The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-04-11
SALT LAKE CRY,
March 2Sth, 1872.

boOK-6rl8nam Young, &C.
SALT LAKE Cry,
March 2Sth, 1872.
In this far off land of very bad saints
and very good sinners, we are rejoic.
ing in beautiful weather. A mild
balmy spring Is upon US. and already
the grass upon the thousand and one
hills begins to look green, that is, al
their bases, for at their tops is a per.
feet sufficiency ofsnow.
The winter session of the Legisla-
ture has adjourned without doing
much good and very little harm. A
session of the Legislature IL = very
tranquil affair, and excites about rs
much sensation, in this city here, as q
quarterly meeting at the Methodist
Church in Upton would. In fact it is
considered here only as winter con-
ference OF the Church Of J. G. of late
days.
The Constitutional Convention has
also finished its labors aud submitted a
very good constitution, which has
been voted for and almost unanimously
adopted-all the Mormon people vo-
ting for it, and all the Gentiles and
anti State people not voting at all.
They have disposed of the polygamy
question by clause leaving it to Con-
gress to impose conditions for admit.
tance, which are afterwards to be ap-
proved by the vote of the people. This
movement in the Convention was the
pet scheme of the Hon. Thomas Fitch,
who was seconded by no less church
than Geo. @. Canon, justly
recognized here as the Antonelli Of the
Church power in Utah. The move
ment, coming as II did, carried with
all the force and ability of Tom Fitch,
and ably supported by the leading
of Mormondom, took many
e ,s sas 81 s ar Is tksf- -rS syss "xxss xsi
at once opened on the fact that there
was q programme on the tapis that
they had not been advised Of. Orson
Pratt, himself cardinal, President
Farr, of Ogden, and others. spoke wild.
ly and confusedly upon the question.
not daring to venture too far, not
knowing what had been concocted at
the Lion House, and not willing to
abandon polygamy without a struggle
and a protest.
The name Of the new State was set
tied by adopting the old Church favor.
ite of !" Deseret." The learned Orson
Pratt and Zelubbabel Snow gratified
the Convention and the rest Of man
kind by calculating the meaning and
Of this word. According to
these eminent antiquarians, the word
!" Deseret" is very ancient one, and
is from the Reformed Egyptian, 4"
whatever that may be. It was in use
at the building of the Tower of Babe,
and is the only word that survived the
confusion and wreck of language occa-
stoned by the Dutch getting in among
the workmen on that proposed edifice,
and means honey bee'
Judge Mexican is now ia Washing
ton, aud Judge Strickland is attending
to his official business in his absence.
The most reliable advices from the
Capitol informs us that the only excep'
tions taken there to Judge McKean's
course in Utah is that he has been toe
lepient; that under our American sys-
tenn of melting out even handed justice
to all, both great and small, it was toe
great departure to confine some al
Fort Douglass and allow others the
liberty Of their homes, upon precisely
like charges against them. That no
distinction should be allowed to those
holding place and power, whether in
State or Church, and hence Brigham
Young, when arraigned and held t.
answer for the crime of murder, shoule
be held and dealt with the same as il
he were the humblest citizen in tn,
country.
The political parties Of Utah ar,
getting much mixed up. The oil
mormon party, whose ranks swell Will
nine out Of ten Of all the voters I'm the
Territory, Is just now being rent into
fragments by the position Of their new
file leader, Tom Fitch, on the polyga
my question. In his speech in th'
convention he opposed polygamy as {
practice. did not gainsay its claims Il
divine origin did not deny its beinl
holy ordinance, supported by revela
ton, scripture, gospel precedent AM
all holy authorities, and demande'
that the practice Of Il be held Ia abey
ance until they could yet Utah-o
rather the Tower Of Babel, Deseret-
into the Union as State; and thi
wonderful "about face" movement wa
supported by Apostle Canon and
luuJOIlGy Vi tuO SOuvCuLlOus ~
plain truth of all this Is that Csrdina
Canon assumes control of the Churcl
and Brevet. Apostle Fitch the general
ship OF State and politics, as the ne,
file. leaders Of the reformed Tower 0
Babel Egyptian Deseret Mormons.
The Orson Pratt school stand by pc
lygamy, revelation, and theocracy /
Its broadest sense, playing their hand
for all that is out. willing again to 3
through the ordeals Of prosecutions
fire and destruction, for God and thel
religion. The other wing, led by Tol
Fitch, stand fast by Brigham, and te
per cent. tithings, have faith in polyl
amy % the will Of God sustained b
revelation and holy precedent. but ol
posed to it's practice, as being unwil
and impolitic In an earthly sense, an
should be prohibited for very momen
GUS political reasons existing just