The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-02

the mormon al IUEcfs
[FroM the London chronicle, Jan ISL
The writer's and Speakers no longer assuming
to be merely speculative, but claiming to DO emf
neDtly praotical-Tho attri quito all animosity ba
tween communities 70 th. inefaceabe distinctions
Of race, are nowhere strik,agly confuSed than
in the relations bstween the great divisions OF the
United States Tho American republic assinilates
differences Of blood by process 81 rapid that the
parrowest scrutiny can scarcely detect any one OF
it's stages beyond the beginning and the end but,
on the ether hand, it comprises two population
which, as tar as habits, sentiments, and poli.ioa
leanipgs can make them, are two selfcontained
rationaties; ard of these the diversity ia entirely
referable to institution artificial in its character,
removable by positive law, and intTodue ID within
period so recent as to be distinctly cognizable by his
tory The bondage Of the negroesma two nations
Of North and South; circumstances equally fortnst-
GUS, though not equally homogeneous, setting up
an impregnable barrier of manners between East
and West; and now one Of tho deepest and most
hopeless incompGtibiliries Of which people living
under the same aky are capable seems to have been
created by creed not too old for the youngest Of
us to remember its origin in the aof cenvietag i'm
pastures of prohigate vagabopd. The early sue
cess, the subsequent suferings, and the eventual
exodus of the Mormons, were frat laid before the
English reader, in q consecutive narrative, by one
of the special correspondents OF the Morning
Chronicle. His account left them settled on tho
borders of the Great Salt Lake. under the shadow Of
the Rocky Mountains, governed by their own hier
Grchy, practising the rites Of their faith and tho
peculiar social institutions which it sanctions,
cruited in numbers by plentiful acces ons from the
Eastern States and from England, turning the will
deIness into garden by assiduous culture, and
affecting lofty disdan for the gold Of California,
which they were the first to detect among tae gilt.
teripg sands Of their water courses Since them we
have heard Of them at intervals, as claimants for
place within the broad pale CT the republican
government, and as recipients Of the provisional
organization which they had demanded. And now
at last-four years from the break in their history,
they re-appear: in the report Of the United States
Judges to the President of the republic, as ipdug
ing in the licence Of Oriental manners under the
laws of IN Anglo Saxon democracy, as utterly
alienated in feeling from the American govern
ment, obedient to a rule of conduct completely in
consistent with its principle, pilaging its pablo
funds, cutraging it's officers, and earring the me-
moIy of its immortal founder
There is no reason to doubt that, when tho Nor
mons fed from the banks of the Mississippi to their
present settle mente, they believed themselves, after
the type which they keep constantly in view, TO
have escaped for ever into the wilderness from a
moro than Egyptian oppression. When they after
wards solicited ad nittapce int the Union, there
was no want OF complacent remark, on the other
side Of the Atlantic, that native born Americans.
however perverted by creed could never be debased
into Tesignipg their natural pride in the citizenship
Ct the great republic, or their claim TO the other
privileges which 1t confers. Whatever might be
the force Of these motivea among the rank ana file
OF the Saints, it may be taken for granted that
he chiefs Of their hierarchy, never deficient in
pacity or penetration, had discovered that post
ICh 81 III DO eCCohce, IN bls territory Wnl0n tney
occupied, had become un:enahle. They had been
gradually enveloped on ali sides. The riches Of
California, which the Mormons were long careful
TO conceal, had psopled the Pacific seaboard witb
thousands of the most actse and encroaching
spirits among the population from which they had
fled. The cessions Of Mexico had hanked them on
the South with the possessions OF tho republic
Their own settlements were fast becoming regular
station on tho overland route to che gold mines,
and they must have known that, wherever suoh
road was once struck, il was sure to fix the direc
ton Of permanent emigration from the Western
States 1t was impossible but that host OF
strangers should soon invade their borders, laying
claim 10 all the privileges Of tho g Saints" but
disloyal to their government and disdainfui Of
their faith.
1t was probably on o consider alton of all these
dangers that Brigham Young and his colleagues
determined to apply to Congress for law to con-
shtute the settlement territory or provisional
State Still distant and still little cared tor, they
might hope TO get the organization of the new do
pendency entrusted to tho members of the Nor.
mon Church, and thus the very instruments, from
which they feared much might be turned az ainst
the intruders whom they were expecting. The
sch, me seems to have go far succeeded that Brig
ham Young, the person invested by his Church
with the prophetic Office. was named Governor or
Executive Head of the territory; but, uufortu-
pately for the Norm ons-theugh fortunately, per-
haps, for the eventual civilization of the tract
Of country ut the eastern base Of she Rocky Noun
s--the Supreme Court Of the United States,
whose functions always follow and control those Of
executive authority despatched judicial officers to
Utah who had DO original connection With it what
ever. The report OF these gentlemen, drawn up
on their retirement from the territory in disgust,
q cir gulsr record ofmor tidcations heaped on them
selves, and of gross insults offered to the powers
which they represented II is difficult 20 see how the
CENTRAL government, consistently with It's dignity,
can avoid il ficting condign punishment on the
Mormons. They appropriated to the parpeses Of
their Church fund which Congress he'd voted for
the erection of public buildings. They arrested
ar cficial who was ohsrged With the conveyance OF
public moneys in the avoUed design OF coDfscatiDg
them. They contemptuously refused to put in exc
cution the epactmepts Of Congress fundamentally
applicable to the new territory. they selected the
most public and solemn ceremonies 30 occasions Tor
putting sights upen the judges. They openly dis
eEncd the United States government, ano exo-
Grated the nEue of George Washington. Tbs ap.
Isrently grautous folly OF these proceedings,
which seems hardly reconcilable with tho known
acuteness Of the Mormon chiefs, ia no doubt to DO
explained by their conviction, thai il wee better to
brave The vengeance Of the republic than to let
their authority be impaired By the least Difference
to its officers or it's behests Much too OF the VIC
lert language employed is only characteristic Of
the strata OF Ar o-Saxon society from which the
bulk Of the Mormons have been taken. There are,
however, many reflection, suggested by the report
which arc not 80 easily disposed OF.
How is this strange people to be dealt With
That they can ever be ANAL or live IN
peace with the "Gentile" communities which aiD
shortly be rsing on all sides OF them, no one csn
suppose for moment who has thought on the ma
tuIe and tendencies of society whi.a ID based on
poiygamy Indeed, il natural reprls'on could DO
iuhdned, the very ffieBdness which would follow,
coupled with the latitude allowed to individual
action by the American Institutions, would make
the example Of such society peril Of signal i'm
pinoncy and magnitude 1t is fortunate, therefore,
that the antipathes between the MorIaons md their
roighbors must prove urconque rable, ana mus
multiply with co III succeeding goneIstign. InsW.
mouniable political differences VII slorty % ADDED
4hFYa fU % Ia Tod AkaA hf1aa M
California OF Of New York will ever allow their fee
vote to be controlled by the verdict OF community
which, however sincere ITSELF must swGys DO desp0-
ticaly governe d by an ambirousippostGr! Between
their polygpmy, their tanaticism o. their dcpen-
6ence on divinely accredited chief, tho Morllons
exbibitsome singular resemblance to the Mahome-
dan races; and we know from experience that pod.
teal relations between Mahomeda0s mud Christ.
isns have ever proved impossible, except on the
terms OF absolute subsection on ono side or the
ether What, then, Is to be done with the Saints!'