The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-29
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AMI questions which cannot be safely over.
looked or disregarded. When they first settled,
some twenty years ago, in the valley Of the
Great Salt Lake, after being expelled by mob
law from Missouri and Illinois, these poor Nor
mons had reason to suppose that they were
! beyond the reach Of the prosecuting Gentilss
for many generations. There they were, in .
region only two years before made known to
the world by the explorations Of Fremont
beyond the great western timberless plains
and the Rocky Mountalns-a thousand miles
| from the nearest white settlements of the East,
and seven hundred miles over the Great Desert
Basin and the lofty chain Of the Sierra Nevada
from the nearest white settlements Of Caliror-
mia. With these extensive and apparently i'm
passable barriers separating them on each side
| from their remcrseless enemies, surely, thought
the Latter Day Saints, we can here build up
our New Jerusalem and flourish for thousand
years.
| But they were mistaken The silver mines
discovered in Nevada to the west of them;
and the golden discoveries in Idaho, north
| Of them in Montana and Colorado, east of
them, and in Arizona, to the southwark,
have made within few years the Happy Val
! ley Of the Mormons the common thoroughfare
Of migratory hordes Of Gentiles from oil points
Of the compass. Worse still; from the impulse
which these rich and enveloping mines Of gold
and silver have given to the enterprise Of the
Pacific Railroad, the iron horse from the East
now thunders along to the base of the Rocky
Mountains, while from the Pacific he has
already surmounted the lofty crest Of the
Sierra Nevada, and in the summer will be
snorting in the sandy waste of the Great Basin
Two years hence his course will be free, from
the Mississippi to the Pacific, and then, with
four days as his time from St Louis to San
Mormon saints and their sanity institution of
polygamy, will be overwhelmed by the swarm
ing Goths and Vandals
Meantime, Brigham Young seems to be blind
to this approaching danger. He still breaches
polygamy as the supreme law. His temporal
kingdom In Utah embraces perhaps seventy
five thousand souls, twenty-five thousand of
them in Great Salt Lake City and suburbs
In political view he is to us what the Holy
Father of Rome is to the King and kingdom
of Italy. He stands in our way and he must be
removed. But how? That is the question
1t is morally certain that unless the
government shall in season interpose
and secure their peaceable removal, these Nor
mons will be extermnated in bloody conflict
with the Gentiles We tolerate some queer
secis Of socialists and religionists in the midst
of the Christian communities Of our oldest
States, but these sects are either too small to
excite alarm or too n0tfensive to awaken the
jealousy or wrath OF their neighbOrs. Not so
with the Mormons Of Utah. They are impe-
rum in imperio, a State within the State, in the
most offensive antagonism to our established
social laws, the basis Of our political system.
The saints at the Great Salt Lake, with the
gathering Of the Gcntiles around them if not
removed by the government. win be expelled
by the mob, as they were from Ohio, Missouri
and Nauvoo. We say removed, because this
Mormon evil OF polygamy cannot be abolished
without removal of the Mormon community.
Their institution Of polygamy has become TOO
deeply fixed to be otherwise extirpated.
Moreover, they have built up and accumulate d
valuable properties, the appropriation Of
which, when the opportunity comes to reck.
less adventures, will be apt to afford MS
living illustration Of the fable of the wolf and
the lamb.
What, then, ought we to do. How is this
violent solution of the Mormon difficulty to be
avoideds There is a way simple as the
purchase Of Alaska. We think that the true plan
was broached some six or seven years ago BIZ
an enterprising seafaring man named Cap tain
Perkins. His proposition was to buy out the
Mormons in Utah, buy an island or nest of
islands for them in the Pacific and removs
thcm there in government. vessels. Strange, il
seems To as, that while buying up ice
bergs and earthquakes from the Rus
slams and the Danes Mr.. Seward has not hit
upon this idea Of buying out Brigham Young.
But u is not yet too late TO act upon it, and the
Sandwich islands are just the thing. We have,
too, friend at court In the person OF the
amiable Queen Emma, and for reasonable
sum, no doubt, King Kamehamela would dis
pose OF his sovereignty to Uncle SAM Buy
him out Mr.. Seward, and turn those islands
over to Brigham Young, and he will soon make
them blossom like the rose with their tropical
productions.
But again, in the Alaska purchase we have
acquired string OF Islands, big and little,
some two thousand miles long. Perhaps some
OF these would suit tho Mormons, especially
as among their native Esquimaux polygamy
would b. nothing new. And yet again, as
Juarez is short Of funds h. may be induced to
accept the Mormons as colony for few
millions, or even for few thousands cash in
hand. Al all events, as the republican party
stands pledged to "the abolition Of those twin
relics OF barbarism, slavery and rolygamy," the
duty devolves upon this republican Congress