Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-05-24
nEAurrEs OF meRmoNrsM.

Among party Of nine hundred Mormonsi
who recently left comfortable homes in Eng.
land, to surrender themselves to the sway oi
Brigham Young and his hopeful associates,
came two girls, whose transfer 10 the Utah
land Of denominations has very much the chat-
acter of kidnapping. The story OF their
Hight, as related in the English papers, Is as
follows: Their father was n man in middle
life, well to do and industrious. His labors
had placed his family, consisting ofs wife and
several children. in a state of decent compt.
tenee and happiness. Satan came among
Them in the guise of Mormon emissary, and
beguled the eldest son, who made Pilgrim
age to the land of rogues. True TO their In.
stncta the crafty elders Of Salt Like mnGc
Mormonism so delightful TO the neophyto.
and advanced him SO rapidly in their frates-
nifty, that he returned o England as preach.
er of the delusion. The father, whose EN-.
ployment took him away from his family FOX
periods OF week at time, returned to The
house one Saturday from business excursion
to find it deserted. lis whole family had
disappeared, with whate7er por;ables they
could lay hands upon and his wife had sto-
len his money to no inconsiderable amount
all that she could collect OF pilfrr Ho ire.
ced the fugitives to Liverpool, and reached
that place to discover that they had embark
ed, under the psrsuasinns Of his Mormon shH,
in an emigrunt ship. the Enoch Train. Tbs
distracted father Chartered a steam tug, and
taking with him police Officer, overtook the
vessel. A fter an infinite deal OF persuasion
cided by the master of the ship. snd opposed
By the Mormon leaders he succeeded in in.
ducing his wife 20 go back with him. He 81.
SO, as u matter Of great favor, cb,aned the
surrender Of his infant children. Bui his tive
eldest daughters refused TO return with their
Al. q, IL
without them. Their fate going thus un-
protected to Utah may we'll cause shud.
der.
4 community thus rep!enished is maturing
measures to apply for admission as one of the
States Of this coafederacy. We were never
among those who calculated the value oe
the Uuion.' or who dreamed that the posi-.
bIlity Of its being sundared was among con-
tingencies to be considered in any case. Bat
the possibility that our fathers may hav0
fought TO establish shield for community
Of adulterers and bigamsts, and their proge-
ny. makes us pause. That all which we bold
sacred IN religion, or virtuous in social and
family relations, may be tranpled under foe.
by State represented on equal terms with
those founded by Penn and the Pilgrims. by
| Oglrthorge ana the Cavaliers that the Old
Dominion and the land OF the Puritans may
be allied with a fraternity OF lcentious and
debauched rogues-these possibilities. should
they become facts, will leave no value to the
| Union for any body to calculate" Nothing
has cast so great a'donbt over the future Of
this country AS the, Mormon plague spot
| And if the State of Utah is TO he admitted
| into onr eoristei lation. the sign will lose its
present proud significance, understandings
stars sometimes do in an eduivodue-the rep-
resentativ"s OF something too foul to lie spo.
| ken or written