Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-12-22
NO. H..
From the National Intelligencer. The "SepOys" at Our own DOOrS

Recent events, already narrated in our col- umns. together with the extraordinary official papers (Brigham Yonug's declaration of war; which appear in to-day's lntelligencer, conspire to give to our relations with the authoritres and inhabitants of Utah a gravity which naturally enlists the serious attention of the public as it must of necessity claim the instant attention of the federal government. The elements of so- cal corruption which have so long been fester- ing Tn that remote region, to the offense and re- proach of our civilization, are now complicated with overt acts of hostility and treason to the federal power, which call for measures as prompt as they should be energetic in vindication of the national honor and the national authority. We can no longer disguise from ourselves the unwecome fact that we have our India and our "Sepoy" insurgents, since whether we regard the remote and inaccessible position of the Salt Lake Territory or the sangunary and brutal instincts of these modern Sodomites, are left to find points rather of comparison than of contrast between our threatened relations to Utah and those which already exist between Great Britain and her East Indian provinces.
 In the face of hostile measures so summary as those involved in the destruction of a portion of the military stores designed for the United States army in Utah, and in view of the revo- lutionary proclamation of Brigham Young, which we print to day, and of which we may say the audacty is only equaled by the deter mined contumacy il portends, the country is forbidden any longer to hope that the abomin- atlons of Mormonism, now that they are ag- gravated by open incivism, can be safely left 10 >" work their own cure" as it has been hereto fore common to express the belief. Indeed, it cannot be doubted that the crying evil has been too long tolerated by the federal government, and this foul excresence on our body polite, in being suffered to grow unchecked, has struck its roots so deep that surgery less potent than that of the sword appears adequate to meet the present emergency. However much the lover of liberal institutions may shrink from the dire alternative, which turns the army of the Union into a scourge for domestic rather than foreign foes, 1t behooves the citizen, who is jealous as we'll of the good name as of the authority of his government, to remember the issues involv- ed ill the further toleraton of this pestilent su- perstltion, which is proved to be less dangerous to the peace than offensive to the morals of the nation Springing up under the relaxation of sound and wholesome government, it stands melancholy exemplifcaton of human de- pravity, left to develop its natural tendencies in the absence of all civil repression from with out, as of moral restraint from within thus af- fording another illustration of the money excep- tons to that very questionable maxim of polit- ical philosophy which inculcates the doctrine that the world Is governed too much."
 The attentive readers of this journal will not have forgotten that in ths month of April last an intelligent correspondent, Verastus," who wrote from personal observation and knowledge of the state of public affairs and tone of public sentiment in Utah, while disclosing the ambi- tious designs, predicted also the hostile dispo- sion which the Mormons would display at the first attempt of the federal government to re- assert and establish its authority in that distant territory. If at the time it may have seemed
 to require stretch of credulity to confide in revelation which disclosed in that community
 an organized system of vice and terrorism, the recent conduct of these | tah Sepoys'' and the official mauifestoes of their Nena Sahib would
 seem ample to confirm the accuracy of the in- ! formation on which these predictions were
 founded; and, if we may trust the representa-
 tons of other well-informed writer's the war | like resources of these desperate fanatics Gin
 addition to the natural defenses of their posi-
 ton) are hardly less than the relentless hostility with which they determined to employ 1 them against the federal authority.