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Show s were purchased, fine farms and ation in the present discussion, we will and her v lo o,orr ttttmpU lomAnyhU peak to Lb people, and to manliest to rnent land th of marrioo-settlement 1 t .. dU established, and take up, as brfeflv as possible, the Divine minish. dntv And and will thriving them to be Ills Thl jrer in U DQt horrid! m. requirement. Tbi Here western Mis God ana ana first a uia wa the uch press Smith wuimwunei THE EVENING NEWS. llendured that believe auuiuriues, printing or Joseph God, and law most they by man the wealth discussions thereon by eminent Christian neglect, much more the divorcing 'Slf, thst the time had arrived when souri put intheoperation.wasBut be prom uJ rated to prevent ana punun. prophet; away of the first wir Kr and ace how far my people have ting desired for a revelaby our writers, wa farther acquired by people there necessity vuarges to them. As for m to Uking the second. ' While I hare this profound regard tion, and through berder-memisled been lawless bv the who clinging neighbors; wa It Smith uKonuv. our of for the moral and motive orinebonor- - sivea to the world. Joseph first illustrious tbe maae we quoted Kama frontier oi afterwards example y continuedRh. bl mimbr I moat uy that I do not battle-fiel-d, and parents, all that can be said of their mar- .1 their cprrua and rcsLisucx. attacked, plundered, fur respect, to tha same extent, his legal wnicn 1. really one of the turning point of murdered our aeruers, and nnaiiy drove riage is, that it was exhaustive. Adam abilities. Polygamy Unot denounced I the controversy, we are In socord with them from their delightful homes, which married all the women in the world, andweif piibSUS?j?!f ?ot leave this as to themselves. The title we would find teaching by example, erery 8 Late and Territory, and the many of the most eminent divines of the they appropriated Artl I. lTa by where land the of in Jackson and other must go among his descendants,favored much to ear for In search Tain the will mcst Christian church, and with the gentleman ttcheh and God' re?iembered the can be found were is who among in d uuto Mormons, examples statute or criminal coda of either defin nest and Tigorou thinkers of our own day counties &er and opened womh were Divine of whose laws of from the Ood, their driven homes, then people During of the s?nf the bare a T'GoS IU existence and punishment. The Upon departure Pilgrim sancing hHnved awy andsd of the origin, and whose conduct received incident sV4to the Mexpulsion Fathers from Holland for America, the troubles A FLEA FOB BELIQI0U3 my confounds a religious saw s Surit rsi v anrl tion or Dunishment at His hands. a mm v1 ah auva n va feutletnan criminal their beloved vuivu John uioui Iter. t Robinson, flOriuvUf of act. lie Is think pastor, children were murdered, or died from disPage At the period of the Reformation in Ger ScriptuVoghttolffJrd 00111 LIB LETT. farewell sermon, which showed ans- wer to P6 preached he denounce of when me ioin marriagebondwcibShoeKWord8 of the bigamy In the confusion ing caused by exposure to the inclemen- many, during the early pare oi spirit of Inmildness and tolerance truly eases that awonderful and weather. The wretched refugees century, thoje great reformers, Luther, xix, the of cies eVtwati polygamy, and that which (Matthew age, many KVMtssr 4 AciMltJiCll follows, blindly strike out against an who claim to be ministers of God would do afterward located at Clay, Caldwell, and Melancthon, Zwingle and Bucer held a prove50polygamy sinfS J,Shrlat'ne flesh,' to W. II. II ,. t HI. r on the to where there were solemn consultation at Wittenburg unknown enemy. Will ha permit me well to Imitate in this: l Land should lead us Tvia counties. Missouri, mt HyeesewtSUves, Wttkllf is contrary to the "Whether a it few within and no attention to the distinction? question, where, to settlers, are we almost The from tncsJlhlf many others, quickly "Brethren, part Lawg?ierlDh8ft. and industries naa again duui up Divine law lor a man to have two wives at Is) I, t'. Illgamy mean the wrong done a wo one another, and whether I may ever years, theirsettlements and accumulated once?" and decided unanimously that it woman: not bTtoth Mr. speaker: I wish to make a few man by imposing upon her the forma of live to see vour laces on earth anr more, thriving was not; and upon the authority of this unites The stock. of herds outrages or Jack God of heaven whether the but anotner wire lire, while large only knows; rtuuiik concerning the extraordinary matrimony auch Mordecision. Phillip. Landgrave of Hess, actu the manherselfinpersonalnSwXedgewRh were the then Lord or bath that repeated, not, Osxm county second marriage null the appointed her choice, let that man'f skua till now under consideration. While rendering married a second wire, nts first Demg- tlon bo what veu. beor God, and Hit blessed an ally it may they twain shall and happi chargethat D'Audoing, I crave the attention of the and Told. tooThe reputation aliVe. is still fact recorded in This me no further than ycu seized by the marauders, and thousands of follow one flesh. you Is woman get, a I ness How, o( thus as am one tor home-leanet alone otherwise, do we And confiding here, !loue, bigne'a History of the Reformation, and such a woman as Rachel have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. women and children driven 'forth united to