New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-08
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Mormon dynasty. mr.. Brigham .ouas' says our
cockney cousin, 'can bring hieen thousand men INTO
| the feld-not undlscipiDed rabble, but troops
trained To the use Of arms well acquainted with the
ontr ,a ;,f,sno.a vr;tb that snirit of fanat;cism
country anu 'hh"enoeu wan ''a' sp'''' =.
which, IN peace as wen as wal, appears 70 inhuence
all the actions Of the SAT- Lake Saints Under such
circumstances no one can he surnrssd TO hear that
intelligent Americans anticipate that after the sup.
preston Of the terrible Indian mutiny by the govern.
ment Of England, this great Mormon difficulty will
still remain a scandal and disgrace to the power Of
the United Statesn
Tit lisa consolation 10 John Bull for his Indian
troubles that the Latter Day Saints have decided to
dispose Of the American people before they over.
throw the other Gentle nations Of the earth. be is
welcome to it. He may rest assured, however, that
his turn viii come next for it hath been revealed unto
Brigham that his conquering sword is to marshal him
eastward instead Of westward and that every people
that refaseth to receive the law and the gospel as
preached by the Salt Lake Prophets shall be ground
to powder as between tbs upper and neither mstones
The writer puts forth an idea which Is certainly
very original and may be very Iuninous, but his
method Of eliminating 1t is nat quite SO luminous.
Indeed, IL he intended to mate his meaning clear
as mud be has not onr succeeded but rather over.
done the thing. Hs says:
Should he [ur. Buchananl now adopt temper.
f1iu r.nfc awards IItah--what m
me soatsc,n 5.aies rom establishing some form Of
sgoe q The spd peoSssy "a
II any State from endowing particular sectTJnta,
rianism, Popery, Episcopal Aethodists, or any other
pranen o. rengous belief which, in certain districts,
my nsppeh W &c popular WIN majority oil the In
naoi'ahei
We are not aware that there is or ever was any
thing to prevent the Southern States from, eatahsh
ing government Of their own Whenever thew deem,
it expedent TO do So nor do we think anv objection
would be made should one Of the States choose 70
endow particular sect,r yet the writer in the Post
appears TO think that the former is not matter Of
choice, and that the latter would seriously AFFECT the
integrity OF the Federal Union He NAV be right IN
the latter suggestion for il is really impossible to saw
what be means by his use Of the word ,endowinr. y
unless il be to invest "a particular sectu with
supreme civil authority and mower. But. one might
as well be lost in London foq and attempt to take
his bearings by the church snires a To loo for sense
or reason in an English article on American afts;rs
This is true in at least nine cases ont of ten.
After informing MS that Mr. Brigham can br,no
fifteen thousand efficient and discinned troons ipto
the field. the writer states that the regular army of
the United States does not at the present noment en-
coed twelve Thousand men, He then nroceeds n
enumerate certain reasons rbv. for our own welfare
this small force should be augmented. and altbourb
he does not altogether commit himself. appears in
some measure willing that II shoud he and ready 10
give at least conditional assent to the measure he
saws: