Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-30

ng- We see il stated, in the current news
of the day, that the Mormons of Utah Terri
tory will apply for admission into the Union
at the next session Of Congress. This result
may be surprising to those who have been il
the habit Of thinking for some time past that
that people would finally pull up stakes ant
remove to some other part of the world but
we must be allowed to say that it is not so t(
us, for we have never believed that the Nor
mons had any intention, at any time, to leave
their present locality. We expressed this
opinion at the time that Brigham Young and
his followers left Salt Lake City, at the ap
proach of the Federal army, when every one
of our contemporaries, if we recollect Alright,
concluded that the great Hierarchy was GO
ing to migrate lncontinently to foreign parts.
We mention this not for the sake of selfas-
suming any credit for good guessing, but for
the purpose of showing how very wise Peo-
pie, at the head of public journals, may some
times be mistaken. The Mormons never had
any intention of removing from Salt Lake,
and have no such intention now. They are
honest in their expressed determination to
apply for admission into the Union. TheG
know-or rather Brigham Young knows, for
he does their thinking for them-that they
could not benefit themselves by a removal,
there being no accessible place for them in any
quarter of the world, where the existing gov
ernment would tolerate polygamy.
The Mormons have contemplated admis-
sion into the Union for a considerable time
past. They held a constitutional convention
at Salt Lake, in 1856, and framed perfectly
republican COnstituti,n never once mention
ing polygamy in the whole of it, although,
we believe, they did forbid slavery. They
had perfect right to forbid both, but, in
forbidding one, they left the worse institution
behind. In SO doing they may have de-
stroyed their chances entirely for the admis
sion they seek; for, it is well known that the
Republican Party, which is well represented
in Congress, has emphatically declared
against " those twin relics of barbarism, po-
lygamy and slavery" to use the language of
the Republican Platform, and the Fireeating
Southern Democracy, (not meaning to say
that the erhoie Southern Democracy are of the
Fire'eating kind) would certainly oppose the
admission, without q slave constitution, |
though Polygamy were million times abol-
ished; while the Democracy at large, though |
the right of the Mormons to reg
ulate their own domestic institutions and to
have polygamy if they liked, would be very
much averse to admitting State into the
Union in which that high crime against hui
manity existed. Indeed, the public senti-
ment of the whole country would most likely
be opposed to it. Yet, We are inclined to
think that the Wisest policy, on the part of
Congress, would be to admit the polygamous
sovereignty, with all its sins upon its head
because, 1st, we should not be afraid of the
operation of a wellsettled principle in our
government, to.wit: the principle that the
people of a Territory, in forming a State
Constitution, are to regulate their own do
nestle institutions, and, I'd, admission would
De the quickest method of curing the evil, in
Ismuch as it would facilitate the settlement
If the country by persons who were not Nor
mons, and thus change be wrought in pub
ic opinion which would soon obliterate the
Institution. A great deal is said about the
ificulty of this great Mormon problem"
he solution of it lies in our humble judg-
lent, simply in the straightforward opera
ion of the acknowledged principles which
lie at the foundation of our free institutions.
.et them work, and there need be no fears
or the result