Jacob s other of for of the people sought to b cruelly op-- forever blasted by the fraudulent acta If God reveal anything to you by any other authors that the and the prey period. by who had a wife then la to God ae of he de and Dr. her not a celebrated Dutch the Grotius. been the husband, excited had supposed as Hugo Delevate'repreto only as whose by r.reed; instrument of Ili,tre ready receive it cupidity .OU her intercourse wn Utah; but a aa American clU-se- servedly punished for his Icrime. Poly you were to receive truth by my ministry; wealth of the industrious exiles, nunareaa jurist and statesman, and most eminent Jacob, hlTADf$ ssntlog any God, hearkening to her, openthe act of for I am fully persuaded, I am very confi- perished from cold, exposure, and starva- law writer of the seventeenth centurv. ing her womb, to utter my eoteenu protest against gamy, on the contrary, removing ho- - v. states that Jewish law an a allows "the to more sustained one their But more leaders, has to a under of pluralalma trutA than Lord violate tion. woman, btllthat1 by the pass yet dent, that the and marrying thus miracle by one of to wives man." called j their taking away her reity the right, law break forth out of His holy word, together our undying faith, again rights, and fraught with a belief that a man haso to proach? We also find the offspring legitia and John lion. befollowers, and belden, Eng distinguished cannot scattered I impoverished "For my part, sufficiently do, and with vil to the Ilepublic Itself. fully and religiously, author and statesman, a member of mate and inheritors ofthe laud of CWa church-ex- , removing to Illinois, rounaea me city oi lish I do not propose to occupy the Uma of I the knowledge and consent of both the wail the condition of the reformed for Lancaster in 1624, and who and Benjamin Parliament who are come to a period in religion, Nsuvoo. the House) by dwelling at lent ta uron wives. the Oxford lawful in of were University compara- represented no further than the For several years they I uppoe. Mr Hpeaker. that In pro and will goat presentreforms marriage th v a t contributions of the people of Parliament of the of one his work in 1640, built Lu Long tlon. The up their of undisturbed; Instrument they "See a tively Utah to the wealth of the nation claiming the old Jetlereonlan doctrine palpable instance of God s Ilebraica," the Hebrew miraculouslike cannot be drawn to go beyond wbat the most thriving and beautiful cities of the entitted, "Uxor blessing on polygamy in the that was Thsre U no member of this lions who that that Government I beat which theran from will reach the Wife, as the eye could says Hi Far saw. "polygamy of Whatever allowd,not case Luther Stat. of Hannah. part (Samuel, i and ii.) The d doe not recollect la his school boy governs least, I would not have even a our good Ood has revealed to Calvin, tbey eminence of their temple, the only among the Hebrews, but in most other instances serve also to prove that, in GtxT s the nations and that I farmfloor. But when this the world; the comrortabie throughout and and vast west of the Rocky minority upon farms will rather die than embrace It; gardens, the second account, region dsj the is just s a is d a modern and European valid as the first andmarriage monogamy of sel Calvlnisbs you see, atick fast where tbey houses, the mills and factories, and the custom, as obligatory Mounuius.charactertieu in the geo ay thatlo atjstem to almost unknown the ancient the attested who schools, industry, that looks to the purest were left by that great man of Ood, thatour making it less so is contradictory graphies as the "Great American Dear such as oJra,and world." to seeks to be a govern- yet naw not all thinga. thrift, and the wealth of tbe once persecuthe Divine wisdom. rt." There." said those veracious democracy, Dr. Samuel Puffendorf, professor of law their wealth created much to be lamented, ted people. But again "wa a vast region wherein ment ef the people, for the people, and for"This U a misery "Thirdly. and owned the of the new in the University of Heidelberg, in Ger- issue. How God blessedthis were burning and shining envy in the lawless border-methey though uo man could live. There were spring by the people, we hav no room for the was the case eminently and of afterwards even their vet Lund.in what enemies Without many, Sweden, State. lu their times, penetrated they see Genesis lxix, JosePb, and stream, upon the bank or wnicn fuarduui. nor, above all, far the master, light to, who wrote during the latter part of the 17th mana J""1 were and in was counsel of whole not Into the but claim cause, justifiable Ocd; the united support of both thev now living, would be as ready to em ner which Oov. Ford characterized as a century, in his great work on the law of was to Samuel, see 1 Samuel, iil, 15. I t could be eh the bleaching bone of commanded that a basfird To expressly have such a government, brace further light a that which they first permanent disgrace to the people of the nature and of nations, says that "tbe or son from men. of and parties. animals poisoned of a woman that was with child In Its such bv to retain so was from Mosaic far this law waters." of to purest the I Around were and beseech forbidding strength, received. remember that attacked, pillaged, you drinking of deadly whoredom should they into the conthis vast desert, and In we must leave all questions of moraled it is an article