New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-16
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That the Morruous have been the victims OF a
cowardly and netsrious appetite for wander; VIC
ence and debauchery. can hardly doubt We
find in a late Gazette letter from the Far
West respecting them from which we make the
following extract
And frs. OF their moral tone !; is affirm uneX-
cepionsble in high degree. The virtues OF the family
chastity affection the spirit OF united effort tor the
advancement OF family happiness whatever may De sA'G
or limited by their enemies, form absolutely
cs of this outcaSt people Those OF the social Ne eii,
perance strct rs the vigorous could exact ana
universal IN its observance iruGaty enforced indeed
by sity but borne without complaining industry
emery constancv Of purpose, these too belong % al 81
,5,rr nix To say that they remember the homes they
hev, lett ,vithou: murmur. or those by whose inns-
nifty or whose weakness they have been expelled with
out recruitment would be to assign 10 them character
either above humanity or below i'll am not prepared
10 say which. But they Discriminate between their
country and the state in which their property lies con
tiscEed and have ncyc witnessed more enthusiastic
loyalty 10 the American tag than these poor people dis
PLAYED when Captain Allen OF the Z : Army invited
ye hundred OF their number TO march under Il on foot
through the desert 70 santa re
In three days their arrangements were all made pay
orders in favor OF their families signed and accepted,
and the whole battalion is way 20 Fort lesven.
worth. The community OF property, OF which had
heard 20 much has no existence among them, except
far as community OF suffering had reduced all to very
nearly the same level and warmed the charities Of the
few who had escaped toa! restitution The houses and
which they had let we're al held II arate own
.rshp each msh possessing and enjoying in his own
way whatever he mad saved By rugatity earned by
toll aud the wagons and the and the tents the
prairie were each them the property OF individuals But
were all th, otherwise the Mormons igno-
rant In political economies 70 De the yeres socialists
In this crazy world il hard 10 punish them by
pulson and starving. The question recurs What had
The inhabitants OF Nauyoo done that the laws OF proper
~ and of io.nicil should as 10 them BE outraged
The answer can be guessed by those who have seen
the army OF reforming lnorasts that last made
its triumphant entry the town L was peculiar
zeal for the rights Of individual labor 70 which il
has earned 5y the Of rs own brow that prompted
the victors 10 the violent and lawess appropriation OF
whs,syer they could ind Moral purity v.pdi-
Gated By the and obsceny the rapes and
murders which signazed ;her victory the raise.
able beings who had been poor zoo sick TOO old
10 escape the onslaught not patriotism ,nat chsl
lenged az last trnOrous and t,neser7ns Governor 10
come o- very shame the scue OF the aws and that
now stands saes!ins - ne p-oc!an2srons and waiting
his withdra- from tie OSn 10 renew" rs triumph over
law an eccncy together No no I was of these.
shame thai i, should be spoken: the strife OF the
reckless and the strong 70 snatch trOm Labor is
es-niuss-to b-rak down TIE safeguards Of domestic
and social life and n the misery OF ;he- ylctns
snd rhe Executive OF Illinois was too cOwardly. or 100
INDECENT or thought himself too Poc 10 arrest the OUT
rage There NAV have been ancient provocatior
have hoard of such out 80 lar nave been ABLE e.
trace the story the evidence against l. Yet these
NAV have bean but j. was ancient for the who
we've CHARGED with having gwen Il were long sirce Hr
rsf and buried And there was even recent pEoyoca-
non who da-es 70 refer i &c tae old and The sick snd
the women and me infants. whom toe bolt OF COW
Ardy vengeance has fallen 80 S-evous.y