Show shaw SHAM IT has been a subject of conk constant tant re xe mark among the latter day saints that the men who make the loudest outcry against their system and who arees are es peri perl aily ally denunciatory of their domestic relations are men who themselves are the reverse of virtuous and whose lives are so corrupt that they will not bear the scrutiny of the light of day this the experience of many years under a great variety of circumstances has fully substantiated repeated instances have occurred in the nations which the elders have visited as missionaries of men being dreadfully exercised and wonderfully indignant over the latter day saints and their system of marriage who afterwards have been proved to be secretly guilty of the grossest sins so numerous have been these instances that whenever an elder who has had experience hears cf a person fighting this principle and indulging in fits of virtuous indignation about it he sets it down as a fact that he is making all this pother to get for himself a character for a quality of which he knows be he is totally deficient this thin was the case with drum jorum mond the judge who c am cam i eto to this territory in 1856 A more zealous advocate f virtue if be were to be believed could not be found his soul was vexed daily while here because patriarchal marriage was practiced by tiie the people yet at the same time he had bad his mistress here whom he had brought out of a hoube house of bad repute at washington living with her and passing her coffas onn off as his wife A more notorious ous scoundrel eco soo undrel than he probably never disgraced the judicial ermine and yet his blatant reports stirred up a great amount of feeling about the condition of affairs in utah and probably contributed as much as anything else towards giving buchanan an excuse for sending albert sidney johnson to this thid country with an army to break the people up drummonds is not an exceptional ca case ae it has not been the virtuous and the pure who have endeavored to bring dolfl down the vengeance of the government upon the people of this territory but those who have notoriously teen of an opposite character A case ease of this kind has just come to our knowledge there 1 is U h person here hero whose zeal aud and industry in ili poisoning the ot visitors have been remarkable his chief business has been to hang around the hotels betels introduce himself to bt rangers get into conversation with them thein and pour into their ears a stream of slander against the people of this territory that would in many instances completely obliterate whatever good impressions the quiet good order and and add beauty of the city or the perseverance and industry of the people would have upon them people of discernment are able to detect the falsity and inconsistencies of his statements and we ve have heard expressions of contempt from them for the person who could BO so meanly degrade himself hims dif dlf but there ia is a class with whom his snuffle and pious air would have weight now would it bei be believed that this nice would be pattern of morality has left a wire wife and children behind him and is here living with another woman whether married or living a la drummond we cannot say bay we are assured this is statement does doea not surprise us it is such conduct as we might exp eap expect act from such a orea crea is in perfect keeping beeping with the thebon conduct duct duet of that other zealous individual who is said baid to be the framer of the skeleton of the cullom bill and who rushed onn off to washington to give evid evidence enca enco before the committee of territories whose disgraceful liaison havo have made hi him M the talk of the town among his com companions panion when such men are the opponents of what is called fl mormonism 11 is it any wonder they fall before lt disgraced and despised corrupt unprincipled and ang thoroughly unscrupulous what effrontery and conceit they must possess to think that they can succeed in id their schemes yet such are the people who actively oppose the truth and endeavor to destroy its adherents this understood and it ceases to be a mystery that morn Moin mor moi monism gains such repeated ari arl tri trl I 1 af IL A Ump figLo raba oti uil fj opponents ta perish in ab wa 47 r r |