Morning Star

March of Mormonism.—The Lockport (Niagara co. N. Y.) Balance, of the 31st ult. after giving a history of what it terms the "Golden Bible Imposition," speaks of it as follows:

"It has no parallel in folly and stupidity from the days of Johanna Southcote, to those of Jemima Wilkinson. In its character, or practical operations, it has no redeeming feature. It is with regret, however, that we are obliged to add, that it has not proved unsuccessful. There are now, probably, 1000 disciples of the Mormon creed!—"Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon." Their prophet Jo has selected a spot in the state of Ohio, which he calls the promised land! It is in and about the town of Kirtland, Geauga county. Thither the deluded followers of the false prophet are repairing. It is but a few days since, that an entire boat load of them passed this village, principally from the counties of Ontario and Wayne. Such as have property, convert it to a common stock, and thus create an inducement which is not overlooked by the idle and vicious. Families, in some instances, have been divided; and in others, mothers have been obliged to follow their deluded husbands, or adopt the disagreeable alternative of parting with them and their children."

The Balance states that the founder of Mormonism is Jo Smith, an ignorant and nearly an unlettered man, living near the village of Palmyra, Wayne co; the second, an itinerant pamphlet pedlar, and, occasionally, a journeyman printer, named Oliver Cowdery; the third, Martin Harris, a respectable farmer at Palmyra.