The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-18 00:00:00

" hot from hell" in the Temple, and tell them the

next time such a deed is committed there would
be no occasion for any noise to b e made about it !
Such a state of things as this is very startling.
It may, however, be reasonably accounted for.
The system of Mormonism is the vilest imposture
on record, and darkness is essential to its legal-
name development. The temptations to such de-
velopment are irresistible, but darkness is nowadays
impoisible. Strive to hush up the wails and her-
metically seal the prison of their victims as they
may, the feat is simply impossible. The Federal
power insists on placing its officers among them ;
the United States mail passes through their chief
city; strangers cannot he prevented from coming
and dwelling among them ; the truth leaks out by
driblets, and every eff)rt is required to keep back
the whole. The atrocious system is in perpetua 1
danger. Given, then, the rankest scoundrels on
GOD'S earth, the most shaky system conceivable,
and the ordinary risk of its being exploded, ag-
gravated by the prospec t of famine, and the rest
naturally follows. Though the limit to rascality
be undefinable, there is a limit to hypocrisy. It
is cast aside when it ceases to serve the turn.
If the mail is thus guarded, it is to prevent the
escape of their victims, and the revelations that
must ensue. If the Mormonites are forbidden to
sell wheat to the Gentiles, and are recommended
to evade the payment of their just debts to them,
be sure of it the perpetuation of the system which
enables their leaders to wallow in sensuality is the
chief object. Expel the Gentiles by force they
dare not, or can not ; provoke them to departure
by ruin and bodily fear, that is the next alterna-
tive, and that is attempted. BILIGIIIII Y MING,
speaking of the Gentiles to his deluded, but not
over-zealous, followers, says :—" I hate the very
sight of them, and if you were real good Mor-
mons—such Mormons as I would like to see you—
no t a single Gentile would remain in the place a
minute. It would be too hot for them here.
You would make it hotter for them than the
south-east corner of a Methodist hell." Not a
doubt of it. The metaphorical ruffian is entitled
to belief. Above all must the presence of a
united States officer be ea nsive to rascals like
these. He is a nucleus around which many
may gather for counsel an protection—an
authority whose reports will meet with credit
in a quarter from which interference is most to be
dreaded. But a United States officer is hard to
move. If unsusce ptible of insult, however, he
is not of assassination. Thus we find him assailed
with the most murderous intention, in the most
cowardly manner. A gang of the Mormon leaders
treacherously decoy him, come behind him, beat
him on the head with a loaded whip, kick him
when down, draw the knife on those who come to
the rescue of their blood-stained victim, and
gallop off, yelling like so many demons ! The
mask is about thrown off now.
On the following Sunday afternoon it is thrown
off altogether. The scene is the Temple or
Tabernacle—present BRIGHAM YOUNG and his
first and second counsellors. Up gets the latter
worthy, and rebukes the congregated people for
the sympathy they had manifested for the half-
murdered Surveyor—to such an extent had this
been done that their rulers were seriously angry.

He says :
"I am sick of this sympathising spirit which you''
as individuals, have with the Gentiles and apostate
Mormons. I abhor this eympathetic feeling you have
towards the wretches who would cut your throats, and
of whom I can say, as I have said, of Martin Van
Buren, that they should be winked at by blind men,
they should be kicked across lots by cripples they
should be nibbled to death by young ducks, and be
drawn through the keyhole to hell by humble bees.
Because a poor -. scoundrel will come into our
streets drunk and fall into a ditch, and some of our
shanpip' brethren happened to stumble over him,
you should sympathise with him ! lam ashamed of
you ' We ask no odds of the Gentiles ;we care not
what they say or do, nor fear what they can do.'"
He is interrupted by BRIGHAM, " who ex-
claims, " Yes ;we ask no odds of any." After
an hour's talk of this sort, interlarded with the
lowest obscenity, Councillor No. 2 sits down and
Councillor No. 1 gets up, and among other things
assures the people if such another occurrence takes
place they shall not hear of it at all. The sum
and substance of the proceedings is, the attempted
assassination of the Federal officar is authorita-
tively approved, and secret murder promised for
the future. The mask is now entirely thrown
off. The States' authority is defied, and murder
approved. We don't wonder at it. It does not
excite in us the least surprise. It is Mormonism
naturally developed. Of course such an anomaly
cannot long be perpetuated. The Mormon leaders
must either submit and modify the system
to prolong its existence for a while longer,
or the community will speedily be broken up,
and they glad enough to escape with their lives.
We leave them to the consideration of the newly-
elected President, who will probably know how
to deal with them. Our greatest concern is for
the dupes of this vile imposture in this country.
In every hole and corner throughout the king-
dom its licentious emissaries are to be found pur-
suing their iniquitous avocation, and, sad to tell,
their success is greater than that of the apostles of
mercy. Will the time never arrive when the
shepherds of the fold will cease to quarrel among
themselves, and unite in preventing the ravages
of the wolf ? Will the day never dawn when the
limits of human credulity shall be too confined to
embrace so patent and so execrable an imposture
as Mormonism ?

The King and Royal Family of Oude intend to appeal
to Parliament nest session. Messrs. Gregory, Skirrow.
and Co., of Bedford-row, have been appointed their
agents.