of your church covenant. State, across the river.thelr houses burned; custom (polygamy) that it seems in several gregation of the not enter the border driven Lord, even to his tenth to suppose it; and In another place Its fw habitable parts, roamed the and rellgton that lie outside the reoog-nlse- that you shall be ready to receive whatever their women and children driven forth un- E laces generation. Dnteronomy e to reference xiii, 2.) But we the in to season anown code of conscience rightfulness to the crime be made inclement of shall the from says, sheltered in the truths nnd Samuel, the oil spring talntd savages, only less cruel and of the cttlsen. In an you of polygainy Ood." thereof, "the polygamy of the atAera, under their leaders brutally murdered. remorselese than the desert Itself. to attempt to do the written word ofWaldo year; the Tabernacle the.r'orl an is old which the so covenant, one argument in of annals The the world's than Emerson, say And, Italph otherwise religious persecution, m nU very childhood. this, abiding lu the midst of this Inhospitable his most golden utterance. "I look for fruitful of cruel abuse, can give nothing ingenuous men must confess to be unan 5L?!5 b uye?a y dwell an agricultural, places hare been washed with human of wast ephod, before Eli the swerable." g than the the hour when that supreme beauty which more pitiable and priest. See this whole Salisof people. blood, and Ita fields made rich with ravished the souls or pastoral, and Gilbert Rev. Burflett, followed this last those and scenes which Bishop lie brews, and ii. Who, then can doV ofSaml expulsion. No covernment ha 120.0U0 sou. Everywhere human bone. the particular friend of William III., uel a legitimacy, numbering their lip spoke oracle to all Aged men and women, tbe sick ana bury, feeble, who and consequently of God's can be seen the fruits or energetic and been found strong enough to stand un- through was historians eminent among both shall speak In the West also. The children of tender years, and the wounded, allowance time, of and of above throe the blessing on polv religious Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain im were driven into the flat of the river, yet and theologians, wrote a tract upon this gamy? If such second persistent Industry. The surrounding shaken 18th to when wall near driven the tho marriage was in of the fanaticism of to Territories once that been have by bread sentence beginning the mortal subject, The tract in eight of their Colorado, Idaho, mining happy homes, account,null and void as a was written on the God's Montana. Art ion a, and Nevada, lu religious persecution. Ours, sir, would of life to millions. Jiut they have no epical perish from exposure and starvation. While century. "Is the original law of marriage, or tha cagainst a plurality of wives in any their Infancy .Were fed an J fostered from disappear like the "baseless fabrioofa Integrity; are fragmentary; are not shown over our broad land the church bells of question, or any other law of God commandment, no mark of legitimacy the first blast of such a in their order to the lAteliect. I look for Christian communities were ringing out case lawful is1under the gospel?"of the surplu storvs of the Mormon peo vision" before Does have been "Neither it (a plurality wives) any found on tbe issue; for could that shall follow so far peace and good-wito men; while to the the gentleman be- the new Teacher a null ple. The development of the resource convulsion. and: void of the the blemishes marked where among these shining law that he shall see them churches thronged thousands to hear is tantamount nn of these mining Territories Was alone lieve, for example, that In aiming this come marriage store of them David's wives,and shall their full and te the of circle; D rounding. preached forgive- Eatriarchs. gospel charity rendered possible by the existence) at cruel blow at a handful of earnest folma.;r,iage. no legitimacy of termed by the prophet, God's Slfi-?s- if followers of the grace; shall see tbe world to be ness; these poor, heart-sic- k was their very doors of an a ricnltural peo lowers of the Lord, In Utah, he Is doing complete a to wives of same Redeemer, were driven in violence gift him; yea, plurality mirror or the soul. a blessing as Hannah obtained, we should act than would be, In theConceding, new revola from their houses to perish like wild beasts made in some cases a duty by Moses' law; have ple, who supplied them with the chief a more Justifiable that therefore, found her and her husband Elkanah of a majority of our cltliens, tlons may bo at all times expected in the In the awamna and wilderness. The gen- - when any died without issue, his brother, ncesltle of life at a price scarcely athebilleyes to was or becaune of nearest to his abolish dragged forth and wife, kinsman, Catholicism, marry above that demanded In the old and future oi our race, aa they have been at all tlemen charge us with hypocrisy and de for iu ucmu; jor so was adultery to be to were seed and all or to a law in ror whole a him; up It raising audthe the vouchsafed Mutes. lusts such with time The early emigrant alleged immorality; past, motives, populous praved puuisued. All tLi fnrnishes us with a to obey this, under the hazard of conclusive to California paused on their weary annihilate the Jew for that they are controvemv ends. A man has arisen record as this to mock their charges! The obliged