The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-02-09
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OF MORMONDOM.

OF MORMONDOM.
Joe Smith illustrated in his time
that the pure stuff out of which a
charlatan is made and which gives
propulsion to the religious conf
dence man, let it be never so repre-
is not. to be despised.
From the time that Joe's father dug
up that foot shaped stone in a we'll
at Ithaca up to the time that he and
his dupes abandoned their money
digging ventures in the neighboring
hills. and thence on to the pretended
finding of the Hebrew tablets which
fell away to ashes as fast as Joe in
terpreted them, and SO on and on to
the pretended vision of the angel
with the drawn sword at Nauvoo and
thence, by short cut, to the final
catastrophe in the county Jail, the
Mormon prophet was a new power
in the world--a power because he
came in good time to be the central
figure around which might cluster
the more than willing millions who
forever will brave all dangers OF
earth and hell to get close to the
source and vital principle Of the cant
and bizarre pretendings with which
they love to have their eyes and their
other senses dazzled and enchanted.
When his power loses its hold
through the wasting and drivelIng
of his successors in the priesthood
it will only GO out to be gathered to
gether in the name of, and for the
giving to, some other CLOSED and
sanctified humbug. which will surely
be at hand. "When Brigham dies. :
80 goes the popular prediction.
esthen the.MormQn fabric must fail
to pieces of its own weight" Per-
haps so; but it is an easy thing to re
peat a popular and not unnatural
prediction-easier> at times that the
Witnessing its fulfllment. Now, the
reports tell US, the hosts of the False
Prophet are exercised with fear over
the mutterings and the threats which
come from Washington. Grant,
they have been told, will set his foot
upon the church of the Latter Day
Saints and obliterate the temporal
power of the Mormon magnates. 1t
is repeated, gleefully, in Gentle
quarters that the day of retribution
is at hand. Maybe this is so; but
whenever it shall happen that this
Government or any other adequate
power steps in to make war upon
the Mormons, as such, that moment
the principle of. disintegration and
disenthralment which is now at work
among them will cease; and in its
stead will come renewal of fanaticism
renewed consolidation and an aug
mented reassertion" of their faith il
the martyred Prophet. Shall thu
misgovernings and disloyalties O
Utah continue to 60 unnoticed ane
unrestrained, then? Shall the protes
tations aud memorials of the loya
Inhabitants of that Territory con
tinue to be unheeded at Washington
These are the questions which ado
complication to an already puzzline
and vexatious problem; and these
are some of the considerations which
help us toward the conclusion tina
in the Presidents cool and unimpas
stoned Judgment, there will seem t.
be no need of any such sudden and
startling concentration of military
strength in and about Great Salt
Lake City as the dispatches predict
The problem must and will be solved
bv more conservative means and
more gradu j approaches, than those
which are to be found within the
lines of a camp of occupation.