1856-08-11-New York Tribune-Political Items
Political Items
- New York Tribune, 11 August 1856, pg. 5
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——A correspondent of The Newark Daily Advertiser, writing from Tom's River, the County seat of Ocean County, Aug. 8, says that they have a Mormon Church in full operation in that place. Their number is quite large and is increasing. They maintain all the tenets of the Mormon Church stoutly. They have preachers resident there, and priests of a higher grade frequently visiting them from Salt Lake City and from New-York. Although prevented by law from openly practicing polygamy, they warmly defend and advocate it, and that by a course and style of argument not at all calculated to elevate the morals of the place. Large numbers of both sexes attend their church, and they are proselyting very fast, particularly among the young men and women. They are unanimous for Mr. Fillmore for President, for the reason that by the appointment of their High Priest and Prophet Brigham Young as Governor of Utah——and by his official acts generally in regard to that Territory——he had done more to build up their church and creed than all the other "Gentiles" in the world.
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