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Show THE MO HMO N I'UOULKJI. Wo commend to tho carpet baggera of Utah, and their confederates tho G L. U., tho following article ou this ....v.; r.n. ikn Mil unn q a very strong administration paper, published at tho home of senator Carpenter and lua especial organ. Itidecd, those familiar with his style will havo no difficulty iu deciding that his mind dictated if his pen did not write it. Senator Carpenter is one of the most profound lawyers in the scnato and a most thorough statesman, a devoted friend of President Grant, so long as he keeps within the Jaw, but one who will neither sanction or permit per-mit any violation of the law by congress or tho executive, in any attempt to get rid of polygamy. As oneof tho senate judiciary committee, no bill will be reported from that committee, unless in strict accordance with the constitution, ilis views are clearly given in this article, albeit a numbor of mistakes are made in it : Thero is a hint in tho telegraph hat general Grant intends speedily to put an end to polygamy in Utah. This is probably a rough guess on the part oi some entcrpri.-ing correspondent at Washington, who is bard up for an it:-m. The social disease at Salt Lake is being cured as fast now as the nature of tho case will admit. Mortuonism did uot grow up it a night, like the traditional gourd we read about. Neither can it bo eradicted by a dash of tho President's pen, nor by the Hash of his good sword. It' he uudertakea heroic treatment treat-ment in tho matter, he will burn his own fingers acd kil! tho patient. The i policy of General Grant since he has been in office is the proper one to purue. He has assorted the authority author-ity of the United grates in Utah and maintained its supremacy over the tor ntortal authority of President Young. This was not the case ur.der Buchanan, nor Lincoln, nor Andrew Johnson. L nuer tnose aominiMrauons mc iawa of the United iStatts were mostly ig- j nored. or made subordinate to the lo j cal cove rntuent, and the authorities at Washington thought it was better to., wink at the semi-defiant attitude of the Saints, than w undertake to vindi- i cate the dicnity of the nation by an 1 appeal to force. In those days respect was everywhere shown first to President Presi-dent Brigbam Young, and to the territorial ter-ritorial governor next, and indeed, it seemed to have been the settled policy of tne Mormon oieiais to puh the United States authorities in the background. back-ground. On all public occasions wae this particularly true. When the late hon. Charles Parkeo, of this State, was acting governor there, he was openly insulted on the fourth of July by tho Mormon troop's, who not only cave President Young the place of hocor in the pr?cesston, but gave a stins to the icsuit by salutioe Y'oung first" and Purkeo afterward. This has ail been cl aLgod under Grant, and the laws of the Territorial legislature are made to harmonize with tbe laws of co egress, except as regards pc'ygaaiy. The long contest between the sLcrm of Sait Laic and the L nuod grates Ciar-shal Ciar-shal has taught tho Kormon a lesion that they w:u not soon tercet. Neither wiii they dd'y aain the cd.ccs of the United States cv-u-t. Since the completion com-pletion of the Fieitlc railroad, azd the infiux ef population consequent apon the opening of the remarkally r:ch u.inos near Salt Lak'i, a new ord-.r of thing1 ha.1 obtain! there which aetd iujurioumy upon tho pecu.iar intuu-u.jri. intuu-u.jri. It in under the ban of pnbae n.iu'u,o, ai.d coiith -iiidtd by every ,,trai.-:r who vl-iid tb': Mortuon capital. capi-tal. It ii only th'; Geuu.'i tiat is known th'--re as a "Ja-:k Mormon, of which 'fotn Fneh. formerly of Om city, oiii'ls a pcrt'- et Bpeei:m;n, wlo d.'-rt not openly eond'.-uju tlie plural wile rfyVeru. Every vi-itor leaves it wifak-r than bi lound it. All of the daily pap'-P there, three in number, 't to dfleiid the cystLUJ, are acting ...I. I., ,.n i hi- 4i t'.-n-itfc. :.mi have lw:t all their a'gre--ivj and proselyting ipirit. Tii'-y leel tha- th.-y have been beaten in the aririmnt, and ouly attempt at-tempt to parry the blow aimed at their y.teiu by saying that polygatoy is no worse than the wjeial eyd oi tho large cities of the Union. They are hard pu.-hed when they. are forced to seek shelter behind buch an excuse, but it is better than none. internal dimensions are aKo bu-ily at worklto help on the disintegration of the in-ntituiion. in-ntituiion. Young liajt one foot already in the grave and tho other on its crumbling bank. V hen he is gathered to his fathers, thero will bo a row about thj bucceion, that can only end in fierce jealousy and heartburning heartburn-ing among his ambitious iollowci a. That will lead to hchism, and Bcbiam will result in revolt and defiance ot Church authority. Everything conspired con-spired to work for the peaceable and .tpeedy abolitioo and extinction of the obnoxioua praetico of polygamy. It wo do not persecute them, and arouse the martyr spirit that ia now dormant within their superstitious souh, it will soon vanish from tho face of the earth. Let the President Hmoke several sev-eral cigars over the nubjcct, and try an application of condurango, before he determines to adopt aurgery for tho extirpation of tho social cancer in Utah. |
