Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-17
SALT LAKE.
Sunday in the City of the Saints,

SunOal III Tue OitJ VI INC ohlhtS'
A Look at the Promised land
COnfab with a Young Mormon, etc
a correspondent n. Y. R. Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial, writing from Salt Lake
City, gives some very interesting iuforma-
ton concerning the MOrmons. From his
admirable letter we extract the following:
Sunday is observed here better than it is
in Cincinnati or New York or Washington,
or any of our boosted centers Of ciuliZa-
ton. The stores aud shops are all closed,
and even the POstoffi5e is only op.n tor an
hour, there are no gangs OF iOafers upon
the streets, no bOisjerOuS conduct, no d.iHk
ing of beer, and nothing but size to dstin
guish this city from the quietesL New Eng
land village,
walked out to the northeast, meeting
crowds of Mormon children on their way
to Sunday-schoOl, all in clean bu plain
attire, and with happy faces. And such
numbers! It literally seems as though 5 lit
Lake City swarms with children from i've
to fifteen years of ago. To see a dgz Ii #
these come out of one house, ami 1t not a
large house either, is 10 uncommon sight.
Nor are these children being brought up in
ignorance and semi-dz grada ION as We might
believe, considering the p -cu!iar ms ituIOn
which is Fundamental plank IN Mormon
ism, but more care is taken 10 raise them
CORRECTLY, to educate them, and 10 make
healthy men and women Of them, than in
a majority q tie Eastern States. Aud in
intelligence, brightness, natural capacity,
and more than all, health, they will mpare
with the children If the ) .atos or anywhere
else.
walked up to the peak, one Of the many
CAMPING all the mountains abnug nele, from
which the NOrmOns first looked down iutO
the beautiful valley Of the DOR lau, AMI re-
solved 20 locate here permanently. The
Territory of Utah then belonged o Mexico,
but the wanderers raised the Amerran hag
upon the peak and dedicated it 10 America.
Soon after it was given in treaty to the
United States by Mexico, aud the Raising Of
the flag by the MOrmOns was not notably
premature. Poor wanderers. they lad
crossed the plains in a dTeary season, h4r-
raised By Indians, half p-riSaed for want
OF food, carrying their all IN tier IL le
hand-Carts they muuHted this peak and
looked down upon their future home.
Their Journey was longer than that Of the
children Of Israel, and their hardships and
privatiOns as great, and now that they have
conquered a desert aud DuIlt a city, he IS a
fanatic and q fool who would peTsecUJe
them for opinions sake. For violation OF
law they should be held resp Jnsible Ike
other people, but further than that we have
no right 10 90 In this land OF freedOm--
that is, If we propose 10 continue 1t as a
land Of freedom, | noted the contrast be-
tween the desert, as it must have been
thirty years ago, and as il IS now, l thought
Of what Elder Smith said tie other day
when l expressed my asJOmshmeuJ that
any should be so mean, as h want % drive
the Mormons away from their hard-earned
possessions. "Why,a said the elder, I've
have worked here twenty-five years, built
up a waste plain, accumulated properly,
and there is a good deal here to steal"
Elder Smith was a little excited when
be spoke thus, for a mountain Of tdncied
wrongs doomed up before d N, the blood f
his cousins, Joseph and Hy,am, and the
march across the plains, the IN l>sacre al
Nauvoo among the rest; but there was a
grain of truth in bis idea, BIG -er gram
than either you OF l, . reader, woAld like
10 believe.
The Mormons are cUligating the soil,
Door as Il Is, raising LAT ca1Lle anu H'IseS'
and becoming slowly, but surely, wealthy.
There is no doubt Of this. l sometimes
think that if they had nothing, no cry and
no herds-if they lived in mud huts Ike The
Snake Indians, and we're not worth ten
cents q dozen, that we would cease TO
trouble them about their religion, and pay
no more attention to it than we 90 our OWE.
came down from the mountain and at
tended Mormon services at the Tabernacle.
OF these there are two il Temple Square,
inclosed by wall some fifteen feet hugh.
Service to-day was held in the small Ia
bernacle, on account of there being no
means to heat the large one. But Eastern
people are APT to think that the small one
is large enough for ordinary sermons, as it
holds nearly three thousand, and viii COM
fortabIy seat twenty-five hundred.
The outside is that OF very long and