| Show TITE THE NEW YORK HERALD AND A THE MORMONS the new york herald in a recent editorial asks the question what are we to da do with the mormons cormons andhor and mormon polygamy in utah what is to become of them if we do nothing the writer then proceeds io to sketch our in movement from illinois to this valley and the hopes which we indulged indulge d in respecting spee spec ting Dg our separation from our remorseless mor seless enemies that we could here build up curnew jerusalem and flou jlou flourish for a thousand years he then attempts to show how we have been miA mistaken taken the silver and gold mines which have been discovered in the territories around us have within a few years made madkour our happy valley the common thoroughfare of migratory hordes of gentiles from all points of the compass pass and worse still from the impulse given by these discoveries to the ento entert erise prise of the pacific railroad the iron horse orse from the east now thunders alou alon g the base of the rocky mountains while from the pacific he has alread already surmounted the lofty crest of the sierra ierra nevada and in the summer will be snorting in the sandy waste of the great basin he goes on to say that in two years his course will be free from the mississippi to the pacific and then with four days as his time from st louis to san francisco salt lake city the city of the mormon saints and their saintly institution of polygamy will be overwhelmed by swarming goehs goths and vandals gid sid meantime he thinks brigham young seems to be blind to this approaching pro aching danger he says in a political point of view he be is to the writer and his clique what the holy catherw rome is to the king and kingdom of italy he stands in their way and must be removed but how he thinks it morally certain that unless government me nt shall interpose in season and secure our peaceable removal we will be exterminated in a bloody conflict with the gentiles if not removed by the government we will be expelled by the mob as we were from ohio missouri and nauvoo he ile thinks our institution of polygamy has become too deeply fixed to be abolished without a removal of the community and moreover that having built up and accumulated va valuable properties the appropriation of which when the opportunity comes to reckless adventurers will be apt to exhibit a living illustration of the wolf and the lamb he thinks the true plan to settle the question is very simple he suggests to mr seward the idea of buying out the sandwich islands for us if he will turn over those islands to brigham young ho he says he will soon make them dlo blo blossom like the rose with their tropical productions or probably an arrangement might be made to let us have the aleutian islands included in the alaska purchase for settlement or again mexico might be induced for a few millions to accept us as a colony but atall at nil all events he concludes the duty devolves upon this republican congress to provide for a peaceable settlement of mormon polygamy before it is too late wo we reproduce this editors speculations and that our readers may share in our amusement in leading reading them there is probably not another paper in the country which has prescribed so many infallible panaceas for mormonism as this York Herald among our earliest newspaper rending reading we can recall several theories and views which it propounded on this subject this was while the prophet joseph was yet fl livin ving gsand and from that day until the present its columns have contained frequent allusions to the problem A selection of the writings which have appeared in its columns in relation to the mormon question alone would form an unequalled unequal led literary olla bodri da whatever the merits of the new may cannot be claimed as one of them we have thought that its wide circulation was to some extent due to the utter absence of this quality the public buy the paper torsee what new somerset the editor has taken As to his question as to what they are to do with us it is easily answered d LET us ALONE if there ovet over was a people who earned the right to be i left to the unmolested enjoyment altheir of oL their r homes and property and civil and religious rights wo we are that people we assail none we encroach on none we stand in the way of none who can bo be called good citizens but strictly adhere to our creed mind our own business if we are 1 in n an antagonism tagon aagon ism it is not our choice if we occupy such a position it is only in their feelings and thes thos they thoy have placed us there for F or that we cannot be blamed if we have not proved our loyalty if we have not done as much for the the republic as any other kopie kople people of equal numbers within its confines nes then we have not read the history of the past twenty two yea sea years rs arif aright lit the herald hits the right nail nal on n the head when it says that we have built up and accumulated valuable properties les lei which are desirable in theeres the eyes of reckless adventurers this is the eret cret ret of the most of the opposition we have baver to contend with our oar homes in missouri and illinois were desira blein the eyes of that class when hen we vre lived there they envied us our quiet enjoyment of theland the them mand and leagued in mobs again against us they would b be well pleased to re reenact those same scenes there have been men here who for year years have dode dobe all in their power powen to bring 0 down the vengeance of the government Govern me nt upon epolius up ollus olius us our prosperity has galled and maddened them but the herald need never indulge in the idea of seeing a living illustration of the fable of the wolf and the lamb in our case the railroad HaiJ rafi road may come and we shall shail certainly welcome it the goths goehs and vandals may swarm here but the same railroad that brings them can carry them away again A mob would find burning the houses the fences and the grain of or the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons stealing their cattle and plundering them of everything that could be carried away a different fe r ent business today to day from what it was when living a few in id n u place in the states of missouri and illinois if the concern and anxiety of the editor of the berald herald in urging the purchase of the sandwich islands as a place of residence for us have their sole origin in the fear that we will be exterminated by mobs he can set his soul at rest ho he need not trouble mr seward the government need not be put to the least trouble or expense with gods help wo we can take care of them and deal out such justice that will hide its ii hideous I 1 daous head never nevermore more to be seen in our vicinity at least |
