The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-11
The Mormon War.

Several moths ago, by authority of the
War and Interior departments, gentle
man OF Boston went on q secret mission
among the Mormons and endeavored to
learn the truth or falsity of reports that
they are arranging for an uprising
against the government. Although he
has not yet made an official report of his
conclusions and observations, he has in :
dicated something Of his important dis
coverles. In private letter Ia friend
he says that the time is not .r distant
when an army of 100000 men will be
none too small fora campaign that will
spread from Utica to Wyoming and
Montana on the north, and to Arizona and
New Mexico on the south. At the bottom
Of these troubles lie the Mormons. The
Infamous sect is the most thoroughly
disloyal element in the Union. All
their actions since they settled! by the
Great Salt Lake have been governed
Dy comprehensive and dcep.ia schemes
some day to establish grand empire OF
their own independent Of the national
Union. This scheme they are now car
rying out with accuracy and comprehen-
siveness worthy of anything that ever dis
tlngulsied Jesuitism. They have not
concentrated themselves in one region.
but have spread out over the widest pos
sible territory. Therefore All invading
army would have TO distribute itself
over wide extent of ground. All the
region over which they have spread they
are covering with megh like warp Of
ranches and farms and are filling up
with the woof of their rapidly multiply
ing brood which increases at an insectiv-
orous rate. Polygamy is part Of the
scheme, and the best instrument they
could devise speedily to secure a dense
population to cover the land with their
own progeny. Mormon women, far
from finding it burdensome, as he's fire.
quently been asserted, really glory in it,
Wives vie with each other to see which
will bear the most children. Through
the fertile valleys of New Mexico and
Arizona, along the available water
courses and around good springs, these
Mormons are spreading themselves, and
the government is giving them weapons
with which to strike it back.
The agents say they have made them
selves independent of the outside world
for the necessities of life. They have
factories, and in case Of war against
the Union they could not bc starved out
surrounded by their battlements of sky
piercing mou tain ranges they would
make a hard fight against the invaders
struggling for their false faith with the
fanaticisin Mahommedean. A NOR
mon war would be Il general Indian war
as well. They are untiring in their eff
forts TO poison the minds of the Indians
against the national government and
undermine their faith in its supremacy
They artfully secure Indian favor by
never losing an opportunity to show
them some consideration and place them
under obi ,ations. While it is true that
the avers re American frontier settler
unwisely, a I'd ven stupidity, treats every
Indian with contempt and unaffected
| dislike, no Indian tribe is too insignifi.
cant for them to seek its favor. Their fa.
vorite method is to seek to breed q con-
tempt for governmental authority, and a
| distrust of all its movements. They
adopt their proceedings to the conditions
of each tribe.