The New York herald., 1846-06-28

MORMON DrrrcuLrns.-We regret to perceive
that Hancock county, Illinois, is again the scene OF
ant-Mormon disturbances. By the last accounts
received from that place. it appears that the anti.
Mormons were about TO make an attack on Nau.
VOC, the citizens of which We're armed, and pre-.
pared to resist them. The rendezvous of the
former was al Warsaw, and they had sent out to
the neighboring counties 10 collect an additional
force, when they found the inhabitants of Nauvoo
prepared for resistance.
All friends Of order must regret this unfortunate
difficulty. An open state of lawlessness and vio.
lence always brings more evils in its train, than
the mere loss of life and destruction of property
immediately resulting from it. 1t unsettles the
minds of peacetully-disposed citizens, and makes
them have more dependence on physical force,
than the more udcious and impartial redress of
the law.
Whatever complaints may have been entertained
by the enemies of the Mormons, against that Sect
1t would have been much better policy, as well as
more consonant with equity and law, to have
permitted them quietly TO retire to the homes they
had marked out tor themselves in the far West
than thus 10 attempt not only to eject but to ex-
terminate them. 1t is very probable they would
all have emigrated within year; and il would
have been greatly more advisable to have allowed
them TO evacuate their settlements, without dis
turbing the peace of the community by an at
tempt TO eject them by violence But, further
more, the attempt will doubtless fail: for.
besides having the laws Of the land in their
favor, they have every nducement to resist,
to death, the attempt to drive them from their
homes. Moreover, persecution of any sort drives
the warm-hearted and generous into a defence
and advocacy of the prosecuted and we find that
numbers OF citizens, Notwithstanding that thew
disagree in doctrine and principle with the Nor
mons, have still declared their determination to
help them TO defend their homes from the assaults
OF their enemies. These men have armed them
selves, and have made every preparation for a
determined resistance.
But what makes this forciblc attempt the more
rcprehensible, is the fact, that the business con-
Germs OF the Morinons are not as yet wound up,
and that II they were forced to leave at this juno
ture, hundreds of them, who are now in treaty for
the sale OF their property, would be thrown out
upon the world as paupers. When people are in
such strait, with prospective poverty and
starvation staring them in the face, they are apt
to fight desperately. Should the Mormons and
anti-Mormons have actually come to blows, we
fear the result will be disastrous in the extreme
Had the Momons been suffered to depart peace
ably TO their destination in the far West, they
would, most probably, have founded there free
republic, upon basis somewhat resembling our
constitution. Such state, growing up on the
shores of the Pacific, would have been but an ex-
tension OF those principles of freedom which have
terminated already widely on this continent,
and which are destined to spread over its entire
face. Why, then throw an obstacle in their way!
Let them have full time allowed them for their
depar,ure-above all, let them not be turned out
without the means of subsistence, to starve in the
wilderness. We trust that wiser counsels may
have prevailed among those who were rashly de-
termined 10 attack Nauvoo. 1.-THE Regulators
want to fight, let them go to Mexico, where they
can have fight without infringing on the laws of
their country or the rights of their neghbors.
With the dispute of these two parties, or its
cause, we have nothing to do. We are not dis
posed to interfere in their quarres, but we speak
what we are convinced must be the sentiments
OF every good citizen, in condemning any attempt
to klndle the flame of civil war. Obedience 10
the laws should be maintained at all hazards.
and resistance to the existing authotities should
be promptly suppressed If not, the country
inay again be disgraced with another scene of
violence Like that which attended the death of
Joe Smith and the church-burnings in Phladcl.
phia.
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