New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-14

Our Southern cOtempOrarles are sublime at gen.
eralization. Thus The Neu. Orleans Courier having
received and recorded special account OF the
polygamous and other wretched rascaties of Utah,
and having been fired to an intense Indignation
thereby finds crumb of comfort in the fact Of it
be fact) that very few of these Mormons are
"natiyes of Southern States. This, continues
The 6ouricr speaks volumes in refutation of the
"mean ISLANDERS Of Abolitionists against Southern
"society" How MANY volumes are spoken thus
We are not informed but justice we think requires
us TO limit the number to one small and thin duo
decimo We have tolerably sharp eye for refu-
taton that being an article in which 1t is the butl-
ness Of our life to deal but the particular SANDER
which is refuted by the astounding information that
the North furnishes majority of the Mormons has
thus far eluded all discovery. We say that the
South is obstnately cnging to barbarous institu-
ton, and it is pronounced "a reputation OF the
charge, that it has not adopted another equally bar
barOus; we charge the STAKEHOLDER with breaking
long-establisbed compact and we are told that he
has not in the name of religion, taken unto himself
an oriental number Of wives; We accuse him OF
thriftessness, of cruelty or of injustice, and his
defender finds 'youmcs of refutation" in the saw
ing fact that he does not believe in Joe Smiths
golden platter, nor yet in Brigham Young's grevous
platitudes. This is very much as if gentleman
under a cloud temporarily occupying the dock of
one Of our criminal courts, in consequence of
misunderstanding with the authorities upon the
subject of highway robbery should plead in justif-
cation that bis soul was guiltess Of manslaughter
The cOupet of Butler (not the honorable Senator
of that name but Hudibras Butler) about com
pounding for sins we are inclined to- has certainly
received new Illustration. But while We ac
know ledge the Scipionic confluence exhibited by
the slavc-breeders in the matter of polygamy as
established in the City Of the Salt Lake, we must
beg leave to remind them that Providence I'VE
mean the Providence which watches over the slave
trade and inspires the DID advocates of the syS-
tenn has saved them from succumbing to the multi
Terminate temptations Of st. Brigham by the patr-
archal felicites and facilities which surround them
at home TIE offer of thirty wives in Utah must
seem insignificant to one who may have twice that
number upon lis own plantation.
We do not know upon what authority The
Courier asserts that majority of Normons are
from the Free States, but we do know that it
would be utterly absurd todraw any such inference
as that paper seems to derive from the fact, even
if it were well established. We have always
understood that the Mormons came from all parts
of the world-from Great Britain, Ireland, Swe-
den, Norway, France, Germany, and the Sandwich
Islands They reach our ports by ship loads, and
start for the City OF Promise in caravans. Now,
this extraordinary exodus may have something to
do with the ignorance, degradation and oppression
TO which these poor pilgrims were subjected at
home but what on earth has it to do with the SEN
timent Of the Northern States upon the subject of
Slavery extension Indeed, the fact that the
leaders in this hdeOus and loathsome deusion have
been forced to cross the ocean in quest OF converts,
proves that the intelligence and common sense OF
the States in which ii originated have proved too
much for it, and this is amply confirmed, We
should think, by the flight Of the Saints into the
wilderness
But when Southern writer has mounted his
high horse, he generally, by his queer caracoles,
curyets cauters and other equine saltations, man
aces 10 ride wonderful distance from bis subject
and from common sense Thus The Courier begins
with Mormonism and ends with general charge
unon ALL Northern Isms," which it mixes up ID
Ia Irish ster in the following hodge podgy manner:
1t. Mormouism. Communism Maine -Liquor-L Law
ism. Acrsrianism, Mlerism, Spiritualism, Wo-
mans Rights-sm and Aboitionism are all OBSCENE
.rolueres of the same plumage.' There is an
ayiary for YOU 1t is as fone should say: "Ento-
" mology. phrenoogy, theology, syntax and geoo-
:. pv are all birds of a feather But these or
astrological specimens, from which the writer
deduces the moral condition Of the North, just as
science gets at the worlds age from the skeletons
of an,ediluvsn monsters are by no means confined
70 This country. TIE Rev. DR.. Cummings is
rreacbipp MIersm in modified form in London
10 large and aristocratic audiences. Mr.
Hume the eminent dealer in double
knocks and other necromantic lore, has
been delirhting and mystifing and striking with
awe the imperial slayedriSer Of France. Commu-
usm is bv no means native to this soil, nor does il
specislly flourish here. The Maine Liquor Law is
a good deal more earnestly discussed in England
inst now than il is in America The Rights aud
Wronps Of woman have interested such eminent
personaees as Lords Campbell and Brougham and
such undetermined creatures as Mrs Norton and
Mrs. Browning. Our contemporary MIST revise
its Judgment The plain and practical opinion Of
the North upon the question Of Slavery Extension