The position of Utah
--
Brigham Young's Prophesy.--"
Ion," the special
Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, Nov. 29, says:
‘
Utah has substantially declared her independence as a State, and has taken the position of strict neutrality between the
South and the
North in the present contest.
But it appears that the delegate from that Territory will resume his seat in the
Federal House of Representatives at the coming session.
A statement from him as to the peculiar attitude and policy of
Utah will necessarily be elicited.
Meanwhile, however, I learn that
Brigham Young, as autocrat of the Mormons, has more thoroughly than ever obtained the confidence of his people by the fulfillment of his remarkable and often-repeated prophecy of the dissolution of the
Union.
Not a single
United States soldier now remains in
Utah, and the travel across the plains is much diminished.
There is no trouble whatever between the Mormons and the citizens of the States.
The National Electric Telegraph passes through the territory, and it is a matter of boast with
Brigham that it is scrupulously protected from injury.
’