New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-01-30

Seldom have the people Of the United States agreed
more Unanimously upon any question than they do
| upon that Of the course to be pursued toward the
rebellious horde Of Mormon polygamsts who, in adj
dtion 10 boldly insulting the national Of moral
ity and deeency have openly and directly cast their
defiance in the teeth OF the federal authority. Since
the time when Bill Hickman and bis band Of /" Destroy
| ing Angels after committing numerous outrages
and cruel murders, broke up the federal courts in
Utah and caused the officers thereof to fee for their
/ lives, the American people have with one voice
steadily urged o demand for condign punishment
upon the outlaws and murderers, no matter at what
cost Nevertheless we find occasionally an ingenious
or phianthropc individual pnzzlng his brains to find
solution Of the Mormon problem that will not in
yolve the necessity Of shedding blood nor Of even
stirring up the bile of the Latter Day Saint to an ex
tent likely to interfere with his digestion The New
York Evening Post thinks II has discovered simple
and inexpensive method OF settling the question and
restoring amicable relations between His Excelency
James Buchanan, President of the American nation.
and His Holiness, Brigham Young, High Priest
Prophet and Supreme Head of the independent Nor
mon church and dynasty.
The Post assumes that the people of Utah, to
man, averse to the kind of government provided
for them at Washington, and prefer that of their
prophets and elders; that Utah is occupied exclu-
sively by Mormons and Indians the latter desiring
no government and the former having good one Of
their own, or one that suits them well enough that
we, as nation, profess to recognize the principle
that the people have right to govern themselves in
their own way. and that the forms and restrictions
prescribed by majority best calculated to pro.
mote the comfort and prosperity Of the whole that
as We in the East insist upon the privilege of making
own laws and selecting our own rulers we shouId
allow the Mormons to do so also, provided thew do
not thereby disturb rights; and that it is oues
tonable whether we have any right. and If we have
right, whether we have any inducement Of soupd
policy, to compel these people to submit to rule
which is not their choice and is condemned by their
religion. From these premises the Post deducts the
following sapient piece Of advice
In view Of all these circumstances, il not the wisest
and most states1naplike course we can pursue. 10
withdraw troops, repeal the Territorial law of
Utah and restore the inhabitants to the unorranzed
and awess state from which they were taken by the
Territorial act Of 1850? They will then have no
laws but Of their own making, rules but Of their
own choosing, and no enemies but for their own ipbt-
ing. We shall he released from an expensive war
from the responsibilities Of distant and expensive
government Of no earthly advantage to us, and for
which nobody thanks Us. We will convert those
p9e into important allies in prosecuting our trans.
in0 steam and electrical al gii
forna.
The reasons given by the Post for advising this
policy towards the Mormons would be yery good
were they not based upon the unwarranted assump.
tons that the Saints if left to themselves would be-
have decently and peaceaby toward the rest Of the
world that they would longer, as they have done
for years. outrage humanity by compelling those who
have been entced into their clutches BY false repre-
sentions to submit to their tyranny and adopt tber
hideous and abominable customs and that. finally.
there can be any guarantee that the establishment
and future growth within our territory Of an indie
pendent sovereignty repudiating all dependence upon
and relations with the federal government and the
other sovereign States shall be not only harmless as
regards future progress but consistent with our
peculiar political and civil organization These as
sumptions not only unwarrauted they are palpa
bly, false and absurd, and we are surprised that |
Journal Of the standing and intelligence of the Post
BLACK Republican though 1t beg should proceed upon
them. In the first place, the Mormons have for few
years past evinced hostile disposition toward those
whom they call Genties, and their conduct in this
respect has been constantly becoming more outrage
Gus and intoerabe until 1t has resulted in the whole
sale murder of emigrants upon the plains. That they
have received ample proyocaton for this hosttv |
and that they have suffered deep wrongs. NAV he |
true but whatever the cause of their present attitude
il cannot affect the real merits OF the case il cannot
change the fact that they openly insult and DEFY the
Government whose territory they have been permit |
ted to coonize and under whose suerance they have
hitherto existed and 1t cannot alter the fact that their
conduct and the attitude they assume are the best
proofs OF the incompatibity Of their position with
our laws and the disposition Of our people and that
radical change is required in their mode OF govern |
ment and their relations with the federal authority
In the second place, the American people owe il as
duty to humanity to put stop to a system Of cut.
RACES practised upon helpless women in Mormondom.
Hundreds Of ignorant but honest families are yearly
sntieed from their homes in other countries stripped
the long journey to the promised land OF whatever
means they may possess, and when they reach Salt |
Lake City and their eyes are opened to the deformi
luced they find themselves poweress 70 escana from
t they are in the hands Of more absolute and far
worse despotism than any they left behind them n
he old world. a despotsm that demands the sac,ieeo