The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-01
The Conspiracy Against the Government
The Vote the Army Bill.

The more sitentively the course of the North
ern opponents Of the administration on the bill
to increase the army is considered. the more
plain does il appear that their vote on that
measure was but the first indication of an
organized conspiracy in no less place than
the United States Senate to aid and abet Brig.
ham Young and his band Of rebels against the
government Of the United States. That the
effect of that vote will be to impart aid. com
fort and hope to the Mormon insurgents, there
can lie no possible doubt it il equally certain
that such was the design and purpose Of the
opposition.
II must never be forgotten hat the Mormons
are as sect. OF New England extraction
Brigham Young IL himself Vermonter Joe
Smith belonged to the same race Mormonism
as act, took its birth in that part Of This
state which has been settled from New England
and which is mos, deeply imbued with the Puri-
tan mode md habit Of thought The chiefs
and elders of the Mormons at the present day
belong to the same family. In the rank and
file Englishmen and other foreigners abound !;
but the places OF honor and trust are filled by
New Englanders. In word, Mormonism was aud
Is still phantasy Of the New England mind. II
is the latest product Of that peculiar Puritan
intellect which has given birth to the form
Of infdelity called Unitarianism to those modi-
ficstioDs Of European socialism which found
vent here In phalanxes and other communist
associations, to free love. TO compulsory teeto-
tslism and. in brief to all the ridiculous vags-
ries which. springing from New England have
disgraced the statute books Of many Of the
Northern States and excited the wonder and
mirth Of foreigners for the last thirty years.
Whoever wants to understand Mormonism must
study il by the light Of its anteccdents in the
absurd follies of the old Puritans of New Eng
land. and Of it's contemporary delusions 10 the
shape Of free love, phalanxes, and pious inhde-
lily.
IL was therefore only natural that when Iii.
rect issue was raised between the United States
government and the people Of Utah on the
question Of Mormonism the representatives Of
New England sentiment should feel a secret
sympathy for the latter They would have been
recreant TO their race, and untrue to their here
ditary principle had they not done so. They
could not desert their brothers in Utah without
dishonor. The case was difficult one to man.
age. however. Polygamy is so abhorrent to
the sense Of every civilized being that even
in Massachusetts, il would hardly have been
prudent to avow openly sympathy for
IT, adherents. They behave strangely,
at times, when favorite preachers get into trou-
BILE; but even there the public mind is not yet
ripe for an attack upon the divine institution of
matrimony TWAS necessary. therefore, for the
sympathizers with the Mormons to conceal their
design. They masked IL under 6ery speeches
against polygamy, and ferocious diatribes
against Brigham Young. They closked their
feelings under defamation of the most violent
kind against the Salt Lake insurgents. To hear
them, it seemtd that in no part of the country
would the administration receive mere cordial
and unconditional assistance in puttiog down
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