The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-12-02
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MORMON atld INDIAN ALLIANCE
--TWenty thousand Ind iaus ready
| 20 take the feId against the Uui-
ted States Troops Women 20 he
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Yesterday We had an interview with a gem
1 tleman from Carson Valley who, from intimacy
with Mormon families, has some knowledge Of
| the future designs and plans Of operation. IL
his conclusions be correct not only the settlers
east Of the mountains but even the people OF this
State will have reeson to deprccate the exosper-
alton Of those American Bedouius He says
that the Mormohs of Carson Valley and San
/ Bernardino have sold their cattle and property
for nearly nothing, and at the bidding OF their
chief have repaired to Salt Lake, with the secret
design OF ofre-organizing arming, eguipping, re-
turning, numbering and plundering their Gentle
enemies. They declare that for every Saint
slain by the United States troops ten Gentle
women shall make atonement; that they will
first exterminate the troops from the east. then
come west and in predatory bands, allied with
Indians, they will rayage the border, rob, plum
der and murder, until they shall have replemsh-
cd the Lords treasury and revenged the insults
Tut on his chosen people.
O(their ability TO execute this threat we have
but little doubt. At the order of their leader
and prophet, they can muster 1900 men, ar
med with the most effective Instruments Of de-
stIuction. They have many thousands of the
finest horses tianed to camp sevrice; they have
foundry where cannon and shell are cast: a
powder mill and factory, where revolving rifles
and pistols are manufactured, equal to those
at Hartford. They have every muntion of war
and necessary provision and means of transpor-
tation, within themselves, and even the women
and children are instructed in the use of arms.
Add to this their geographical position. 10
reach Salt Lake from the east, it is necessary to
pass through canon Of twenty five miles, un-
der hills so steep and rocky that a dozen men
could hurl down an avalanche of stones on an
approaching caravan; and even in the event Of
several thousand troops reaching the valley, the
besieged, with their herds would takethe noun
talns, and reinforced by theirsayage allies, would
inturn, besiege their besiegers and cut off the
supplies until their invaders were starved to
deuth
They have, it is said, 10000 Indian allies,
whom they ere ready to furnish with arms and
horses on an emergency. These Indians are
! partially instructed in the Mormon religion
enough 10 make them superstitious in regard to
the God of a superior race, yet modifying none
oftheir foroeity. With allies like these and
| fighting for their homes, and, according to the
belief ofthe ignorant, under the direct supervs-
ion of the God Of Battles, and from the ramparts
with which nature has surrounded them, it is
easy to conceive what would be tho fate of few
thousand troops, who Travelled thousand lies
to light their own countrymen brave as them
selves, as well armed, better used to field life
stimulated by their love of home and family, and
assured Of victory by the revelations of their
prophets.