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Show " SLOUGHING " THE GOD3E-ITES. GOD3E-ITES. "How shurpor than a serpent's tuoili it is To liavo a thankless child.'1 All is not quiet on Bear river. The daily organs of tho Corinne-thians have fallen by the ears, and there is trouble in tho camp of the Shanghac party. The Reporter ome days since made a dah at the scalp of the Tribune-man of this city, and fulminated a bull of excommunication ugaiust him. lie is said to be a polygamic, and therefore the Reporter receommended the Sbanghae party to 'Plough lam oft'" because they could not carry him. That this was ungrateful on the part of the Reporter towards one of its own party leaders, who has built a chapel, published a newspaper, and .furnished the sjnews of war geuerally, will not bo qucsTioncd, and tho Journal of yesterday, yester-day, therefore, comes to tho relief of him whom it is thus proposed to " slough," and indirectly reads its colleague a lecture ou the uncharitable-ness uncharitable-ness and impolicy of its conduct in proposiug to thus i-imimarily "slough" the gentle William i. But we do not Luow which of the Corinuc editors strikes Willian S. tho severest blow. We are iuoliucd to think, however, that his defender will if unchecked do him more real damage than hia ax-ailant. The Journal says that William is "struiriing towaid the light;" that in a fit of religious enthusiasm en-thusiasm he polygam'ized to tho extent of four wives; that since his conversion from the errors of Mormonism he has offered to surrender his wives and divide his fortune among them; but all of the Mrs. G's except the first wife resolutely refused to be thus segregated; wherefore William S., out of pure kindness of heart mixed with a large amount of moral principle, continues to livowith numbers two, three, and four. Of course we can comprehend how those who have once enjoyed the privilege of living with William S. should refuse to willingly surrender their undivided interests; but we can imagine how very laughable tjris excuse thus publicly made will appear to William's Gentile a.-sociates. The Sbanghae leader's attitude, syl-logisticaily syl-logisticaily stated, is about as follows: '! honestly believe polygamy to le a sin, and I propose to light by all means those who honestly believe it to be a virtue; I am living in poly-amy; but as I entered upon the relation when I believed it to be a virtue, I ought to continue in it now that I believe it to be a bin. There tore, polygamy is a sin when practiced by others, but a virtue when practied by me." The Journal naively asks "Can Mr. Uodbe turn his polygamous wives with their children out of doors, and refuse to provide for them?" The scoffing Gentile will be apt to answer to this plaintive query. Certainly not; but could not Mr. G.. if he be in earnest, turn himself out oftitir cloorx and k:Ji continue to provide them viiii every comfort oi lite except the comfort of hi- society so-ciety ' |