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Show or blow cold, just & iTT-ir ask the ifaal?Att!r; ' polygamy is the crJit li , te" a I men to join this S?4d,g that so many embriced ,V Passed through so 5? 5 its account without faUerir, ecnuO Church permitted ninaSSw than one wife? r,tohvejw built up and eitaU!.hB powerful organization, beC0 doctrine of plural man, VT" S part of the syWm and cult for 1U adherents to doctrine in their fJth anN when Jtwa3 first reveal" H some editors to tell th truth V. ? i a substantial argument f:-write f:-write against "Mormonism D !'i If the promise of man nk( I inducement for "so manv thousands of enthusiastic ? re 1 men" to go tft-Utah, whrt h thW ment which leads so many emigrate to that countryS1 so congenial to the nature of fel sex, that they gather tuUtahM number as the Pall Mull. Ca-V'l mits they do? It is generally 1 that the idea of becoming third wife, and sharing E j home and affections Mother, ft tlyely repugnant to the female c Jhy, then, do so. many women J brace the doctrines of "Mormon and leave their native lands to eath-the eath-the far off vales of Utah? And is t J rather remarkable that men should t? vel so far, and then submit to the 4 cipline or such despotism" asthef j G. says exists in Utah, just for the r vilee of having several wives, he lust and licentiousness are their ro:-passlons, ro:-passlons, they have such an opportr 1 of Indulging them in thisre? and C?"r a tian land, and that, too, wi houtw care and responsibilities which lP families must entail? The P. 'AT. Q. says that "the M monite thoryas to the relations oetwefi the sexes, is more outrageous than it thing ever knewn in any semi-civili:3 people." Can he explain the "M i moniU theory" as he calls it? Tm are quite a number of his cotemporri who are sadly ignorant upon tnett: ject, Judging from their statements comments, and if he could enlighk them a little, he would perhaps beti means of preventing them from mat: so manv ridiculous blunders, and woe From the Mtlennint Str, Nov. 16, 'trr. THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE": ' ; ON "MORMONISM." The unexampled prosperity and astonishing as-tonishing success of the so-called "Mormons," "Mor-mons," under the most adverse circumstances, circum-stances, Is attracting the attention of all thinking men. They cannot bnt perceive per-ceive that there is power in this "Mormonism," "Mor-monism," and power, too, of a singular kind; but what that power Is, and whence it comes, puzzles them exceedingly. exceed-ingly. All kinds of hypotheses have been put forth by those who consider themselves clever in discovering the hidden springs that move mankind to Ceeulinr actions, and many predictions, aed upon these hypotheses, have been uttered, oracularly, concerning the immediate im-mediate downfall of this remarkable system. But all these predictions have " failed hitherto, and the clever men who made them have discovered that they hafl blundered, and that their sagacity was sadly at fanlt. . . However, nothing daunted at the foolish fool-ish mistakes.of others, ihe, Pall Mull' Gazelle comes out with anew llieory on ' the spread of "Mormonism," and an old prophecy revamped about its speedy dissolution, dis-solution, lie has found out why "scores of thousands of enthusiastic and energetic men" have been "drawn together" by "Mormonism," and what will cause its complete overthrow. Wonderful man! let us hear him: He says, "The attractiveness attract-iveness of Mormonism has been all along two-fold. It has promised abundance abun-dance to the industrial poor of Europe, and many wives to those who are dis-contenteuLwith dis-contenteuLwith the rigors of European marriage laws. Polygamy is the privilege privi-lege which has drawn together its scores of thousands of enthusiastic and energetic ener-getic men, who were ready to submit to the discipline of any sort of despotism, providing only this liberty of marrying was secured to them. How they came to accept the supernatural claims of their lender and his chief assistants, it is easy to understand now. They believed be-lieved in his assertions and asked no proof, just as the vast majority of uneducated uned-ucated men and women in Christendom, Christen-dom, accept the simple assertions of their teachers whether lay or clerical, with no more desire for evidence of the truth of these claims, than they have for a mathematical