The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-07-12

i whole nation Of Morn,ons, returning
~ lis safe Of leres, animals. But II he
mus, go, he has certainly. goee 20 'ne
right place. They sent him TO NaP.es
where lis doctrine may NEE, with less
abhorrence than in any other pnst oil Inc
civilized world. And all these missions
are multiplied to the creates. possible ex.
,en,--sendlng these unfit men 70 places
where they have nothing 10 DO even y
thew could do anything TO gave
them pay--and where many oil them oy
their vulgari,y and misconduct are exciu,
ded from social intercourse, and connnea
10 the privileges which the treaties secure
to them; and left to the low company
which ,teir manners and taste require.
Twill speak of Uteh, where the fede-
| raj Governmen. is ignored and rspudia-
ted-its laws and authority set at deh-
ance. The term of the Mormon Goyer-
nor, Brigham Young, expired three
wears ago. As he had thrown oil the
authority of tie United States, ii was de-
termined to send him a successor; mil
itary graduate of West Polnt--and Cap
tain S,ep,oe was called from his pleas.
ant quarters 10 go upon the enterprise
When Brigham heard Of II he made
a speech to his peopls, in which he told
them VIA. President Pierce ln'ended,and
what he himself intended lone sending
a new Governor, and the other intending
to repul.e the compliment. II was in
that speech that he said to his people
that he intended to remain IN his place
until the Lord should say to him, Brig
ham, don't rant you 10 be GorerHor q
Utah any longer The Administration
was afraid Of him, and undertook to out
mannuvre him, and that in the highest
style of Yves, Point tactics; they deter
mined to smuggle Steptoe in. For thai
poupose the military Governor was fur.
nished with tatta ion OF soldiers, and
directed to proceed TO the Mormon king
dom, as If he was going 10 California
stop there 10 hyhernate-and, watching
the chance, slip into the governorship
some day when Brigham was out
something like weave that gets into
ano,her's hole when he finds tie occu.
pant gone. VIE heard Of This fine
scheme, said to my acquaintance, ard
can prove tina, said it, for | do no
> indulge in &C post facto predictions,
, that the first tine we should hear oil tins
Governor Steptoe again he would be Oh
= his tiE-'oes, marching to The tune of
: 'Migs, Betty aiar':n, tip-toe fne;' anc
o i, was. For teiore the hy5ernalot
was over, he was on his march in goot
truth 10 California, to return thence Il
the Tn tel States.
Il Blu, there was something else which
). did no, foresee, which was that this mil
, itary governor carried of four dozen o
: the Mormon Betty Martins with him
= to the infinite distress of the saints, pso
ioundly chagrined 10 find themselves s.
. enc ,oched upon by the gentlles. But
. was the last encroachment OF the kind
!. No more of the United States n ltar,
!. have bean there since; and Brigham
v says he has promised the Lord, that
n they come again, he will fix them so tina
9 they will lie, his Betty Martins alone
:. And that was the end OF the attempt, b
$ this administration, TO give q GoyeFno
y to Utah. Brigham holds on TO III
> place, and Mr.. Pierce stands with hand
h off and the scandalous spectacle IS SEE
A Of man assuming to BE- Governor b
i the will Of the Lord, repelling the Juj
! ted States authorities, tlampllrg Tn
| laws under foot, insulting and de.yln
~ the federal government, and no attemI
h is made To reduce hin to law anu oidc
i Such is the ,nsargent condition 81 IT,
:. polygameus Kingdom Of the latter da
V SAINTS. Al! have heard OF this poly
II gamy---a state o. things at y hich mora
IS ny, deeeaey, shame fegolts; and | hav
been told how an institution, so abaorreI
II to human nature, Is kept up, and tia, j,
q by virtue Of lie civil power vested
. Brigham and lis saints, still more the
by his religious power--,hat there al
/, enough 10 oeeauFn tie INSTITUTION II
. was not that ali civil power, as well {
}. the religious jurisdiction, Is in The nam
i oil Mormon authorities, so that the al
!. miuislration is actually responsible TO II
/, moral sense e ne civilized world Tor Ii
r present continuance Of polygamy IN II
r Territory O. Utah.