The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-06-18

BRIGHAM YOUNG AND MoRM0NIsM.-lhe lecture %
John HYDE, Jr., on Brigham Young and Salt Lake
CITY. at DR.. Lacy's Church, last evening, was nu'her-
Msly ATTENDED. After some general remarks upon
the interest or curiosity felt by people in remarkable
and eccentric men, especially when III high poSluonS'
the lecturer invited his audience to accompany hHn
in imagination across the Sierra Nevada, anu through
Carson Valley to Utah and Salt Lake City. lie gave
graphic and beautiful descriptions of Carson Sa!Iey'
the Plains, Salt Lake and the great city OF the oaintSc
The lake he described as 1000 feet above the lever Oh
the sea. 70 miles long and so broad, and so salt that
three gallons of it boiled down would deposit one OF
salt. He said that a negro bathing in 1t, would come
out perfectly white with an lncrustatlon OF SAT-, ne
mentioned that myriads Of grasshopperS Whlch hau
been blown into it, had been thrown upon the shore
perfectly imbedded and preserved in crystals OF salt.
The specifc gravity of the water was so great lnaV
the human body could not sink, and suicides oy
drowning in it were impossible.
Salt Lake City contains SIX square nllleS ehcloeeu
with 4 wall. An kinds of manufactures are carried
on and all kinds of industry that can conduce to con-,
fort and wealth are prosecuted there. Flty tnouSanu
people, the most industrious IN the world hVeu III Ih"'
city, shut out from the world, believing themselves
nprsecuted by the world, and ruled with n despotlc
power by Brigham Young, the Prophet; fiim the
lecturer described as u tall, stately, well-dresSed, po---
lite and shrewd man. ShreWdneSS ana strength OF
mind were Brigham's distinguishing characteristics.
He had q faculty of governing and leading weaker
men, and of getting rid of stronger and more danger
Gus ones by sending them on missions to preach the
Mormon doctrine to the heather. Brigham Is over
so years of ace, and seems TO be so worn down by
his godly labors that his stomach can bear nothing
stronger than bread and milk. He says the Mis-
sourians spoiled his appetite, and that - Uncle sam,
the old cusS,' gave him great trouble. Nnen aSkeu
whether he did not fear the fate OF Joe Smith, he an
swered that the day of sacrifice was over: that he
always wore his revolvers, and rs for killing MN,
that could not be DONE no! 10y the Eterha' no:
said Brigham.
The lecturer gave a number of the prophets vulgar
and impious, but favorite modes of expression, and
expanded on his claims to inflllibility, and how
Brother kimbaIl, the lick-spittle, had preached that
a mans soul was as safe in Brigham's hands rs IN
those of the Almighty. The lecturer described the
prophets wives and establishments, ana the great
immortality and indecency of the system IN which SO
many people lived, and so many children were being
educated. He finally cane to the means to stop the
progress Of Mormonism, and maintained that 1t could
only be done by opening the great avenues OF travel
through the middle OF the continent, ana allowing the
food of civilization and enlightenment to flow through
that benirhted country. Persecution and physical
force could never overcome MormOnisn; 1t was Il
moral evil, which n moral remedy alone would be
able to overcome. Thousands of MormOns were ready,
IS soon as fitting opportunities should present, to
leave Utah and renounce their errors; but they were
shut up in their mountains, and nursed their infatua-
ton because they had no hope in anything else.
The Pacific railroad would carry off and disperse the
bad humors Of this social gangrene. The MormOns
would never go to civilization; civilization would have
to 90 to them.
Mr.. Hyde gave notice that he had devoted his life
to waging war against MOrmonism; that he purposed
going on TO Washington to lay his knowledge and
views before Congress and the American people, and
then going to England, his native country, and
laboring to stop the proselytism in it's favor. The
doctrines Of MorInonism are so silly and absurd that
a serious attempt to argue against or confute them
looks ridiculous; but as there are fools enough in the
world to swell Utah into q State, that may become
troublesome and even dangerous to its neighbours, we
can wish success to Mr.. Hyde in his mission. The
Mormon superstition, as he truly says, commends
itself to the depravity of many human hearts, and If
he can arrest its progress by peaceful means, we can
we'll wish him God speed IS. +. Bulletin.