The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-28

nois, and their long and dreadful journey TO
the Great Salt Lake, took place in 1876, and
our readers will remember that their first crops,
spon which the advanced guard Of the colony
and the main body Of the community in the
rear, depended for the ensuing winter, were
assailed by the crickets-great google eyed,
CYook.hgged, bottie-bodied Misunderstanding
the green fields to the ground, and leaving
track behind them az blank as if wasted by
fire. II will also be remembered that when the
Saints were in despair these orickets were dis
covered by the little white gulls which breed
among the islands OF the lake, and that they
came out from those islands every morning,
and kept up the war upon the crickets during
the day, and from day to day,
From morn till dewy eve,
until the crickets were destroy ed, and the crops
were saved The Saints looked upon these
little gulls as miraculous interpretation for
their deliyerance, and they could scarcely re-
gard them in any other light.
Since that day the Mormons have been
troubled but little with crickets or grassh0p-
pers. On the other hand, they have had a suo-
cession of bountiful crops; they have multiplied
by immigration and reproduction beyond all
precedent; they have established aourishing
branches of the parent colony in all the oasesof
the great desert basin, over an area of three hum
dred thousand square miles, Yet they are isolated
by dreay wastes and frightful and desolate
mountains, thousand miles from the frontier
white settlements on the East, and from five to
eight hundred miles from the whites of Califor-
mis-; while on the north and on the south they are
fanked by an illimitable wilderness Of volcanic
mountains and sandy deserts. Thus cut Off and
inaccessible to outside relief, there can be no
other alternative to the Mormons, with the de-
struction of their crops of single season, than
large emigration in search of bread, or star
walton if they refuse to move. There is no
security against the return Of these crickets
and grasshoppers in still larger swarms next
year, and in the event OF such calamity the
second time, the extinguishment Of Mormon
dom must inevitably follow. Neither the gov
eminent nor private charity in the States can
subsist for single winter community of fifty
thousand people removed from six hundred to
thousand miles from any extraneous supplies
and any available means OF transportation.
Thus 1t will be seen that the ravages of these
grasshsppers and crickets in Utah involve the
contingencies fife and death to the Mormons-
removal Or starvation; and considerations Of the
highest Importance to the whole American PEG
pie, and our enlightened and Christian institu-
tions. Mormondom 10 to us a living stigma anda
reproach; and yetit appears that the government
cannot reach it. II is squatter sovereignty
carried to RIGHTEOUSNESS but still it is squatter
sovereignty. 1t claims to be areligion, and ours
is country Of religious liberty especially in the
Territories. If, therefore, this unexpected ca
lamity which has fallen upon the Mormons
should result il driving them beyond the seas,
or in breaking up their organization, and in
dispensing its members among our own people,
subject to the laws and usages Of American 80
ciety, the result will be general and per1na-
nent good at the expense of temporary and
local misfortune.
Meantime, if their crops Of the present year
should be destroyed, let the Mormons who
would not perish prepare for emigration
and let their Prophet make up his mind to
disbend his society, and recommend its dis
persion and fusion among our people, subject
TO the laws and restraints which govern them
OF order the necessary steps for a general exc
das to some of The South Sea islands, where the
earth and the skies are more bountiful, and
where the Saints win cease to be reproach
and nuisance to :heir neighbors.
FouRIERIsM AT AucTIoN-THE LAST OF THE