The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-11-08

likely to breed a civil war, are not
precisely those that led to the march
ing of a small army into the Territory
in the days of James Buchanan. While
the Saints profess supreme allegiance
to the Church, and its prophets and
elders, and assert their rightto rule in
temporal as well as spiritual affairs,
they do not offer active resistance to
the official representatives of the Fed.
eral Government. On the contrary,
they profess to be as law.abiding as the
reconstructed people of any of the
Southern States.
The difficulty now is Of a more seri.
GUS character, because it is one that
can be less easily compassed and com
promised, and it is very likely that it
will lead to a collision with the Fed
eral authorities. Under the Mormon
law the occupation Of the public lands
| in Utah was permitted and recognized
on the simple condition of survey and
settlement. No limit was fixed to the
amount man might thus acquire
The Federal Government, it is alleg-
ed strangely neglected 20 survey the
lands in that Territory and open them
to pre-emption or offer them for sale
in tracts Of one hundred and sixty
acres each. The Mormons, therefore,
surveyed and occupied almost without
limit, and some of them claim posses
sion of tracts of from 1000 to 10000
acres.
Latterly tho Gentilcs havo invaded
the sacred soil of Utah, drifting in as
prospecting miners, farmers, spocula-
tors, and traders, and taking a liking
to the broad acres, urcultivated and
unenclosed, have settled among them,
and put them under cultivation. Be-
ing threatened with forcihle election,
! i,hty banded together for self proteo-
ton, and the maintenance OF their
rights. For these intruders the Saints
entertain q hatred as intense as South
Caroinlan has for Radical New Eng.
land Yankee, and in some instances
have attacked them, drove them off,
destroyed their improvements, and
thrown some of them into the Jordan
much as the Sultan is accused of i'm.
morsing his unfaitbful wives in the
Bosphorus, and have given notice to
others that they must pack up, and be
off, if they would not meet worse
fate.
All this did very well so long as the
Saints were powerful and the Gentiles
feeble. But the latter have grown
strong Of late. The tide of emigration
Flaps over into the Territory, and car.
RIGS with it thousands Of sturdy fell
lows who have their fortunes to make
by farming and mining, and who think
| Utah US favorable a place to make
them as any in the vast region stretch.
ing between the Mississippi and the
Pacific. Every season increases their
humber They increase faster than
Saints, who, by all accounts, are not
slow to make the most OF polygamy 10
multiply their numbers. Some Of the
Saints can muster as many children as
feudal Baron could retainers for, u
border foray.
The fight cannot be put off much
longer The pressure is too strong up
on both sides The lands upon which
The GentiIes have squatted will be held
by them-at least will not be given up
withouta a moral struggle. They are
Igrowlng more valuable, and will be
soon, if they are not now, worth fight.
ing for. The Pacific Railroad will soon
run through them. The mining ro.
Igions of the surrounding States and
Territories must draw their supplies
from the Salt Lake Valley, and there.
fore every bushol ofgrain, every meas.
ure of fruit and vegetables, and every
pound of meat that can be produced,
will have II ready and high market =
The Gentiles will not allow tho SAINTS
the monopoly OF so good n thing, and
the Saints arc determined to have it
or die.
This is about the situation of affairs
in Utah, MS we gather from various
letters written by residents of the Salt
Lake Valley Of course the Mormon
laws conflict with the laws by which
the Federal Courts will be governed,
and the DEGREES Of these courts will be
resisted. They have been successfully
resisted for years, but tho time is soon
to come when they will be enforced,
and il the Saints do not yield, an army
in blue will know tho reason why; and
any Gentle who has q foothold on the
soil OF Utah, or who wants to acquire
one, will go into fight that promises
TO "olean out" the Saints, with extra
ordinary zeal,-Cm. Commercial.
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