| Show A refreshing SHING BREEZE FROM GEORGIA WE wim contin nethe publication i of the speeches in the senate in der dea defence onee once of constitutional liberty and against the attempt to establish an oligarchy in the republic of the united states on the dinst senator brown of georgia delivered a manly address only a portion of which will appear today to day but it will be continued until the whole text is presented mr president I 1 am very well aware aawar e that there is great popular clam clamor or for the passage of this th li bill or some very rigorous and bevere severe bill for the suppression of mormonism I 1 do not wish my position to be misunderstood in reference to that institution I 1 am no advocate of polygamy I 1 deprecate aud de do bounce it as the greatest possible social evil I 1 do not believe it should be practiced anywhere I 1 am ready to unite in imposing such should be practiced anywhere I 1 am ready to unite in imposing such penalties as we can constitutionally impose within the united states upon those who do practice it be cause of its immorality and yet iam I 1 am obliged to admit and we are all obliged to admit that it is and popular sentiment eus BUS bains it among three fourths of the whole hoie hole population of the globe E england has had this same question to deal with when she assumed the dominion of india bhe ahe found polygamy there and it has been there from time immemorial they did not do what popular sentiment seeks heeks to compel us now to do the english people did not attempt to crush it out by lay but the british parliament and the british 1 courts recognized recognize ed it in india on as suming control and recognize it today indeed they dare not do otherwise they can enforce no law in india that proposes to exterminate pa polygamy ay ga m y 0 on u t that ha t su abject I 1 pro poss poso to read a paragraph from allens alleys india Is a book which I 1 now hold bold in my hand on page find this language poly roly polygamy ramy gamy la to in india among the tha hindus tho the the zoroastrians and tho tha jews it la is allowed and recognized by tha institutes homenu oM enu by the koran by the Zon zen davesta and the jews believe by their tho old testament jt it la Is nihed by all the tho courts in india native ann and english the iho laws of oltha tha tho baa british parliament reco ini khi polygamy among all these cias clas classes seSt when the marriage connection had been formea formed according to the principles of their religion and to their established laws and the tha xa arriage arriaga ct a hindu or ma his second or hu hig third wite wife is lust sa as valid and sad as Cs legally binding ca on all parr part iest leSt as his marriage with his first wife trite just as valid as ao the marriage ct of any christian in tho church ot or england the english government has recognized polygamy in india by her courts and by her parliament and she recognizes q it today to day I 1 eay I 1 deprecate the tho institution and I 1 am ready to do everything I 1 can constitutionally and legally do to exterminate it where we have the power but we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that it exists aa as already stated among the greater portion of the population of the tha whole liobe globe not only do the british parlia parila ment and the british courts recognize it but the missionaries of all christian churches in india recognize it and do not attempt to overthrow it where the marriage has already been I 1 will read from the same book boob allens alena india pa paga pago a tho the calcutta missionary con oon conference conferee feren 0 consisting of the missionaries ol 01 the d different 1 bierent societies which have missionaries in that city and its vicinity after frequent consultations and much consideration on tho the subject of polygamy as it exists in were unanimous in the fo following opinions 0 1 L it Is 13 ina in accordance anoe with the tho spirit split of the tho niblo bablo and the tho practice ot of the protestant church to consider the tho state as the proper legislation in all civil questions affecting marriage and divorce 0 the nible bible being the tho true standard of mora mova morals morais ought to be consulted in everything which it contains on tho tha subject of ot marriage and divorce and nothing determined contrary md to 0 its general principles U married rd ed persons ins being both christl Chrls christiana tl should not be divorced for any other cause cam than adultery but if one ono of or the tha parties be an unbeliever and though not an adulterer IvIll fitfully fully depart froin from and aw desert the other a divo roo may bo be properly sued for tor they were of the opinion benjon howe howo however verv verg that such liberty is allow nilow allowable le only la in ext extreme me cases and where all known means ol 01 reconciliation after a trial of not less iera than one year have sali fall failed 4 4 heathen and mohammedan marriages and divorce divorces recognized by the be laws jaws of the opu country aro amo t to 0 bo held valid but ut it 11 la Is itron ly recommended that it if either party beform before conversion have put away the other on slight ground grounds the tha divorced party should in all practicable and desirable cases caes betaken betoken back again 