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Show g VOL. II. vcrg fffjan have NO. 10. ;; otvt ZXjifc, ami get evertJ plenum have Jfcr own gjusbmtd. or. 7 : SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY, 1832. PRICE To the Women of America: years, Congress has failed to enact suf- be handed down ti the everlasting ages Let every happy wife and mother who ficient or enforce exsing laws for tie as the greatest bsnefactor of modern reads these lines give her sympathy , suppression of this great crime. The times. We beg leave to suggest to you, that proofs accumulate daily that more of these prayers and efforts to free her sisters unlawful and unhallowed alliances are be- beyond a corrupt press, aud an indifferent ro m this degrading bondage . Let all ing performed at the Endowment Houses Con gross, the people are watching now, the womanhood of the country stand than ever before in the history of the and there are indications that they are Mormon Church. The men and women about to move. And if this movement united for them . There is a power in who are thus placing themselves in the cannot force our national legislators to do combined enlightened sentiment and sym-- " shadow of the penitentiary are generally their duty, why, then let the inevitable who creatures are which and the name of Chester A. Arthur poor, injusof form ignorant violating come, every pathy , before law the leadbecause the Church be handed down to posterity in connection simply tice and cruelty must finally go dozvn. ers order them to do so, and who tell them with American polygamy, the same as that Stowe . Harriet Beecher that the Government dare not interfere with their right to practice plural marriage. But the work is not alone confined to the poor and ignorant. Clerks, rising young mechanics and merchants are made to understand that if they would be sure of continuous patronage, they must prove their devotion to this creed by placing themselves in direct contempt of the law. By this course, these cruel and wicked Mormon leaders are now planting sorrows that will blast and ruin many thousands of lives. It is not exaggeration to assert that polygamy has never taken such a debasing form in anvv nation, or among any people, as in Utah. It is degrading to man, enslaving to women, a curse to children, utter destruction to the sacred relations of family upon which the civilization of nations depends, and there are things that cannot be repeated or printed that reduce the system to the lowest form of indecency. That it should be practiced in the name and under the cloak of religion; that a polygamist with four wives has been permitted to sit in Cononly adds to the enormity of the gress, O makes it more revolting to our and crime, common Christian princiules. ONVURU. BY JENNIE A. JILLSON. or the (Inecrlb:d to the noble women 2. Anti-polyga- tiociety.) Onward sisters, day is breaking, Through the dim and darkening sky See the nations are awaking To your earnest cry. Onward sisters, let the watchword Swiftly pass from hand to hand; Till in joy for what ye labored, Strong in right ye stand. Onward sisters, till, sin blighted Bulwarks of the foe shall fall; And the beacon-fire- s ye lighted Hold the world in thrall. TO WOMEN 10 CENTS. EVERY WHERE. Every woman who signs her name to the petition for the expulsion of George Q. Cannon from the House of Representatives, is cordially invited to also add her name to the subscription y list of the Standard. For the benefit of those who have not seen the paper we will send it on trial to the close of the present volume for fifteen cents, hdping that they may become sufficiently interested in the imof Abraham Lincoln is in connection portant work it represents to then bewith American 'Slavery. come regular subscribers. Every numWe have the honor to remaim, ber contains a large amount of imporVery Respectfully Yours, tant and authentic information in rey Women. gard to the system of polygamy, a system that is a foe to every household in .Appeal. Christendom and one that yon know , not how sooitmay invade the sanctity of j To the Woman of the United States: your own fireside. No wife or mother (Adopted unanimously at a regular in America should be without a copy meeting held Tuesday, Nov. 1st, at Salt of the Standard. Anti-polygam- Anti-Polygam- Anti-polygam- Lake City, Utah.) y TO THE PRESS OF THE COUNTRY. The Womans National Will all our exchanges, and every Society, at the commencement of another years work desire to reit- newspaper or journal in the country erate their appeals made in the past to who receives this number of the Standard kindly copy the above Appeal to the women of our country for aid. Polygamy with its kindred evils, the Women of America, and also the still flourishes unchecked in Utah, and petition which it is desired to circulate the Congress of the United States is for signatures. We call upon every still disgraced by a polygamist. loyal citizen of these United. States to in our efforts for the expulNotwithstanding the fact that the Governor of Utah has refused to grant sion of George Q. Cannon, an alien Onward sisters, for the reaping a certificate of election to the alien and a polygamist from the American Of the harvest home is near; God the precious seed is keeping, polygamist George Q. Cannon, the Congress, and thus open the way for Clerk of the House of Representatives the final over throw of the other twin Do not yield to fear. has again placed his name on the roll relic of barbarism. Onward sisters, falter never, But w'e believe and are glad you coin- of the House; he has therefore prima Let each step be sure and strong; cide with this belief, that the time has facia , right to the seat which he has Madame La Tour. Till we soon and aye forever, come when this Government must act, for eight years, to the shame occupied must see that its laws are vindicated and of the Government and Nation. Sing the victors song. The its dignity upheld. This is either a GovMrs. Haddocks new book, The of such a man in our national presence Onward sisters, saints and angels is then the ernment or it not. If it is, open councils