The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-18
From the ST. Louis Rsvsille, Sept "a.
AFFAIRS IN HANCOCK.

Since the Warsaw Signal has ceased the Quincy
Wing has become more bitter advocate OF the anti
Mormon side Of the dispute IN Hancock, and that
pepper Of The 9th instant is strong IN urging on hos
TITLES. We regret 70 see this, and think that local
prejudice has oVerswayed the editors better judg-
ment. Mob violence, under any circumstances, ia
nets general injury; and It's advocate by sustaining
1t, but eleyates destructive power which may, in
turn, fall upon himself. IL would be wisdom, we
think, TO wait not only few months, but years, to
allow the MormoDs peaceably 10 depart, rather than
TO forcs out the miserable remnant remaining by
bloodshed. They have exhibited intention TO
90 as body IN the most uBdoubtsd manner, for
thousands have departed; and those who remain not
only express wish TO follow, but are doing al
every opportunity. The Wing says that the Nor
mons IN Iowa have refused TO come back TO Maui
VOC, but are also determined to stay outside Of
Hancock county jurisdiction.
BY thus time the anti Mormons ought TO be con-
WINGED that they have destroyed any sympathy for
themselves which the acts Of their opponents had
created. Their action, from the first, has been a
continued demonstration against Mormonism, unu
both its political and Judicial power Of doing injury
destroyed; and now their show of violence
against the city they once inhabited, those who
have purchased their property, and the poor rem
nant Of the deluded followers Of the prophet who
are unable TO get away, places them, in the
eye OF the public, as set Of mobiles, who
seem to prefer predatory excursions and tur-
borhood OF these scenes, their movements against
Nauvoo are not supported by the general ac-
ton Of the surrounding counties. Some eight hun
dred citizens Of Hancock have assembled IN camp,
many, no doubt influenced by their more violent
| neighbOrs, but against their own good sense and
reason and if they could return home to their
farms, without mourning the enmity Of those
rounding them, they would be glad to do so. At
tempts were made in Quincy, on last Saturday af-
ternoon, 10 raise recruits, but, by the EDITORS
kno wledgment, the effort a failure, only fifteen
in all volunteering. II is wrong, essentially wrong,
to thus agitate spirit Of bloodshed in peaceable
counties, and, by infammatoy appeals, TO urge the
evil disposed to violence. The force now assembled
will, no doubt, have TO march h2me without taking
their way through Nauyoo, and they haG Peller do
II at once, for longer TO remain will bs only to make
their final Dispersion the more ridiculous We
think we see Colonel Singleton, commander Of the
anti Mormon host, in the act Of soliciting old
Mormon lady for her nightcap, as a trophy TO show
his return, that if he did take scalps he, at
least, captured the covering Of one.
Since writing the above We learn by the steamer
Ocean Wave, down yesterday from heokuk, that
the nti-Mormons, 200 strong, had marched to
within five miles Of Nauyoo, and had with them
one hundred writs, which they determined 10 serve
on that number Of the citizens. Judging from many
previous reports of their slowness TO move into the
presence Of actual danger, they will countermsrch
that last FIVE miles several times before they come
within gunshot Of the city defenders.