Show alfrom the cincinnati commercial lal lai iun jun 17 the mormon hegira there can be no spectacle go so well calculated to excite feelings of the deepest pity as that hat of a whole people leavia leaving Z their homes the places where they have resided for year the houses the gardens and the fire sides endeared to then them bya thousand fond foud recollections and wandering n g off into tile tild wilderness vilder Nilder ness in search of places to begin anew whatever maybe may ba the motive for such an emig rallon nailon the act itself is one that cannot be contemplated without emotion men do not riot readily leave their possessions the comforts wilch which years yeara of labor have gathered around them the thousand sources of innocent pleasure which they have bave constructed and cultivated and with wives and children seek new homes in a desert without some toma powe powerful erful and arid controlling motive that relates to tle very foundation of their moral being tile the exodus of a whole people ia Is now being exhibited in utah urah the mormons cormons are on the move movel in search of new now lands lauds whereon to live in peace deaca of places where they mey may hope to worship god in the way that they deem to be right what are the motives for tor the move movement mant ment we e can know but hut in part that they are in the w minds of the parties most interested entirely adequate we may judge from the effect essect we may say that it is fanaticism it is easy to call things by hard names but their application does nothing to solve the problem fari farl fanaticism alons alona does dees not di drive ive lve men enen omen women r and children from their pleasant homes to find hind shelter in bleak mountains we may say that they misapprehend the purpose of the government toward them who knows who knows that the government has any fixed purpose whatever WHO knows that it is not as treacherous ah ab cruel I 1 aa as much bent upon violence as it appeals to be A single civil officer conquered utah and yet there is a large army marching u poli upon the territory that army it has been sali said publicly is not merely a posse to aid to preset pre seive selve ve eti eli he peace ili iii in an integral portion of the united stale state states S it is 13 a band of religious missionaries having a doctrinal calling to convert a people from a false rell reli religious douel falth faith a people outlawed and de naturalized in order to be fitted for its ministrations a sacrament of 02 blood it has been said and is said now and that not merely in prints in the tile interest of the admirals administration ration that the continuance of the mormons cormons within the territory of the united states is incompatible with our moral aty afy parity uty within a few dayi days the new york tribune with wilh the that suits so well to its peculiar kind of unwholesome stupidity has lias seriously discussed the question what shall be done with the mormons Mor Wor mons assuming it is a conceded point that they were either cither to be converted cut off cr driven out cut the idea has been that they were not merely rebellious subjects of our government ern ment but heaven beaven cienying and hell liell deserving reprobates with nothing nod noh log bog but a doubtful forbearance between them aud and utter extermination there has been no party scarcely a press in the states to utter a protest against any manner of persecution that might be meted out in their case the pulpit professing to to in nih nth nib the name of a god of mercy and I 1 e bas cried out upon them knowing all this and they do know it is it any wonder that they are afraid T ignorant with the recollection of pa t suffering upon them cut off from reg illar Lilar lar means of communication and their heir ears filled with vague I 1 rumors is it remarkable that there should be a panic on the contrary is there not k knowing owing all that we do something yet to fear let us ur remember how much less they know and arid how much more they have reason to apprehend and we shall wonder little at their terrors all that a man hath will he give for his lifee life ilfe arid and that the people of utah think themselves lo 10 be fleeing etrig forthal for that which is as dear to them as their lives there are the strongest reasons to believe know that they have been sl slandered andere andert d char ed with wilh crimes of which they are not guilty held up to tho tile abhorrence of the world as monsters of general and in individual idiO dual sual wickedness and arid feeling their want of the opportunity to vindicate indicate and their want vant mant of the power to defend they take the only course that is left to them and go into exile the picture of a thriving settlement abandoned to desolation desu deso lalion of itself is sorrowful enough but this but a little houses left tenantless gardens neglected here and there a domestic animal without an owner fields unplanted or r apt bull buil lings exhibiting the symptoms of that hat decay which follows so soon upon the heels of deseri desertion deb des erion erlon oti all these thesa are inducements to melancholy tefler lon ion flon they are emblems but vi i ho can paint the sadder ladder realities rea lilies which they signify the stein dorrow sorrow of men tha convulsive agony of women the clamor clamorous mis grief of child children rei ret I 1 turning burnim their backs upon the sacr edest thing on eara earth 1 home and rod forever going forth outcasts with so far as they who profess pral to hold the authority are able to make it so the curse of god upon their heads and with scarce in the whole world a spoken voice of sympathy ym pathy for their trouble troubles or pity for their sufferings surely purely great sin is great sorrow and if these poor people are the dreadful criminals that iames james buchanan and horace gref grei ley les pronounce them to be so naked and forlorn in the ight sight of god and so obnoxious to his anger and his judgment there should be here and there one who conscious of imperfection in him himself relt zelf can commiserate the burden of sin and shame and misery that rests upon them and be inclined tc to pray play for their forgiveness as he be hopes to be forgiven let god be just and punish if he will but let the hand of man be light upon his erring brother we know not what what we do when we assume to sit in the seat ef gf tile the all wise and ano anc pronounce the decrees of the of heaven the thunderbolt is safet safest iu in the hand ol 01 him who called it into being and to reca beconi rd and anc execute a perfect judgment is only the part of i a people we are ia in no condition to do it |