is a direct insult to Witness now the path ye tread; every pure Fate of Madame La Tour, is awaviolation of law in this Territory, and the d public interYe shall hear Heavens sweet evan- outrages upon decency ought to be woman in America; we therefore ask kening a and especially est in the subject on which it treats. gels stopped. We ask again, is there no way every good woman, wife and mother in the land to The New York Tribune to reach these people under the law, who every Oer your martyred dead. It says; in a us for aid his in and the the circulating Government, petition openly defy Salt Lake City, Jan. 1332. may be that the facts which Mrs. name of God and religion propagate a expulsion from the House of RepresenPaddock has here presented will doctrine that offers a perpetual premium tatives. in pen Letter, on mens lowest passions, that anslavt s The U. S. District Court of Utah Ter- have some effect upon the conand reduces her simply to the posi-:ioTo His Excellency Chester A. Arthw women ritory has pronounced the naturaliza- science of a nation too long indifand the brood of a animal, places tion papers of the said Geo. Q. Cannon ferent to one of the foulest blots P resident of the United States: jrand of shame on the brows of innocent false and fraudulent. We upon modern civilization. Honored Sin: The women of Utah children? If there is not any law by four womHe is living openly with who are opposed to the degrading instituwhich these transgressors can be reached, earnestly hope so, and endorse also of laws the defiance in as his en wives tion of polygamy, desire to return you and Congress persistently ignoring the what The Critic , (N. Y. has to say cantherefore he to of the United of States, thanks for that portion then call we your message enact not one, question will of Mrs. Paddocks work. Congress which refers to the oxterpation upon you, the Chief Magistrate of the not become a citizen of the country of this relic of barbarism, and especially country, in the interests of law, good or- whose laws he tramples upon. The time lias come for such a for these words; I assure you of my to der ami morality, to take the matter in The petition we ask you book as this to be written. It is with you your own hand, to exercise the power vest- aid us in in will found be purpose to circulating to interest the in any lawful and discreet measures which ed in you by the people, ami with one another column of the present number thrilling enough most exacting lover of fiction,' while m iv be proposed to that end. flow, sever tne Gordian knot. Under the of the y Will Standard. Feeling, that as a loyal citizen, you not circumstances, the entire country would not cut it out and present it to solemn enough in its facts and in you ot common laws our the see to desire in the sustain but not only you to engage the attenonly justify you your friends forsignature, and then for- its warnings country obeyed and executed in Utah, but act. ward it to the representative from your tion of the post serious statesman. also that your sympathies are with the The present situation reminds us of the district for presentation to the House. We are glad to learn that the suffering thousands who have experienced deall the horrors of the beastly practice- - time when the Fugitive Slave law was By application to the Secretary, or book is having a large sale. We throat of the the North down thrust in fiantly to the Standard Publishing Company, wish that it souls whose light has nearly gone out might be read by every ihis world, and whose faith in mankind is (like polygamy down the throat of the you can obtain additional copies of the woman in the land, and almost extinct we have faith that the Nation), when the divine right of slavery paper. You can help us by circulating Christian thundered from pulpit and press, would the Standard in any part of your own that our national pleadings of women who are laboring for was to make a in the North even when fall speech the abolishing of this system will not State or of other States in which you give their serious attention to the the human of favor in rights subjected ear. indifferent and The Christian uipon a careless may have friends. One dollar will pay facts it sets forth. aud the slave power d to insult, cculd only speaker if everv Congressman Ah, If one says: the right to fill Lee Territories for twenty copies of the paper, which Register, Boston, listen to the experiences of the suffering different as to sent be is towns, now may many quarter of the book is true, it is women of Utah, related by themselves with slaves, as the polygamic power the deof additional with their do 20 thus to and the copies right and hear the earnest prayers that daily go demanding enough to damn Mormonism for- for in few a circulation within be will Yet signayears n petition basing practice. up to Gods footstool for deliverance iro rose up, an 1 tures. Let these petitions come pour- ever. "that the time People from be would there their degrading bondage, with magnifiWe who live in the midst of the no need of such recommendations as are though 8,000,000 of people, ing into Congress until they are effectsublime ami endurance, ual in procuring the expulsion of Geo. scenes it depicts know not only that contained in your message, nor of the pe- cent courage Hood it was the stem to mighty into sought Cannon. titions we are continually sending it is all true, but that the half has was Q. that body, and to our sorrow, and the na- in vain. But when the battle canopy bro-Mrs. S. A. Cooke, Pres. never been told. Get the book and . lifted, showing every fetter of slavery tion's- isgrace, are sending m vain. Sec. W. F. Mrs. James, It is'now more than thirty years since en, it was not the work of Congress that Nationa read it, and then tell us what you Womans the of order By of one the act but think of the system' it portrays. polygaUvwas planMl on the shores of had severed the chains, whoso name shall Society. the GreaV''dt & - Vid during these good BRAVE loyal man, Anti-polyga- co-opera- , wide-sprea- n co-opera- te Anti-Polygam- law-make- rs i k ' -- Anti-polygam- y |