The Portland daily press., 1867-07-19

This association seems now to be threaten
ed with internal troubles and divisions as
well as with an outside pressure which be-
tokens it no good Before much time shall
pass Salt Lake City will become an impor-
tant station of the Pacific Railroad When
that takes place the kingdom of Brigham
Young will begin to feel power that will
eventually shake it to its centre. This rail
way will let In flood of light upon that sin
gular community that will develope to the
world some strange phenomena of which the
outsiders have now but an imperfect knowl-
edge. When thus made accessible to the
Gentiles and pressed upon all sides by peo-
pie who clearly see the gross enormities of
polygamy and have the courage to denounce
them in spite of the bulls which the prophet
may illuminate against them, this corrupt
ing Mormon institution will soon find dis
honorable grave.
Aside from this outside pressure, the inter-
nal strife now going on in that community
must and will upheaIe the very foundations
Of their society and scatter its superstructure
to the four winds. Three of Brigham Young's
twelve apostles, Orson Pratt, Orson Hyde and
Amasa Lyman, all of them occupying high
places in the Mormon Temple, and having
large families, have apostatized from the
faith and threaten to depart to other lands
The prophet thunders against them and
threatens them with eternal damnation; but
some h'w they don't appear to be SO
much afraid of such fulminations as most OF
the women are, for the very good reason that
they know Brigham has no power over the
fiery element. These Mormon women are 10
be pitied. Brigham is a shrewd, artful man
and possesses much administrative talent, es-
pecially In the management of weak-minded
women and fanatical men. A correspondent
of the New York Tribune, writing from Salt
Lake city says of Brigham Young:
He is q well-preserved man of 66 years, of
medium hight, rather corpulent, with an
ABUNDANT growth of light, auburn hair, and
heavy crop of sandy whiskers, excepting on
his upper and lower lips. In his manners and
movements he is quite graceful, indicating
considerable culture, but really the fruits OF
his varied experience and intercourse with all
classes of men. No man could acquire any
needed quality more readily than Brigham
Young. He is eminent as q mimic, and often
resorts to mimicry as his most powerful weap-
on in hurting his anathemas against the gem
tiles or apostates iii his sermons. In short, +
would put him down, after meeting him in his
office and hearing him in the pulpit as a
most scienced impostor, singularly able, ver-
satile, and INSCRIPTIONS, and as one who seeks
to hide his revolving, beastly licentiousness, by
deliberate blasphemy. ID. ...'Ja afn5
In the opinion Of this correspondent the
world elsewhere may be sought through ID
vain for despotism so relentless and pitiiess
as Is mormonisln. No people under any gov
ernment on earth are ground down to abject
severity as the Mormons. He heard Young
preach one Sunday before 2500 people and
prescribe their worldly actions, their ordinary
daily dealings, with the penalty of eternal
damnation proclaimed for disobedience. 1t
may be surprising to many, how Brigham
car so completely control so many people, but
when the whole riddle of this stupendous
power is unravelled and the character of its
subjects studied, the surprise may somewhat
abate.
A very large majority of the Mormons are
rescued seris of the Old World-not exactly
so in in name in most cases, but So in fact.
They are ignorant, superstitious, fanatical
and ready victims for a new doctine that
promises to bring them into immediate com
munion with God. In many cases their