The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-02-11


The Thunderer gives IA the following
speculations on Mormonism, and with them
the somewhat unpleasant assurance that the
next twenty years may bring forward some
new doctrine at which We need not bc as-
tonished, az monstrosities turn up, according
70 the Times, every hour and those to which
people become accustomed
MoFmoaIsa, Ia the most sosaias,as, tse aes.
disgusting snd tho most stupid subject Of the
day. II II one Of those phenomena which be.
fore they come ont are pronounced impossible.
and which NJ soon ~ they 10 come out are i'm.
mediatciy commonplace. The gross follies OF
animal magnetism would have appeared in
credibly twenty years ago, but as soon - they
appeared nobody was surprised at them. The
most astounding reports OF parsons looking
through brick walls, seeing with the backs Of
their heads, reading with the pits Of their stotn
schs and smelling with the ends Of their fingers
were received with phisgmatic eoolness and
thu simpis interrogation Anything moser'
whereas IL would have been thought before.
hand that certainly there was something sur
prlsing here, either ths phenomena themselves
or the folly which believed them. In point Of
fact, however. the whole affair became perfect.
~ ooHiiAVbplHCS w wv WfNhHs tHih
Ing and spirit rspping were Incredible one day,
aud trts the next We do not mean ~ com
pare these comparatively harmless lsvites with
hormuni-In, but only TO use them as proofs
what poor judges We are u what turns the ha
man thought may take, and what new mental
phenomenon may start up next. All sensible
and sagasions men have long ago given up tho
idea OF limiting human audaeity and human TN
becilIty- the extent 10 which men will exaggs.
rate evidence aud win annihIlate evidence, will
DO satsHed without proof and will resist the
most pslpahle proof All this department Of
human nataFe IL ubfathomahls, aud therefore
the issnes and fruits Of II are wholly inoslenia
BILE Up from these dark ably ssca stream these
lurld yapors and oysrahadow our bright earth.
Nobody could predict tweaty years ago the
now opinions of ths last twsnty years, aai
nobody can predict now the new opinions Of
tho eat twsaty Year,. All this has been salt
nifty thousand times, been said without refuta
lion, and even without denial, Some men %
remark able sagaeity have indeed voted the
whole philosophical lives 10 the illustration o
this truth. Solomon was one of these philoso
pliers, Montague was another, The mora
from both their books Ia that human nature u
q most profound and inexpiieabie medley tha
nobody eau possibly tell what mankind may
under different circumstances, think, do, say
feel believe, expect, hope, fear regret, 81
boast of. An the individual e'ements 81 Mef
suality IL "a very old phenomenon sensnaiitl
In connection with religion, Of the profession o
religion, IA also an old phenomenon We haN'
Il Ia tbs Bscchahalan mysteries In the Assay
rian Mysteries, In tae mysteries OF iiFahinin
Ism, aud in other myster'e. which "veiie'
ptophsts aud similar smruatofs founded 10
Their own private heneilt--lnen who telt col
tain class OF religious sensations and emotion
which they eostrved to camhtne with sensHa
i,y, aud thought the mixture not only eSaou
suited 10 their own constitution, but yer
commcndab.e genial and harmonious one
itself and capable OF the best moral, rcligioI
aud philosophical defence.
.iiiqudaio dom,i bonu Iiomsrs is 81
phenble 20 the Tame, aS Ia the old poet, al
we are astonshed to iiad the London Journ
chasing Animal Magnetism, that Is ex,e
siycly USED Us therapeutic in many publ
| hosI itals, in Great Britain, aud Is almost 7
daced 10 u science so far rs its healing pc,
ers 90 with, rs is best feature, a religio
! hallueination As to the existence Of Mo
mons in tho bosom OF any State, or a 60,
manity. the London Poa gives the toIlowir
unhesitating opinion
! but another question remains, whether Nc
monism 18th ell its enthusiastic propag tndlsi
Ia realty capable ot existing "a the bosom
any state AZ . community or OF maintaining
latlon. with any people whose institutions a
not based on SIS own SYSTEM at british sens
Atty. Thu. question We should anhcsta,itg
answer In tho neg alive, For though tho NJ
mons may md friends and allies among the !
dian tiib,s, aud largely rearGa themselves fro
America and Europe year by year. still ia,
monstrpus doctrines are 50 sensual, aud 80 su
yersNe 10 anything Ike cohesion or stabiii,
that the sect cannot long endure ~ sepsra
community. II he Mcrmuns remain in the VI
ley OF thu Great salt Lake, they must be al
mataly routed by the United states artay Al
IL they eniigtate into Mexico, they only prolol
their existence By entering territory Wink
la. little OF no eemsaav alton with eistlis
! States,