5 if a convert before becoming a 0 Christ christian ian lan has married more wives than oney ones one in accordance eor cor danoe dance with the practice of the jewish and primitive christian churches he be hall hail ie permitted to keep them all but such a person a 1 la 8 not eligible to any omoo office in the ch church 1 in no other case is 13 polygamy to bo be tolerated among christians thus it appears that the conference of the missionaries of the in calcutta re of the in calcutta re christian churches churchea cognizes Izes this institution they do not permit their members iu in the future or aften after their conversion and their connection with the church tot toi to marry narry more than one wife but they do not attempt to dissolve marriages in existence at the time ef of the conversion but they hold that a man who becomes a christian who has haq more than one wife e at the time is to continue to cohabit with his wives I 1 presume this arises out of the very necessity of the case I 1 as polygamy po is so firmly established in those countries that it would be impossible to plant christianity there without recognizing the existing asting institutions of the country at least so far as the family relations of the tile convert are concerned at the time of his union with the church again Agai nit it cannot be denied that polygamy was tolerated by the old testament and many persons believe it is not prohibited by the new except in cases of a bishop or a deacon who it is said sald shall be be the husband husban of one wife bome borne reanon reason deacon who it is said sald be husband husban of one wife bome borne reanon reason dot dof subtly lyon on that by saying that we should apply to it the latin expression expressio express io unius at est alferius alle riuS and they bay eay the fact that tho the expression pres slon sion that the deason deacon or the b bishop is shall be the husband of one wife only carries with it the implication that others may have more than one I 1 think this is a ve very ry farfetched far fetched and strained cons construction truc true I 1 do not agree with it for the whole teachings of the new testament it seems to me are very clear and positive that the husband shall have but one wife I 1 remember no instance where husband and wife are mentioned in the new testa tests ment where anything is said about more than one wife an and 1 I w while h 1 le th there ere Is fano iano no positive inhibition except in the instance mentioned of officers of the churches it Is very clearly to he be inferred that polygamy was not intended from the fact that there is no instance of more than one wife meni tinned as connected with any one oue man or that any man is justified in having more than one but there tiro are those I 1 say who entertain a different opinion on this subject and they must have their opinion I 1 have no right to fly in their teeth about it but bat mr president there are those in the moimoi mormon territory who believe that there is a divine revelation later than the new testament which authorizes a member of the mo mormon mon mou church to have more wives than one thy believe in the revelation as they term it made by god himself to their prophet pro phet phot joseph smith I 1 do not believe in it I 1 but bur they religiously believe it many of them areas ane are as earnest and honest but bur they religiously believe it many of them areas ane are as earnest and honest in their faith as I 1 am in the baptist faith or as other senators are in the methodist or presbyterian faith I 1 think they are greatly in error but I 1 have hareno no more right if they do not practice iti its it to disfranchise them on account of that belief than I 1 have to disfranchise any senator in this chamber or any man out of it who believes that the new now testament does not forbid polygamy mr edmunds may I 1 suggest to the senator benator that there is nothing whatever in this bill that disara n chases any man or woman on account of any opinion or belief he or she may have mr brown mr uro president I 1 assert that there is I 1 take issue squarely equa rely with the senator from i vermont mr edmunds edmundso will the senator kindly point it out mr air irown I 1 will I 1 find iv in section 7 of this bill this language 0 that no polygamist bigamist or any person cohabiting with more than one woman and no woman man cohabit inie iric with any of the persons described as aforesaid in this section in any territory or other place over which the united states has exclusive jurisdiction shall bo be entitled to vote at any election held in any auy such auch territory or other place or be elli olli eligible for election or appointment to or orbe orba be entitled to hold any office or place of trust honor bono or emolument ins int la under or for any 9 sueo BUCO h territory tory or place or under the united states now to the first part of the section again no polygamist bigamist or any person cohabiting h more 0 than h one a woman wotan tb uee uve tw nota note ehan shan bo entitled U t to vota who ja Is a polygamist I 1 hold la in websters Web stera unabridged dictionary which Is very good authority I 1 believe polygamist a person who my rays or maintains main taMs Us its lawfulness lawfuL wm there is scarcely a man woman or child in utah belonging to