Show THE during the excitement consequent upon our territorial political campaign many wore tho crim inactions anan criminations that wore bandied between the stumpers of tho respective parties but ijuro especially by tho orators of the s callad liberals who to havo let no opportunity pass to make fmc of iho absurd in most casos utterly ine lovant to the CAUSO at issue among alie many accusations made by that parly was that the raising of the mormon battalion for tho mexican war was au net of duio and not one of persecution on behalf of the U S government a charge which our speakers glatly denied but indis omitting to make a of tho precise status of the people at the toiuo of we ourselves fell aiuto a like error in our jast issue and now that tho heat of tho contest is over think eliat it is eminently proper for all parties ir explain that through t heir probable ambiguity may havo been misconstrued during the canvas that the battalion was not in a t brict sense of the woid a organization is evidenced by alio history of the people from whence they were dram amr pair to tho enlistment dm en by crata from their homes the mormon people located upon the edge of alio then great american daily expecting to comma an exploration of that almost lan a acoy fora p abc acc being beyond alic range of their bl o per they could permanently ettle and peacefully observe alio tan ats of their religious feitli news of this prospective migration spread far md wide aal anany were alio onil S eliat to chero the would inalle inal lv pitch I 1 heir tents said that alio chuich leaders would have the vanguard direct their which alicy did to aliat was then a portion of mexico others guessed that the cormons mormons would enter the then fabulous aind of plenty known as oregon then a of the british and transferring lucar alac ianco to that their protecting anro in ing that region it appeals however that whatever the of the church ncy may have bacu in the os a feeling of jealousy or more properly pio perly speaking aing eloms to have ariaen in the minds of nl at washington who must have viewed matters in rather a strong light for wo find noted in the history of tho battalion that governor ford m writing to ono of hia subordinates under date of dec jard 1815 expresses the belief that the m would prevent their the cormons mormons removal as they would bo likely to join ho british this belief was strongly emphasized soon after by cx postmaster general who iI aiming to bo familiar with tho plans of the president and his informed elder S brannan that such ans really the intention hinting cry plainly that if tho mor mons made a move westward without tho i of government they would bo wiped out which barbarous resolution was undoubtedly prompted by tho then impending mexican war in justice however to the author of tho history wo would futato that the hint f mr kandal i to tho above is not contained in iho book but that it is nevertheless susceptible of proof tho presidency of the church very wisely toik tho dilemma which they found alvea in by alio horns for finding themselves not only restricted in their movements by this new phase of anaias but rather poorly prepared anyhow for a journey across tho wilds they concluded to lay their before president polk and while showing tho hardships they biad and still labored under to ask permission to fm niah a email portion of tho expeditionary force that was then being organized to invade mexican territory the proposal wai happily received in the same spirit in chich it was made the first kofl cr bi aug to raise furth ii mb L air i ej ciui one laousan 1 picked men to mako ft dash across tho conlin and ale al e possession of california another thousand to bo taken in a U S transport around capo horn for service this proposal was at first very favorably lavor ably by tho president who laid it hi 3 cabinet they however fecca to have rejected it in pait and ordered tho enrollment of aioo men from tho mormon ranks for a how well this bravo five hundred performed their task is ably told in theira history to wo would refer those af our readers who would defrino to follow up the narrative it will bo seen from the above data that battalion was really tho outcome of threatened persecution by tho government although tho final enrollment of tho troops was undoubtedly dictated by more humane fc clings and that alio liberal orators in their recent tirade made their statements in a decidedly arx ario manner but then wo could hardly expect anything alao from that source and therefore puss it by merely asking what had the mormon battalion or tho circumstances under which they were called and organized to do with tho issues of alie recent campaign nothing |