if proof thai U10 having more than is neither there one wife with world has many hypocrites, and is well infamy, they refused it; obnoxious? Let named Joseph Umlth; he claim to be wLich a man cohabited was Journey In the redeemed wastes of Jews, and therefore as were for made such comma numerous a wicked filled with Ood. any and but of exceptions men, they keep married. From whence I not adultery in the sight of Utah, to recruit their strength and that that evil door once b opened; set sect nronhet of such about them the recompense of sin, and have may faithfully other words, that it never wasGod; or in ntty mo faIsto admit the Justice of their animals, and California is to- against sect; let the Dtble and the claim. reckoned God conclude made what that baa it I necessary in by Him any sin s than this histories and sect; other It give you, religious book a give place to the sword tbe seventh comagainst day richer .by thousands of live and school cases to can no some case be in and to works can no man live ita degree any vindicated whica by right we history deny. or will find the sacrtilce which are the admiration even of Word went out to the world that Mor sinful in itself; since God is holy in all His mandment, the original marriage instl- million of treasure, for the existence and the bayonet, and the humanity of lis wuuvu, of thl half-wa- y houa to Eldorado. ujr vmor jw wnatever. huaaanlty of enemies. It bring forward certain new monism had finally been annihilated. But ways. But there is a passage "Fourthly. '"But forto now To the people of Utah, therefore. Is the darker arcs, and our beautiful doctrines; of church is be is if examined it toit of were hosts scattered the bap- again government; gathered 15) which is express to (Dnteronomy xxi, exof a mournful dream the A and bidden Government the to be attributed no lncoosiderabl gospel. by simple tism, even for their dead; Of the marriage gether, and set out on a pilgrimage, that part the point, and amounts to a demonstration a is of of wives more or is In the production of the vast mineral past. it relation. Upon what point pro- since that plurality the children of Israel has been press discharge of God's allowance of plurality of wives . true, but, bable that light would be given toonrrsoe. without parallel in Ute history of the human nowhere to be found. wealth which has poured into the coffers This ts not only philosophically xi a man uve iwo wives, one beloved and our Lord discharges divorces. another sir. Ills hlsicrtcsily a fact. In making the than upon the marriage relation? The race. They had no stores; they were beg"It isintrue of the nation from oar mining Htat hated, and they have borne him I th case stand that foundation of Is the of the social in the upon very world's appeal. the adding age. gared adultery, question problem goods,yet with earnest except and Territories. both the beloved and the hated children, wife our ton his of constitutional Government. men whosoever any upon enthusiasm they tolled on through mind of many of the foremost away put religious uen Hint was This, however. Is but a tithe of our That they might worship God in accord- Tbe so St. of our day are given to the unknown deserts, over unexplored moun- other account, commits adultery; then it shall be, when he maketh hishated son- contributions to the nation's wealth. ance with th dictates of conscience, the and women one have Matthew in St. and Luke it, across relations place and of the proper position tain rsnges, and haunted by to Inherit that which he hath, that he mav study plains demon-strats- d ou so we actual have Uy to of the sexes. Tbe wisest differ differ hon- savages, only less cruel than the white or commits adultery against her; father fled from their homes in experiment not make the son of the beloved n the practicability of redeeming th wilds of America. For this Kurope bore estly and unavoidably. Kndleas is the dis- Christians who bad driven them forth in Mark has it. or causes her to commit before the son of the hated, they which is in. these desert waste. When the Pacific the fatigues or perished In the wild of a pute and clamor of those honestly striving search of that promised land,' where at last adnlterv: so St Matthew in another place. 4BnC savs an obi ector. if it be adultery double porUon of all that slope) and Its boundless resource shall savage-hauntcontinent; for this they to do with the social evil; to amelio- they could worship Ood in accordance with he hfth;forhe have been developed; when beyond the poured out their blood In wars, until every rate away of tbe the dictates of their own consciences, and then to take another woman after an unjust is the beginning condition th anomalous of his and the In has wife strength, that edifice ua the m stone that shelters follow the that buir will aufTtorliiar wnmn tt todmy and unbroken that covenantor the Consti- divorce, it IK. k.muBlriVa autl n of the itocky Mountain 4d,0UO,0t)O of people a nation ! cemented by the blood of the wtvnxeil is his. On 'the right must UTnr while of thousands while pOdytlurthe this so; And which tution this sacred rlgnt do orthis to guards our fig, the mil shall right. ing homage iw,the;marriago ofbothTomet-iand wretched, touch no other. this, however, I need not the good and pure of all creeds and parties Ragged, starving calls them both equally lion of dwellers In Ariioca, Nevada, martyr. Upon is all and it indeed is "This a