New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-29
MORMONDOII.

The latest allie CATION against the Mormons OF re-
beIous msbehayior was, that certain of them had
entered into combination to protect themselves
by force of against the warrants issued or to
be Issued, by the Judges, to arrest parties I'M
plicated, or supposed to be implicated, in the
Mountain Meadow massacre. 1t was also al
legged that some of these associators were collected
in arms in certain out-oftbe-way places. Even II
this had been the case considering that the United
States has an army in the Territory Of some three
or four thousand men commanded BY able othcers,
there would not seem to be any great cause of alarm
However, the resident Gsntles were, or proiessed
70 be, very much frightened. They seemed to aP-
prehend another Mountain Meadow massacre, Of
which they and the obnoxious Judges might be the
victims To quiet these apprehensions, Governor
Cumming issued proclamation denouncing all
such collections of armed men as dangerous to the
public peace, and ordering them to disperse
Shortly after, he commissioned the Marshal ot the
Territory, who, it seems, is an officer chosen oy
the lie Qslature, to hunt up all such Illegal combi
nations Of armed men, and to cause the parties to
them to disperse.
We have before US the report of the Marshal,
who makes, in substance, return of non est inreH-
tus-no such armed parties are anywhere to be
found. He has searched diligently in al! the places
indicated to him as the haunts of these armed con-
spiraton In one place be found eight or nine men
in grove of pine timber IN the mountains, armed
TO be sure, ss is customary with such parties but
peaeeaby employed in cutting timber and sliding
| logs He found, also, scattered over WIDE range
of pasture lands quite number of men in search Of
stock, armed, as is usual, with rifles or reyovers,
but never more than two or three together, dihz-
emily pursuing the business Of herders or cattle
| breeders. One persen gave him information OF 8
body Of 45 men armed with rifles but this, on
investigation, proved to be aparty of ak or eight
men employed in cutting fencing posts. After the
most dlligent search, the Marshal concludes that
the idea that there are bodies of men gathering or
concealed in the mountains, Is entirely mistake.
Whatever the Mormons may have done 10 times
past, they are quiet enough now, and, with mod
crate exercise of prudence on the part OF those
| appointed to rule over them, they viii doubtless
remain so. Whatever visions they may have for
merly had Of setting up an independent theocrscy
| Of their own those dreams are efeetusly kept
down by the presence Of the troops. As to driving
the Mormons away that would be IS foolish as it
would be cruel and unjust Whatever may be their
faults in other respects, in establishing the
settlement on Salt Lake they have established
| q claim to thanks and reward. That settlement
was, and is, very great convenience to the over
land communication with California, and but fox
| the Mormons it would never have been established
10 this day. Drive them Of, and the country
would be abandoned 1t is altogether too sterile to
invite the occupancy Of anybody else. Any other
settlers than those who considered it . city oi
refuge would find it detestable place Of exile
We must be ready to pardon some eeeeasrieiEe'