Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-12-05
MORMON AND INDIAN ALLIANCE.

T}yeutv Thousand Indians ready to take thefetd
AGAINST the United States Troops Women
to be buichered.
The Sacramento Age, of October Is says;
Yesterday we had an interview with a gem
tleman from Carson Valley, who, from intimacy
with Mormon families, has some knowledge OF
their future designs and plans OF operation. IL
his conclusions be correct, not only the settIers
east of the mounta ms, but even the people OIL
this State, will have reason to deprecate Tue eX'
ASPIRATION of those American Bedoulhs. ne
saws that the Mormons of Carson Valley ana
San Benardino have sold their cattle and props
erty for nearly nothing, and, at the bidding OF
their chief, have repaired to Salt Lake, win the
secret design of recognizing, armlng, equip
ping. returning, numbering and plunderlng their
Gentle enemies. They declare that, for every
Saint slain by the United States troops, ten
Gentle women shall make atonement; that they
will first exterminate the troops from the east,
then come west, and in predatory bands, allied
with Indians, they will ravage the border, rob,
pIunder and murder, until they shall have re"
plenished the Lords treasury, and reVenged ms
suits put on his chosen people.
fOf their ability TO execute this threat we
have but little doubt. At the order OF their
leader and prophet, they can muster loO0O
men, armed with the most effective instruments
of destruction. They have many thousands OF
the finest horses, trained to camp service; they
have a foundry where cannon and shells are
cast; a powder mill and a factory, where reVol-
wing rifles and pistols are manufactured, equal
to those made at Hartford. They have every
munition of war, and necessary provision and
means of transportation within themselves, and
even the women and children are instructed in
the use of arms. Add to this their geographl-
cal position. To reach Salt Lake from the
east, it is necessary to pass through a canon OF
twenty-five miles under hills SO steep and rocky
that a doZen men could hurI down an avalanche
of stones on an approaching caravan; and even
in the event of several thousand troops reaching
the valley, the besieged, with their herds. would
take to the mountains, and, reinforced by their
savage allies, would, in turn, besiege their be-
siegers, and cut off supplies until the invaders
had starved out.
They have, it is said, 10000 Indian allies,
whom they are ready to furnish with arms and
horses on an emergency. These Indians are
partially instructed in the Mormon religion
enough to make them superstitious in regard 10
the God of a superior race, yet modifying none
of their %ferocity. With allies like these, and
fighting for their homes. and, according to the
belief of the ignorant. under the direct super~
vision Of the God Of battles, and from the ram
parts with which nature has surrounded them.
it is easy to conceive what would be the fate
of a few thousand troops, wbo travelled a thou
sand miles to fight their own countrymen, brave
as themselves, as we'll armed, better used to
field life, and stimulated by their love of home
and family, and assured of victory by the rev-
Citations of their prophets