plausible, time or yours; mere statement are Invokine tneDivlne guidance in their ef they wandered! on. Delicately nurtured he and cannot my be wives, spend mistaken enrichand iSew Testa the Colorado, Montana, of the proposition u a conclusive srgument fort for the good of our fallen humanity, is women and their little children dug roots, that can be brought from I4h, calls them se, they certainly were s'oifHs ed will seems it ment which inby the product of their redeemed from which convincing; yet it strange that the Divine guidance? thus or subsisted on the bark of trees or the people, in their houest the second wife We the first son. that v and fertilised desert, shall point to the uocta, will th of found not be no Conour come to In weight. should that the Nsuvoo From hides of earnestlv Salt animal. to inherit beforeason born afterward-owas permit sppeai. "For it is' to be considered that ifour Lord f valley of Ureat Halt Lake a their ex- stitution, per foe and fresh as ever, we have prayers ofbesought the righteous be answered? Tbe Lake, the valley of their promised landr first wife. Here the the ex a clus that cannot be changed and leave scarce a nffte had been to antiquate the plurality of pressly deemed legitimate, Mormon people believe that Ood bis thus 1,600 miles there is emplar, and accord to the sturdy toller and Inheritable of that land due honor, In that they In- vestige of free government, in theorlginal spoken, that througn josepu amun nenas along that dreary and terrible road, where wives, it being so deeply rooted in the men to the double portion fashions and confirmed such that of we age, some not by re the social solution of and this of does instrument true 'the the indicated could not Ve, if the secSnd marrTagi language: body weary repose augurated the sjptern and demonstrated and riveted ny so which were not It possible result. Theae results are ltrious teat shall ever be required as a qual questions of our day; and while theyper-aecut- e one, Whom zamine, or sicxness, or the mer- unquestioned precedents, aoneit plain- the first deemed as lawful sn,iu,u,m8 lucation to any office or public trust under or question no man for differing ciless savage, caused to perish by the way. long a practice, ne must navenot Che ottering of Utah to the nation. in such an and to the Divine auwhile on this pilgrimage that an ly and authoritatively, united Hia'ea." not mi was not con honestly with them, It was When Uobert Fulton' first steam- thidered Tosaythatarjliirfliw...:.I out of his is "Fifthly. as be to manner involved for came such sought the Government order from for of five revelation, sufficiently sinful is to make God tne author of alS they firmly comprehensive thority boat moved from New York to Albany, free people, and subsequent! of search the words v we find or logic as serve to men In what by soldiers in the hundred insist that their following for. not to forbid that which i7 so fr a concerned the value of the declared. "Coo "Neither are these dark words made more even snail make no law believe to be tbe win or ood, they they are Mexican wr. The order was promptly to countenance and nr ire V 7 Vut writthe their he in a had made Marc vessel, percepti- respecting an establishment of religion or entitled to the same immunity from ner obeyed. Theae devoted men, who had re- clear by any of to apostles so the far author of ing iand be carried no further it in the ble addition to our merchant marine; prohibiting th free exercise thereof." secotlon at the hands of the Government, ceived only cruel persecution from the ings; words are highest degree. And shSwe dare were to which the than upon but the principle, the practiblllty of they root design same of on ana called to were the tnresnoidor and the or even very my nporrto pro upon liberty thought argument, people they say, think, that this lead them to; so that of our Lord which he then demonstrated, wa however. I am met by th advocate of this peecb, wisely secured to other religious the field of baiLS. dedicated their poor. written will Him who is of purer eyes than to so to out divorce ableupon strike that in place, the assumption beliefs by the (jonslituiion. wives to' Ood, and themselves to being, sod enriched the nation mor extraordinary bill with and who cannot look on Iniprlcslr, by a consequence quity? evil, is not euuueu to ix coosid ihe point whether polygamy can helpless explicitly, awe must not of tneir families to condemn than If she had received the gtft of the mat polygamy their Upon country, leavlng (Haebahuk i, 13.) God forbid wives, sinee it plurality red aa a portion of our religious faith: that nronerlv be considered as a nart of otir re struggle on as best ther could, these brave, God is upbraiding David bv thl "When vessel, built from and loaded with solid under fallen to within not the of have seems w scope to are be protect ligious frith and practlco, I beg leave hum- - potrlotio men followed our: flag into New theConatltutlon 1.... prophet Is alhan, for his incratitnr gold. there disapprove. the enjoyment of our bl v to submit, sir, that the decision rests Mexico and California, and were at last what our Lordtodoes I will not, Mr. Hpeaker, trespass upon ed and respected inaha benefector, (2 Almighty ) xii conclude Samuel, this short he answer. "Therefore, we are not entitled solely on the conscience and beliejf of the disbanded at San Diego, with. high praise faith, bat does; it in the