Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-30

man held full sway, immense camps were established ill which the Mormons to the number of 16,0O0 passed the winter of 1S46- -47. Thence started out in the Spring of lS47 under the leadership of Brigham Young that incomparable emigration over i the plains of Nebraska and the high plateaus of the Rocky Mountains which reached its termination on the Salt Lake in July, 1S47. Immediately the building of the new city and the cultivation of the land began. The extraordinary talent for organization of Brigham Young came here into full play. He cared not for the Mexican Government under whose author ity his new annexation, called Deseret by the Mormons, then stood, neither was he molested by them. Here he founded the Mormon State of which we do not know what to admire more, its material pros- perity or the religious municipal organi- zation which made such a success possi- ble for such a cooperation.
 After our war with Mexico the Great Vest to the Pacific ocean, including the territory of Desreet, was ceded to the United States, and in 1850 the land in- habited by the Mormons was organized by Congress as the Territory of Utah, the prophet being made its first governor. The attitude, however, which he assumed from the first towards the federal govern ment, was inimical, The federal officers sent from Washington were forced to leave the territory and the laws of the United States were simply ignored In 1853 therefore the government deposed Brigham Young as governor and appoint ed in his stead Colonel Stepton of the U 5. army, who arrived at Salt Lake in Al
 body. He was soon made aware that here. far from all resources. without any material communication with his govern ment and having to face far superior force of resistance, 1t was an utter i'm possibility to enforce the laws of congress: he therefore resigned and marched with his troops in the summer of 1855 towards California. The federal officers that followed succeeded no better. The Nor mons had made up their mind to neither recognize nor obey the authorities at Washington and the officers sent from there were constantly exposed to threats and even to actual violence, so that they finally Q856.) abandoned the territory. The Saints accused many of them of dis honesty and easy accessibility to bribary. In consequence of these facts President Buchanan deposed Bringham Young who since Stepton's departure had agani as- stunned the functions ofkgovernor. Alfred Cummings was appointed as such QS57) and Judge Eckels of Indiana as superior judge; these officers were accompanied by military force of 2500 men under the command of Colonel Johnston but this expedition turned out to be a complete "fiasco A part of the force were met by the Mormons In arms and beaten back, while another party of the latter succeed ed in cutting off from the other Union soldiers their supply y-trains so that they had to fall back, decimated by the in clemeney of the weather, to fort Bridger. Thus matters had arrived at status which governor Cummings in a proclama- ton designated as ''opep rebellion" which however found peaeeable solution through the intervention of MT. Thomas L. Kane of Pennsylvania, whom the President despatched to Utah by way of California The immediate result of his efforts was sort of armistice treaty en- tered into by governor Cummings and Brigham Young during which (March, 1S58,) two commissioners appointed by the president of the Union arrived in Salt Lake who promised the Mormons full amnesty for their i'll behaviour provided they would henceforth recognize and obey the federal authorities placed over them. The Mormons accepted these con ditions and already in the summer of the same year the first federal troops entered the Salt Lake valley and established a military post on Utah lake about 40 miles distant from Salt Lake city. This mili- tary post was afterwards renewed to Camp Douglas Hi the immediate Vi cinity of the city.
 But for all that it was impossible to establish really normal conditions be- tween the U. $. government and the Mormon community which already in 1860 counted 10000 souls. The institu- ton and practice of polygamy caused con gress to enact laws iQ 1862 which tended towards the abolishment of the evil but all siich laws remained for long time a dead letter and could not be enforced. Since 1864 Brigham Young was the real head of the Mormon church and state, prophet and president, with Heber Q. Kinshall and uaniel II. Wells as co-ad- tutors. The establishment of the Pacific railroad and the discovery of precious metals caused large number of gentiles to settle among the Latter Day Saints" who were thus, so to speak, torn forcibly out of their obscurity. In 1869 son of Joseph Smith iaaqgurated 8 movement against polygalay within the church and in 1870 Cullom. chairman of the commit tee on territories, presented to Congress bill tending directly towards the same end.
 This brings us to comparatively regent times and shall therefore close this his tory which, think, has already by far exceeded the space usually allotted to newspaper article of this kind. What has happened since and is daily happening among the Mormons, is daily chronicled in the press and what American is there who does not keep posted" in the hap penings of this great republic?
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