| Show A GENTILE IN UTAH 1 ably BV ir II 11 0 cROUSE ROUSE Writt written fil iii for tor ahe sparta herald I 1 have of late re received several articles clipped from the sparta f wisconsin herald ti which evince such a disparaging estimate of the moral integrity of the tho Mormon residents of utah as to induce me to believe you are very erroneously informed in regard to their character or cm em aued with an innate unfriendliness towards them but as my nephew who sent bent me we your articles 3 requests me to not blame you jou ou for the unfriendly criticism I 1 am encouraged to send you a few lew lines giving the experience and observation of a nonsectarian non sectarian resident of utah since aug august us t 12 1874 aa a former resident pf af monroe county wisconsin I 1 lam iam am especial ly desir desi roua oui that the truth only be promulgated among my former friends I 1 am forced to confess that tha t upon the armal armul of myself and family in utah our minds minda were equally bi assed by the popular prejudices which so enslaved the minds of the people in me the states hence I 1 am rather disputed to excuse than to blam blame Q strangers for misunderstanding der the mormon character crossing the extensive desert wastes between the mississippi and the rocky mountains in a wagon drawn by three horses with a IL family of nine persons and with a very slender pocket book boob we were well fitted to appreciate the disinterested kindnesses of the much evil aboken of followers of joe smith upon passing the ter lin line between Wy wyoming orning and utah my wife observed well now we are in utah if we get out of utah with whole bodies then we can go anywhere but we were very agreeably disappointed in our preconceived estimate of utah character othe otte of your ar the saints in 1845 determined to emigrate beyond the rocky mountains and that the 1 mormons Mor monal mons since sine a then have had only a nominal regard for the su supreme authority of the united states slates NOW the plain truth is the mor mons emigrated because compelled by the force of mob violence to sign a treaty to vacate the soil of je jha aha united states they were necessitated to go compelled to abandon their houses and farm farms their gardens and orchards and their magnificent temple even before it was fully completed on ou the ath of february 1846 the first emigrants crossed the icebound mississippi and that night nine dine children were born in the mormon camps in sight of their beautiful city of nauvoo now is it consistent with reason to infer that a civilized people as native born american citizens are admit be would voluntarily isolate themselves from all the endearments of comfortable homes in midwinter mid winter winters under buch such circumstances fi leaving their persecutors for a while behind they journeyed on westward until they reached the aa eastern stern shore bhore of the missouri river biver now known as council it was hi eres ereL surrounded by all those cruel trials incident to their expulsion into that hat frontier wilderness with the treacherous savages annoying them that the tyrannical demand was made by the national for far able bodied men to perform military duty cluty in the mexica mexican P war this stroke of shrewd vindictive malice was wab bet set in motion by the ate late hon united baates senator of mo thos hart benton who conspired thereby to dearoy destroy the detested mormon hierarchy 21 which was the finality devoutly prayed for by the al alave v e socratic border ruffians whom he sought thereby to compliment the condition of bleeding kansas kastl a few years since attests the t he character of ruffians 11 it was intended that if compliance was 7 made to the demand the indiana ais alg ns would make a prey of what ir number of mormons cormons would re malnin in camp but it was confidently antly believed belf eved that the mormons were at heart then the same as illey itley are represented to be now only nominally loyal to the supreme reme remo authority of the united 9 ciliates Ci tates lates 11 hence it was expected that they would refuse and in that event the thy united mates troops were ere to attack them as rebels rebel and sand traitors and thus annihilate or disperse their numerical power but the prophetic wisdom of brigham young discerned in this tyrannical demand tho the future safety of his followers follo follower jers who regarded him T as their guide and cound cpr he according instructed the young men and boys boys boss oat that although their just q quota 0 a aa aa citizens of the united state would be only one and one one half man wan in proportion to that required of the whole union it was wai the tho will of god and the lle Alc dictates tates of worldly wisdom aa as well for fai them to enlist and tind thereby to show their captious enemies that they vre wre true lo 10 loyal al citizens of their