The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-10-30
"UNfTED WE STAND,

The Influences under which new sets
Elements are made, often have control
ing and permanent effect upon their fu~
ture prosperity and happiness. The
morals and religious unity of sentiment
viii, Ia existed among the Pilgrim Faith
ers. intensified by keen sense of their
destitution and helplessness, grew into
a characteristic, which, even TO this day,
has impressed itself upon all the New
England States. Philadelphia yet re-
tains evidence of Quaker origin. Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas are still the
homes of the Cavaliers. All these dis
tinctive features are observable, not
only in the religion and morals, but in
the pursuits, enterprise and general
business predictions of these separate
portions of our country. To come near
er home, we find later examples of this
controlling and guiding influence IN the
Mormons, and in California. Much az
we find to condemn in Mormonism, there
is one aspect, at least, in which it ap-
pears to advantage. IL has built up
large, prosperous, and rapidly increasing
community, and surrounded il with all
the comforts and many of the luxuries
of life. under every possible disadvan-
tage, and in an incredible short period.
The exodus of the Mormons from Illi-
nois, and their settlement and success
in Salt Lake Valley, in every point of
view, forms one of the most remarkable
events of this. or any other age. They
were literally driven from civilizatio.
by the force of public sentiment which
had destroyed their Prophet and many
of his friends, and which threatened all
their possessions with destruction. They
went 1.200 miles into an unexplored.
region and commenced, in
their own way, the work of government,
implanting there their peculiar institu-
tions, and depending upon the country
around them for livelihood. They
have made the desert to blossom as the
rose" And now that civilization, with
all its great elements is following them,
it Is met with power of spontaneous
growth almost equal in the great essen
tials of life to itself. How has this been
We reply, by union.
Among themselves they were a unit,
and realized the necessities of their con
dition they went to work and "lo the
desert smiled"
Soon after the war which gave US Cali
fornia, Marshall discovered gold in Sut-
ter's mill race. In less than a year
from that time, fifty thousand people, of
all nationalities, had found their way to
the coast of the Pacific. San Francis
co, from an old Spanish mission village.
sprang into a great city. In three years
California was State of the Union.
Notwithstanding the differences of Lam
guage Labits, customs, education and
pursuits, the people of California, with
a full consciousness of their condition,
were united in everything appertaing TO
the interests of the country, The re-
suit was wonderful and immediate sue
cess.
War filed Montana with mixed
population. Incited hitherward by
their greed for gold. But they brought
their prejudices with them. Fresh
from the field of bloody strife, they
could not forget the hatred thereby en-
gendered, and the result has been that
after FIVE years existence we have had,
IN our Territorial government, nothing
but trouble and perplexity. Our credit
IS below par, and our Territory. rich in
natural gifts. is suffering for the want
If union and harmony among the peo- I
1le Party spirit. proper enough in po-
itical affairs, enters into everything,
md blights every effort at general i'm 4
,rovement. This must be corrected \
We must see our own interest, in q
broader light, and begin to enquire and
understand among ourselves how the
can be improved. What shall
We do to secure an early railroad con
Iec.ion with the States How can we
Oonest effect our admission as a State
What can be done to induce foreign
aoital to seek investment here How
an our mineral and agricultural re-
ources be brought 10 the notice Of the !