The republic., 1851-07-15
THE REPUBLIC.


the armies Of the Union, should combine with
Indians to harass its emigrant citizens. The
charge of ''levying high and unjust taxes on
: men selling property on Salt Lake" is thus
explained by Mr.. KANE: ''rhe little municipal
council of the Salt Lake City did, at its first
organization, however. and before the United
States or any other government had noticed
its existence, enact that tax should be
levied on all sales of spirituous liquors within
the city bounds. This tax must have been
heavy, too, for think it was intended to be
: almost prohibitory. The Mormons, as a sect
favoring and enforcing temperance measures,
and doing their best to prevent the sale Of
whisky TO the savages around them, have
only to say that, if our emigrant citizens eve
rywhere could be placed under such restraints,
the War Department would hear less of their
suffering from Indian outrages."
The apprehension and trying of men for the
murder of JOE SMITH," Mr.. KANE denies.
We presume the criminal jurisdiction Of the
Mormons has, since the Territorial government,
been superseded by that of the United States;
any prosecutions for alleged murder would be
pending in the courts established by the
Federal Government, or the parties would APP
peal to the paramount for protection against the
patriarchal Jurisdiction. We are authorized to
say that the "faets" thus disproved by Mr..
KANE were not known to Mr.. FILLMORE be-
tore the appointment. We presume that they
could moi have been known to the Senators
from Illinois and Indiana, or it would have been.
their duty to have rejected the nomination.
The commander Of the Camp of Israel seems
to have refuted himself the charge that he is
an open abuser of Democracy, by the following
language, extracted from his address. Presi-
dent YoUNG says:
"But, in the midst of this, [distress,l we were
cheered by the presence of our friend, Mr.. Little,
of New Hampshire, who assured us of the personal
friendship [our italicsl of the President MIR.
Polk] in the act before us, and the assurance,
though not doubted by us in the least, made
doubly sure by Col. Kane, of Philadelphia, whose
presence in our midst, and the ardor with which
he has espoused the cause of persecuted and suf-
fering people, and the testimony he has borne of
your excellency's [Mr. Polk'sl kind feelings have
kindled up spark in our hearts which had we'll
nigh been extinguished. Not spark Of liberty
or DEMocRAoy--that cannot bep'
Colonel KANE moreover gives "the strong
est assurance of assistance and protection
from President Polk, and that he will conti-
nue. to use all constitutional powers at his
disposal for our good, regardless of popular
clamor and cabinet intrigues; to establish US
in land where we can sustain our wives and
children; to help US to territorial govern
ment, so that swe may dwell in peace under
our own vine, and eat the fruit of our own
labor;' that he will defend us against every
aggression by the strong arm of twenty mil
lions of freemen and all their immense re-
sources; that he will ward off the scourge of
oppression, the rod of tyranny, and the sword
of death, by all the means that God and his
= country have placed at their disposal"
Really, we think that this will establish sat
isfactorily either the Democracy of Governor
You've or the Mormonism of President Polk.
But the political position of the children of
Israel was put beyond doubt by the following:
'sResolped, That we have the fullest confidence
in the friendly protestatons of President Polk;
that our hearts are with him to do good and sus-
tain the best Government of earth; that be may
depend upon warmcst gratitude, and our cor
dial cooperation in all things that shall tend to
alt him and our fellow creatures; and that our
faith, prayers, and blessing shall rest upon him so
long as he shall magnify those glorious principles
he has espoused, which we trust will be eternaly."
The practice of spiritual profigacy is, accord
ing to our opinion, an abominable doctrine, wor-
thy ofall reprobation. tits, we suppose if allowed
to any, practised by ALL 1t is variety OF Fanny
Wrightism, of Owenism. 1t is one of the le-
gitimate results of communism. But this charge
is, however, emphatically denied by Mr.. KANE.
Having reasoned to show its improbabeness, he
adds, that although Governor YoUNG "pays no
heed to any sort of abuse, his wife, who comes
of very respectable New England stock
charitable as st. Bridget, and proud of her
husband as Queen Victoria-mourns over"
the imputatons upon his morality. ''During
long attack OF malignant fever" adds Mr..
KANE, ''from which my constitution has not
yet recovered, this lady showed me kindness
never can forget, and you must not wonder
my blood boils to think that upon her mainly
recoils these brutal SANDERS"
For this charge, however, we cannot admitthe
responsibility of the Administration. A Mormon
State requires a Mormon Governor. If their
usages do not disqualify them from admission
as citizens of co-State, then it is no valid
ground of objection that the person chosen by
them to preside over their Territory practices
the same usage which does not denationalize
them.
But the Buffalo Courier, being an organ of
the Hunker Democracy, contends for the doc
trine which we have always maintained, that
the Federal Government has no right to pre-
scribe the institutions of a Territory
Now the spiritual poygamy ofthe Mormons, if
it texist, isa peculiar institution, tenet of their
faith. Would the Courier have had the Admins
tration or Congress to have prescribed, as a con-
dition of admission, that President YOU'VE and
the sect that he governed should have aban-
doned a tenet so obnoxious to morality?
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