The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-10-07

they have rendered themselves equally, aud per-
haps more odous. To the people than even the
Mormons Therefore the people Of the adjoining
country will give them very iitrle. if any, aid or
sympathy The NIormons, by their clannish dis
position, and by their covering the retreat of
! thieves and scoundrels heretofore, and by their
advocacy and practice of vices. and institutions re-
pugnant 10 the morals and the institutions of our
government. are hated in that State generally, so
that 1t would be impossible probably, for the
Governor TO get any aid from the people. as was
| the case IN the immediate neighborhood last year.
at the time he issued call for the militia to pre-
vent the Wolf Hunt so termed, which was
| projected by the Anti's, soon after the Smiths
were killed. and which was probably either for the
purpose of intmida,ing the Mormons at that time.
or tor an attack upon them, or depredations pro-
vided they Gould obtain sufficient force. The
feeling of the people is to let them fight it out.
The greater part of the Mornons are deluded
people. Their leaders shrewd and cunning
aud they are much divided among themselves. and
had the Anti's possessed little more frbearance.
they would probably have kept sympathy on
their side; but instead of that they have let un-
holy motives stimulate them to madness and have
outraged the honor of the State, and annhilated
sympathy from themselves. They have COMPEL
ed their public officers flee. and any one who
has not entered into their arrangements they have
ordered to leave. Their sheriff, who is a Penn
syvanlan by birth, and whose sin it is to have ob
tanned Mormon votes-( (Which many of them
have solicited)- We're compelled to fee. as
also Mr.. Head, young man, clerk of the Circuit
Court, who wished to have nothing to do with
! either party Their policy is to dub every man
with the name of Jack Mormon who will not
! enter into their operations. Let the Mormons
lnne and perhaps suffer a temporary evil, and
they are made up of men so grasping in their
wish for power that they will sOon commit that
which will Justify their being compelled 20 leave !;
but while they thus prosecute Them murder them
and burn their buildings, their grain stacks, and
turn their poor deuded women and children out
OF doors, they are not only divertng public sym
pathy from themselves, and strengthening the
hlormons, hut bringing down the condemna ton of
the enlightened and inst portion of the public up
on themselves. as well as backeniGg the charac-
ter of the State with lasting disgrace. Will not
the press generally strive to be impartial, and do
all IN their power to influence, to suppress diff
ficuliies, by creating n public sentiment which
VIII trown at injustice, outrage, and the sacrifice
of law. AN ILLINOIAN
In further calculation of this subject, we copy
the following communication from the same paper,
written by Mormon, to correct some errors into
which the Tribune had fallen We lean To the
opinion that when all the facts are known, that
these Mormons will he found to be :. more sinned
against than SHINING"
Mr.. Editor Suffer and adherent ola wrong
ed and outraged sect (who is now sojourning for
a space in this clty) to point out in brief terms
through your columns the misrepresentation of
Mormon difficulties, which have appeared in the
Tribune. The partizan feelings of which press
have obscured lis candor, causing, an evident de-
sire To pervert every circumstance as 10 erimi-
nate our friends Perhaps the Editor may not be
aware that our prosecutors are among the most
reckless, desperate, and vile inhabitants of the
villages adjacent to our settlement they are lazy
vicious vagabOnds who looked with envious eyes
on Mormon prosperity, and more than year ago
picked out the Mormon farms they intended APP
proprIatlng to their own use, and at last have
raised the ncendlary brand and regardless of
right, of justice, or of humanity, have murdered
our people, driven our families forth from their
homes and while womens shrieks and the groans
of agony from the dying victims went up to God :,
they have paged all in their way, and then
Gothlike, fired the shelter of weeping widows
and orphans. Perhaps The editor does not know
of these enormities, or that the of the An
ties has been SD iawless and criminal that il has
aenated from them all the sympathy of the in
habitaniS OF the surrounding country who approve
of the Governors course in taking measures to
put down these lawless villains. But even if the
Tribune did not know all this, it knew that il
acting unjustly in such instances as when it
copied from that violently partizan paper, the
Warsa1o Signal, that the Mormon temple was
bull and designed for a ratification but went be-
yond the Signal in its attempts to create public
feeling against them by suppressing all the ex
plantations they made, and the atrocous threats
add acts of our enemies, and will not for fear our
case should excite sympathy. even quote the
Signal where it threatens to burn our temple to
the ground The Tribune IS willing to publish
as truth, all the ISLANDERS of our enemies but when
anything would criminate he refuses 10 mention
it, and like faithful partizan, will publish moth
ing from papers friendly to MS Is ,his consistent
with honcsy-is it such conduct as reverend
gentleman should he guilty of, or is parlizan feel.
ing any sufficient reason for exciting the public
mind against us by the publication of gross and
abominable mlsiatements? A MORMON.
OUTRAGE DESTRUCTION OF PRO
PERTY.
On last Friday night about ten o'clock, the