Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-02
FaiIue of w. IL. LOVeiOy u Co.

mttee appointed to carry the latter resolution into
effect.
Failue w. b. Lovejoy q Co.
BosToN, Sept &c, 2 ?. M.-The failure Of w. B.
Lovejoy & Co.. a large clothing house on Commercial
street, in this city, is announced.
State street is considerably excited to-day by the in
tellgence from Philadelphia but all the banks remain
firm and have made large additions to their specie basis
within the last few days.
From the London, Times, Sept. 7.
Mormon Emigration from Great Britain.
1t is said that Mr.. Buchanan is resolved to put down
Mormonsnl-at any rate to break up the community at
Utah. There will be great difficulties owing to the
weakness of the Federal Government, half of whose
force is reported to have deserted already But the
President is resolute when he has undertaken
thing and hope the days Of this abumnatiOn
counted We certainly ought to wish for this, for must
be confessed that are good deal concerned in the
growth of Mormonism 1t is fact that the majority OF
the communicable. Carvalho says nnc-tenths-are
English, Scotch and Welsh How is this? Who is re-
sponsihe for this? What have orthodox parish
priests been doing and what have orthodox Dissent
ing ministers been doing, that their congregations
have been the feeders of such enormty this?
It is very poor consolation, but perhaps it is some
little consolation, to find that with respect to own
people fanaticsm has had more to do with the current
to this wretched delusiOn than vice. 1t would, in
deed be dreadful to think that many thousands of
our men, and especially had designedy, and
with their eyes open joined system of the grossest poly
gamy But it is only just to say that to great extent
this was not the case. The religion was, indeed itself
a sensuaity but it not joined by the great under
that idea The prophets had the wckedness to disguise
its grOssness till their miserable victims had got deeply
imbedded in the system that they could not eXtrcae
themselves 1t is fact that, in order to b beforehand
with report they actually forged servicebook profess
ing to be the servcebook of their religion and contain
ing among other offices, marriage office framed on
the ordinary principle of monogamy. What then, was
the ducement to this deluded crowd to join the
igion 1t to have been mainly the extraordinary
prophetic show and pretence of the Mennonite post
The subject of prophecy has since the Reforna
ton had an extraordinary hold the minds of re-
people in this country The Puritans mad upon
it. They dreamt of the battle of Armageddon of Cog and
Magog of the seals and the trumpets OF the
star which called Norwood, and the angel whose
Abaddon till, wound up at last to frenzy, they
thought the world was coming to end and that al
these mysterious events close at hand every mill
tary officer Of any distinction imagining that he the
person who to have the especial honor Of capturing
the grand dragon and delivering the saints. These spe
culatOns have lost their charm among and,
though we do not make such warHke prophets our
Puritan ancestors, prophecy is still the fashion The
religious world throws itself into the future, and fixes
the OF the millennium with untiring ingenuity.
No two commentators agree on their date but this very
diversity gives ze8t to speculation It is really extra
ordinary what stuff comes out yeary in the shape of
ment those parts of Scripture; what curious and wild
contortlOns and grmaces prophecy performs under the
guidance of its interpreters All this is seriously written
and seriously read Men of education scholars acade
mician please themselves with laying out the ysterous
future with as much exactnesS 1t they laying out
Dutch garden, or drawing figure in geometry They
familiar with the heavenly Jerusalem they are
with the ground plan of their houses The pleasure
is that OF Chinese puzzle There is endless room fol
ingenuity in different uxtapositions of the various pieces
the pieces here being the different figures, types
hers and personages OF this mystical department They
shake their kaleidoscope and look through it to what
they have got and they shake it again and look through
it again, till they have got figure symmetrical
enough. Every remarkable event Of the day
be followed by general shaking of the prophetic kaei
docopc, because it must be brought into figure If
Il King falls a King rises there three four book
In the course OF as many weeks to prove his connection
with Of the horns of the beast and the coup d eta
of Louis Napoleon produced general excitement in TIN
G prophetic world.
Il Such being the prophetic bias of many industriou
writer's imagine this influence at work in a low an,
uneducated class Imagine these rude and uncutivate
It minds intent far they think of religion at all upo
the prophetic aspect Of it, full ideas of millennium an
sort OF earthly paradise, which they have caught u
c from the glowing pages Of Old Testament prophecy AM
which, literally interpreted does bear that meaning
Y however more refined and trucr Interpretation ma
&c spiruaze it. They read in the Old Testament prOphcc
al OF region where men shall hurt or destroy
where there shall be no violence and want and the
g give to all this material Interpretation. Under sue
'e impressions they will he very likely to be dupes of d
signing lmpOserS, who come to tell them about a Ian
beyond the SEAS where all is peace and plenty no OF
preston, extOrtion. If this was the picture of tt
= Mennonite paradise which was given them its gro
features being kept back their faith in it was of cour
gross credulty; but it is creduty which our learne
" and educated zealots who mad this very sui
a. Ject OF prophecy themselves have particular rgl
X to censure. They have set the example Whe
10 educated men, and even clever men, run into sue
OF extraordinary folies and dreams on this subiec
Ks it is not very surprising if coarse, terate elias
lie has gone a step further, and not only indulge
the dream, but acted upon it. It is a very good
that no one class in society without the rest ben
k IN some degree implicated The prophetic mania in OF
religious world is or less responsible for the Mo
es monte emg grafton from these islands This extravagar
lie adventure is only reflection of that wild pr
phetc speculation in which large part of the re
ous public has ndulged The Mennonite emgrant wei
In quest OF sort of eathery PARADISE he thought ii
I'd millennium had come, and that he would take the ca
I'd Hest advantage of it.
We are speaking, of course of the dupes of Mormon
IL ism, not OF its prophets and of the fanaticism of til
~ SYSTEM not of its grossness and sensualty Thes
Wretched dupes have been prepared for their deusion
the extravaganza OF their betters The ridiculous bro
"res that sell by thousands if they only hazard ne
prediction the nonsense which sread withavdity on an
subject connected with prophechy is the upper-clas
r shape Of Mormonsm We rush into visionary futur
as relief either from the inequalities of the present seen
~ or It's difficulties its dullness. This has made tn
y Mllennarlan, and it has made the Mennonite. Th
Mennonite is the English form of Socialist Both all
at utoplas, only one in connection with prophecy til
other In connection with social progress and the poit
IS cal regeneration of the world.
al More Failures
lie BosroN, Sept 2e.-Messrs. Jewett Co., publisher