The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-03-04

: their position is true and loyal, and that those
. who sustain the administration in its proceeding
!. against them, are the disturbers of the peace.
: Brigham Young says:
eve, Of all people. are endeavoring to preserve
and perpetuate the genius of the constitution ana
constitutional law, while the Administration ana the
troops they have ordered to Utah are in fact them
selves the rebels, and in hostility to the general gov
eminent. And, if George Washington was now NV,
ing and at the head of our government. he would
hang the Administration as nign as ne dd Anuls'
and that. too, with q far better grace and to a much
greater subscribing Of the best interests OF the coun-
try"
Thus while still continuing strong in their pro-
LESSONS of loyalty, the Mormons reject and deny
the Sc rebel' administration, refuse obedience to
all rule save that of their priests and elders, and
wave the banner of defiance in the face of the
Federal government to which they pretend an at
tachment. With the exception of two Indian
agents, all the officers of the United States, judi
cial and executive, who have been appointed and
sent by the President to the Territory of Utah,
have found it necessary for their own personal
safety to withdraw from the Territory, leaving
Brigham Young to the unrestricted exercise of
his religious despotism. He is the supreme leader
of Church ard State. He controls the executive,
legislative, judicial and ecclesiastical branches of
government. The people obey his commands as
if they were direct revelations from heaven. His
power is absolute, and if he chooses to lead his
government into collision with the lawful Federal
authority, they hesitate not to second his wishes
and yield implicit obedience to his dictations.
Notwithstanding the hostile conduct of the
Mormons in opposing the approach of the troops,
harassing their march, cutting off their supply
| trains, and threatening them with total extermi-
nation if they continue on, they have not yet
been officially declared rebels by a competent
power. The President in his message merely re-
marks that 60 unless Brigham Young retracts his
steps the Territory triH be in a state of open re-
bellion." The House of Representatives however
have expressed themselves more decidedly by the
adoption of the following preamble and resolution
offered by Mr.. Warren,-which action, although
irregular, is at once important and significant:
"WHEREAs, 1t appears from the proclamation of
Brigham Young, late Governor of Utah, and from the
Presidents Message, that said Territory is now in re-
bellion against the government of the United States
therefore,
"Resolred, That the Committee on Territories be
instructed to consider and report on the facts, and in
quire into the ~propriety of excluding, from a seat on
the floor of the House, the delegate from that Terri
tory
There can be little doubt that 80 able and far
sighted a man as Brigham Young has shown HIM
self to be, has long entertained this idea of rebel
lion against the United States. Actuated in a
great measure by personal ambition, he knows
that the settlement of the Territory by immigrants
who refuse to acknowledge his divine mission, and
deny the teachings of the Mormon faith, would
be speedily followed by a prostration of his
power; that an enlightened public opinion would
soar beyond and above the narrow limits of the
Mormon creed, and eventually drag it from its
throne of supremacy. As long as he can exclude
such intruders from the Territory all will 60 well
and he will continue as heretofore the supreme
head of the Mormon Church and State, and the
absolute sovereign of the land. When he is no
longer able to exclude them. Mormonism will have
passed it's eliminating point and entered upon its
wane. The President says, in his message:
He has therefore, for several years, in order to
maintain his independence, been industriously en-
ployed in collecting and fabricating arms and NUM-
tons of war, and in disciplining the Mormons for
military service. As superintendent of Indian af
fairs, he has had an opportunity Of tampering with
the Indian tribes, and exciting their hostile feelings
against the United States. This, according TO our
information, he has accomplished in regard to some
of these tribes, while others have remained true to
their allegiance, and have communicated his in
trigues to cur Indian agents. He has laid in a store
of provisions for three years, which, in case of neces-
sity, as he informed Mr.. Van vliet, he will conceal,
and then take to the mountains, and bid defiance to
all the powers of the government +"
Other accounts inform us that in case of de-
feat or subjugation, it was the intention of the
Mormons, before deserving their Utah home, to
lay waste and destroy all their cities and towns
and improvements of every kind, ere they re-
treated to carry on a ~desultory and devastating
war from the businesses of the mountains.
We hardly believe, however, that Brigham
Young and Heber Kimball will be satisfied with
such q contamination of their tolls and labors
as this-fugitives in the mountains, without a
home or country, at war with mankind, and with
no prospect of ever building up the great, indie
pendent, powerful Mormon hierarchy which has
been the darling idea Of the leading expounders
of the Mormon faith. They will rather adopt
the plan of quitting that territory and seeking in
some remote spot a home where they may seize
new lands, found a new government, and perfect,
a new despotism. A correspondent
of the Philadelphia Inquirer expresses the opin-
ion, derived from a recent interview with Mr..
Bernhisel the Congressional delegate from Utah
the subject of whose expulsion is now before the
Committee of the House-that the
Mormons, after doing as much mischief as posi-
BILE to the advancing troops, will retire to a re-
treat which for a long time past has been selected
and known to the Mormon leaders, and which is
beyond the jurisdiction of the United States-the
only power on the American continent that they
fear to cope with. The idea which has more
than once been suggested, that in case of the de-
sertion of Utah, the Sandwich Islands would offer
inducements for colonization, is too absurd to
be entertained. There is no ground for any
sensible person to fear such a result, as long as
SO many favorable opportunities for settlement
are offered on the American coast. Western
British America, and also Vancouver's Island, ,
have been limited at in some of the Mormon docu-
ments with which the American papers are SO
well filed at the present but Sonora is generally
thought to. be the Canaan intended for the settle /
ment and perpetuation of this gregarious race.