New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-24
A HARD NUT TO CRACK.

II ever . Government had hard nut to crack, II
Is this OF and the nut that blunts the teeth OF
its authority Is that particularly hard community
which has pitched its tabernacle in the Canaan, Of
Utah. An experience Of several years has demon
strated that there is no use trying to do anything
! with the Saints by such means as have been at
tempted for il officials are dispatched to the scene
they at once Mormonixe them, as they readily did
| Gov. Cumming, the present appointee; Or II they
can't Mormonize them, by oil manner Of annoyances
| they make the country too hot to hold them-they
| and it unpleasant and resign or are withdrawn
Either one or the other Of the tricks Of their game
has been played over and over again, and they are
| likely to be for an indefinite number of years to
| come.
Now the true aud only reason of the invulnerable
intractability Of the Mormons who successfully defy
the whole power Of the United States, is that they
are community Of women rather than of men wo.
men are in the minority, and theirs is essentially
woman power; the backbone of their indsputable
sovereignty is woman power; the cohesive force
which keeps them in devoted union, and therefore
strong. is woman power. There is no use in arraying
masculine force against woman power for it is bound
to succumb in the struggle for superiority and i'm.
perceptibly to melt away under the undermining and
insdious strength Of the enemy. Astute statesmen,
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shrewd and learned jurists, gallant soldiers have all
been sent to the court Of the Grand Turk of the
West they have all gained admission to his chief
city arrayed in all the panoply Of their authority and
with victory apparently in their grasp they have sus
tanned the most shameful defeat of their Objects
It has continually been SO, and why it was has as
continually been most enigmatic mystery, for pso
pie were 10th to believe that in many changes Of
officials civic military and judicial there should not
nave neen iouno ~ least one equal % the
Douotiess' numbers o. tnem were wise, numbers Oh
snem ofave' numbers OF snem snreWd-Samson ana
arc an'oDy we're an tnese' nut DOM were overcome.
ouF oauisons ana Aasonies sent 70 otah, may not
nave been as alrecliy overcome as tue Two ancient
wortnies' but ike them, they had to struggle against
the woman power and on an enlarged SCALE acting at
once on themselves and their subordinates- NO.
man power disseminated through whole community
its pervading influence, its very soul and animus.
those officials OF too stubborn grain to become even
involuntary and indirect traitors to their trusts have
oeen annoyed out OF their POSITIONS others have be-
come simply inefficient and others again have backed
Is fairly and squarely down as did the Ceopatracd
marc Antony Gov. Cumming, for instance, is one of
Tue weak cniidren VINO has sold bis oirthrlght for
: mess OF potash and had the locks OF his power
10y - Way NAoA"'oAA -s"AHn " os't'. Wv
Buck should lose no time in sending corporals
guard to trot him back to the States with fixed bayo
nets behind him 10 prevent his looking back on the
wicked city Of the plain and with his coat turned in
sdeout as an insinuangy analogca reference to the
wearer's character.
Instead of growing smaller, the speck of trouble
in the West is daily growing larger, spreading and
fostering like venomous sore. Fresh recruits of
Mormonism, chiefly women, are constantly pouring
into the promised land the old world sending over
its vile offspring in thousands. The of vciousness