The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-11-11
EXLUNI BRIGHAM.

Recent advices from Salt Lake city con.
firm the supposition that Brigham Young.
accompanied by select few of his wives,
and guarded by detachment of the Nau.
VOC Legion, is speeding towards Arizona a.
fast a. fast as their animals can carry them
What is the portent Of this flight Of the
Prophet? Indicted for polygamy, and a
variant issued for his arrest as an accom-.
l''i"" s" IL" m"r,,er Of Richard Ya,"s, many
| OF his leadiH. men apstating as they did in
Missouri, aggressive and antagonist,c Gle.
mcnts concentrating in Utah, the judicial
axe laid to the roo. of the pet luxury Of the
Church. and complete DISCRIMINATION Of
church authority imminent, 1t seems not
improbable that Brigham has determined IL
locate in some remote and isolated quarter
Of Utah or Arizona, call around him band
If the faithful and found new ciiy-to gov.
ern the 100000 Mormons of Europe and
America. 1t is not wholly hopeless. or
without alluring prccedcnts, for did not his
great prototype, Mahomet, twelve hundred
years ago, fee from Mecca to Metlins, and
with few hundred followers establish a
faith that now numbers one hundred and
sixty million adherents? and has not Brig
ham seen an hundred thousand adhercnts
multiply from the little band he led to
Deseret from Council Bluffs a little more
than twenty years ago. It seems that there
is determined and avcnging spirit on his
track to-day; but it has 30 appeared before,
and faltered while he prospered. Smith and
Rigdon, the leaders. were tsrred and feather
ed in Kirkland, Ohio, in 1892; they were
mobbed out Of Jackson and Clay counties,
No., in 1888, they were attacked and capt..
u!atcd to the militia at Far West, Mo-, III
1889; in 1874 the Smiths We're arrested for
polyga,ny, attacked BY mob and killed in
prison, and o few months later Nauvoo was
was cannonajcd for three days and the
Mormons driven out ct the point Of the
bayonet. Does the situation look worse 10.
day? Then they were weak, now they are
powerful. The laws they themselves M ade
In Utah have entangled them; they can re.
move beyond their Jurisdiction. The mines
have made Salt Lake property valuable. l.
can be sold, and the proceeds will build
better Zion. Northern Utah was ste rils.
Southern Utah and Arizona are prolific.
Why should Brigham stay in the ,neshcs OF
his enemiess He might not unite the Cor.
dian knot, and, Alexauder like, he cuts it
q lie cuts and runs. What recks It to the
Saints whether ut Mecca Or Medina their
Prophet Is inspired Faith endurcs amid
flame - amid ice. The blooming hunks Of |
the Colorado are inviting as the alkali as,s |
of the Salt Lake. and who knows but tia. |
some day, on the bsnksot the Virgen, Grant |
and Mexican will be- vicasiously .bapsised |
into the Mormon Charch, q were Washing.
ton and Franklin on the shores of the |
American Jordan. t.se.s .saz aae -4anuaa
- But, as yet, this digit Of the Prophet 10
only presumed fact He may be only dir.
ing himseli IN bis Southern dependencies
until the fever heat IL Salt Lake be- sub.
sided. Il d believed In Utah that he N,
gone never, 70 return, and we have osly
taken OCCASION to cite evidences tias & 8
Tie usual naesheA of taking leave Of their
sancsined cities. att Mil. y-tHura ldt l'sFs