following terms, verse the time of the lions bv mora than retiaioo are i which wherein hiated, a.AM. a to consider a a portion thereof the view man or woman wno proclaims it to be,a from their officers, but with many things ai. means scanty waster-- fiouse, and thy iuw t a thm briefly adverting to the claim of held by us ss a people In reference to the religious belief. A I have said, it is not to return to tnose iney slovea, tuy into been volume. I have enlarged might ana wnom see wives unto thy bosom; and I gave so strong against a plx.rality of master's house Utah t the gratitude and fostering care marriage relation, une eminent disputant, numbered among the crimes of that code I they had left to auffer, and perhaps to nothing the thee Vil of Israel and Judah and if artst Vin trv ne a iwIwab irrAaf a or toe American people. va aoa vio rr it on sta wvr Vjilania as an araru men t, apposes a case where a waionyp uu sjtva by all nations having anv form II ish on the way. too little, I would, had been that so moreover over hazards that For the first timw In the hNtorv o religiou sect might claim to believe In the of government imminent many hang under which criminals are Thus, Mr. Speaker, three times did this have given thea such and such things not be if allowed." it I the United H tat, b the Introduction rightfulness of murder, and to be protected restrained or ww4a thousands, to and before location their in make It people, jiunisned, "Can we suppose God giving mor! wives I persecuted a sriaasaw v nva Rev. Martin Mad an. a relative of the poet than rsaaalXltJCJJ aI Vktls9 a triamanlvan iTe.k r the bill under consideration, a well in mat right, mt i not in any sense a arjK va wa w war wooau sansl stava 1U-AU u ivi J iiiuo lvj ai a7 auvuicvt v v nlaaaont one into David's bosom, who already aooomoliahed an was CowBfiR and scholar, I cas. ail Murder, uy law, human people proclaim polygamy as a part of their prosperous homes, and by their industry defined and positive effort Is made to paraxial more than one, if it was sin in David had 1 or Liock tne in Ciondon to take them? a crime; polygamy is not. religious belief. If they are honest in this, I surround themselves with all the comforts chaplain and iiospitai g turu the great Can we imagine that God power of In a divine, 18th I the of the latter century. part of I however much thev msv be in error thv and annlianoaa of wealth: and three times during porton my "remarks, the natlou Into a moral channel, and to hallsubsequent would thus transgress (as it were) His own first for the the that not only by the authority nana on tneir ngnis unaer tne Uoostitu- - I were tney, oy an un principled ana out- - By his exeitions chapel commandment one .in legUUt for the conscience of the po-- ok ueshow, instance and so of inmates hos use that unfortunate numerof the testament out to error arrest that oy writers, tion, and jta you must ap- rageous mob.driven from their possessions. and chastise David for and then, perhaps for the severely reprove leading writers of the Christian peal to reason, and not to force, I am here, and reduced to abjectest poverty. And pital was built,the pi.Here, for the first time. I a rroroel ous it in another? Is it not rather is Justi- not to argue or demonstrate tbe truthful- - bear It in mlna, that in every instance the first time in church, the doctrine of history of England, the breaking the whole transaction, that from plain, tlou to punish acitiisn for his religious fied and approved. Thepolygamy was the for benefit special nee gospel am preached to of offered not their I upon called upon to leaders of these organized mobs, only ground faith; David committed mortal sin in taking anowomen. of The can or anv their which offallen be maintained convince this honorable House that It la all who would abandon add deny their unbelief. We have before us a blief argument sympathies man's ther wile, but not in taking so statute-boo-k living were enlisted oar th that of benevolent are relation visws chaplain deeply true either To ot I if can marriage but false; convince faith, toleration and the possession of their designating crime. widows ofthe deceased the Saul? And thus, ne a a a reto not b considered our behalf dook of their that in restrain criminal act, and to punish puDiisnea portion you that this belief is honorably and Bin- - homes and wealth. But they refused the the law of God condemnI that therefore, though a i faith, ligious snare. marriage the offender, has heretofore been that accom purely cereiy enieruuneu, my oDject is They rejoiced the they tempting ed the first yet did not? condemn the and therefore outside the pllshed. were thought worthy to Buffer for the thora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin, in it second. province- of the law, and In It w have civil contract, Effects. Prevention aect No Causes. of Conseanences. of It in common to teach, and thousands Master, and, rather than to deny their faith, province religious doctrine. the support of the accused himself. No Christians "Slxth'y.wasWhen David took the wife of however, be found who will believe that the leaders of the sect of Tjitter- - they and Remedy," which remedy he discovers Uriah sacrificed welcomed man cne to the bar for trial with the carry their can, privation: they he to thl extent. The Cath- day Saints, popularly known as Mormons, all that earth could offer: .they died the to be polygamy, and.which he discusses