What will Brigham say?
THE act passed by the House of Representa-tives, as reported in yesterday's Congressional proceedings, interdicting Polygamy in the Terri-tories of the United States, and imposing pains and penalties, will undoubtedly pass the Senate and receive the assent of the President. The act is intended specially to suppress and extir-pate the polygamic practices of the Mormons in Utah. But mere legislation will not accomplish this result, as it is not to be supposed that BRIGHAM YOUNG and the Mormon hierarchy will readily yield to a law that strikes at one of the main foundations of the system from which they derive their power. Utah has formed a State Constitution, elected BRIGHAM YOUNG Governor under it, and asks admission into the Union. Will Congress make the abandonment of the practice of polygamy a condition of ad- mission, and will BRIGHAM and his people reject the condition, and attempt another "Se-cession" movement? These are questions to which no little interest attaches; though we think BRIGHAM, knowing the power and the present armed might of the United States, will, when needed, have some "new revelation" which will reconcile him to submission to the laws of "the Gentiles."
