What was not noted however is that the United States was already on the verge of Civil War with the Utah territory in 1857,58, until Abraham Lincoln decried slavery a greater crime than polygamy, and declared war on the Southern Confederacy in 1861.

Not to say Lincoln was exactly amicable toward the Mormons, just consider the fact that the original Mormon homeland was in Lincoln's homestate of Illinois before they were mostly all driven West.

Even Mormon leader Brigham Young said in 1861, "I do now, and always have, supported the Constitution, but I am not in league with cursed scoundrels as Abe Lincoln and his minions who have sought our destruction from the beginning."