BRIGHAM YOUNG.
It is rumoured that Brigham Young, finding himself sore pressed by Gentile immigration, and daily more and more hampered by Federal legislation and Federal courts, has been casting about for a new Canaan a land of better promise—to which he and the persecuted saints can emigrate, where the wicked shall cease from troubling, and the weary polygamists of Great bait Lake may find rest for their souls. According to report, New Mexico has been fixed upon as the place of refuge from Gentile persecution. Immense Spanish grants, covering a great portion of the territory, arc to be purchased and to be immediately occupied by a great emigration from Utah, sufficient in numerical force to vote New Mexico into the Union as a sovereign State, of which Brigham will be virtually the absolute ruler under the prevailing doctrines and theories in regard to State rights. W hether there is any solid foundation for the rumour or not, the alleged project is a bold and comprehensive one. If the Mormons can carry out the project of getting possession of the chief part of the territory by purchasing Spanish grants, they will be able to keep out the Gentiles by refusing to sell them lands, and by otherwise exercising their power as owners of the soil.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 597, 18 May 1876, Page 3
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