The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1854-11-04


WAS very amusingly written, and filed a
very prominent position in that portion OF
our paper the first rsge) which, rs Judge
NJ. was, won, to say, the country press ap>
pronria,ed to love and snake stories We
did not know at the time that the scene OF
the sketch was so near to us, and much less
did wo expcc, that the Mormon Parson
alluded to would pay us yis'i, bus, to
our surprise, this gentleman tMr. Martins
dale) called upon us on Tuesday last, and
in the conversation which subsequently
/ followed, Informed us Of the fact
Mr.. Nartindale is man Of pleasing adj
dress, OF more than ordinary shrewdness
and plausibHity, and well versed in the
/ Scriptures. We are not at all surprised at
I the spread of Mormonsm with the aid Of
such men, particularly in the moro popalons
portions of thu United States and in I'm.
rope. coupled as it is. with glowing de>
scrip,ion Of Utah, as a land of beauty,
prodnctiycness and health, and represented
as filed with people contented and happy
Mr. NJ. visited Marshall, as he informed
us, by invitation to preach to our citizens,
I but as a house could not be procured, there
not being vacant building OF sufficient
size in the place, except the churches and
court house, which could not be obtained
he had to leave withou, carryu G out the
purpose for which he came
lie spent a portion OF Wednesday in our
office. and communicated a nnmber Of facts
in relation to the Mormon faith, which were
new to us, and consequently interesting, Il
for nothing else, from their novelty (liow
prone We all are to run after everything
that is new > If Nr. Martiudale, man
evidently of strong miud and vigorous in
telleet, is sincere (which we have no right
to question is it astonishing that so many
thousand Others are carried away by this
delusioui
But what startled US mast, in the reyela,
lions of Mr. NJ, is the rapid growth OF
Normonism, and the gigantic movements
on foot to disseminate it throughout the
world. according to his statement. they
number over SO 900, and there are 20 600
missionaries now abroad, distributed over
half the globe, engaged IA the business OF
winning proseytcs to the order, 1t Is their
policy to &c, all who acknowledge their
faith, to move to the new land OF promise.
There is a fund OF S35 900, he says 10 aid
there. The population OF Utah is now
about 30 900 the accession this year, from
immigration, is estimated at from five to
seven thousand. 1t will be recolleeted that
tbs territory, on one side, is thousand
miles from the Missouri settlements, wh,le
on the other, It Is seven or eight hundred
miles from the Pacific. In the ordinary
course OF events, these people are likely &c
remein q long time undisfufbed. Popula'
ton usually doubles Itself in twenty five
years with the many wives policy OF the
MotmOns. il is not unreasonable "a suppose
that not much more than a fourth OF that
time will he necessary to produce such q
result But suppose that ten years will
earse aud we have population OF 10000
Add to this an annual increase from imml>
grafton of 1900, and we have 10000 more
for the ten years ; or a total OF 10000
But, suppose that instead of ten, twenty OF
thirty years elapse, before this country is
connected with the Mississippi by railroad.
Who is prepared to conjecture, much less
to estimate, the extent OF It's population,
resources, and wealth
1t is time that we were beginning to
realize the idea OF this gigantic power,
erecting itself in the wilderness between
the Msslssippi and the Pacific. Salt Lake
IS already city of 1900 inhabitants, and
laid off to contain populatio as large as
the Mormons may desire. Nor do we see
any mode OF arresting the progress OF this
order They have certainly n right, under
the Constitution, TO worship God after their
own manner, and not only to take Joseph
Smith for a prophet, but to set up rs many
more as they may see proper. And II the
Cass doctrine Of squatter sovereignty,
which is endorsed by the leading democrats
OF the North, and by many in tn, South, DO
asseuted to, they have certainly right to
regulate for themselves their own institu-
tons, and consequently to recognize that
OF marriage rs may suit themselves, and to
permit man TO have as many wives as he
pleases II is this political herosy, and the
fact that it has been the policy OF Congress
OF late years, to make no distinction be.
tween the alien foreigner and our own
people. IN the territories, which has given
the Mormons their grea, strength in Utah.
Under this doctrine and policy, they are
destined to increase in power, and to grow
up, with their system Of poiygamy. a vast
incubus, which nothing can remedy. The
evil has gone on until it is even now, per,
hans too vast and too vemnte In he