Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-08-09

disagreeable. If it involves practical advan.
tages, it will be ao cepted with eagerness.-
Let a Christian minister and a Mormon
missionary stand side by side, and compete
for disciples among the workmen Of Man.
chester, or the rabbe Of Paris; let the one
preach repentance, the other emigrstion; the
one exhort to self-denial, the other proffer
unrestricted license; the one promise heaven,
the other free fern on the praries, and an
eternity of sensuality hereafter, and there
can be no doubt which would be the most
successful. As to the immortality Of the
Mormons. SO far from repelling men, it is'the
most powerful attraction to them. Any re.
ligious sham which offers indulgence to vice.
and impuni'y to sin, will be considered very
reasonable. IT, in addition, ii secures good
living, with little toll, it will be exceedingly
successful! in winning proselytes. No scheme
can be more ridiculous, more grossly shocking
to common sense, than Mormonism but none
has been 50 successful. We do not know the
numbers of those people, but they are nu-
merous enough to send out and support seve-
raj hundred missionary agents, all Of whom
are Justly at work to procure emigrants to
one chosen place of assemblage, where,
covered from the public eye by distance and
an interposing wilderness, they are maturing
means and plans in entire security.
The United States are nursing on their
territories brood of serpents. which will
soon be too formidable 10 be crushed. We
say nursing. for we have not only permitted
them to occupy our lapd bu, have coun.
tenanced them by actually appointing the
chief CT the tribe governor of the territory,
and thus investing his denomination with
the authority OF our sovereignty, and one of
their dirty clan has been permitted to sit in
Congress. We have been entirely patient
under their insults. We have permitted
them to drive away our officers, and at this
day they reign in undisputed sovereignty
over a large and fertile territory of this
Union, and are impudently inviting the vag.
abonds Of ali Countries to make their homes
there. Most Of these people are fugitves.-
1t is impossible that they can have any 10y.
atty to the American Union, and it is shame
ful that they should have ever been recogni-
zed as lawful community.
But the MOrmons will apply to the next
Congress for admission into the Union -
We are asked to take into the fellowship Of
the States Mormon sovereignty; to admit
to entir Q eq uality with us an assemb'age of
the worst men ever combined for evil; to
complete which the very offal of Europe and
American Seastiness has been carefully
scraped together. We are asked to take into
a union of Christian states, another state.
worse than heathenish; to bring into confed-
eracy of people united for the lawful pur-
poses of life, set of reckless conspirators
against all social good; an armed Sand,
strengthening themselves for plunder; peo-
PIE among HON perjury, robbery, adultery.
murder, and treason, are the fruits of faith;
the violation of every commandment of God,
compatible with good conscienc, and COM
mon decency, the most uncommon of all
accidents.
1t is strange that any man, not himself a
Mormon, cun desire such union ss this
We are cunfederated for strength, but what
strength will thesel obominabIes bring with
them! Could we trust them in war, eve n if
we had the battles to fight! We are con-
federated for counsel, for the interchange of
feeling, for the expansion Of civil and re-
ligous liberty; in short, for all great political
social and humane purposes. What advan.
tage would an alliance with mass of moral
corruption be to us!
But it is said that we have no right TO ex-
clude them. That is, that any horde of
ruffians from any quarter OF the world may sit
down upon our unoccupied lands, appropri-
ate the inheritance of our children, establish
themselves in opposition to all that we hold
sacred, and after having grown numerous by
attracting the floating blackguardism of the
world, may demaud TO be recognized as a
sovereign state, with full power to regulate
its domestic concerns; nay, established polyg-
amy, ordain "cyprain saints" trample Ameri.
can somen to the utmost depth of degradation
in short. may outrage all decencyebefore God
and man, and we must yet call them brethern,
and sit in counsel with them, own them be-
fore the wcrld IS our ccuntrymen, and defend
them against the insulted honour of mankind!
This is sheer nonsense. The constitution Of
the Upited States gives Congress the right
to sdmt new states; it does not require Con-
gress to do it. 1t leaves it to the judgment
and feelings of the country to determine
whom we will admit into our partnership. No
people have any right to be admitted into :he
Union; it is a valuable boon which We can
grant or refuse at will.
The Christian religion is the acknowledg'
ed religion of this country. Our fathers did
not make this article Of the constitution
They would not have degraded the national
faith in God by making it even apparently
dept nd upon an instrument subject to change.
They no more th' ught of recognizing God by
statute, than they did the sun, or earth, the
sea, or sky. The existence of the national
faith was truisn, upon which the cons'itp'
tion itself was to be maintained. Yes, BY
the fear OF God men were to be sworn tc
keep it inviolate. In those days the mao who
would have questioned whether this were 4
Christian nation, would have been treated a;
a fool. He would at most have been pointed
to the times OF the Gate OF the instrument
"in the year Of cur Lord" and asked tn,
meaning of those words. As a Christian ma
ton can we conse mt to take ahti-Christia
states into the Unon' The object Of tn
, Union is our own good. In the preamble t
, the constitution, it is declared to be its pul