Show -- 3- 5 of Arizona to be ready for immediate action But it too not until early the nest year that apootle Hoses Thatcher actually carried out the long proposed colonization and that Cor r elites Chihuahua was occupied by a number of Hor-b non farailles the year 1655 on Mormon colonization was generally speaking continuous here until the Mexican Revolution of 1912 It tos From obvious that this migration was in excess of the traditional missionary zeal The underlying cause tos no doubt due and is traceable to the adverse laws passed against the Mormon practices in the territories of the United States Owing to the increased agitation against the indulgence in polygamy in Utah an act had passed the United States Congress in 1663 which was to do away with this Licentiousness11 “Mormon lav? as it was impossible 7 This oroved to be Just another to procure either indictments or convictions by Juries drawn from panels dominated by The failure however resulted in the passage of the Mormons Tucker act of 1863- - Mormon Edmund s- 8 5 Encyclopedic Church History 6 Ibid- - July St-to- s This legislation approached the Ho Mil Mil 7 Letters from J 1936 $ Frederic L p 203 Uo F Poxoon Moffett to II LI Foster Recent History of the United - |