Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-04-14
miscellaneous.
Mormonism.

Few subjects are more digestive Of specula-
ton, these days. than the one so ably and elo.
quen,y treated in the following article. We
fully agree with the writer that, next to Slavery,
Mormonism now presents the most portents of
trouble; and we have latterly felt inclined to
associate the one with the other, thinking we
can perceive reasons for the belief that they will
yet be united in one power to make war on the
social and political relations of the free States
Ed.
A problem of singular difficulty, and every day
growing more and more portentous, THAN which,
If we excep, African Slavery, none is more diff
cult of solntion,-ls rising in the distant West,
before the American Government and people.
Ere long they will have to grapple with it.
Whether it can be peacefully solved, the future
alone will tell.
A new Territory, carved out If the recent con-
quests from Mexico, stretches from the summit
of the Rocky Mountains on the East, through
thirteen degrees OF longitude, to the land of gold.
A branch of the Indian family, the Paw Utahs,
-roamed its pralres and claimed it as their
own But new tribe and sect, - driven from
State to State, fleeing. before an indignant peo-
pie, from Ohio. from Missouri and Illinois, strug-
Cling with cold and hunger, and encoun,ering
the most fearful hardshps and prlvatons, daring
the ferocious savages that dwelt along their
route, and dragging slowly along their children,
goods and domestic implements, at length make
their tedious way to the home of the Utahs; and
having, as they no doubt supposed, reached an
isolated spot, SO far from all organized society
that they would be free from disturbance for
.ppsay, snsnY years. they set themselves down in
the valley of the Jordan--,n the ".land of the
Honey Bee plant their absurd faith and begin
new nation. Some SIX years have elapsed
since, and the census of the Great Salt Lake
City probably enumerates at this day, some for
ty or filthy thousand people, while in other
parts of the world, two hundred and fifty thou
sand more embrace the Mormon faith. In that
far-of Wilderness so recently known only to the
l,occasln the arts are hourishiDg in a high de-
gree. Woolen factories, 10 be supplied by fee
ces from the Jordan valley,-sugar manufac,o-
ries, to be fed with eets,-potleries and cutlery
establishments send their hum through the as
tonished land. No such noise did it expect TO
hear for half century to come. On Ia mountain
terrace. overhanging The city, the site Of con-
templaled university is already laid out and en-
closed Schoo.houses are springing up, and
are supplied with competent teachers from a
central Normal School. Gigantic preparations
are in progress to build Temple, which is in
tended to surpass every existing or historic struc.
ture in spender and magnitude. The city is
laid out on a scale Of magnificent proportions tc
, which, hitherto, the world has been a stranger
. "a scale corresponding with the breadth o.
r territory on whose bosom they dwell, CORES.
ponding with heir expectations of growth, ant
, compared with wlch the narrow avenues of mod
ern and ancient cities, are not mere mathemat
cal lines already, three miles in breadth ant
four in length, its streets are regularly dia
grained, each eight rods wide with side walk
Of twenty feet,-every block forty rods square
. containing eight lots of an acre and a quartz
each and every tenement obliged by law to re
treat twenty feet from the front line, to max,
. room, for delightful margin of shrubbery an,
u trees. A perennial stream flows through tn
: city, and pours its pure waters down both side
1T every street, and carries irrigation to thei
T. bouneous gardens. A warm spring bubble
y from the mountains, and following the pipes
reaches public bathing g-house. A soil of exu
berant productveness stretches around then
Comparatively little solicitation is necessary ftor
the hand of man to bring its grains and fruits I
maturity. Twenty miles to the northwest slun
ber the heavy waters of the great Salt Lake
This vast body of the purest brine, so densel
|. mpregnated that men cannot sink IN it, if the
a try,--flls basin of thirty by seventy miles, an
5. will, doubtless, be the scene of The exhaustles
), salt manufacture for those future generation
that will nhabit the Immense domain bewee
" the Rocky Mountains and the sea. Already
United States mail route reaches from the cit
n to San Diego on the Pacific coast, near whc
the Salt Lake MormoDs have, thus early, estat
ished colony. Other and outpost settlement
are planting around them, on the Weber an
rimpanagos. Mormon missionaries are proys,
lyting the world, and converging their conver
" to the new City of Utah. The unconquerab
mountains of Wales are sending their hardy sol
or to preach and practice the Mormon creed in III
Western world. And here, between the Rock
Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, over eleye
all hundred miles from San Francisco, and abo
of two thousand four hundred miles from the cit
ir- of New York, rapidly grows this ncipient cor
alf munity, y,-bound together by burning enthus
st. asm and common faith, compacted BY pers
tie cuions, welded by the necessity of self suppt
,p- and lfdefence,-its founder sot, and it's |
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