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granted themselves is about as big as all New
England and New York. This is vote yours
self farm with vengeance. If congress adj
mits the pretensons Of these pc ,ple, they allow
them TO vote themselves 10 each adult male, q
domlin about as big as Rhode Island or rather,
Congress will, in doing, grant its sanction to
this most monstrous and unexampled appropria-
ton, which has already been made by the Nor
mons.
Had the Mormons addressed a memorial 10
Congress praying for small tract of land, say
five or six townships-a quarter section for
each head Of family (?)-our individual feeling
might have been in favor of com lying with Their
request, and thus allowing them place Of asy-
| lum from persecution. We very much doubt
however, whether Congress would have grant
ed such petiton. It's entirely against the large
! organized SectS. il never has done, and it may
be doubted whether it ever ought to be. There
are about twenty thousand Shakers in New
York and the Eastern States they own vau-
able tracts OF lands, honestly bought and paid
for, or acquired by gift, Suppose they should
| with or without reasOn) becomes odious to
their neighbors, be the subjects of a general
persecution, and finally be driven by violence
from their present homes does any man sup
pose for moment that Congress would grant
Il en- an ample tract out OF the public domain
Would such grant be made TO any sects-to
Mennonities, Moravians, Rappists, to Trntari-
ans OF UNITARIAN, OrtnOUOx or llDeral
Is there any part OF the hundred sects that fill
the dictionary of denominations, to which Con-
gress would grant an acre Of land, or even a
charter of Incorporation We think not.
But Congress is asked to make to this sect
not of Christians but Of Mormons, Of believers
not in Jesus Christ but in Joe Smith, more
than imperial grant to besow upon them, not
a township, but region as large as grea, Bril-
tain not an act of incorporation, but an act of
admission, on terms OF equal membership, to
this Union Of S ates
a The name by which the Mormons have begun
, to call their new settlement. and propose to call
Q their new State, is Deseret; and If there were
q were no other objection to this name, it would
: be sufficient and fatal objection that its adoption
by Congress would be direct recognition Of
e the wretohed fraud called the Book of Mormor.
The following is the account which we find CT
ted from the Frontier Guardian "The name
: selected for that country is borrowed from tho
>, Book Of Mormon, where description is given
of voyage of the ancient Jaredites from the
o tower OF Babel to the American Continent, more
d than four thousand years ago. 1t is said that
= they brought with them seeds Of all kinds, and
: also Deseret," which by Interpretation is the
'. d" honey bee." The bee and the hive being
~ emblems of industry, the citizens here, wishing
u ever to exhibit those qualifications, have chosen
u the above name, being adapted to the char
III 1t is unnecessary to state that this whole at
u, u, attempt to connect the history of the Mormons
III "a sect of fanatics formed in our day-wth
IL the dispersion Of mankind al the tower Of Babel
is pure fiction. 1t is a part of q romance to
W. which we alluded above, and which Joe Smith
"' adopted as his revelation. There is not the
w slightest reason for thinking that the word De-
a. Seret means Kinney Bee in any language ever
Oh spoken by man. We have seen it stated and
II,at in ta,l that "a
no ancient Egyptian word for Be. OF this we
e" have seen no proof Sir Gardiner Wilkinson
TT does not appear 10 have known the ancient
u" Egyptian name OF tine bee, (see his Manners and
" Customs, second SERIES vol. ], p. 81 and if moi
o' known to him, it is not likely to have been
e. known to any one else. In fact we understand
III that the MOrmonS do not themselves pretcnl
Nv that Dessert is the Egyptian word tor Bee bu,
&" that certain ancient race called Jaredtes lex
.I' istng only in the imag naton of Joe Smith
III and his followers.) brought from the Tower o
M Babel something which they called Deseret
oe and which is, by Mormon Interpretation, honel
, bee. The entire Book of Mormon being for
lie gerry out of the whole cloth, it is of course idl
res to discuss the meaning of any thing cpn'anel
ON in it. But we protest against the Incorporation
rs' OF any Of this jargon into the statute book Of thu
on, United States,
rad We have lately seen in the Washington pa
req pers handsome testimonials to the moral char
lnu acter of the Mormons in their present location
the to their thrift, good conduct, and conseqIen
hi &c vol eounded NO do M, Lno,y w, do No
ew Of all enter into tho ouestion If tho n,oralt
OF of the Mormons, nor in the slightest degre
Pe apologize for the treatment they receive
ICE in Missouri and Illinois AT the same time
en- however, there is reason for believing that the
i'd- hold dangerous prncip pies of practical INC
lnu, raty which should make Congress pause be
ked fore they constitute them co-egnal sovereig
of noombar of tbis Union II their fntp,e bistnr
is to resemble the past, Congress, in takn
I'M steps to organize them into permanent polit
oss- cal community, will be laying the foundation
en- commissions of most dangerous character
) as they were, or were believed to be, commun
! on which neither Missouri nor Illinois would toll
GU rate, even tG the number of a few thousands,
lec il likely that they can live in peace and harmon
one with neghboring States, when they themsev,
rted have crn1yn into a noverful State ,vialdad !
oil artfu chiefs who pretend to add Divine TO hum.
i'iy power?
IRE, It has been publicly stated by seeding mer
atr'- bers OF the Mormon body that their leaders q
can ready threaten ycEqeance for the wrongs the
have suffered and among the wild visions
S OF Joe Smiths heated brain was that of actir
we're oyor .oan tho mart of Nahomet and f,undir
IN a new Mormon catiphate on this continent, "
the NAV smile at the egregious absurdity of the
&c &C decisions and yet not think it prudent to ASST
we his followers, already boastng of their tens
the thousands, to plant themselves on the high TO
a'e1 to California, and give them complete control
ega' our line of communication between the Atanl
D 'ie and Pacific oceans.
NAT FRANKLIN.
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