The Arkansas banner., 1849-10-30
ltrom the New OEspaaa Crescent. l The New NaFman Sta.e.

IL Is rare that there occurs aa event sa sell cal cuiated to impress phiiosephic imagination as Ih 1 forming Of the new Mormon State in the ncighbor hood of the Great Salt lastss A day sr two az we gave sketch of the Conslitstisa of the Stat of Deseret, aad it's provisions are slmos remark able IS the strange and anoEnasoHs people by whou It was formed.
 The inhabitants of DeseFei are almoss entirel, Mormon; and the MorTnoa sapeFstitisn is one Q the widest vsgaiirs tn which the human mind h,A ever indaiged Believers in new and altogether indeGinabls religious revelation, these enthnSissis partly driven from midsg by the behesss Of cvt zation, and partly attracted t0 she sotudes aT ths Great West hy the suitabeness of It's scenes 10 the excited iDaginations, have formed society and in siituted government in one of the widest portion, of the Continent. Every cireumAlaaer In their con 6ition Is calculated to exat the imaginative facul- ,ies-alusoss to the pitch of frenzy yet ia five days they have formed ConSttation which migh, excite tho envy and the admiration of Payisisn wit. and transatlantic Legislators How Is il that people insane in many respects siloald keep their minds sound and welt balanced ca the sabsect of gov ernmentf What charm threw hS spell arOu ad them, when ttsycame tog~therto iegisatef What magic evoked the deya from their spirits. whea they as semblcd for the purpose of making lawsl
 This fact in the history ofihe Mormon Constitu- ton this reasonableness in its provisions and the entire absence of any ting like rant religoas pre- jadiee enthusiasm ia its enaetments-is, to our view, one of the strongest arguments that has beea adduced in support of American institutions If there ever was a people who might reasonably have made religion test of citizenship 1t Is the Mormons. They have. however, resisted the temp tatlon which two hundred years sgo lursd the New England puriians from the paths of just law and good government. The Mormons have crossed a
 sea of prairie serioos in its sutFerings as any which the Atlantic offered to the Pilgrim Fathers They have fixed themselves In wild and barren country. compared 10 which Massachusetts Is a garden and New England paradise They escaped from civilization which assumed to be uiOrs per feet ia it's forms and in it's principles thaa any imagined by the Mayfiower fugiliyes. Yet the emigrants of the seventeenth csntary had hardly landed on the rock of Plymouth had hardly fixed themselves in their new boms-before they made religions opinions necessary ingredient of the citizen In the difference, then, between the Grea, Salt Lake Mormous and the Massachusetts PaTitans behold the difference between British and American training: between those who have lived ln poltcO- ecclesiastical State aud those brought up under the nfue nee Of jaws entirely fepudiatlng the conaec- ton of religion with government.
 So much for the past in tire history of Deseret - live look to the future, 1t is hard to determine what will be the destiny of the new State. i the religious enthusiasm of the peeple-unfettereC by opposing preJudices, and nnrestrained by con
 icting opinionslose it's herceness and relapse into miljuess and moderatiOn7 Is the Great Salt Lak, settlement to teach again the pregnant truth ta fanatcism is it's own best aud that the patien is healed when left to the forces of nsart without ihe interference of physicisnl Ind | the Mormon is cured of his folly la the Far West if putting aside his idols he returns to the wOfsbiI of the true God-what is 10 be the form and strac iure of the civilization he will amidst the steep and lakes of the Rocky Mountainsf Will it be nc madic or Oriental, or fixed and Europeani Al these are questions which suggest themselves at tn sight ot this of the American settlements.