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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- the nations and kingdoms of the earth ? We have heard John Taylor, the present head of the Church, say at Conference, in the hearing of six thousand people: Let the Government dare to lay so much as a finger onus, and we will soon show the United States what we can do. A year ago last May this city witnessed a procession of ten thousand people, headed by the Mayor and Common Council, and carrying banners blazingwith defiant inscriptions, and we all know that the procession was gotten up expressly to proclaim the contempt of the Saints for the United States Court, which was engaged at .the time in trying a man for the crime of polygamy. But perhaps this prayer for toleration, when examined closely, will be found related to other petitions known to history; petitions which are made up largely of denunciations of the governing power, and of threats as to what the petitioners will do if driven to extremes. You can decide that point for yourselves, while we take up the questions which the Society has engaged to answer. First in order comes the pertinent inquiry, made by some one unknown, addressed to the world in general, and to the Congregationalist Christians of the United States in STANDARD. Y its citizens of our common country guess as to the number of families to a respectable audience for have to make homes for sought broken up in order to swell the throng of converts brought to the Promised Land, but it is to be feared that no exact record of such matters is kept. mak- ing a public statement of said facts, themselves in Utah by "complying and yet they are facts, and any one with the conditions on which the familiar with the history of Utah Government disposes of the public knows that instances still more lands, they have been baptized in shocking and repulsive have been of Jordan and left there and their We recollect one case in which frequent occurrence among this peolands have fallen to heirs not named a convert to the Latter-da- y faith ple, who have frequently called upon in their wills. was instructed not only to desert the world to witness the purity and But the killing of men, women his wife but to d off the excellence of their domestic institucarry chiidren is not the only crime, dren. To effect this, the wife was tions. But little girls sold into nor by any means the heaviest crime summoned to the home of her d polygamy by their guardians, or to the charge of the Latter-daents, two hundred miles away, by a abandoned to such a fate because over the Territory forged letter which told her her left without natural . protectors, are there are Iking victims of this father. was dving, and long before not the only unwilling victims of abominable system, who envy the she could get back to her .family this system. Every wife who retains dead. In hundreds of homes, the her husband and children were on one spark of womanly feeling, one aged wife, deserted by the man who shipboard. The unhappy wife and trace of a true womans nature, swore to love and cheridi her until mother thus doubly bereft, lost her curses the day when her home was death should part them, sits solitary reason, and soon after died a raving desecrated by polygamy, and even by the ashes of her desolate hearth, maniac, while the converted husband, among those from whom a verbal while the husband of her youth, who 'after reaching this city, had two consent to the second marriage has has been sealed to women with wives given him by the Priesthood been wrung, by means that would fresher and fairer faces, gives scarce-- ! to make up for his loss, disgrace savages, the- same feeling We quote again from the Plea for exists. ly a thought to her existence. In We know a lady in this hundreds of other homes, the feeble Toleration: The one pretext for city, (and one of the best and most mother of little ones your enmity is the order under laveable of women she is, too,) who toils from morning till night to earn which, for ourselves only, not fore was induced, by methods that we bread for her family, while the ing it upon others, we regulate our will not speak, of, to make the last, father of her children spends all family institutions. the most cruel sacrifice which this who he another has that The Saints will not force Celestial barbarous faith demands of woman, wife, upon happens to be the favorite of' the marriage upon the rest of mankind? that of placing the hand of the hour. Yet these .women suffer less The saints in Utah, possibly, in new bride in the hand of her husthan those wives who are compelled round numbers a hundred thousand band, but on their way to the Ento share their homes with the new souls, will not compel the fifty dowment House she said to him. whose every look and act lion inhabitants of the United Stales I am going to lie to you, and lie to for she shows that particular to practice polygamy! It is true the President, and lie to God, for I regards herself, What are the Latter-dahusof. Saints, as mistress the the the time, that when Sister Emmeline Wells must savv I consent to this marriage, v O and what have they done, that oands undivided heart. returned from her mission to Wasli- - when I had rather die a thousand they should be treated by you as no We recall the face of one of these ington two years ago, she said she deaths than have it take place. other people in the land are wives and yet, we need not was encouraged to believe that poly-sa- y Of course, polygamy was not treated? would over be all the conits us for recalli haunts we t, spread gamy forced upon this wife, nor upon hunSaints are Briefly, the Latter-da- y United in States twenty years, but dreds who felt as she did, for are we inually. It is only four months the sworn enemies of the Govern- since her husband was sealed to his we dont suppose she meant that the not told by those who make this apment under whose protection they new