Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-12-03
From the Sacramento Age


q gentleman from Carson Valley who,
from intimacy with Mormon families,
has some knowledge of their future de-
signs and plans of operation. If his
conclusions be correct, not only the set
tiers east of the mountains, but even the
people of this State will have reason to |.
deprecate the evaporation of thosed
American Bedouins. Hesays that Nor
mons of Carson Valley and San Bernar-
dino, have sold their cattle and property
for nearly nothing; and, at the bidding
of their thief, have repaired to Salt
Lake with the secret design OF reorgani-
ing, arning, equipping, returning, muir
dering and plundering their Gentle enc
mics. They declare that, for every
saint slain by the United States troops,
ten Gentle women shall make atone
lment; that they will first exterminate
the troops from the east, then come west,
and, in predatory bands, allied with In
dams, they will ravage the border, rob,
plumber and murder, until they shall
have replenished the Lords treasury
and revengedinsults put upon his chosen
peop ..
Of their ability to execute this threat
we have but little doubt At the order
of their leader and prophet, they can
muster 5000 men, armed with the most
effective instruments of destruction
They have many thousands of the finest
horses, trained to camp-service; they
have foundry where cannon and shells
are cast; a powder-mill and factory;
where revolving rifles and pistols are
manufactured, equal to those made at
Hartford. They have every munition
of war and necessary provision and
means of transportation, within them
selves, and even the women and chill
dren are instructed in the use of arms.
Add to this their geographical position.
To reach Salt Lake from the east it is
necessary to pass through cannon OF
twenty-five miles, under hills so steep
and rocky that a dozen men could hurl
down an avalanche of stones on an APP
preaching caravan; and even in the event
of several thousand troops reaching the
valley, the besieged, with their herds,
would take to the mountains, and, rein
inforced by their savage allies, would,
in turn, besiege their besiegers, and cut
off supplies until the invaders had been
starved out.
They have, it is said, 10000 Indian
allies, whom they are ready to furnish
with arms and horses on emergency
These Indians are partly instructed in
the Mormon religion--enough to make
them superstitious in regard to the God
of a superior race, yet modifying none
of their ferocity With allies like these,
and fighting for their homes; and, ac-
cerding to the belief of the ignorant,
under the direct supervision OF the God
of Battles, and from the ramparts, with
which nature has surrounded them, a
few thousand troops, who travelled a
thousand miles to fight their own coun-
trymen, brave as themselves, as well
armed, better used to field life, and slim
ulated by their love of home and family,
and assured victory blythe revelations
of their prophets
A Southern Defence OF Senator Seward
VIM II. Seward is not after our heart. In
deed he is exactly the reverse. We neither like his
political creed nor the cool calculating backheart-
ed character of the man.-[ Wheeling, Va. Times
We don't put ourselves forward as the
defender of or organ of any man, or set
of men, and our readers will bear us wit
the politics of the day as they 90. We
can therefore easily afford to stop and
rebuke the exaggerated propensity OF
our neighbor of the Times, as manifested
in the above paragraph. It's the fashion
OF the Richmond organs and their echoes
and re-echoes throughout this State to
lose nOopportunityt to asperse the charac-
ter of VIM. II. Seward. His great in
tellect makes him the target of all the
arrows and squibs of the big and little
organs. In the heat of their contempt
for his political affiliations, they do not
hesitate to denounce HIM personally in
such venOmOus paragraphs as the above.
In the main, such paragraphs are the
result of tied-up partyism, which is al.
ways incapable Of enlarged and generous
views Of men on things. We defy the
Wheeling Times, or any other Times, to
put its hand on n single act or single
word of w. ii. Sew ards that has even
the semblance of black heartedness.-
We go farther; we assert that no living
statesman can show a cleaner and more
consistent record. AS a man, he is be-
loved and respected by all those associa-
ted with him. AS a statesman, he has
always stood up for the Union and Con
stitution against all opposition, be it from
the North or South. Whilst he has
maintained, in common with the great
Clay and Webster, the constitutionalty
and policy of non-eXtension Of Slavery.
he has always deprecated and discount
tenanced Garrisonism in the North, in
common with the Toombsism and Keitt-
ism in the South. This is just the sort
of man VIM. II. Seward is.
1t would be well for the Wheeling
Times to avail itself of a cheap edition
of the Congressional. Globe, before it
ventures much farther Uheeling( IIa.)
LtteHigmcer.
New YORK, Nov 30.
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