Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

ai there will searCelybe time during

een months of his present term
Buchanan has declared that he

-election

.nd that he will avail himself of the first public
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contra

y pre

If of emphatically

i the Mormon

It had
been apprehended for the last week or two, that the
differences so long existing between the Executive
and Judiciary were. about to result in a collision
between the United States troops under General
Johnston, and the Mormon militia under General
Wells—five thousand of • the latter having been
called out by Governor Cumming to protect the
citizens from what he deems the usurpation of
authority on the part of the judges and the military.
I noticed the case in question at the time. It
became evident that a serious state of affairs had
arisen, and there was considerable anxiety about it
at Washington.
It is now very generally admitted, that there can
be no permanent peace in that Territory between
those they stigmatise as " Gentiles," and the
Mormon population. All the United States officials,
of course, are " Gentiles and they have a not
unnatural antipathy to them, and to the whole
American people. As I see it well observed, " the
line of demarcation is too strongly drawn between
them—the interests and the sympathies of both are
alike divided ; and we question whether any amount
of armed force the government can send there will
have any other effect than the total demolition of
Mormon rule in Utah, and the exodus of that
Prat tr u the Pacific. It is

_rimy to one of the Ist i__ -.
possible," adds the writer, " that the present diffi-
culty may end in this way ; and if such is to be the
result, the sooner-it comes about the better." And
so say I,—the sooner the better for the credit of the
Union, as well as the peace of the country.
The fact that the Mormons are rapidly increasing
in numbers, and in power, is only an additional
reason for their expulsion. . The transit of a new
importation of them is thus noticed in a late number
of a Chicago journal : —" At the Michigan Central
Depot grounds yesterday morning arrived a special
train from Detroit, bearing a small party of Latter-
day Saints and Saintesses, only seven hundred and
fifty strong, a fresh arrival in this country by the
Liverpool liner packet ship William Tapscott, at New
York. They were an assorted cargo of humanity,
made up from the several proselyting agencies of the
Elders of Joseph Smith, but chiefly representing the
British isles and the north of Europe. As they
embarked from the long train, and filed into the
depot and waiting rooms, the spectacle drew
numerous curious spectators, who rather pressed
upon the entrances to the crowded ladies' rooms,
some of the sinners perhaps more or less favourably
inclined to the Mortnon faith by this or that glimpse
at its sisterhood. One stout matron, in fact,
seemingly beanie scandalised at her share of the
inspection, and dashed the Gentile crew by'a proposi-
tion to ' pass round the hat, if the show is to be
kept up. We learn that among the number one
disciple has in his family five sisters, to each of
whom he is at once brother-in-law and husband.
Another has a mother and her daughter in the same
relation to his bearded and sanctimonious-looking
self." This is undoubtedly a most disgusting state
of things to be found in a Christian country. Here
are men and women living in -a condition of gross
and revolting incest ; and in this beastly' state are
taken under the protection of the United States
anvprnmpnt. It is a disgrace to human nature, to

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CRINOLINE AND INDEVOTION AT CHUnCIL-On Sunday
say nothing of any higher consideration. the Rev. W. L". Richards, incumbent of the new church of
The preparatory movement for the next Preside"- All Saints,
teaMrgarct-street, took occasion in the course of
tial Election is going on with increased vigour, but his sermon pronounce a severe censure upon the existing
so far with no definite course of action, either with maniat for dreie ss. The rev. gentleman had previously been
me t
o persuadechur
eh t o himselfg r
a tthatifs. none
mere
one party or the other. As is truly remarked, "on ionfsGisoidng olnvotuldnteicleastsihty of dieivout attention to the worship
those he saw before
him'
t the day acdcd)
both sides the politicians are completely befogged,
:co'
pidalret curiosity.of ChristianOlNn•loyrshiep was . goingat
and the chances of union and harmony on either side..
will depend as much upon the events at Washingtonbefore, whilehtehesamwosat
,solemoutt
of the year before us as upon the events of the past walking up and down, gazings this on, he
and aFetrshat,
five years of the Kansas agitation. Thus," it is and comporting himself altogether as if he had been at a
added, " with the summoning of the contesting museum or a picture gallery. And that morning he had seen
parties to the field in 1860, we may have a very others sitting and lolling through the service. Surely such
great change- in their relative positions and strength, conduct could not be right. On week days every facility
and thus, under the favourable auspices of the times was afforded fhe public for seeing, what every one admitted,
and Mr. Buchanan's vigilant and sagacious adminis- was a very beautiful edifice ; and there was,theroe..ore.! no
tration, the broken and dispirited democracy excuse for coming to look at it when they ought t
Leti there
for no other urpose than that of devotion.it be
may re-appear in the fight a - solid and
studythat church remembered
letarmy."
Lettemples—temples
of the 3rd chapter of Isaiah,
of nhe words of
followers are resolved upon a bold and positive anti-thoughtforour blessed Lord, who bade his dis-
ci les take no
injune-
slavery platform •, but the Americans and more P
tions of Holy Scripture raiment. Not that the
moderate of the Republicans are disposed to srfetai against the use of gold and pearls
and costly array were be taken quite literally, for
down the slavery issue so as to make an op_eonitliiic,
and 1 there could be no doubt that the costliness of a person'sy'
a general opposition coalition in 1860,
thN
North
unite, apparel might lawful bear some proportion to his station
South." And if these two sections can uor means. At the
art . present time, however, it must be
it is generally believed that the Democratic
sp
i y obvious that there was a licentious extravagance in dress
would be defeated. But that Mr. Seward the which amounted to a positive deformity. Everyone seemed.
man thus to unite upon, is more than questionable... to vie with her neighbour who should be guilty of the most
Col. Fremont would, upon the whole, it is thought, l excess. But let such reflect that a church was not a show-
be much more likely. place and that it had no room for vanity. Indeed it was
A very well-planned effort has just been made im? than
to hardly possible to conceive any more painful misp „ .
obtain a select-body of negro recruits for Monrovia, that which was caused by the spectacle of a,per,:olieins te;tionlg
—not for any military movement, but for prosecu- the presence of God and ever! apo)rroaa 1
t, V:rlno. the bodyy
tins the peaceful pursuits of commerce in that tvalble int thte gAarb of fo,lly.bieThoern
f tal:nne
ent must for the present
rising colony. Their present object is to combine leonss nisot in shaiwnefmacaciqlnseess and sobriety ; but a time would
resources .of the country. They intend, it is stated, becometh women professing godliness with good works her
to have a house in New York
for the purpose of developing the commercial
come when if she had adorned herself with that which
`.
York, and another at Lord, would change her vile body itltO the image of
. MonrOvia, With a regular Wu a packets —at His QW1:1,

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