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

Missouri seaiipelled BY mountain rsspefts tne gIy
bed Of xsst inass sea- with It's sit Hatess sunaeA
to an fnconsidefable lake, whose msrgn spasAies
with lis white crystals and four thousand two nsa-
dred above the sea level lies the centrat
~ Of the Republic--Utaai Ten years ago-A Hugte
decade not dwelling dotted that valley acfoss
it wound the rugged road Of the trader the or 70
or war.path Of the Shoshonee, and bis savage ales
or foes. Standing an eminencc OF tne ans.scn
mountains to the east, their gitterng peaks htung
themselves eight thousand fcetn the clear silent arr
and fringed far beneath by shaded masses OF pine
and fir and basam, reeeding ranges OF nils ana
streams sparkling like silver threads, and narrow
1oryes looking like abysses IN the distance; ana
westward the mountains become lower, and gradu-
ally melt away, until valley, holding in its bosom
this lake of salt spreads out before it All around
on the slopes Of the descending hills even bench
es, formerly the water levels of the lake, and now
used for cultivation pasturage AT the foot OF
these rise the mud walls of city, covering an area
of six square miles, the abode OF half the people OF
the Territory, which now holds more than sixty
thousand soulsi AS by common impulse, they
have come together from all parts Of the world
from Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Eng
land. Australia, and the United States They have
become nation in day. They have trade, indus.
try, manufacturing and mechanical skill they have
law, government, and religion. They are homo
geneous people act by common impulse upon
definite and fixed principles; and after having ap.
piled as territory for an organic low IN 1880, and
been organized in pursuance OF its provisions re-
ceved governor, judges, marshall, and district
attorney, from Federal appointment; after sending
their delegates to sit il the councils OF the nation;
thew have seen fit to repudiate the paternity and
power of the General Government to break up the
Federal courts to deny all political influence in their
councils coming from ours through the agency OF
Federal officers and fall back upon theoratic poity
that impously claims the immediate inspiration of
the Mos High as its and authority, revealed
<hr 10 uonfun md
BRIGHAM YoUNG.-This leader, who rules this peo
ple with an unauestioned despotsm, through a ma
chnery shall examine, after temporizing under Mr..
Pierce, as Governor and Indian agent has at length
grown desperate enough to declare openly his deli
ence of the General Government; and emboldened
by distance and long success, gathered from the
Z supineness of the Executive power that had en-
ployment home for all its energies comes out
by proclamation declaring military law, usurps all
the functions of Territorial government in his per-
son, and is training and marshaling his battalions
for resistance and encounter Three thousand brave
men-our brothers and our sons-have, in obedience
to the Executive mandate, crossed the plains and
rest in their tents near the mountain passes that
grdle that territory. The wintry SHOWS have not
damped their ardor or cooled their glowing courage;
the howl of the savage, impelled to run off their
horses and cattle by the stimulus of Mormon craft,
has not made them irresolute or Responding; the
driving tempest and the icy hail rattle upon their
canvass covering but the camp is merry with glee,
and the martial airs Of Columbia echo through the
passes, and linger on every lip.
Such is the aspect of things at this hour. The
General Government has superseded Young as Ter.
ritorial Governor. His successor (Cumming) has
issued his proclamation, exhortng the people to lay
down their arms and refrain from all dsorderly and
REASONABLE projects. The idle wind that sweeps
those plains is not more idle and Ineffective than
these proclamatons upon that people. Their impe-
rial priest, deposit and dictator, from his dual
IL, 81 81. end of
the Almighty, hoghs them to scorn. Entrenched
behind the material bnlxasks Of distance and the
wall of rock which nature has provided, girded by
sterile plains and verdnrefess hs, and guarded by
blind fnnaticism that knows no law beyond his will,
and will shed its last drop of blood at his behest,
he has become foolhardy by impiety and the un-
questionable devotion that encircles him. The willy
craft of The consprator and the low cunning of the
knave, have given place to the grasping ambition of
the .chieftain, and the hopeful enthusiasm Of the
traitor and the prince.
In bis plotting brain the time has arrived to cast
off the allegiance he to this Government which
he once needed to subdue or wheede the savage,
around whom, he now Believes, he has thrown
stronger tolls. sway of more than six years, as
head Of the State and Of the Cburch-weilder at
once of the sword of Territorial sovereignty and the
croZier of spiritual mght-has compacted and CO.
mented in his grasp dominion he is impatient to
: extend, and will not surrender! Ten thousand
swords will leap from their scabbards at his beck ;
thirty thousand hands, of male and female alike,
will toll necessarily to sustain his power linked
they believe it to be, with their best interests in
time, and their salvation forever.
: ORIGIN OF Observation-Disclosures, as a reli-
gious system had its origion in a romance, written
about the year 1910, by Solomon Spalding native
Of Connecticut who had been educated for the minis
try, but followed mercantile employment, removed
to Cherry Valley, New York, where he amused his
leisure hours by weaving into book, entitled by
him the MSS. Found, the notion entertained or
suggested by some writer's that the American In
dams are the descendants of the lost ten tribes of
Israel. Hence, he starts them from Palestine in.
vents for them various fortunes by food and field
Ears-quarres. turmoils. strifes, separations-unti
they people this continent, and leave behind them
the vestiges of mounds tumuli, Notifications, scup
ture, and cities diapidaed, which are discovered in
Northern and Central America. 1t is written some
what IN Scripture STYLE and uses the machinery of
the Jewish economy throughout He read his manu-
sript to various persons who yet remember it, but
was not successful in procuring its publication
Somewhere about the year 1928, this manu> cript
fell into the hands of 10 Smith, native of Windsor
county, Vermont Smith was about twenty years
OF age, and already exhibited that singular COM
pound of genius and folly of cunning and absurdi-
~, OF Incidence and energy of craft and earnest.
ness, which distinguished him to the end of his ca.
reer. e
Under the new-lighted preachers of that day,
Smith became imbued with all the wild and extrava
CANT notions Of seeing sights hearing voices recev-
ing revelations, meeting and fighting the devil in
bodily form, which indicate diseased Imagination.
anu want OF all solid instructions and fixed princi.
pies ON religious subjects. Enthusiasm ran mad
through the whole region where he dwet, and Smith
was one OF its most brilliant exempiications, ulti
mately having relation that all existing systems o.
religion were wrong, and that he should be made
the prophet of a new faith. For more than five
years he vibrated between his caution and his en-
thusiasm giving out, occasionally dark hints abou
certain mysterious plates TO be dug up by him. con
tanning new revelation. Part of his time va.
spent in lying swindling, and debauchery, and til,
remainder in visions and repentance, the vulgar hab
s o. the brute conending with the higher functions
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