The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-04-06
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~ peaphk Ers lanI they viii have % grapple
uiah s.. Whether il can b peacefully solved,
the future alone can tell.
A new Territory, carved out Of the recent
conques,s from Mexico, strstches from the sum-
p,it Of the Rocky Mountains on the East,
through thirteen degrees of longitude, to the
land Of gold. A brach Of the Indian family
the Pah- Utahs-roamed its praries and claimed
il az their own. But a new tribe and sect
driven from State to State, fleeing, before an
indignant people, from Ohio, from Missouri and
Illinois, struggling with cold and hunger, and
encountering the most fearful hardships and
priva,ions, daring the ferocious savages that
dwelt along their route, and dragging slowly
along their children, goods aud domestic mple-
ments, at length make their tedious way to the
home Of the U,ahs and having, as they no
doubt supposed, reached an isolated spot, % tar
from oil organized society that they would be
free from disturbance for many, many years,
thew set themselves down in the valley Of the
Jordan-in the s.land of the Honey Bee"-plant
their absurd faith and begin new nation
Some six years have since elapsed, and the
census Of the Great Salt Lake City probably
cnumeraies, at this day, some forty or fifty thous
and peop!e-while in other parts OF the world,
two hundred thousand more embrace the Nor
mon faith. In that far off wilderness so recently
known only 10 the moccasin, the arts flourish
ing in a high degree. Wooden factories, TO be
supplied by feeces from the Jordan valley
sugar manufactures, Ia be fed with beets-pot-
teries and cutlery establishments, send their
hum through the astonished land. No such
noise did it expect to hear for half century to
come On mountain terrace, Overhanging the
city, the site of contemplated university is
already laid out and enclose. School houses
are springinq up, and are supplied with CON-
pe,ent teachers from central Normal School.
Gigantic preparations are in progress to build
a Temple, which is intended to sarpass every
existing or historic structure in sPlendor and
magnitude. The city is laid out on scale OF
magnificent proportions, to which, hitherto, the
world has been a stranger-a scale correspond
ing with the breadth of territory on whose
bosom they dwel-corresponding with their
expectations of growth, and compared with
which the narrow avenues of modern and an
cient cities, but mere mathematical lines
already, three miles in breadth and four in
length, its streets are regularly diagramed each
eight rods wide with side walks Of twenty feet
every block Az rods square, containing eight
lots Of an acre and a quarter each, and every
iene nent Obliged by law to retreat twenty feet
from the front line, to mike roora for delight
full margin of shrubbery and trees. A perennial
stream flows through the city, and pours it's
pure waters down both sides Of every street,
and carries irrg ,ton to their bounteous gar
dens A warm spring bubbles from the noun
,ains, and f,llowing the pipes, reaches public
bathing house. A soil ofexuberant productive
ness stretches around them. Compare lively
little solicitation is necessary from the hand OF
man to bring its grains aud fruits TO perfection
and maturity. Twenty miles 10 the north
west slumber the heavy waters ofthe grea, Salt
Lake. This vast body OF the Purest brine-s,
densely impregnateL that men cannot sink in
it, if they try-flls basin Of thirty by seventy
miles, and will, doubtless, be the scene Of thr1
exhaus'less salt manufacture for ih'se future
generations that will inhabit the immense do.
main between the Rocky Mountains aud the
sea. Already United States mai, route reach
es from this city to San Diego on the Pacific
coast, near winch the Salt Lake A1ormons have
thus early, established a colony. Other and
outpost settlements are planting around them, on
the Weber and the 1inpanagns Mormon
missionaries PROSECUTING The world, AID con-
verging their converts 10 the new Cry Of Utah.
The unconquerable mountains of Wales are
sending their hardy sons t. preach and practice
the Mormon creed in the Western World And
here, between the Rocky Mountains and the
Sierra Nevada, over eleven hundred miles from
San Francisco, and about two thousand fnul
hundred miles from the City Of NV Yerk, rap
idly grows this ncipient communication To-
gelIler BY burning enthusiasm and a common
faith, compacted by prosecutions, welded by the
necessity Of seli-suPport and self detencc,-its
founder SGT, and its Bible iheft--one of the
st:anyest phenomena to which the present, or
any age, has gwen BIRTH. How far was it from
the thou hts OF tue minister, Snninon Spaldng,
when at Cherry Valley, in this ate, he com
posed his imaginary history called the "Manu-
script Found that it would be seiz d by an
ignorant aud RUTHLESS drunkard, proclaimed to
have been engraven on golden plates, become
the Scripture Of new and numerous sect-in
thirty years trail 800, 900 zealots in is wake
count its wor shippers in England, Germany,
sSwepler,,a in the ,n.,nntain iasiness OF Wales,
in Normandy, the East Indies and the Sandwich
Isles--and found great City and State in that
territory, which, at the Time he wrote, the foot OF
white man had ne yer trod.
But grave questions are arising, and will here
after arise, between the Mormons and US. How
shall we tolerate their too defiant bearing and
the introduction of those items Of the social
creed which are in hostility to our laws, and re-
pagnant to our sentiments OF morality and
social order9 Who shall yield, they or we p
Will persuasion conquer their stubborn doctrine.
aud gentle WORDS exterminate poygamy, or
must that principle become engrafied upon
American Institutions Can Federal laws reach
them, and if not, is it not quite clear that the
laws Of the State Of Utah, will be moulded by
the Mormon will? The outside population can
never overtake them. There they are, in the
path TO our Pacific possession, pcrchance in the
very line Of the Atlantic and Pacific Railway
soon to be brought into intimate communion
with oar Eastern popalaIcn--a figure, per-
,nanence. perpetuty-sP79 d,ng with unex-
tant cou116ess and ready tsuphold every tenet
Of their slJlhge faith with; argument aud blood
To reconcile and harmoife this incongruous
creed with freedom Of coRSe;ence and American
institutions, 70 prevent suc!f stain al polygamy
from darkening our. NJ fional escuicheon, and at
the same time to avoS thtsanyuinary results
OF civil war, are desifsble achievements, the
way and mode Of which en- yet concealed from
the wisest spectators in AemaR events.