The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-30 00:00:00

THE MORMONS.

(From the New York Journal of Commerce.)
Everybody will inquire for the causes of the exasperation
which exists against the Mormons, and none of the Western
papers furnish an answer to the inquiry. We can see one
feature in their mode of operation which is calculated
to produce general opposition—it is their mixing their
religion with politics. They combine upon their sec-
tarian affinities, and go to the polls as Mormons.
They constitute a majority in the county, and so we
see that Backenstoss, the sheriff, is a Mormcm. The
judges of the local courts are also Mormons, and the laws
are administered according to Mormon principles. As the
Mormons adopt the notion, not peculiar to them, that theirs
is the only true church—that they are the saints, and all
others the enemies of God—they come very readily to the
same conclusion which Rome made fro these premises,
that it is right to join with God in punishing His
enemies; and that so, to lie to heretics, to cheat them,
steal from and rob and even kill them, when the good of
the Church would be promoted by it, was only doing God
service. In Mormon courts it has been quite out of the
question to get anything like justice in cases between the
true Church and the Dissenters. A letter from a gentleman
in the neighbourhood, whom we know, states the fol-
lowing incident :—" A farmer had a very fine horse. It was
stolen, and taken into Nauvoo. The farmer hired a
neighbour's horse, and went to Nauvoo in pursuit;
Finding his horse, he appealed to the laws for redress.
But, instead of haying his property restored, the Mormon
court accused him of stealing the horse he rode, took it from
him, fined him ten dollars for contempt of court because he
dared to protest against this villany, and so sent him away."
The same letter says that when the Mormons have wished to
buy farms in their neighbourhood, they have stolen the pro-
perty of the owner, and even set fire to his buildings, and by
vexations for which there was no redress, compelled hint to
sell out on any terms which the Mormons chose to prescribe.
Such a community would of course draw to itself the thieves
and banditti of the country, and arouse the indigna-
tion of honest men. It is however not improbable that
the Mormons are often misrepresented, and that their con-
duct is less flagrant than rumour proclaims it to be.
In the West, among the pioneer settlements, there will
now and then be combinations formed among villains to put
down the laws. These combinations are too strong for indi-
viduals. At Vicksburg, for instance, any citizen, judge
or sheriff, who dared to enforce the laws against
them, only sounded the note of his own assassination. If
there is a Government of any sort which authorises revolu-
tion, it is such an one as this. We do not say that the Mor-
mon fraternity is such a combination; though we are afraid
it comes pretty near it.

ADMISSION OF FOREIGN CORN, DUTY-FREE.-It
will be seen on reference to cur intelligence from Ireland, that our
correspondent communicates the important fact, that a Treasury
order had been received at the Dublin Custom house, " for the
admission of foreign corn duty.free on and after the Ist proximo."
If this be the case, the Anti-Corn-law League nay be considered
As having little more to do than to quit the stage, close their
bazaars, and settle their accounts.—. Advertiser.

COST OF THE SLAVE-TRADE SUPPRESSION.—The
following is a table of the deaths from fever on board vessels
employed on the coast of Africa during 1837-38, comprising
eighteen months, being a very sickly period. Cases similar
to the Eclair, of vessels losing more than half their crews,
will be seen to be too common. There are more than double
the number of men employed on the coast than there were
at that time. If this epidemic equals the former, the mor-
tality will be fearful:—
Officers Men
Vessels' Names. died. died.
Raven 4 ... 21
Bonetta ...... 5 ... 28
Buzzard.
olForesterphin
DFair Rosamond 1 ... 14
Viper
Scout
Waterwiteh
Pylades
Pelican 0 ... 4
;Etna ... 25
Brisk
Curlew 7 .. 30

Total Original
deaths. No. of crew.
25 .• • 42
34 ~ 52
28 ... 52
30 ... 52
24 ... 52

Total 52 ... 285
—Hampshire Telegraph.

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