Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-12-05
THE nEORMON

The Government fully anticipates being under
the necessity of having to issue a call for vol
unteers in the spring. fine opportunity for
those of our young men who would like to
distinguish themselves in arms, or who have a
wish to take a peep at the harems, not OF the
East. but of the West. Indeed, this war gives
signs of being the b!oodiest and the c~ostliest
that our people have ever been engaged in, and
the worst feature is. that it takes the character
of civil war. Il assumes that character, it is
true; but it can hardly be said that we are
battling with a body Of our people while MAJ
king war against the Mormons. Twosthirds
of them or more were not born or raised upon
our soil; of our institu lions, or The virtue and
intelligence upon which we build our great
our Government, they know little or nothing,
and all their teachings and practices are in dis
rect opposition to the first and a disgrace to
the latter; their territorial government has
shown the worst features Of tyranny and mis-
rule, in opposition to the spirit and forms of
cur constitution and laws, and which Congress
never should have permitted to progress un~
checked thus far and their religion is a fana~
ticism and an abomination, in violation of the
most sacred principles upon which civilization
and christianity are founded, and a mockery to
pretend that our Government has not the right
to purge it from within our boundaries, as ii
would have the right to arrest or exterminate
any other evil or abomination, in fragrant vio'
lation of the spirit of our institutions and a
disgrace to the country at large.
We hope and believe, then, that this Mor~
mon War although rather bungiingIy com,
menced) will be prosecuted with determination
and vigor; but it must not be supposed that
we have a weak and ~cowardly foe to contend
against. A people fighting under a religious
fanaticism, are the most difficult to conquer.
They have a force estimated at some eight
thousand, divided off into all the various arms
that compose a properly organized army; and
by an article in another column it will be seen
that it is stated they have secured the cosope-
ration Of twenty thousand of The North Wess
tern Indians, who, like the Sepoys of India,
gloat for the blood of the whites, and %crueIties
equal to those now perpetrated in India may
be anticipated whenever they have an oppors
tunity.
Our army now on the route to Utah have
encamped for the winter, we believe on the
Sweet Water, about forty miles from the
summit level of the Rocky Mountains
From this point onward they may expect ops
position and battle and constant danger. But
there can be no doubt as to the Ultimate res
suit. The Mormons will find some more cons
genial soil in the Pacific, while their allies will
find they have sounded the death kneIl of their
determination.
The following respecting Brigham Young
and the Mormons we extract from a letter in
the last number of the Washington States:
It is the intention of the Mormon leaders to
plant colonies at every point in the northwest
tern part Of the continent, latter this war is
over we think they will have some other ms
%tention not only in America, but in British
and Russian possessions; and these colonies
have, indeed, begun already to dot the country
at wide intervals. It is the boast of Brigham
Young and his apostles that they will occupy
the continent west of Kansas and North of
Texas, establishing over it a Mormon empire.
The Mormons receive almost weekly large
accessions from Wales and Germany and other
countries. The proselytes who are sent over
by these apostles as missionaries, are said to
be of the most ignorant classes, and are taught
to become enemies of our Constitution and
laws from the moment of their landing on our
There can be no peace with a COM
formed of such materials, and directed
by such parties and traitors as Brigham Young.
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