proof of the law of gravity." thus confer a boon upon mankind, t: we are sorry to say that the F. )l. seems to be equally iu the dark, them, upon the subject which he L undertaken to write about. "The Mj monite theory as to the relation-tween relation-tween the sexes" is, thct there should: no sexual iktercour.se between the: outside of the marriage covenant, c that every woman should have the e: portunity of filling the measure of I. creation, that is, of becoming an hcaci able wife and happy mother. Andc: like many social theorists of mode times, the Saints are perfecting ti theory iu practice, and demonstrate its excellence by its good results. private mistresses, kept on the sly t gratify licentious appetites, disgrace peaceful vales of Utah; no.,p-; nymphi (lit arc, in rustling ; Haunting rags, shamelessly proniena. beneath the shade trees that border . J papious streets. Such things U'J Mormonite theory" are crime?. ui; not only in the poor degraded v. but primarily in the corrupt f. . minded beings who violate the digt.. of manhood to lead frail w01"611 Crimes against our laws, civil andeo siastical; crimes against society u" cannot be gilded over with casii. i-seducer i-seducer of female virtue U a t i,,VL shunned in the circles of tM and no cloak that Mammon ca n n. will cover up his villainy from w e w'hat is the modern Christian thc as to the relations between tne t judeinar from the practices of J lu-nations? lu-nations? It Is, that a an one wife whom he niay ack and keep as many, mistresses . means will allow, whom e , , acknowledge; that the cbiWn may be the offspring of ha m shall be legitimate, ndha M tLI claim on him for wrroft tbcu;nDecti.c'J children born of his iHtJ7be M shall be illegitimate, and m aj vi1 on the wide worid to fight tn through as best they may. " ju if a frail, trusting Ihoi the persuasions of a onaieh celves her, that he allbjgj fhi society as a thing to be desrj- b tle hell dt serving villa J' 8, j raved her. chall he miJe J "tfcs? "necessary evil," to I Here are two reasons assigned why people will embrace this "delusion" and "imposture," in spite of all warn-iogo warn-iogo arx'i "ejtpooures" uttered by pric&ta and editors. The first is, the promise of "abundance to the poor." Will the J'all.ValC Gazette explain to the world why it was that so many persons embraced em-braced "Mormonism" wheu it had no inducements of a temporal character to otter them? The first eighteen years of its history, is a talaof suffering, privation, priva-tion, and distress, enough to make the angels weep. Did the Elders, who traveled without purse or scrip among the nations, have anything to offer to the poor, except the Gospel, when the Saintb were lieeing before their Christian Chris-tian persecutors iu Missouri and Illinois? Illi-nois? Hungry, weary, and scantily clothed, they went from place to place, sometime., like their great Master, without a place to lay their head; and the poor, who received them into their houses, and who administered to their necessities "in the name of a disciple " did so without any prospect of earthly reward. How much land, or "abundance" "abun-dance" of any kind had they to oiler to the poor when the Saints were traveling across the great American desert, seeking seek-ing for a home in the wilds of the mountains, far away from the wretches who had slain their Prophet and Patriarch? Patri-arch? Wo venture to assert that neither neith-er the Vnii Mall Wazctte nor "any other oth-er man," ever heard an Elder in this Church, offer any ether inducement to people to join the Church, fhan the promise of Gospel gifts and everlasting salvation. So much for the "promised abundance to the industrial poor of Europe," which he considers "by far the least tempting of the two inducements." The promise of many wives, he says, is the great attracting at-tracting power which has drawn so many thousands together. But we beg leave to call the attention of the Pull Mall Gazette to the fact, that plural marriage mar-riage formed no part of the creed of the Latter-day Saints until 1S43, and that until 1S52 it was not publicly proclaimed proclaim-ed either to the Saints or to the world. When that doctrine was first published the downfall of "Mormonism" was predicted pre-dicted by editors and preachers as a certain cer-tain consequence; but as the voice of time has declared them to be false prophet, they now turn