The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-21
THE MURMONS.
From the Memphis Appeal

FROM the Memphis Appeal
Naturally, Tue oain.s are nueu disturb.
ed ny tue Presidents proclamation with
reference ~ UtaH. Oar latest dIspatcno.
mention n movement looking ~ uDvIner
einigrutiUh, ANA the purchase Dy tne
prVpuet and has followers vi one vi tue
sandwich Islands Is suggested, among
vIher schemes. In some Respects Lhis
wVuld have IL good effect upon the suD-
Jects Of the new king, Lunallo. Tue
Jlornons are u hardy, industrious,
thirlity people, and their example cOuiu
not ia,l 10 exert II most salutafy inHaebce
Oh the idle, unineLhodical descvudants oi
the cahniba.s wnu murdered Capt. Cook.
In tins country circumstances have forced
Tho Mormuns - lead II
| somewhat nUmadic lilo. IL
was not until September, 1873, that DO
| seph Smith announced that the angel
MVroni mad Appeared to aud gwen nm
| Instruction. informed him that Ovd had II
WORK for him ~ do, aud told him where,
ON hill in Manchester, OnArlo county,
| Now YORK., record made Gu gold pa1es
could bs found. September ~, 1921,
smith produced these plates and two
transparent stones, IN SILVER bows like
specLacics, called the Trim aud Thummlm.
From the plates, by and OF inc spectacicr,
Smith pretended " declpber The chapters
in what is now known AS the BUoA OF
Mormon, which was printed IN 1880. Mun-
chester, New York, was the Mormon start
log point. Here the first church was o.
gained, IN April, 1880; but IN January,
1881, the prophet Smith Pretended that
he had been instructed b. revelation
To remove to Kirkland, Quo, winch was
TO be tho sGut Of the New Jerusalem.
father all the Mormon converts follow
eli hun. At that point the lirst Mormon
Temple was erected; its ruins are stiil
visible. Soon afserward, Kirkland not
proving sufficiently large htld OF oper-
atoms, Independence, jackson county,
Missouri, Was selected for The colony ana
named tho New Jerusalem. IL Was de-
sIyned 10 leave klrtiand IN tive Years.
Smith and has assUcia.e prophet III gdun,
started bank ANA tJodeI tho country
with counterfeit money, and both were
| tarred and ieathered Wy II Gentle mob.
la january, 1886, their bank failed, and
ihey lied ~ Independence, where IN time
| they were joined 10y the majority Vt their
followers. Trouble with The Mlssourians
forced them 10 emigrate TO ILLINOIS early
IN 1889. They settled near Commerce,
Carthage county, and ut once began 10
| bulld tuc city OF Nauvoo. 1t was at this
place that the propnet Smith announced
| II revelation authorizing polygumy, Has
object was To pacify his wiie, VINO
had become incensed ut tho
attentions he paid other
women. After the establishment OF this
new doctrine, Smith made advances to so |
many women TO become ms spiritual
wives, that public indigDuuon Was aroused,
and the prophet and MS brother Hyrum,
who had been arrested and committed "
prison for mobblng II newspaper on the
olu of May, lol4, we're attached III jail by
u mob ana killed. Inc following year the
legislature repealed the charter vt Maui
VOC, ana other troubles followed 50 rapidly
that another westward movement was
resolved upon. Brigham Young, who
succeeded Smlth, reached Utah IN July,
io47, and in May, 1917, nearly Nil tho
SAINTS lett Iihuois 10 JOIN him, arriving IN
autumn. For twenty live years MORMON
dom has nourishcd IN Ctah, The remote-
ness of Tie territory until recently nearly
cvncealing the workings oi the peculiar
Institution" But tue completion Vt tie
Pacific railroad placed Salt Lake City
near the great national highway; the
restless spirit of adventure attracted thou
sands OF Gentllcs to the fertile soil Of DE
secret, and now the present generation is
familiar with the practices OF the strange
people whom public opinion drove from
the states. WHAT shall Ue done with the
Mormons? has become question which
the government must soon solve prnctl-
cally. That the MormOns, living under
the United States government, can much
longer continue to practically subvert the
laws, and with impunlty practice polyeu-
my, elsewhere punishable as II felony, Is of
all things the most unlikely. The
civilization Of tho hge will
not tolerate special Legislation which
seeks to make virtue in Utah of IN
action that the law declars 10 be II crime
in Nevada. The Mormons may as well
prepare to accept the consequences en-
tailed by constant communion with the
outer world. Dread as is the alternative,
non abandonment Of poiygamy means
abandonment of the United States terri
tory. This is the age Of railways, for now
adays iron bands follow the Tag.