The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-06-03
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From the Charleston Courier
UTAH TERRITORY AND THE NOR
MONS.

MONS.
The msErrCCtlouary condition of TIE
Mormon Territory presents TO the General
Government II problem very difficulty of So
luton. 1t is against the principles, on
which our political system is constructed,
to compel Il pcop'e to submit 10 Il govern
mcmt, not of their choice. Self preserva
ton, or great national cXigencies, may
render necessary departure from the rule
but still the rule Is as above stated, and
departures from it are exceptions, only to
te Justified by the peculiar circumstances
Of each case.
1t may be safely assumed, that the
Mormons are unwilling, either to be gov
erncd, in y territorial condition, by the
laws OF tie Union, or to come into the
Union, as State, except in the p!caary
and unresirained cmj oymenL OF their al.
surd religious fa;th, and ahomjnablc usa-
yes, equally at war with morals and de.
cency; but, on such terms, we never can
conScn. To their political aiiIatiOn with
our sisterhood OF States. Yet, ii we ad
init them into the Union, the clause of the
Constitution, which guarantees to new
States perfect equality with the Old States
will cuttlc the MOmous on becoming
State, to establish Mormon Constitution
without let, hindrancc, or moestation',
and without restriction, save in the arti.
Gle Of rcpubiicanism.
We must remembcr too, that they are
n growing people. However gross their
superstition, deluSjon or hypocracy, be il
oiIc or the other or nj! combined, there
are continual aCcessions to the numbers,
by both home and foreign supply, and
they are already popuous and power
ful enough, (>omc 2UO,OOO) souls to
take their equal place in our family of
States, or 10 maintain an iudcpcndant cX-
iStcucc. In consequence OF their peculiar
creed, rights and usages, they were driv-
en- from State to State, until they with
drew from the cumpauion,hip with others
and sought refuge aud isolation in n re
mutu wilderness. Whatever their crimes
and io,iic,, ct have they suffered pcrsccu-
ton and the more they have been per-
secuted, the more have they thriven and
multiplied. In their own view, they have
escaped from worse than egyptian task
mSstei., and through or IN IL wilderness,
remote from their orrrcssois, thew have
found their Canaan and built their New
J,ru,alcm. distant from the settled pur.
lion of the Union, and accessible to the
military power of the government, only
bv the loil,ome march and cxpcuSiye
TRANSPORTATION of the munitions OF war
their suh;unation would bc a work Of
blood>hcd and difficulty, even practicable.
Asa territory, they can only he suLducd
b, arms: As u State, they cannot be con.
,rullcI in their domestic policy beyond ;he
pom, Of Ncpubljcanism, without any un-
constitutional invasion of State Rirhts.
Such !riuy the alternatives, how is the
problem to by solved Our project is, at
once, To- cut them loose from ali conncx-
ION with Us, either as Territory, or a
State. to refuse admission to them as a
State. and 10 withdraw their territorial
government, TO Isolate them utterly and
make Of them "A San Marino, not Of the
mountain, but Of the wilderness and the
plain. Lee, us furthur refuse all alliance
on fellowship with them, political, CONNER
cial or social treating them as an uncIcan
thing, to be neither handed nor touched.
If by such course they can be brought