Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-04-29
Correspondence Of the National lntelligencer.
THE MORMONS-THE MILITARY POWER
AND POLITICAL PURPOSES OF THE NOR


MONS.
GENTLEMEN: From military order recently pub.
lished in your paper, infer that.a division of the
United States army is to move into Utah. This
news will be hailed with joy by thousands Of Amer
lean citizens in every State and Territory of the Con-
federacy, who have suffered directly or indirectly
by the merciess outrages of the Mormons, commit
ted while quietly pursuing their toilsome journey
overland to Oregon and California. Every indignity
has been offered to emigrans, every species OF pro-
perty stolen, and every species of crime has been
committed. the Federal laws have been trampled
in the dust, Government officials set at defiance,
menaced threatened and insulted; juries have been
influenced, and the ends of justice thwarted the
free. All this did not satisfy them, but they must
enter the hall Of records and publicly burn the arch
ives of the Territory.
Now, as evidence of their inveterate hatred to
Americans and every thing pertaining to America,
land these sentiments are constantly taught and
preached,) | will cite as follows:
A Gentle shall not board in my family, and if one
of my houses rented TO Gentle, after the time
had expired would burn it down! That's the doc
trne .1ededah II. Grant.
ia Gentle were boarding in my family, and
should bow down to pray, and the Gentle or heath
en- should hesitate, would say to him, bow down,
you devil! That is the doctrine, and l know it;
and any who shall oppose it shall be destroyed.
HeJer G.. EimbaM
Their religious tenets may be inferred from the
following:
believe in marrying brothers and sisters be-
lieve in the pre- existence of man that Adam and
Eve the parents of all men, spiritually and phys
ically; that all the saints Of this dspensation will
be resurrected by Joseph Smith, Jr. If | am ever
saved, l expect to be saved by and through the
atonement of Joseph Smith!
Brigham Young.
Were my daughter to marry Gentle. would
save her in this kingdom, namely, cut her throat,
from ear to ear. Brigham Young.
Their advocacy of internal improvements may be
inferred from the following:
Mr.. Lee, who pilot,d the government troops
through on that route (sou,h SIDE Of Great Salt
Lake, last Spring, QS54,) wished to publish book
"a guide of the route but prevailed on not to
do it, as the Presidency there Carson Valley did
not wish the emigration to pass that way.
Objects of the Missionaries Most Of the former
Missionaries will be called home. They will be sent
all among the Indian tribes to teach them agricu-
ture, the mechanic arts, and military tactics.
Brigham Young.
Means of defense We have the self loading
twenty four repeating rife the Minnie rife, Brown
ings revolving five shooting rifle and pistol, and
revolving cannon or feld-pece. Elder lens.
All the above-named iirea arms. powder, ball, &C.,
are in process Of secret manufacture.
What the Indians are expected to do;-lt (he
United States mail, may come this way while yet,
they (the InGians) wish to cut Oft the mail going
from mere! Elder Purkins.
The Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes have band.
ed together against the Genties to the number of
3 900 warriors.
Walker, Chief Of the Utah Indians.
The Lamanites OIndians) arc the battle-axe of the
Lord in the hands of the Mormons.
Mormon Bible.
There is more union in the Masonic Order than
any other except the Mormon.
He5er C. KIm6aU
The right of private search by "rogues keys" is
peculiarly characteristic order Of the Mormon.
Memoranda.
The law and the prophets:
A kingdom can exist acihin Republic.
Brigham Young.
No one was ever known to dissent from the uiU
Of Brigham Young. Orsor Pratt.
What may be expected:
If government officers ever interfere with wo
men again, will cut hei, threats from ear to ear.
brigham Young.
division of the United States Army shall never
winter in this valley again. Brigham Young.
The above quotations taken from of
information collected in 1S54-55, during nearly
years stay in Utah, all of which came under my
personal observation, and was noted at the time it
was spoken. have been thus particular in MOTTO
ing these quotations, that the public may know up.
on what is based the conclusions that follow.
The Mormon priesthood is consolidated system
Of Police, compounded from the old Aaronatic, Le-
by the name of 1.-THE Church of the Latter Day
Saints of Jesus Christ" Brigham Yourg is the
Prophet. Priest and King Of the Saints. His acil is
law; he is the vcegerent Of God, deriving authority
directly from Him, which is absotute whenever he
says " thus saith the Lord" Brigham stands upon
the shoulders of his two councillors they stand
upon the shoulders of the other ten apostles they
stand upon the shoulders of the high priests they
stand upon the shoulders of the bishops; they stand
upon the shoulders of captains of fties and
ties they stand upon the shoulders of elders; they
stand upon the shoulders of the lay members of the
church; they stand upon the shoulders of the la.
boring masses who till the soil which supports the
pile. From his towering height Brigham issues
forth his edicts to the people, and with the scorpion
lash of his serpent tongue he lashes every one
into silence No one acdS kn0lcn to dissent
from his uiM" The entire fraternity is bound to-
gether oy oaths the most solemn to support the
church. and nothing but the church, and every man,
woman and child is constituted police officer al
whenever any thing of sufficient interest occurs to
justify it, From this you will not fail to perceive
that the church firm is but closely compaced sys-
tenn of police having head from which it derives
all power, and body forming a nucleus around
which are gathering the ignorant, the supcrsttous,
the bigot, the outlaw and the disafected of all coun-
tries in the world, who are taking refuge, as they
suppose, under the wings Of the angel of the last
dispensation. However deluded the great mass of
their followers may be, the leaders not deluded
but are knaves from choice, wlully misleading the
masses for the purpose of obtaining and welding
power, boldly predicting the overthrow of the Re-
public, when they will resume the reins of govern
ment, and proclaim Mormonism to the benighted
tons of the world
Every species of information is studiously kept
from the people, except their own doctrines, which
so ingenious and fascinating that they bewilder
rather than enlighten, till the feeble mind becomes
lost in the ofmetaphysical theories and look
ing around for anchor of@safety, despair
ing falls PROSTATE at the feet of the monster mplor
ing him, in the language of scripture, Il believe;
help thou my belief"