The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-24
A MORMON LETTER,
AN AMERICAN MORMON ON MISSION IN ENGLAND
FEELS BAD-Is READY ron rionr OR LIFE IN
MOUNTAINS, A LA NIMROp.

FEELS BAD-1s READY ron FtGifr OR A LIFE IN
THE MOUNTAINS, A LA NrMROD.
No. 81 LYONS STREET NEwTowHl
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 3, 1857. (
| seat myself TO drop you a few lines, though
in great haste, presuming that you will be
glad to hear from me, and fully knowing that ]
should be most happy 10 receive an occasional line
from you, particularly in these times, when every
item Of news from the West Is fraugbt with new
and increasing interest 10 me, in common with the
people Of my choice. Love Of the country Of our
nativity is principle which seems deeply inter.
woven with our very natures, and cannot easily be
eradicated, especially from those whose forefatheH
laid their lives their honor their ALL upon the altar
to purchase that civil and religious freedom which
our noble constitution guarantees 10 us as their
children. But, as free born American, ] confess
am ashamed of-notmy country-but Of her corrupt,
canting, time serving, money humbug political de.
magogues, who, through the wonderful wire working
chicanery Of uuprincipled coadjutors, have worked
themselves into responsible stations where they can
measurably command the veal or woe Of a mighty
nation, ON which the Almighty has beforetime
lavished His choicest blessings. Yes, Of such am
ashamed, and 30 will every honest man be who acts
not upon momentary impulse, but coolly and dispas
sonstely investigates and dissects the subject which
Is now agitating the United States respecting the
Mormons-who dsrobcs truth Of the tsttcrcd garb
Of SANDER and Misrepresentation which have been
forced around her by few pusilanimous rotten
hearted devils in human forrn-who have sought 20
cover their own iniquity by casting y upon the
Mormons, and lay her fair and naked before
him. Has our boasted Christian nation for
gotten the most prominent commandment of
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the prophets p" Al things whatsoever We
would that men should do unto you, do ye even 20
unto them"
Would not common decency. not 20 say Christian
principle, have required that an investigation into
the state of affairs az Utah should have taken place
by agents carefully selected free from sectarian
bias and political prejudice as possible and whose
statement might with safety have been relied on,
before the government proceeded at an enormous
expense TO send armed force in hostile array
against their peaceable and unoending citizons2
But expense is matter scarcely worth the mention,
compared with the principle involved In pouring
worse than pestilence or the poison OF tho upas
into a society where prostitution, drunkenness and
debauchery are hitherto unknown.
No one need be told the character Of the soldiery
in point OF morals, and the influence everywhere
surrounding them. Could the government for one
moment have supposed that the people of Utah
would tamely submit 10 the pouring in of a food of
corrupt sodery into the very midst Of their settle
ments, unproyided with any Of the special accom-
modations 90 indispensable 20 soldiers, who, with
musket ard sword In hand. void e-enact those
scenes Of rapine and plunder, rSksl with impunity
wives aud daughters, scattering pollution dis
eese moral degradation and death in their train ten
times more dr,0dfu than all their powder, ball and
glitterng steel which that people have more than
once suffered al The hands Of their counirymen,
while the goycrnment winked at such scenesl
think not.
Insult after insult. wrong after wrong has been
heaped upon the Mormons by government for the
purpose of provoking them 10 resistance, that pre-
text might be gained for wsgng war Of extermi-s
naton but failing in all at last they resolve 10 send
an army into their midst, as the only sure way Of
accomplishing their designs Of provoking war, or
destroying their religion and its Institutions. Their
plan was like two edged sword, cutting either way;
for, said they, II the soldiers are planted in their
midst, prostitution Of virtue natural consequence,