New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-31
yROM WASHINGTON.
FrdD Oar Own ConcsV0 - -.
WASHINGTON, Thursday. Oct ~, 1857.

onsbt 10 sIOuie the eravest apprehensions Of
the Government. the contingency is ore that
calls fer energetic and extensive measures. The
latest cflicsi integerc &c from Utah aod the expe.
dtioD fully corcb rates the statements of your cor
respondent. The fanstcism Of the Mormon. aad
til desperation Of their leaders have, beyond doubt
rescted tie point Ct armed resistance to the force.
Of the Unite1 States. Their determination ~ re-
sist should not have been xpected, because it is
but natural, snd from their point Of view, reason
able and safe at least to them-that ia TO the lead
ers-"thst way safety lies. 4" Brigham Young,
Elder Kimball, and their confederates, are. after
their fashion, kings, high priests and patriarchs.
They have, as they themselves say, kingdom
among the mountains-a kingdom Of their own
which they have founded, planted and ruled to
their hearts content for ten years past. They
have every thing that they desire-subects followers,
disciples, women, wealth and dorninion-temporal
spiritual and social. They know very well that if
the Federal authority is established in Utah, and
Federal officers placed over them to execute the
United States lsws, all these things will disppear.
Their Kingdom will be at an end-p0wer and author
ity will be in tie hands of their enemies and if the
question of the legality Of poygamy be raised, it
will involve their domestic institutions, and perhaps
their personal safety. In short, the Mormon lead
ers are driven to the wall, and rather than
relinquish oil that they hold dear, will
resist, unless they are confronted by a
force large enough to render resistance papaby
unavailiDg. Approached by al overwhelming
force, they would probably submit for time or
withdraw from the Territory. The best thing that
could happen for all concerned would be their with
drawa beyond the bounds of the United States and
out of the jurisdiction of any civilized government.
Brigham Young committed great error in going to
Utah after the expulsion OF his people from Nauvoe.
Utah the very worst place to go to for his pur
poses. His object was and is to erect an indie
pc Ddent reiely-a kingdom OF the SAINTS, where
they can gather togs Their and not be m6eted by the
Gentiles. AS his converts are mostly drawn from
Europe, it was obviously desirable that the king
dom to which they are summoned as place
of general rendezvous sheuld be easily accessible
a. well as isolated. Utah ID about the most difficult
place to get to iu the whole known globe. The
journey tbither by the Mormon converts is made
Only at al immense expense OF money, time and
labor Utah s also wholly within the jurisdiction
of a nation the least likely of any in the world to
tolerate an imperiEm in imperio OF the kind ne was
ain ing at to establish. Clearly, Brigham Young
ought to have had revelation directing the Saints
to assemble at some point on the great highway
tf nations-the Ocean Home Island in the Pacific
or Indian Seas would have suited him exactly.
With the men and money at his command when he
went to Utah he might have embarked at
New Britain, New.GeorGa, or some other
of the large, fertile and unsppropriated
islands which lie off the north east coast of Austria
LA. Papua or New Guinea which is not claimed
by any power, and whose natives are not Formidable
lie, next to Borneo the largest and finest island OF
the earth. IL Brigham Young had gone there ln-
ste ad Of TO Utah he might have been to-day an in
de pendent Prince with kingdom twice as extern
siye as Great Britain and Ireland, and none to
modest or make him afraid. He might have prac-
ticed poygamy largely as that African pOtentate
the King of DahOmey, j think it is, who is OBJ
liged by the Constitution Of his kingdom to have
80 900 wives for spiritual reasons quite as sage and
respectable as those which make it lawful for the
Mormon despot to have forty or fifty-and no one
would have felt called upon to meddle in
the matter. If not satisfied with New
Guinea or the other islands / have named,
Brigham Young might have made Judgment upon
FormOsa or Madagascar, either of which are large
enough to satisfy any reasonable ambition, and
either of which could be easily conquered by such
a force Of white men as s new congregated In
Utah. The native population might have been con.
yerted as well as conquered, and Ring Brigham by
this time might have numbered bis sanity subjects
by millions instead of thousands.
l believe there is something in the Mormon doc
trine which makes it imperative that the center of
the Church shOuld be in America jackson
County, Missouri, was long ago pointed out by rev.
elation as the Zion, the Holy Land, the New Jeru-
salem of the Saints, and see by Elder Kimbslfs
late speech at Salt Lake City that the Mormons
still cling to the notion of returning to that paradise
He says. ave shall never leave these valleys-tili
eve get ready. We Will live here till We go back
"to jackson County, Missouri. We shall never
build and plant again till we do it in jackson
County" But repeatedly the Mormon leaders
have declared by revelation, by Thus saith
the Lord" that they had selected the final
resting place from which they were never to remove
or be driven. Kirkland Ohio, was the first of
these, then Jackson County, then Nauvoo and lastly
Utah. If they are likely to fiud Utah too hot for
them new revelation, it is reasonable to suppose,
will be vouchsafed designating some other place OF
reiuge-which / ferventy hope will be outside tho
boundaries of the United States. If American soil
be indispensable, Brigham Young had better take
possession of Lower California, which is the next
thing to an island; or let him form coalition with
William Walker and emigrate to Nicaragua. This
last suggestion strikes me as good idea. The
principles of the two ilustrous parties to the ALI
ance are harmonious in matters of civil policy; and
as for religion, do not think the flbusters could
very seriously object to polygamy.
To return to the Utah expedition. IT, as in all
probability they will the MormOns resist the expedi
tor the country s likely to be sh )cked with dis
aster similar TO that which befen the British 10
Affshanistan some years ago, As the old Mohawk
Hendrix said: THE force sent is too large for
"sacrfce and too small for an army Capt Van
Viet, who had good opportunities of observation,
estimates the Mormon force Of men that can be
brought into the field at 600 or 5000. The United
States force now on its way to Utah is think, less
than 1900. As reinforcement cannot be sent till
pext Summer, in ofa collision the advantage of
Plumbers is thus largely with the Mormcns
Brigham Young is doubtless fully aware that he
must ultimately submit to tie United States in spite
of the natural strength of his position among the
mo untains aud his present superiority of numbers
to the force now on its way against him. But We
may be sure that he will prefer to make terms with