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AMERICANA MAGAzINr.

The Americana Magazine Tor july
1ust at hand. contains chapters e. -
and 26 Of History OF the Mormon
church." by President Brigham H.
Roberts. In the first two chapters ire
tragic story of the expulsion of the
Iatter-da Saints from Missouri IL con
/ cluded. II IS shown that Jackson
county, at the time was completely
dominated by a lawless mob, and th1t
the Governor, though at first evidently
4 inclined To uphold the law, finally yield
ed 10 the ciamor OF the runans. Ard
so II happened that no legal measure
were taken to protect the victims of
persecution, or to reinstate them on
their property from which they had
been driven.
Governor Dunkllns change u heart
Is all the more remarkable, as he at
first counseied the brethren TO organize
for protection. should your men, be
said, Organize according to law-which
they have a right to do indeed II is
their duty 10 do so, unless exempted by
religious scruples-and apply for pub
lie arms, the executive could not dis
tineuish between their right to have
them, and the right Of every other
description OF people similarly situat-
cd" This was certainly a suggestion
10 the Saints which they had a right 20
construe as a promise that the state
would uphold them I'm the lawful de-
fonse Of their rights as citizens.
against mobs, and yet, when lions
Camp. arrived. and negotiations were
opened for the reinstatement OF the eS-
lied Saints in their possessions, he
merely expressed fear that to do so
would mean civil war, and his sug-
gestlon vas that the brethren sell their
lands In Jackson county-ans entirely
Impractical proposition. Governor.
Dunklih's attitude. as finally defined ib'
a letter 10 Messrs. w. w. Phelps and
others, dated July IS, 1886. was that pub
tic sentiment was the highest law, and
that the voice OF the people was the
voice of God. II II Is true that public
sentiment, even when misguided by
agitation. Is the voice OF God, then the
cries OF the multlttdes before the Prae
tori,nn, against the Son OF God. was
also the voice of the Almighty.
Chapter &c or the present installment
contains an account of the organiza-
ton OF the Twelve, and the Seventy.
and takes the reader TO the time of
the dedication OF the Kirkland Temple
The history. as told by President Rob-
erts grows in interest as IL proceeds.
The article is illustrated with a splen-
did reproduction of a portrait OF w. W.
Phelps. and a view of the Kirkland
Temple.
The prosecutions in Missouri are more
easily accounted for when the chaiac-
teristics OF great number OF the peJ-
ple there are known. John MclGlroy, In
his interesting volume ON The struggle
for Missouri" has this to say On that
point.
"a very large proportion OF tho ina
migration had not been OF character
to 1--WE much promise as to the future.
"ihe now state had been tho Adul-
lamrs cave for the South, where every
one that was in distress, and every one
that WIS In debt, and every one that
Was discontinued gathered themselves
next ~ slavery the south had been
cursed by the importation OF paupers
and criminals who had been transport
ed from England FOR Englandis good,
In the cary history of the colonies, l.
work the new lands The negro prov
ing the better worker in serNitude than
this class. they nuh httl uflNfu PV
the plantations TO squat upon uuoccu-
pied lands where they bred Ike TIE
beasts Of the held. getting a precarious
living from hunting in tile forest, ana
the bolder ekng out thus by deprcda-
tiOns upon their thrlftier neignbOrs-
Their forebcars had been paupcrs and
criminals when sent from England ana
the descendants continued 20 be paup-
ers and criminals In the new cOuntfY,
forming clearly marked social class
q HrHU -
that they belonged 70 a different race
As the eastern part OF tho South aud
the administration Of the, laws I'M
proved, this element was ia some eN-
tent forced. out, and. spread In noisome
tran over Mississ ppf Arkansas, ana
Missouri While other immigrants went
into the unbroken forest with few
rude tools and In the course OF several
Years built up comfortable homes,
theirs never rose above AFFECT squalor.
The crudest of cabins sufficcd them
for shelter beds ~ beech leaves were
all the coucheS they required, thc1
had more guns In their huts than ag-
Hcultural or mechanical Implements
they scarcely pretended 10 raise any
thing more than a scanty patch OF corn,
and when they could not put on their
tables the flesh OF the almost Wild
razor hack hog which roamed the
woods they made meat OF wood chucks'
rucconus. oppossums, or any other
warmth their guns could bring down
They did not scorn hawks or owls 10
hunger demanded and no better meat
could be found.
1T was this white trash' which add
cd SO much to the horrors NJ the war.
especially IN Missouri. and so little 10
ITS real prosecution. Woif-llke In fcroc-
ity, when the advantages we're on their
side they were wolf-ltkc IN coward
Zee when the terms were AT All equal.
They were the Croats. Cossacks T0l-
patches Pandours. Of the coufoderacy
of little value Boa battle. but terrible
as gucrilias and bushwhackers. From
This white trash came the gangs and
murdcrers and robbers. Ike those "a by
the NuunRcrs. Jamcscs QuuutrIls and
scores Of other names of criminal mem
ory'
II b. but natural that anti 'Mormon-
Ism" shoud find "a fertile soil among
the element here described as constitut-
ing considerable part OF the .immigra-
ton into Missouri from the south
What is strange IL that the Governor
should side with that element against
the Latter-day saints. in whom he
would have found most faithful sup
4 porters. had ne taken stand. Win