rund and boldly assert that polvgamy ia the very mum; of its success. They can blow hot onward march, and a -tire as that truth Shall triumph and falsehood fail so sure wilt lie bring it to a glorious and speedy consummation, and that consummation con-summation will be everlasting and universal uni-versal dominion. OlIAItLKS W. PKNUOsfc j 7 "TTorheld and revelleOlu In feS SSS I. not the S i,E9 b Ed to make any cm parl- f y.ff. s8, moral purity of Mor-l Mor-l tBtf L attested by disinter-X disinter-X L" ffirSv witnesses, and the fc:eJ nJ in .ud hideous licentious-s? licentious-s? f J" ffif Sin nVtlon and city? Tli.t ' c" u Vtlh T is counted a capital of-'J of-'J ch.,nn,Stlaii Eugland i laughed ?.aSr ?k o?you!h, or a trilling inn , That which among the I would brand a man as wit b - :.etfh i .,r,i'u ' w. with the aid of i " Jut completely out of i P'tfleV'u" an ornament to be proud Ktkeiied with dL-gust at the rhx of men who know that those i Pf S so; an J who yet aflect to turn ' heySwith horror at the moral 'i?PX. V. f peaks in mysterious r- aVto the license which is opened hithe says, is called In Mor- 1; 5ihraology "rpintaal marriage." i auv oue till us what he means, or i lii know himself? We defy him , frmrt that In ".Mormon phraseology" PK term Is used at all. Whatever it " refer to, it is an invention of our Wffies- and we have just cause to corn-On corn-On that when editors and preachers it up the subject of "Mornionisni," i i 'tead of referring to our authorised blications.and obtaining corrcctinfor-atiou. corrcctinfor-atiou. they go to scurrilous pamphlets, oj take ap the senseless fabrications of , ar avowed enemies, and palm their Canines of falsehood upon the world li'trae Btalenients of "Mormon" prin-f prin-f pies. Such a course is exceedingly Jcnkir, and totally unworthy of a re-Wetable re-Wetable Journalist. j He tells us that "we came to accept J I lie supernatural claims of our leader, aliat we acquiesced in his assertions tad aske J for no nroof, j U3t as the great jLajority of uneducated men and wo-meQ wo-meQ accept the feirnple assertions of Lftheir teachers." How did he make that discovery? Did he ever take the trouble to inquire of the Latter-day faints why they came to believe in the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith and ofBrighain Young? His statement is !niere guess, and a very poor one. If he would take the trouble to inquire, he would find that the Saints are a body of j people who have come out from the un-reflecting un-reflecting masses, and, refusing to be blindly led by the self-styled teachera of the day, have begun to think for themselves; and havine investigated the latter-day work, have embraced it from a firm conviction of its truth. He will discover that the "inducement" held out to them, in the public preachings preach-ings of the Elders, and in the published works of the Church, was the promise of a divine witness of the truth for themselves them-selves as the fruit of their obedience. Amine will learn that in every nation where this Gospel has been received, e;.ba'nt bar testimony, earnestly ud in the fear of God, that they have ttdmdually received from heaven a ny that the work is of God and not of man. Jit! r by 4,'8Cores of thousands of S5f. U8iff '? Q,d energetic men," and a u inSUtude of klt"ul. virtuous ri' .n11?1 "'ooien, are gathering Jod has spoken from ths heavens and fife"- CM baa commanded Mt5n? f,ome,out from amonS these fin ?er lrhe, tiea of kindred, and go eate8.f,tieearth- God'has re- d thlr!fdoctr ne of Plural marriage, 3th wJuVV1! reCCiVe U inth their w'iii.n ey Lave demonstrated, by rtulv ISP"," t0 sacrifice all their li.flaenS.i t? the iB:Jllment that has htt ' aVH y Q accunt of "Mormon-conutof "Mormon-conutof i not "Mormonism" on ao 14 Kff fmJ-t The influence that 8Pirltof m?A 8 ,bainta together Is the ttWous Jrd a.nd the auseof thelr o(Co , eM i. that the work is diet, and r iltlngI?lre8 11,8 serrants to dement hftfIl!0plei0 "t,every J 'th reiud LTd& forJt3 Peeress. ? G th.f0.1.? PdIctlon of the brak to Jr. L "Mormonlum" will e(hly EavHhen h ophet dies, ?'oPhecy wt0ay that th aie false LheWj.utt. utt,ered many times by ith Hi, rl8? l elation to JosepL ed the hearts dom' whUe U-thei U-thei djSi'V Ba!nts bleed. eiercIeruor V ?1P8er together, ani rstwa. "Monn:nianMJIlcrea9 to the lf the lifc S?SS,Da 'de not depend eterl & ?IS" of nymanThe 8 119 fonDder,He directs iU |