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Show 49 situation. The Buchanan administration soon received the necessary provocations to suit its purposes in the allegations of Justice W. W. Drummond. In 1854 President Franklin Pierce appointed Judge Drummond, of Illinois, to be an Associate Justice for Utah Territory. It was not long, however, before the Mormon population was insulted by Drummond*s immoral character. The judge, who openly confessed "money is my God," brought a prostitute with him to Utah whom he introduced as his wife, and she frequently sat on the bench with him as he administered the law. The Mormons were infuriated. The federal justices also had jurisdictional disputes with the Mormon-controlled probate courts. After witnessing the theocratic power structure in Utah and the fervent Reformation in the mid-l850s, Drummond abandoned his post in Utah and proceeded to California were he delivered scathing attacks against the Mormons. On March 30, 1857, the judge mailed his resignation to United States Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black. In this document he outlined numerous serious charges against the Saints. Briefly stated, he claimed that Brigham Young was the only law in the Territory, Federal law was not considered binding, and that a secret order existed among all the male members of the church to resist such laws. The church was also guilty of eliminating its enemies by murder. The papers and records of the Supreme Court had been destroyed by order of the church. Federal officers of the Territory are insulted, harrassed, and annoyed by the Mormons. And justice is administered differently to Mormons and Gentiles. The vehement denials of these charges by Mormon officials were ignored by the administration in Washington. In addition to the charges of Judge Drummond were similar allegations from a disgruntled mail contractor, W, M. F. Magraw, who had recently lost his contract to the Mormon-run Y.X. Company, Thomas S, Twiss, the Indian Agent on |