in belief severely reprimanded by but after Uriah's death the plea that the charge upon which he la olic church, the most ancieat of the Chris are hypocrites, while their follower are Nathan, manner octavo : prophet three a in very thorough death. martyr' takes he the same' woman, arraigned constitutes no offence. Ills tian churches, and among the most power either ignorant, deluded men and women, saintly though he had extracts irom other wives Mr. Speaker, is this ahining record that volumes, l submit copious inbefore, and no fault is found to addition plea b. "not guilty." He cannot pass fol in numbers of th religious denomina or people held to their organization by the of a community learned this which, of work, other What hypocrites? with him; nor is he charged with the least beyond and behlud the established eon- - tions of our country, unou this point is in vilest Impulses of lust. To refute these Christian denomination of our oonntrr can being directly in point in tne discussion flaw or insincerity in his repentance on sreoru ana na. of io earnestness wiia riulon Hat this bill illustrate in Mormotrnaurcn, uirriim slanders, I can only do as the earlier Chris how higher evidences of earnestness, of berora humanity. account. The child which wa that penor eiiorts to reaches beyond that cud Into the ques- according tothfaltnclhaCathollcchurch. or tne preservation alnoerltv tne autnor in niswomen tian did, point to their sufferings and devoted his intercourse with BathshnKa of 1 fruit; to and on not in is of its of condition eflt sense the fallen, sacrament; any tionable world of morals the debat and I may add, the unanJmoua of their religions raimr ' her husband Uriah's life, God struck daring but a religious ordinance. sacrifices, prevent th ruin of others. oi of further that all. able land of religious beliefs; and, first a civil contract, of aside from my thev in what testimony to with His argument, Heath presentation hand. (2 the and 'The bast fairest, and, indeed, and th validity a divorce granted by a wHuaor me oniscuonanis nrarLi doctrine of Mr. the SDeaker.that nr polvgamv nn. bora of the same Samuel the seeks with l&Solomon, woman' xii, as on on the oZTene, creating mis, civil court 1 d so led. And not In any lygamy, my constituents are eoter moral. is an essential feature in oar religioua faith. onlv wav to get at tbe truth same the man: in tha begotten by is ta. J, where occasion concerned, malignant fury of ptrtisan prvjudl me cnurcn is religion on Just, and Industrious in the eyes of all im and that in our adherence thereto we are every mamage of wives, is acknowledged from whatever and sectarian hate to measure out the Christian aside plurality to bv is prejudice, car with othar civil contract placed lay with or new unsupported theory partial wiioesae. in thl community. I advocating no crave the It may be derived, and let the God himself as David's lawiaU issue (1 punUhmenU swan of horses) or a partnership in trad. It removed quarter of the of reaches indulgence I of wastes by long from marriage. Kings, ;v, 6,) and as such set upon 'his The bill before us declares that that I a civil contract, in that a court oeaultv. th moral influence of civilization wahsvs lions while I cite some' few from the Bible speak for itself. Then we shall see throne. The law which positively exclusystem which Moses taaght, that Ood for certain specified cause, mav dissolve ft; Stum, uniri7,aaa uaruuso Co ram unity. numerous writers of weight and authority that more than one wife, notwithstanding or those born ont of lawful ded was bastards, allowed seventh tbe commandment, not the marriatre otherwis. Upon allowed, and from which Christ, our bat towns are witaout gambling hell, In the Christian church, who have illustrafrom the congregation of the wedlock, however ethers God himself, .who, os tor, sprung, i a crime, and thai any contract Is Invoked the moat solemn sanc d rink or hrm)l by or supported the dootrin. i.ii. r teds.m even to the tenth know Lord, His must take it. i infallibly Ik rWtm tn r. ms undertake might generation, k man bellevtnir In It and cradlHirit I tions of our Christianity: the appointed end to end of our Territorv the inhw.nt v' ww, hrw , is wholly with inconsistent be xxiii.2,) own acquainted mind, of and perfectly servant their can ministers Uod, above tAarh walk to and unharmed learned ail. this by at. House, all beg pardon, the bin. aa ahall present Nor is hour. with Solonion to build being understand and employed Ills on aid. Committee thoroughly and to an this ownwlu, due of the efficiency solemnity th lion. Chairman to the ly show, sessrts that belief alone is to ths eeretuocigive organised but. police, God's the to not own law. mouth did he intend ofthe Ills temple, being If peoand the sillaac is kind nature and Christian Impulses of a Territories, areat theological truth. If isi, npoa "but to prevent ple to God in prayer, and offerinsr sacririron of a allow wives, non and Invoked Divine th plurality xn or mis guidanc blessing. wiin wnicn grwu be there any subject peopie. support my argument I UUi b convlct- - To most Intents and purposes. with every of their by the seventh in the temple at its dedication, unless Da-- . V. - VVT , entire conversant, it la and condemn It.or either I witn confidence I erable body la especially , uum .Luuurvn some other law, how via s mamage wita natnsne ba was a lawful ueciared bastard, hi Christian denomination, th