored
to restore peace by making concessions on both sides.
In the spring of 1864 Judge Waite resigned in dis-
gust, after holding a term of court, at which there
was not a single case on the docket. 46
His successor
was a Missourian, named Solomon McCurdy. Judge
Drake still remained at his post, 47
though merely
going through the form of holding court, all attempts
to administer justice proving futile among a community
that had never willingly submitted, and had not
yet been compelled to submit, to gentile domination.
The administration of Governor Doty lasted only
for two years, and during this period little worthy of
note is recorded in the annals of Utah, this being
perhaps the best evidence that some degree of har-
43 At a point about 175 miles north of S. L. City and now in Idaho Ter.
It was named Camp Connor.
"He left S. L. City on June 11th, being appointed consul at Valparaiso.
Deseret News, June 17, 1863. Harding was a native of Milan, Ind. , and when
appointed governor of Utah was about 50 years of age. He was an able law-
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yer, and a man of energy and personal courage; but during his administration
he labored rather to win the approval of the American people than to deal out
strict justice. Waite's The Mormon Prophet, 107.
43
Tullidge's Hist. S. L. City, 325; Stenhouse's Rocky Mountain Saints, 609,
where it is stated that Kinney's removal was caused by his subservience to
the will of Brigham. In the Deseret News, Apr. 27, 1864, are reports of his
first speeches in congress.
46 He afterward followed his profession in Idaho City. Waite's The Mormon
Prophet, 105, 111.
47 Before his appointment to Utah, Drake had lived for many years at Pontiac,
Mich. At this date he was a man of thin, wiry frame, aged about sixty,
of nervous temperament, vigorous mind, and blameless life.