The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-10-02
aSIGNsn PROM sNLT LAKE.

If words are things-ano not mere sound
and fury, signifying nothine-the latest intel.
ligence from Utah (Aug. l3th) indicates a
determination on the part of the Mormon
leaders, to resis: whatever 'ttempts the Fed
eral Government may be inilined to make, to
bring the territory within he sphere of Fed
eral authority. Their journals denOunce our
people, and our institutions, with venom
which can come only fromIa source boiling
over with malice, hatred, ard with uncharita-
| bleness-and unless there be very decided
retreat from the defiant attihdc il has pleased
these troublesome people to assume, it is
difficult to discern how blpodshed is to be
avoided, whenever the government troops,
now en- route for MormoFdom, shall pitch
their tents on the shores Of Salt Lake. The
audacity of these Latter ny Saints, in this
course of proceeding, is all ihe more apparent,
when we reflect that at last two.thirds of
them are foreigners, and Of that two-thirds,
probably one.half are euigrants who came
hither with never the reuotest intention, or
inclination, to swear allegiance 10 the COnsti-
tuition of the United Stats.
The great Beelzebub o this social and po-
litiCal Pandemonium is, undoubtedly, Big
ham Young. He is one f those spirits who
would "rather rule in he than serve God in
heaven" His mastery over the minds of his
disciples is all.powerfnl, AID he knows it, and
if we seek for the secret Pf that mastery, we
shall in all probability discover it in his val
liable professions of devotion to the welfare
of "his people," and u Persistent iteration of
bis hatred of their enemies. If we are to be.
lieve him, the day dreamof his life is 10 es-
tablish a sort Of Independent sovereignty il
Utah-acknowedging tn, supervision of this
government, to be sure-Iut only to degree
that would still leave to lin and his success
sors the supreme contrd of the souls and
bodies of their benighted followers. All his
addresses to the saints present n strange mix
ture of things temporal aid spiritual. Thus,
in speech at Salt Lake City, on the I'd of
August-in reference to The despatch of fed
eral troops to Utah, we have a grotesque
mixing up of earth and Haven.
"SOmetimes my heart Suakes little, my
nerves irembIe in consequence of the great
things that God is bringing forth Do we
realize that they are coming on US, may say,
faster than we are preparing ourselves to meet
them? There is one sigd after another, reve-
lation after revelation. The Lord is lasierl-
ing his work. He is bringing to pass the
sayings of the prophets tster than the peo-
pie are prepared to receive them. You know
that we have often exhoted you to be wide
awake to your duties, to be watchfu and
prayerfu, and to he full Of the Holy Spirit,
lest the Lord should roll on his work faster
than yon could uRdersiand.it.
at would be hard for tn, people TO explain
away the idea that the Government of the
United States is shutting down the gate upon
us, for it is too visible; AMI this is what has
tens the work of the Lord, which you are
praying for every day"
Now, il is not the worR of the Lord at all,
Brigham, but the work lf the Devi--thus TO
be creating an impression that the United
States government is assuming towards your
"people," in order that tiat impression NAV
stir them up to resistance that may cost
them dear. The government, in marching an
army to Salt Lake, is shutting down no gate
no more of "gate" tiAn Gov. Walker has
shut down in Kansas, 10 keep the peace, and
uphold "aw and order there.
The "ndependent sovereignty" idea pro
trudes, prominently entugh-when, farther
on in the same speech, dur High Priest de.
clared,
"The time must comewhen there will be a
separation between this kingdom and the
Kingdoms of this world, even in every point
of view. The time NUT come when this
kingdom must be free AID independent from
all other Kingdoms. A'e you prepared to
have the thread cut todlyH" -.t.
The "time that is to c,me, moreover, is not
afar ofl,-for, said the High Priest
II shall take it us witness that God de-
signs to cut the thread letween us and the
world, when an army undertakes to make
their appearance in this Territory to cbas,ise
ne or TO destroy my life from the earth.
lay it down that right sor at least should be
might with Heaven, with its servants, and
with all its people on tie earth. AS for the
rest, we viii wait little while to see; but
shall take a hostile movement by our enemies
as an evidence that il is time for the thread to
be cut think that we will find three hun
dred who will lap water, AID we can whip out
the Midianites. Brother Ileber said that he
could turn ont his women and they would
whip them. ask no odds of the wicked, the
best way they can fix it,"
Bravo, Brigham! But is there no fear that
in such an encounter Brother Ieber's women
would be-
aI.ike The widows Of Ashur, loud in their vail,
Wien their idols broke in the temples Of Baal."
The troops now on their way TO Mormon
dom have been used to fighting the Indians
some of them-and some the villainous
Mexicans. They are hardy warrors--good
men and true--and vet we confess to some
degree of anxiety to learn how they are going
to manage the "women." Women are bad
things to fight. They generally conquer the
hardest warriors. They conquered Alexun-
der-subdued Pompey-won over Cesar, and
turned the vanguard of Coriolanus into
nothing. There you have us, Brigham-if you
have us at all!
THE WRoxe Person HUNG.-Eliza Flem.