marriage cere appeal to their sincerity, commandment, by more Scripture a theology.. I have heard history. wives turned out to starve, and hi. should that make laws for marriage; Solomon, the lawful issue ofthat lie it possible more is regarded a a religious ordinance. ana I raouy Mormon was The morauty taugnt, t v;hurch established at quoted here, more r?rtr-.tnBtne inau any should marriage; consequently a pluralit v of wives was ever a ,a regulation, vital for the Upon this point, thersibre, and than In anv other place It my for tJ ror or tue or is no sin.either against the primaryinstita- laws theft make 1S31 of discussion th la th be serve. to With regulation diffidence, the hesdsruarters tune potnt "ora rerormerv, then, as of the was question great mnni W How is conceivable murder? it I believe, are the real Instigatorswho. that He aonoi mamage or against tne seventh Catholic the! in of church and to to th venture rnreest fore th to removed Klrtland, Ohio, and conaldera-b- l I supporters ua, fact, in this But so far from Solomon beins in theory nuaabera of missionaries were sent ont this bill, that while polygamy had its origin should give the least countenance to it. or Hastier. religions denominations thr under: any disqualification from tbe The honorable tdember rmm.TinHAi. and usual pracuc, are wim tn Mormons to preaca tn new religion in various parts in holy writ, taught aa I have said before so express xxis appro nation as even in support of it? For the making mentioned, he is appointed by God the father of this bill. Inform c thT La thir position, thai the supervision and of th Northern States. Many converts by the greatest oi au lawmaaera, ana not amiracles woman fmitfal vgho was naturally bar-- himself to build the temple. (1 Kings, viii, la an Integral were made and removed to Klrtland, but only tolerated, tonexpUdUy commanded relation control martial of th . this la a crime abhorred by men. d - 19.) His prayer is heard, and the house ii enact or supernxmust nave neentne essential portion of their religious they were subjected to various petty an-- bv the "AlmiirhtT.aa I anall presently show. ren . a a a uuuucwu y vfou, ana prohibited and and a ana now hallowed; (chapter ix; 3) and filled with tern ue of faith turai power, in in th enlovment of uojmtw ana persecutions by the ur- - monogamy, or the ays Diessea, marriage everv- otax in tn Union. wstcn and wrmetio. y not stand such the owned manner, and Christian re issue, constitubo th glory that the priests could Solomon not nations, may abunmany rounamg peopi. juand protected by m iwtuuaa re being rrfrflv recognlxea by roc the mo. tion. to to declared 11.) pecs all minister. r of or it ancient intents dant the viii, acquired-foand (Chapter legitimate th Pagans originated among' uvv o tn nonorabie member. I b t Th Mormon people are a Christian de-- increasingeasily buwus w ana itome, f purposes? If this be not allowance what mexeiore, as weu as oamuei, the new converts were Ureeoe numbers, . V under l I hs Vntv lUetnhe Inspired by a sincere hoaUl-1- 1 no mi sailon. Ther believe full r In the Old d vised to locate In Jackson county, Misimumun. proof thataa child bora wires of rnnmstanoes of tha plurality to Cmakinflr the "As that which he eo earns Jy de- and New Testament. In th dlvinirr of souri, where land was abundant and cheap, Ing the bill fetches: r&atorea of t&eologio-first, namely. IIU , the himself God judge, no bastard being ua is nounce. No earthly lndacement cwald laws nnwvKieJ for to informs ae the of information few wherein fact that let and tiler and regulation polygamy; had bear; th upbuilding boour people. Th Mormons soon became a nc4viramy is contrary to the Divine econ us consider what is written in Exodus, xxi. whose judgment is according to truth make him practic pel gam y ."t3d ac- triumph of 111 church.lis-h-t They do not ll va. however, thai j and no vne nusoanai .iaKe nun and refers to th marriage of the first iv., Continued in our next. prosperous an wealthv oommrniitrt th tio a, U th y of thooaands, la an above essad with th erueinxion on earn habits of in do try and thrift which omy, human oounle. and dtaa the further teati-- another ( not in so doing that he sins wife, Indiscretion, where ail the punish rasnt frocs that they have ever maintained being even then I mony of the Bible, and that of the biatory against i the seventh command ntenty? reCalvary. On the other handL a falU upon the Innocent and nnoffsnd-lcr- - la lMi than 27.0W penny all a whenever theref&r inculcated corded In the preceding chapter,) bather areVusold tellers.! of m world. ' SeUmgaaid vigorously acealty The crimlnai taint aUachea whan existed,age, every day throughout France, Ood has raised, up prophet, to Many hundred thousand, acres of Oorarn-- 1 m aUghtly voluminous for critical examln- - rood, her raiment, f,t. e., or; tnenrat wuej a. caxxojt. n, .fTwZS. - li to-d- ay i m lts. sai i i i6 -- Jf s, border-ruffian- u, dart Zll ' well-tille- well-fille- text-book- s, n 22-2- 6; - to-da- heart-rendin- 1 ll HwJ1 to-d- ay to-d- ay ofc-Lf- first-bor- v ed first-bor- 1 ; foot-sor- s e, to-d- ay "a i 1 T 8- m aa a AS per-recognlK- od T a a" !I 1 w ssi i : v. 11 . law-makin- - - j - aeir-aacrin- oe f o-v- n -- vr i Ins-Baloon- mm pre-aenosa- (Deu-teronom- y; . T ad com-mandme- j to-wor- k . . law-abov- " ais-tlngula- - ! ' - r--s al nrvsve-mission- . 4-- i 1 v the-vfln- d soeg'-book- by-thir'- l - . 1 nt. e |