Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-06-05
Terms So Per Annum in Advance.
NEW SERIES, VOL III, NO. 81

el and dincd. They had nov accomplished
in twenty seven days nearly four thousand
miles, sea and hand, and have before them
three thousand miles more of land travel
amid porils and harlshil.s, which they E,tlo
anticipate. II is SAD to :Link how many of
them Will sink upon The plains and leave their
bones 10 ma.k the wilderness road. They
left this morning Cor St. Louis by the Toledo
road
Tho glowing pictures which the Mormon
missionaries have given to the crowded popu-
iations Of Europe, OF the valley Of Utah. ars
calculated to-seduco many Of them TO its fer
ti.e acres, Oppressed ~. bad laws, bali star
we'd by high price and impoverished by ito
taxes, tie scarcity Of work, and the competi-
ton of a crowded population, it Is easy to SEQ
what relief they welcome the invitation of
these apottIys of Mormon. The same induce
ments are drawing huudreds Of the more ac-
cessible borders Of our western States, and
giving hardy hands to TIL the acres, and build
the reads Of the new countries.
Momouism is 10y its religious rites and
practices odlUGs to the civilized sentiment o.
the age. Il encourages a yisc.ous social sys-
tenn and dcii.s the authority of the govern
ment. 1t is, however, the belief Of those who
desire the solution Of this problem of the gov
ernorship Of Utah, that governor will be
sent out possessing frmness and tract suiii-
cicat 10 control the people in relation to the
government without interfering in their do
mestic concerns. On the future destiny Of
the Aormons the Washington Star has tho
following practical oJservations:-
Already nearly every foot Of land in tho
great desert u the coutinet that is susceptible
Of profitable cultivation even with migration.
is occupied aal improved by them; and tia
population Of their State or settlement is SO
redundant as that they are forced to send
forth colonies 10 California aud clsevhere.-
Oregon and Washington Territories and New
Mexico also are destined to shelter other such
oiisAootins Mormon colonies; aud in SO doing
they will check its growth, dispel the delusion
OF its victims, and extract it's fangs. Il can
be Formidable a where, as IN Utah, il coa-
trols popular o. inion. We believe that a firm
and prudent successor Of Brigham Young in
the governorship Of The Territory, and tho
inIpossltil.ly tllat Utah can sustain a muck
larger population than II contains al present,
will work eventually, the cure for The evils.
We should be 10th indeed TO see the arms Of
the United States aimed against people in
our own midst who are sirmly crazy drunk
with liberty.
We design no extension OF their moral enor-
mites, nor 10 save them from the intense odi-
um Of American popular opinion now resting
upon them. Time and intercourse with Am.
o.ieans-for most Of them are poor ignorant
torcigners-must b. relief ON 10 effect their
information, unless the government resorts TO
force TO compel them to abandon the rites
practices bf their church, which, Is horrible
rs they are, not 10 Ic oradicated legally in
any such way. To attempt it, Jy the bv,
would cost an enormous amount to the ma
tioAal treasury. a larce army would be ne
css&ry to prosecute thc ei,l war such AZ ex-
pertinent would engender, for which, on tho
part Of the government, all the supplies would
necessarily be sent across the country in wa
gohs; as, il The Mormons were willing 10 pro-
vision them for lay in such case, the srashop-
pers invariably put it out Of their power TO
10 so.- C2srclaHd Piaia DauIc-.