the ibe mormon church who does doea not maintain the lawfulness of polygamy air edmunds the senator is mistaken about that but that is not any part of the argument mr air brown there ere may be a rw few mr edmunds there may maybe be a great number and there are air brown there are a very few if any who doubt it mr edmunde edmunds I 1 can tell teli you j oat how many there are in a minute mr brown I 1 will thank the senator a tor I 1 suppose there are some bome in every country connected with every faith who do not believe in all that their particular church or sect meet holds I 1 have been among the mormons cormons Mor mons however I 1 have seen something of their society and I 1 know the great prevailing opinion there is that god by a divine revelation made known to the prophet joseph smith that a man in the cM mormon ormon church may have more wore than one v ife that he may practice polygamy only a small number of them do practice ity its it I 1 admit but it is almost if not quite the universal belief that they have the right to do it mr edmunds of course we cannot have a J judicial trial today to day nind find out as aa brother from cannot have a J judicial today to day nind find out as aa brother from to my alabama wishes to do on this thia political question how the fact is but hut according to the returns obtained by the census people not always under the act of congress because they go beyond that of what are called apostate mormons cormons Mor cMor mons who do not hold hoid holdup up to the polygamy doctrine there are in the territory and of what are called josephite Josephl te mor mons who hold up to all the doctrines except that one thing but I 1 I 1 do not know precisely the distinction between the apostate and josephite mormons Mor mons there are arb bo so it would seem there are more than of the mormons cormons Mor mons besides certain ones put down as doubtful whom I 1 leave out who do not appear to believe in this revelation of polygamy which occurred about 20 or 90 years after the finding of the astonishing gold tablets and so on that is the book of the covenant mr brown browni brownl 1 think they were brass not gold mr edmunds perhaps they had most to do with brass mr brown brownl browni I 1 do not think they we were e pure gold mr edmunds As I 1 have been reading the book of covenants of the mormon church lately with assiduity 1 think they were gold but at any rate the polygamous thing came in more than twenty years after its supposed discovery ry and came in under circumstances that if my friend would read the very book itself to show how it came and why and soon I 1 think he would be satis satie satisfied fled fied that it would take a pretty stouthearted stout hearted man among tile the mormons cormons to think that that a pretty stouthearted stout hearted man among tile the mormons cormons to think that that was of divine revelation revelations for it absolutely sol reversed the previous revelation from the invisible world I 1 did not want to interrupt the senator however mr brown it Is no interruption I 1 ido do no not t aresu presume me I 1 lamas am as well posted in mormon literature aa as the tha honorable senator from vermont though I 1 have read some of it I 1 agree with him that in the tile commencement men cement mormonism did not tolerate or practice polygamy and you may read the book of M mormon 9 rmon and you will wiil nowhere find iii that book that polygamy is tolerated but the mormons cormons Mor mons believe that subsequently to the discovery of that book which the senator says saya was on gold plates 1 I think they were brass mr edmunds we will compound 7 it and call it silver which ia is a pc popular thing laughter mr brown anywhere along between laughter they say that since that discovery god revealed to joseph smith under circumstances cum stances as the senator says that do not carry conviction to my mind though they do to theirs that a man might have more than one wife and now just in that connection let us say a little more about the mormon faith aa As I 1 understand the mormon nl doctrine alid and the 11 marmon Mc 11 rmon cirmon people 1 they profess to believe elliVe li as firn as we do in the old testament bent nent but they say much of the old testa esta ment ont out la Is repealed by the new then they profess to believe in all the new that has hag not been bein pealed repealed by later inspirations and rev revelations relations elat ions lons but they believe that there bre are certain things in the new now testament which have been rDe repealed aled b by later revelations from heaten heaven I 1 am speaking of their faith so far as ax 1 could learn it among them during the short stay I 1 made there some two or three yeas years since I 1 could hear bear of no oni one one connected with the sri IcI mormon formo idill church who disbelieved this doctrine at any rate out of the one hundred and forty odd thousand population copulation in that territory or con hundred and forty odd thousand population copulation in that territory or con necked with that church according to the estimate odthe of the senator from i Vermont vermontis if there isa is a correct census lensu s return there are only about bix six or seven thousand who do not believe in polygamy 7 mr edmunds the whole population is ii he |
