The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-08

how thousand miles of an untrodden desert-un-
trodden save by the wild beast or the wilder Indian
where death in hundred forms had to be encounter
ed and deed-had to be traversed; how the the poor
hungered and toilworn but still dauntess pilgrims,
reached their destination how they built city,
founded civil and ecclesiastical policy how Ia and
yerted barren wastes into fruitful fields, bowling
forests into smiling gardens, until, under the tails
manic wand OF labor, the wilderness was made to
blossom as the rose; how their missionaries en-
poyed, with startling saccess, in every European
country; and how thousands of the down trodden
and penury stricken victims of European tyranny
were leaving the land of their birth in order to find
in the Mormon Territory that hope and encourage
ment denied to them in their native countries-h0w
all this bias been accomplished by the reviled fol-
lowers OF Joseph Smith all Europe and America have
heard, and, though hating, admired.
In another part OF our paper readers will find
the latest news from the Mormon settlement.
With the causes that brought about the melancholy
state of things that existed 10 Utah the readers OF
Reynolds Newspaper must be familiar. We deeply
regret the suiierngs to whchthe Mormons have been
subjected. But opinion is, that in the whole of the
transactions that have brought them into hostile col
sion with the United States, the Mormons have
been mostly to blame. 1t was impossible for the re-
public to have tolerated the insults to its sovereignty
which were constantly proceeding from the Mormon
leaders. Nor at this time OF day is 1t for moment
to be supposed that the rawlings of fanaticism, nor
the inventions of imp0sture should be allowed to
supersede and abrogate the common principles of
morality nor the ordinary laws OF the State Hero
plant Brigham Young and his underlings are az
liberty to receive many revelations as they please,
but they ought to undeIstand-and what Is more,
they shall be made to understand-that revelation,
from whatsoever quarter 1t comes, when it outrages
the reason and the decency of humanity, is not a
boon to be received and revered but an insult to be
rejected, spurned and trampled under foot. Such
we believe to have been the character of those
revelations with which the high priest Of Nor
monism thought to set at defiance the might and the
majesty of the great republic. This we deeply re-
tsaQxy Cor tho In ~ t,,o
selves and partly for the sake of the great indus
trial experiment, which has been marred, or, at
least, postponed Our opinion is that the fanatical
element Of Mormonism, combined with the mon
strous priestlv pretensions of the Mormon leaders,
has npped in the bud one of the most promising at
tempts TO emancipate labor from the grinding yoke
OF usury and capital that the present world has yet
seen. Those impous pretensions, and the truly re-
belious attitude assumed towards the government Of
the United States-added to the rumOrs of the
physical restraint imposed upon parties wishing to
quit the Utah Territory-haye provoked against the
hormons that public opinion which LETT the govern
ment of the republic no alternative but war against
The misguided and rebellous people. That war
would seem to have come to a bloodess termination.
So far as we discover the government of Prcsi-
dent Buchanan has acted with great and commenda.
bic humanity towards tue brave but deluded Nor
mons Had it been any OF the European govern
ments with which the Mormons had to do, a war of
determination would have been waged against them.
Happily for them they have to do with power
which emanates from q great people, who, however
much eXasperated when their sovereignty Is de-
fled, are naturally magnanimous and disposed to
mercy. especially when the offenders their
own flesh and blood. The subject is an interesting
one, and We intend shortly to recur to it. For the
present. we conclude by expressing a hope that the
much suffering Mormons will not find themselves
under the necessity Of resortng to another
exodus. Governor Cumming is evidently in
spired with the most friendly disposition to-
wards them He admires their indomitable in
dustIy--their soulstirring earnestness-their fear
less courage--their profound deyoiion-their
burning zeal, which moves them to the most
heroic enterprises in the face of the deadlest dau
gers, when the oadstar Of duty beckons them
IL is, therefore, to be hoped that the misunderstood
ing between the Mormons and the United States
will be removed, that friendly relations will be
sumed, and that future of prosperity is in reserve
for the strange and the Maynard but the courageous
and Industrious community now, or lately, located
in the far West, on the mountains Of Utah. and in
the valley Of the Salt Lake.
The virtues and the triumphs Of the Mormons are
all their own their ignorance, their fanatcism their
vices, and their crimes, are the products Of the
hellish tyrannies indigenous to Europe and trans
planted TO America. There Is no abomination in
Mormonism for which the rulers, the landlords the
capitalists and the priests o, England not, to
great extent, responsible.