love, but those months have Saints would drive the nation into.it peal to the world, that the mild of and the nation that gives done the work of years. The wife, at the point of the bayonet, live, and patriarchial polygamy of Deshome them a within its borders. If whose Latter-da- y while the But Church less a than face, year ago, eret, is never enforced in any case, there is a Latter-da- y Saint present was as fair and as has forced that as not, polygamy but is the voluntary choice of all yet, any youthful who would like to ask on we see before us looks now upon the rest of mankind, let us see who are living in it? what we base this assertion, we re- like one the torments of a whether, among the Saints them-los- t enduring A little farther on in this Plea fer him to that room in the EndowThe hollow eyes, the selves, all who are members of soul. we find a beautiful and touching ment House in which he repeated cheeks and lips, tell that gamous families have become so of after the officiating priest the oath she is picture of the patriarchal housewill and free own their and choice, inches, by dying, dying, hold of one of our godly elders, of perpetual hostility to the Govwhat the as was known comin midst tortures of the During too, surrounded by his affectionate wives ernment and people of the United in Utah, little girls of Information be rack which wuuld with the. pared and thronging children. Such as, States. We will also help him to a bed of roses. Do who have ten and twelve were sealed to old you, for example, the household of our recall to mind this vow: I swear never been in her e and left with their ask men, parents why place, which was scattered late to avenge the blood of the Prophet submits to such a fate ? Let us til their husbands chose to claim all Prophet, along the way from Logan, to St. Joseph upon this nation, and to ask in turn how a wife in this Terri- - them. This method of adding to a George,, or the families of Saints of teach this vengeance to my chihousehold is without from husband her can polygamous prevent less note, in which the wives are ldrens children, unto the fifth gen- tory in the there even for India, other two or or ten parallel, twenty marrying located ten or twenty miles apart to eration. child-wif- e is not asked to accept as have We he chooses? if women collisions. Those Elders But what have the Latter da) known instances in which women, a husband a man old enough to be prevent who gather an entire polygamous Saints done? All! there the breth- aware of the husbands intention to her grandfather. And since the household under one roof are usuren ask too much. The history of take another wife, have gone to the Reformation, how many times has men who are too poor to proa tenth part of their doings from United States Court to ask help to it happened that girls of thirteen ally vide separate homes for the affecthe days of Nauvoo until the pres- prevent the marriage, but they have have been taken to the Endow-alway- s tionate wives, or else, like Delegate been told that nothing could ment House, in spite of their terror ent, would fill a great many books most of their and their tears, and sealed to some Cannon, they spend We will, therefore, coniine ourselves be done. time out of the Territory, d member of the Priest-Ple- a to the briefest possible mention o Permit us to refer again to the Far from these scenes of noise and strife. hood with half a dozen wives? the most conspicuous facts in the for Toleration. We were sitting one day in a Occasionally, however, we meet history of the past twenty-fiv- e Among all Christian nations the Mormon missionaries are successful, neighbors house, conversing with a with a Saint who knows how to regvvtars. When peaceable citizens of the as tho throngs of their converts, lady who did not seem to be more ulate his family affairs so as to secure the than thirty years of age, when a peace and harmony. Such a one is United .States have attempted to crossing land and ocean powerfully-buil- t young. fellow who Brother F., a wealthy citizen of Salt cross this Territory, they have found Promised Land bear witness. Strange, is it not, that it was not stood six feet in his boots came in Lake. His plan is to hire a good bloody graves in its inhospitable looking servant girl, keep her until soil. When other citizens of the mentioned that many of these con- - and addressed this lady as mother United States, once members of the verts are young girls, destined to be As he passed out of the room we her wages amount to twenty or thirty dollars, and then offer her his Latter-daChurch, have seen fit to sacrificed on the unclean altars of said: Surely that young man is not heart and hand in lieunf a cash paysever their connection with that polygamy, and that many more are ment. If she accepts, she is sealed been your sm? body, they have atoned for their husbands and wives who have Yes, was the reply, I am his to him. for time and eternity, and defection with their lives; or, as the counselled to break the marriage tie They compelled me to stays in their kitchen, doing the Prophet Brigham expressed it, their without waiting for the trifling mother. Jedediah Grant before, I work of the family without wages, blood has been poured out on the formality of a divorce, and desert marry was thirteen, and that boy was born until her children become troubleground, that when the smoke there- their families to gather with the some, when she is turned out to Doubtless this 3 before I was fourteen. of should ascend as sweet incense to Saints to Zion. We feel that we owe an apology make room for a fresh importation. Heaven their apostacy might be for who put forth this plea for tolera- But in conclusion we must make Brighams Second Councellon given. When still another class oft tion could make an approximate t chil-an- par-lai- y . j half-a-doze- n I mil-bri- de : v r to-nig- to-nig- ht, ht to-nigh- t, poly-bloodle- ss I un-sh- -- hoary-heade- - y , |