Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-30
P1osn the Baltimore American.

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/ This IS surely a most unouiet world II the
planetary bodies are indeed i5bsbited and If i. -
gwen 70 their learned astronomers to look down
upon the affairs Of earth With Telescopes far ex-
eeeoing 10 power the enormous lenses of the Earl
VI "osse, these Worthy of science must be in
spiFed with lively disgust for the race of Adam in
consequence OF she continued bloody feuds in which
1 1e AeiuEians are engaged. The Imaginative De
quincy, IN one Of the most brilliant and pictorial Of
his essays has endesvoFed to portray the excite
ihent mat must have been created among the OBJ
serving population Of defiant star by such spec-
taele as the execution of Charlotte Corday or the
maTtyrdOm Of Joan of Arc; and Beranger--in a
very popular song entitled lie Bon Dieu, which TO
E9giish sounds little profsne unless translated as
upiteF'-represents the ruler Of the uDi1eFsa as
+ oeholding with angry impotence the conduct of
!. the occupants Of this terre siral globe Gould we
suppose an outsider regarding at this moment the
operations Of felns as the different sides of the
sphere are seVeray presented TO his view what in
j Glgnatlon might not attribute to his well-or-
oereu intellect as the foies and cruelties OF man
Klnd are successfully brought into his Geld of Wis
loh! AS the great continent of Asia is rolled into
the sunlight, he sees the uhumaniies the conflicts
| the desperation which mark the difficulty between
Ohlna and England; the ball turns little further
ana the burning land Of India exhibits terrestrial
| bell streWed with bleeding and mangled bodies and
peoPied with furious race of demons; anon the
globe slips round bringing under the eye the black
eneo RUNS and DumbeTless graves which lie around
the former site OF Sebastopol, and when it has
MADE malt revolution, there is the continent OF
America full of diabolisms not the least OF which 10
olackness and guilt seems the monstrOus crime and
folly of MormOuism
We published few days ago quite enough of
the latest news from the territory of Utah. embrace
ing extracts from the published addresses of Gov
| Brigham Young, to enable readers to see the
exact condition OF affairs between the Mormons aud
! the Government. Very great disAffe elton towards
the authority Of the United States has been excited
among these misguided people by their unprinci-
pied rulers who now threaten awful things in the
| event that Government troops are marched into
the territory. The follower OF Joe Smith who seems
altogether as vulgar, ignorant and as bold fell
| low as ever pushed fanaticism to disastrous con-
sequences tells Ills disciples that the time rapidly
approaches for the MOTmous to assert their polite.
! al independence, and with much absurd cant about
! destiny he minges the menace of daring the
United States to do It's against people who
are determined 90 die for their rights and their
| creed. 1t is curious to hear from Brigham Young
repetition of that Eastern htasm which is so oft
en- upon the lips of the present Emperor of France
/ and which be Vaunts an Inheritance from the
! great Napoleon. The persistent belief in a star,
which shines over the becouded fate of the Man of
Destiny; at all times and under every condition of
circumstances, still sparkling in the heaven of his
career above the temporary ObscuTity of private
eVolence aud political agitation pausng in serene
! lustre in the zenith during moments of extreme
| peril, and then moving onward, with the march of
/ d UsJesuc ana Oenlgnant orb, IN the pathway OF
| tame-this belief which really impaired a tranquil
assurance to the great CoFsican in all the vicissi-
| tudes OF q stormy and brilliant, glorious and mis-
cradle existence is Whmsically parOdied in the ex-
precision, 1--WE shall live as long as the Lord wants
| Us To- with which the prophet encourages the
saints in the hour of their calamity.
One prophetic terance of tue oracle of the
! MormOns-tie Deseret News-We greatly fear will
be unfortunately realized that il will r uuire vastly
more than $500 men TO bring the disciples to su6-
lection. All history teaches US that the victims of
a religious frenzy utterly reckless of conse-
quences in the support of their Apostle ard ODE
dieBce 70 his edcts and tue turbulent conduct of
these very people, fifteen years ago in Illinois
when the delusIon was yet in its infancy, Guild
warn US Of the necessity OF not despsing them as
enemies. II, in region comparatively settled
and surrounded by all the restraints of cViliza-
ton and law, they could openly defy the authori-
ties OF sovereign State and the officers OF the
Federal Government, aud were forced 70 yield Il
last ouly after most obstinate resistance in the
lace OF cannon planted against their abodes surely
we may expect that they will give US much great
er trouble III the very centre of an immense soil
tude, oegirt by the struggling and rude habations
OF an aboriginal race, fierce hostile 70 civilization
and the natural foe of the very power which
seeks TO bring them to respect its dominion
1es II may call for much greater force than q 500
men to subdue the Mormons if they rise together
IN resolute resistance to the Government, and we
nave every reason, indeed, to suppose that before
this, the flames of war have lighted ND the rolling
plains OF that remote section Of the North Ameri-
can Continent. We may Ind ia Utah an Ameri-
Can Delhi, and il may possibly be necessary for US
to visit its people with vengeance as awful as
that which now hangs over India in the already
lighted matches and heavily charged guns OF the
English army of Invasion. The feeling cannot and
should not be longer suppressed in the American
heart that the great azar-house of moral disease
which the MOrmOns have erected In the western
Wild needs thorough publication before il spread
death around, and while il is a question OF some
dsthculty as TO how far We may interfere to wipe
out the pollution of pOlygamy, there can be no
doubt that 1t Is the duty Of the Government TO zee
that in all cases OF condiet of jurisdictions be-
tween the Territory and the United States in re-
spect OF the polygamous institution, the latter
should prevail.
Il is true, as the Deseret News contends that the
followers OF Brigham Young have done much to
su6Jugate the deserts Of Utah aud to make them
productive OF the means OF subsistence that by fru-
gaIity and labor they have prospered aud multiple
ed out ar better would il be restore the country
70 It's original desoation and resign it forever the
nomade Iodian and the predatory panther, than to
permit IL to be the home OF dangerous tanatiesm
equally mischieVous and abominable threatening |
at once the cause of pure religion and the hopes Of
conservative liberty.
writer in the Southern Literary Messenger, as !
long ago as IS4S, in concluding a very clearly ar
ranged Memoir OF the MOrmons up to their exodus /
IRON Illinois, thus confidently predicted the /
troubles We are beginning 10 experience from them
and what are to be expected hereafter In the event
they are permitted to their own co urse
=" Their future fate is matter OF conjecture only.
Bat Il they thrive and prosper in their new posses
sions-t they adhere 20 their fundamental maxim,
shat the Earth is the Lorj's aud the funess there
Of end bis Saints shall inherit il IF thew seek 10
accomplish this destiny, as they have heretofore
done, whenever they believed their strength ade-
quite 20 the Work-theh the eolonists OF tue Pae-
ma to ~ |
country, what their ielow-eiizeus have experience
ed IN the great Valley of the Mississippi. The en-
grant may encounter, on the broad prsries OF the
west, banditti more formidable than The daring
Csmahches, the weak settlements viii be exposed
70 ineursions not less hafrsssng than those OF the
Semiuoles in Florida and If tie Mormons should
establish themselves 10 strength upon the sea-coast
be commercs of that reg inn may iDd 90 them ru-
mies, as active and reeallrss tbs piratical Ma
ays OF the other Continent"
Germ and EaOgs.