Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-10


The Corinne Reporter is in favor Of di-
viding Utah Territory and giving portions
of it to adjoining Territories. Itregards this
as the best method of settling the Mormon
question, and says:
Occupying large and important part of
the public domain, the people of Utah for
twenty-three years have lived in and prac-
ticed customs, under the guide Of a religious
creed, that in any other land would have
rendered them outlaws Of the government.
Here, defylng the national authority, and
recognizing only the hideous ecclesiastsm
Of sensual monster, the Mormon people
have spurned the law, and in its stead fixed
q system whose every idea is foul and every
tenet an abomination. Beneath the shadow
of Brigham Young's brothel, Mormonism
sets immortality on the seat OF decency, for
virtue it substitutes personal depravity, and
strangles loyalty to the government with
prophetic assasslnations. AS an old Eng
lish legal maxim had it, "the King can do
no wrong so is it enforced in the dogmas
of polygamy that the chief liberiine of Salt
Lake City is free from tho responsibility of
crime committed by his never falling edict
Up to this time the officers and the Courts
of the United States have been treated by
the Church authorities Of this Territory as
interlopers, and everywhere from the OBJ
scene pulpit of the tabernacle to the seat on
the bench, personal threats, Insults and in
dignities have been the only couitesies ex-
tended to our judges by this people, who
stilLboast of their dtien0ge to the republic.
Armies have been sent hther to correct the
evils of the Territory, but onlyto find that
while national bayOnets stood guard the
truce of cowardice and guilt was shown by
the Offenders Thus did more than once
the mercy of the government decline TO take
Just vengeance for violated laws. But the
signs of the times now show that the hour
is nigh when, with the powers that govern
us, forbearancc will cease to be virtue.
In'social and business relations Mormon
ism has erected barrier to divide the peo-
pie. By decree of the Prophet excommuni-
cation and extermination are the penalties
of the Church for dealing with the Gentle,
| which means the American citizen. Treason
and disloyalty are the foundations upon
which Brigham Young has built the edtice
of his consolidated fanaticism. High and
| hideOus rises the superstructure whose ev-
| cry column from plinth to capital tells the
story of massacre, rapine, and incest From
its dome can be seen the mangled victims OF
Mountain Meadow, as in mourniul discord
with their dying groans is heard the bcnedic-
tions of the prophet over the sacrifice of thai
dreadful scene. But enough Of this now toe
well-known history.
The continual boast of Mormonism is
that with them Utah has prnspered mater
tally as by no other people il could have
been. This proposition is not only false
but ridiculous. The contrary is the fact
Compare her to- day to all the Territorie
around her Colorado not ten years old
Montana and Idaho still younger. Nevad'
also, once part of Utah but now ricl
and prosperous State OF the Union; any o
these has to-day more material wealth, ant
has all the elements of success and pro
gress in greater degree, than Utah aite
her twenty-tbree years can exhibit. Ih
records of the Treasury Department a
Washington will show that no two O
three other Territories of the Union hav
cost the government a proportional
amount Of expense.
We therefore say that in duty to the pee
pie of Idaho and of this section of Utah th
, annexation proposed ought to be effected
act of Congress Immediately. The mort
rivgrco of ti.is Torritnry. embracing the ei
Q tire line of the Pacific Railroad should b
given to Idaho. This would give to the Ia
ter the valleys of Salt Lake, Cache, Web,
, and Bear river. 1t would give TO her u
communication by rail which she needs an
i deserves. 1t woull add a mixed pUpulatio
of %, 900 to Ijaha, taking in Corinne an
, the entire stretch Of country where Gentil,
now live from Wyoming to Nevaia. Stril
I, us OF from Utah and this then new portic
i of Idaho will flourish with the bloom Of tb
f activity which cannot live here. Our land
= our cities.and our towns will, under who'll
some legislation, then rise to usefulness, ar
become agents in the development Of IL
8 country in which we live.
As the only American city in Utah,we as
the government to transfer this section
Utah, with It's people, to Idaho, and th
d take it out from Mormonism, that dead
b upas beneath whose shade the candid r
q viewer will see there is no healthy life f
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