native country and to rebuke the slanderous I 1 insinuations of those who were ignorant of their motives anti and purposes As an additional inducement anent brigham young prophesied that not a man who would enlist should ever fall in battle that the storm of battle and of orwar war would all clear away as they would advance if they would be tend to their prayers be obedient to the orders of their official superiors per lors and faithfully disaba discharge ige hgo all their known duties lo 10 each other and to the god whom they professed to serve thele these prophecies happened to be most happily veri verified fled fied in april 1817 one hundred and fifty three picked men form torm formed edthe the pioneer party with brigham you young ng at their head started from near omaha now florence nebraska winter quarters and on july 1847 arrived in the valley of the great salt lake and founded the mormon metropolis and political capital of utah then a barren barrell wilderness of wild sage and natural sal sai aratus buti but now the most beautiful and attractive collection collect eon fon of public and private buildings inhabited by twenty nive five thousand people of fruit and shade trees of commerce and wealth of convenience veni ence and luxuries that can ba be met with on the face of the earth each lot jot comprises com prizes one and one fourth acre and is used as a garden orchard and dwelling here upon arrival the banished exiled mormon refugees un feci to the breeze the flag of their native country the stars and stripes six months mouths and laight eight days before mexico ceded the country to the united states t they took soil and held it jor for the union does doea such conduct evince the characters of rebels and traitors or a people who have onty only a nominal regard forthe for the supreme authority of the united states the mormon battalion crossed the plains via santa fee new mexico they crossed the colorado desert Df esert isert a distance of ninety miles without a drop of water aad arrived at san diego california in time to reinforce the military strength of john charles Fr fremont emonts so as to deter doter great britain from attempting to seize that productive region ali 1 though in literal verification of the mormon presidents prophecy prop trecy the storms of battle had all subsided even before they arrived at the close of the war the soldiers of the mormon battalion were welle disbanded at los angeles california some borne of the ex soldiers to utah where they joined their friends secured health peace and competence for themselves and families other soldiers of the tho mormon battalion tarried for awhile in what was then called new helvetia 11 where they engaged their services es to a captain sutter butter to dig a mill race among those thus emp employed loved were sergeant daniel bruit ezra jira allen alfen sidney and ira willis these with others threw up with their shovels the yellow trea treasure gure of which la Is fashioned his august magisterial excellency the golden calr calf which has evoked so much of the homage and adoration the joys and sorrows the tho happiness and misery of mankind such sueh are some esome of the events which have resulted from mormon energy but nut in spite of all such service many of our erudite p nedi redi tors of secular and secta sectarian rian newspapers are always ready and eager to listen to write and publish any story no matter how absurd originated naad by apostates and repeated by unprincipled and promulgated by credulous sectarian which brand the mormons cormons as treasonable anti and rebellious there are many bad people in utah as elsewhere people guilty of theft falsehood and licentiousness some of which of fences are committed by persons who profess to believe in the mormon doctrine when in company of other professed mormons Mor mons and when they are in the society of other clamorous anti antl mormons cormons Mor lioi mons then than they too are very severe in denouncing the preva prevalent misdemeanors of pretended lat ter day saints cormons mormons Mor mons speaking from esperi ence and from a of their hwn hearts of course know the 11 cormons mormons Mor mons ll 11 are bad badi Hu How however wever eaver faver in many 1 n unprejudiced obi rrt fit 8 ii haab I 1 e cn vince 3 me nie that for daring deeda lof bof of great brltz crimes exco excommunicated Aloi naon and those who bave have seceded from oth othen other religious sects surpass by farall far nil nii all thue who are sincerely since Bince rely devoted to the literal the diffor mormon church tlona tiona mere ayere feigned belier belief an fn alstn Il hoWever does not afford arr air infallibly llor nor an invariable rest restraint mint Wint for lor evil minded persons per sons sops dissimulation and hypocrisy islas Is as tenable with the mormon nas as with other religious or political party affiliations |
