Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-26
The State Of Deseret,
To the Editor Of the Bugle ;

County, Illinois, not more than 35,OOO or
10000 in number, were engaged in a civil
war in which part expelled the rest from
the county. The successful party doubt
less received some aid from places out of
the county; but the parties were about
equal in number in the county, and there
fore the number of the expelled could not
have exceeded 100000
Of these quite the majority scattered out
into various parts ofthe country, great num-
bers returned to the several places from
which they had originally gone. A consid-
erobe number went to Texas, and are set
tied on the Pridesnailes river. Another
large company went up to Voree, in Wis
consin. Others went to the lead mines and
to various towns on the Mississippi.
The arrangement for starting out the
great Western expedition only contemplated
25 companies Of 100 families each and it is
notorious that more than half these compa-
mics never started. If they had all started it
would baye only made some 1900 or 1900
persons. But as a majority Of them failed, a
iut NohihoNe II Aiut llOlll OOOO W DOOO DtT-
sons made up the great Mormon Army
when il left Nauvoo in 1876. More than
half of those stopped at Council Bluffs and
vnrious places in that vicinity, in western
Iowa. This leaves only a minority of $500
persons at most who have gone into the
Valley of the Salt Lake and organized the
State of Deseret.
1t will doubtless be said that they may
have received additions since. But it is n
well known fact, that they have not had
preachers out during the last four years, to
gather up converts as formerly. The few
preachers who have been through the coun-
try gathering up converts have gathered
them to Voree, Wisconsin, and Beaver Island
in Michigan. Very few have gone TO the
western camp. But in the same time many
have scattered off and are how found in all
dence justifes the opinion that they have
rather diminished than increased in num-
bers.
Well, this little company, minority of
$780, and probably about 1000 in all, have
settled in the valley of the Salt Lake and or
ganized the State of Deseret. Their agents,
Almon Babbitt and DIR. Burnhysel, came OH
as representatives in Congress- with certi-
fed copy of the constitution, and, stopping
at New York, astonished the world with the
announcement that they have organized a
State there with population of fifty thous-
and inhabitants.
But this was striking rather high. Doubts
began to be expressed in various quarters.
II was evident there would be an investiga-
ton. Suddenly one of the Washington pa
pers drops them down ION the authority of
Almon BabbetD to 10000. BY some hoc,ls
pocus his credentials have also been trans
formed, so that instead ofa Representative of
n State, he is there only as a Delegate of u
Territory. Certain Senators appear also to
have taken Deseret under their peculiar pro-
lection, just now, as California is knocking
for admission into the Union, with Con-
stitution forbidding Slavery.
A single fact is key to all this. DES-
ERET CONTAINS A FEW SLAVES
Their constitution does not forbid Slavery.
The number of Free and Slave States being
precisely equal, and California ready to
come in and destroy that balance; with
New Mexico, Oregon, and Minnesota all free,
preparing TO follow and render the prepon-
derance of slave power hereafter hopeless,
the propagandists of the Calhoun school
are looking around for the means of staying
the course of events, and making a cores
ponding number of Slave States.
California must he kept back till a new
Slave State can be carved out of Texas.
New Mexico must be shorn of more than
half her territory and population to keep
back until Deseret can be nursed up into a
Slave Statc to come in with her. In the
meantime we shall see some new maneuver
TO get up two more Slave States to come in
not the slightest objection to the extending
of the jurisdiction of some territorial gov
ernment over that region. But il is curl
GUS fact, that this little nursery of slavery in
the mountains, is to be dignifed with gov.
crnmcnt, when such territories as California
New Mexico, and, until this year, Oregon
have been denied it, Why do we not hear
of government for the vast free territory
from Missouri to the Rrcky Mountains will
a population of probably 10000, as well al
the little settlement near the Salt Lake
where 1000 people are endeavoring to es
tablish Slavery over Territory larger thar
the six New England States?