Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-14

and blazing With thu decoratiens OF
dor; but thcmaterialssof the Mormon book, though
inoetly derived from the same source, are SO Crafty
iumbed together SO inartiicially constructed that
H whirlwind had scattered the leaves OF the "a.
cred record combined them again with the feats
Of Baron Munchausen by machinery, 1t could not
have surpassed this production of inanlty ana ioiiy
WHAT MoRMoNIsM 1s.-Two things may be re-
marked upon this Koran of Mormanism: LIST. 1t
does not sanction the central principle OF new fah
as now practiced- polygamy; this was the growth
Of after years. I'd. 1t does not Purport to De iu
and complete revelation indeed it discloses that Its
plates and stones are still buried and undiscovered
in the hill " Comorah," in the State of New York.
But neither the plates dug up, nor those still un
known. prevented Smith from having direct visions
and revelations from the Most High; and it is by
this instrumentalty, primarily and not by any po-
tencv in the doctrines embodied among the con-
temptble literature of the Mormon Bible, that the
system has grown into its present magnitude
very similar organization existed short time before
at sing Sing, in the State of New York, headed by
Matthias Folger and others, which soon rpened and
died out, with disclosure Of the vices and selfish
ness of its founders. There is nothing whatever in
the distinctive doctrines or truths of Mormanism
which would tend to give it perpetuty. These ele'
ments lie in its policy, which was not at first ma
tured system, but grew up gradually, as crcum-
stances gave it development.
Fsrst-An dictatorship of two and two was organ
lied to preach the new system, consisting prncl-
paly of violent harangues against all existing forms
of religious faith.
Second-An apostleship of twelve, after the model
of the early Christian Church, with plenary power
over inferior orders.
Third-A commission of seventy, now very
much enlarged to 60 through the world, and propa-
gate the new faith.
Fourth-A location for the thew Zion" where,
without disturbance from Gentle powers, it could
carry out and display its inherent strength. and
stcr fn fho
of its origin, and the divine superintendent it
commanded
Fitth-A perpetual and infable inspiration
through the high priest designated by Heaven, &C
cordng to whose revelations all the personal, social,
domestic, economic, political, military, and religious
concerns of the church to be regulated, in the
mnutest NATTER without hesitation, question or APP
peal.
There was an attempt by Smith, to introduce
communism while the Saints were located at Jack
son, in Missouri in 1882; but the principle OF the
meum and tuum was yet too strong for the imma-
ture fanatcism of the early disciples, and the ex-
pertinent has not been repeated.
Every convert is zealot; every zealot hero!
To believe in these rawlings and aspirations, reason,
and history, science and the worlds progress, all
the morals of Christianity and all the precious boons
of civilization are first ignored and repudated;
plants and swallows every thing beside itself; and
having laid down its majestic independence and its
manhood, and accepted the letters of slave, the
wider the rant, the sooner it obtains credence We
have deemed, in our complaccncy, that no wide
spread delusion could roll its turbd waters the
surface of social life in these ends of the nineteenth
century; but we wake up to this phenomenon,
growing under our eyes and at cur hearthstones,
that involves the reign and rage of certain prnci-
pies of human nature we had hoped were long ago
discarded that raving for it's victims in the
circle of our religious and political Institutions and
by the destinations of its egregous and impudent
imposture, its ntemperance its folly its blasphe-
hafied hopes and sickeneu sensibties spectacle
of credulity and viruence, such We had hoped
history recorded only for warning, and not imta-
ton!
Clad in the sacerdotal robes of the priest over
which drawn the vestments of the soldier this
scrupulous and traitorous warrior-eccesastc rings
out the blended war cry of the chiefain, with the
imperial edict of the Pope! From the sacred seclu-
sion Of the cloister, he energies with mailed glove
and plumed helmet.
How MoRMoNIsH HAS Grown UP.-What wonder
that the down trodden, furnishing masses from
Wales Scotland, Sweden Germany, France, and all
parts of the other world. without education without
moral instructions, are caught by the picture, and
start in troops for this earthly Paradise? What
marvel that eager crowds, begrimed with the SCOT
of the dark mine or pale from the fantness of the
heated factory-what marvel that the victims Of an
pressions and taxes and tithes while it fails to bless
enlighten-what marvel that they crowd round
the earnest man in the thronged marts of the con-
tnent, on the corners of the rural hamlets of
England and drink in his words, blazing with his
own enthusiasm, he paints the earthly glories of
the God-deferded Eden of the West, which sparkles
to the eye of faith in the distance the embodiment
of all excellence that the Imagination ever paint :.
ed? And then comes in the aid of organized emf
grafton ;" in vast communities, with the order and
precision of army they set their faces resolutely
for their new home along every avenue, from the
Atlantic and Pacific alike, in winter and in summer,
toll on with logged energy that in itself is moral
ly sublime. Sixty thousand souls at least own the
sway of this acciden tai hierarchy. Men and wo.
men Of low intelligence burning zeal. simple habits,
but guided and governed in all their affairs by this
inspired priesthood-a priesthood constituted main
ly Of the Yankee element, to nationality-an elo-
ment in this case, of canting calculating hypocrisy
which first inquiries whether it will pay and, Sec
ondly, whether it promises power; and, thirdly,
whether it imposes any limitation upon license and
lust and having satisfactorily settled these profound
questions of the pocket and the flesh, with the cool
deviltry of an ordinary speculation, places itself in
the priesthood council and eldership; leers about
from its high seat in the sanctuary for beautiful in
mates of its harem, and stimulates its palled appe-
tites by victims, as often as exhausted passion
loaths the worn and wasted forms that cease to
amuse or please where the heart is never touched,
and woman is so degraded and defled.
Sir, are the leaders-the master minds of this ia.
naticism, sincere? Smith was more hypocrite than
enthusiast. His whole story of the origin of his
bible lie; and, knowing that, he could not be
sincere.
SOUTHERN LEGISLATION ON SLAvERY.-The action
of the Texas Legislature the subject of slavery is
already known to our readers. Nearly every other
Southern State has this winter legslaed the sub
iect in one way another. In Mississippi there is
project foot for the incorporation of African
Immigration Company, to bring negroes from Africa
for laborers, under system of apprenticeship. In
large amount Of money, to be used by the Governor
for the purpose If bringing negroes from the coas
of Africa. Last winter in the same State a Law