of the United States.

Imo, nevertheless, always been the policy and

desire of the Yederal Government to avoid collision

with this Mormon community. It has borne with

the insubordination they have exhibited under elr­

cumstaneei when respect for their own authority

has frequently eountelled harsh measures of diem­

plinth Mid this forbearance might still bo pro­

longed, and the evils rife amongst them bo allowed

to work aid their own cure, if this community oc­

cupied nay other theatre, isolated and remote

from Shot seats of civilization, than the one they

now possess But, unfottunately for these views,

their settlements lie in the great pathway which

leads from our Atlantic States to the new and flour­

ishing communities growing up upon our Pacific

seaboard. . •

They stand a lion In the path ,• not only themselves

dotxtug the military and cl I authorities of the GOtern•

twat. but encouraging, if not exciting, the nomad

savages whproato over the vast unoccupied region)* of

the continent, to the pillage and lIIIISSACTO or peaceful

and betide., emigrant families traversing the solitudes

of the wiCterness.

The tepid' settlemeut of our Pacific possessions