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Show MOKitO.N POLYGAMY. Is it quite fair to judte the Mormon people by the (-ingle trait of polygamj? It it U, then the eity of New York lies upi u io condemnation any day, on the re-ire of i' trr-.-tliops, (jarrbling hells, ard other iiiMiuitiuu of deeper infamy. W hat are the f'lut.-? Biigham Yoong trives them in tho miliary ol hn life, as telegraphed to the Herald this morning. A. dedert has been made a home tor one hundred thousand temperate, tem-perate, frugal, hard-working people. Two hundred cities have been founded, with schools, factories, mills, and other industrial iuiereats tending to benefit tho whole country. Though the Indians Indi-ans could have swept away tbo colonists colon-ists at any lime, they have mado no trouble, because they wore treated with even justice. By these fruits of twen-ty-iix years, the Mormons ask that they shall bo judged. But the impatient impa-tient people of the east, eager to cast the first stone, set up the one changeless change-less cry of polygamy. Will it prove effectual iu fact, or even in argument? The Mormon prophet points to the cities of the east, and proclaims that their civilization is a lie; that it fosters fos-ters drunkenness, promotes lust, and tends to murder; that the open polyg-amist polyg-amist is better than the secret sensualist; sensual-ist; that the statistics of crime are proof of the failure of tho monogamous monogam-ous Christianity. Ileuses no declamation, declam-ation, but points to the murders of Goodrich, J?isk, K'chardton, and nanny another; to tho looseness of divorce laws, and to tho wholesale slaughter of unborn children, as. the irrelragible evidence of his position. Who shall answer hi ja, so that well informed men shall be satisfied? If it cannot be done at once, it may be v eil enough for people to bo patient with Utah and its religion. Polygamy ia an anachronism, if no worse, and is dying out by its own lack of stamina. Happy would it bo for ourselves if tho same certainty of a better order of social morality wero imminent "here Tho Graph io, April 11. |