The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, 1850-08-28

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THE STATE OF DEsERET.
The general assembly of Deseret has been in ses-
sion at different times, and created Weber Great Salt
Lake, Utah, San Pete, Yoab, and Tuille counties
established courts, created sheris constables, just-
ces of the peace, State marshal and Attorney and
instituted regular system of jurisprudence. They
have also established State university at Great Salt
Lake city, and appropriated for its benefit five thou
sand dollars year for twenty years. to be paid out OF
the public treasury, Latest Intelligence.
Such are the strange, most remarkable, most ro-
mantle accounts, which reach from the ar-of plains
beyond the Rocky Mountains the mysterious ba-
sin of Central America You travel fifteen hundred
miles beyond the metropolitan city blooming on the
banks of the Ohio, and you rising before you lo
ty peaks the height Of fifteen thousand feet above
the ocean! There is s. Longs Peak" " Fremont's
Peak" and the Towers. You pass over rugged
mountains, down roaring torrents, through dark and
yawnng canons, till all at once you enter what seems
horid entrance to some lower world! In the Ian
guage of Mr. Kane, who described it before the Penn
syIyania Historical Socetys The road, after leaving
the Oregon tran, is one of increasing difficulty, and
when the last mountain has been crossed, passes
along the bottom of deep canon, whose scenery is
of an almost terrific gloom. 1t is de6le that trust
no Mormon Martin Hofer, of the western Tyrel, will
he called to consecate to liberty with blood. At
every turn the overhanging cliffs threaten to break
down upon the little torrent river that has worn its
way at their base. Indeed, the ravne is
rated by this stream that the road crosses it, from
side to the other, something like forty times In the
last We miles, At the end of the ravine the emf
grant comes abruptly out of the dark passage into
The lighted valley, bench terrace of its
upper table-land. No wonder if he loses his self
control here. ravishng panoramic Landscape opens
out below him, blue and green, and gold and pearl
great sea, with hiily islands, rivers, lake, and
broad sheets of grassy plains-all set, in silver
chased cup-within mountains whose peaks Of per-
pstual snow are FURNISHED by dazzling sun. 1t is
less these however, than the foreground of old coun-
try farms, with their stacks, and thatchIngs, and stock
and the central city, smoking from its chimneys, and
swarming with working inhabitants-tiat tries the
men of fatigue-broken nerves. The Californeys'
scream they sing. They give three cheers, and do
not count them. A few have prayed, some swear,
some fall their faces and cry outright" Such is
the first vision of Deseret, described by Mr Kane.
Farms, fields cities, countless justices, assemblies
thriving State. Such are the new and surprising
novelties which, in less than four years, have arisen
up by the solitary borders of the Salt Lake, and inter-
rup,ed with this panorama of civilization the wild,
unstorled plains of Central America Where is he
who told the stories of the Arabian Nights! Where
is he who sung the romance Of Loeb katrine and its
Rhoderck Dhue! Here are themes more strange
than the Oriental Fancy Scottish legends ever fur
nshed. Who are these people who are founding
States and universities by the Salt Lake, amidst the
Utah Indians
These people are the Mormons-who built the city
and temple Of Nauvoo, and who We're driven out of
the place erected by their own abors, by of the
most Infamous prosecutions known in the present
generation. The State of Illinois exhibited its utter
imbeclity civil community, and its inhabitants
proved their utter incapacity to sympathze with suf-
tering.
1t was in September, 1916, that the Mormons
were driven over the Mississippi, and that winter
found such shelter as they could. They disappear
were the plains and valleys leading to the west.
In the spring Of ls47, large body left their camp
the Platte for the Utah country, and in l649 the
State Deseret was founded.
The Mormons, who had in 1916 been SO persecu-
ted, from lS47 to 1850 have been in state of un-
precendented prosperity. The last Intelligence Cat the
head of this arcIe) describes them as already per
fecting form of civil government and founding Uni
Versities for education!
We pretend to pass no judgment on their moral
is called the Book of Mormon-whch is palpably
and obviously, and proved to be, very gross impos-
ture 1t is one of the facts which characterize these
as the 'atte times,' when men shall be given over
to gross deusions.
There are four points of view in which this settle
ment of Deseret becomes intensely interesting
First We under the eyes of the same generation
and in a very brief space the whole natural and ar
t!sc process of forming, organizing, and launching
forth civil State. We see the tops of bee-hives
made transparent and watch the little workers from
the time they sip the flower till they build their beau
hful little abodes, filled with sweetness! So see
this State of Deseret-from the time the first Latter
Day Saint encamped beside the Utah, till they found
courts and established universities. We had heard
Of this the rocks of Plymouth and sands of James,
town-but it had not been vouchsafed to to see it
with natural eyes. We confess that in this day
OF wonders it fills with surprise. Are nations, in
deed, born in dayl Is this to be another Ninevah,
with its winged lions and its golden oxen?
Secondly. Here is another question of interest.
Is this to be exclusive Mormon state! Is this to
De another peculiar people-one out of many-isoa-
'ted amidst the grandeur of surrounding emPire!-
Will another persecution arise? And if it does, will
II not meet different result! Will not some Martin
HoIef qetend liberty in that dark dele! Or perhaps
some Leonidas again awaken the Tres of victorious
liberty on the rocky SUBMITS of the Utah hills!
Thirdly. We may hope that persecution will not
arise, and that this singular community will attain its
growth in prosperity.
Fourhly. Here we may ask, What is to be that
growth! Will Mormonsm increase! Will the
latter.Day Saints gather from all quarters to this re-
maIkable oasis amidst American wilds, How far
Will they increase! None can answer. The past has
. Seen romance, and the future may be- 1t is chap
er unlike any other in human history. Yet it has
smii!tude to the most remarkable one in all antiuu-
w. 1t is not unlike the days of Aphen. and Nimrod
and Peleg, who went forth to found nations and di
vide the earth. 1t is not unlike the days of Jacob
and OF Esau, those ancient princes who went forth
wandering over great plains, with focks and herds,
and little ones, to found nations in another Edom and
sno'ner Canaan Have we often such cycle OF
ame!Iresusned to the days when Jacobs, and Esaus,
lshmaels went forth to traverse, conquer, and
SH, vast empires amidst the unclaimed places and
' VI America! Cincinnati Chronicle f. Atlas.