Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-30
WHOLE NO. 642.

rial law Of Utah, and restore the inhaDitants W 'o
and lawless state from whion my
were taken ly the Territorial act OF looof ihey
will then have no laws but OF their own nahIns,
no rulers but Of their own choosing land no enemies
but for their own fighting. We shall be released
from an expensive war from the responsipiIi',e'
of distant and expensive government OF no earth
ly advantage to us, and for which nobody thanks
US. We will convert those people into Important
allies in prosecuting our trans-continental COM
merce with he Pacific, and in opening steam and
electrical communication with California.
There are but two imaginable objections to this
course. The first is. that if we abandon the war,
we allow polygamy and its aduterous enormihes
to spread and take root upon American soil, ann'
secondly, we bring ciscredit upon the American
arms. As to the first OBJ ection, it will be enough
TO quote what Gamaliel said to the Pharisees on
the trial of Peter and the other Apostles:
aye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves
what you intend TO do as touching these men. for
before these days rose up Theudas, boasting him
self to be somebody; to whom number OF men.
about four hundred joined themselves who was
slain, and all as many obeyed him were scat
tered and brought to nougbt.
"After this man rose up Judas of Galilee, in
the days of taxing, and drew away much people
after him he also perished and all even as
many as obeyed him we're dispersed
"And now say unto you refrain from these
men, and let them alone for if this counsel
or this work be of men, it will come to nought;
but if it be OF God ye cannot overthrow it lest
happily ye be found even to fight against Gods
Gamaliel's advice is just as applicable to the
Pharisees of our day to those of his own. If
the Mormon superstition be of men, it will in
due time come to nought-Brigham Young, in the
course Of time, will pass to his account; before
that perhaps his followers will be divided in
opinion or alineated from him. "A thousand
things may happen In Gods good time to dispel
the delusion which enslaves them, and when
emancipated they will be our allies they will
have built up perhaps large and wealthy COM
munity in the desert, and removed obstacles to
the progress of our civilization westward, which
may stand in greater need than we now suspect
of just such assistance as may be rendered by
people organized by fauaticsm, under a rule
whose will is law and whose service is perfect
obedience. How much better, then, when the
day of their deliverance comes, that they be
friends than our enemies-that their intercourse
with us is associated with pleasant memories and
not with bloody traditions and armed strife
As for dscredting our arms by abandoning
Utah. it will be time enough to meet that objec-
tion when any person can be found ignorant
enough to doubt the ability of our government
to execute judgment upon the Mormons. The
disparity Of force is such between us and them,
that tho prosecution of the war is no evidence of
valor, while the abandonment of it would illus
trAte some Of the rarest and brightest of national
as we'll as individual virtues-magnanimity
lo"aoo Ouf chomioe, III tu6 ultimate triumph
of truth, and perfect reliance upon the great
principles of religious toerasion, upon which all
good government reposes.
We have not inquired whether any important
rights have become vested under the Utah terri
torial act but il is hardly possible that any have
except such as have become divesred by the rev.
olutionary attitude of the people. If we are cor
rect in this impression, it certainly seems we'll
worth while for our rulers OF Washington to con-
slider whether at least one of the embarrasments
under which the present admiration is sinking
may not be removed.
0Acfa Oh.