Show A NON MORMONS VIEWS ON THE RIGHTS AND OF THE SAINTS BROTHER JAMES DWYER of this city has received from one of his boyhood acquaintances who is now an influential citizen of new kew bedford massachusetts chu a letter from which we are permitted to cull the following extracts III 1 I have received many papers from you for which yow you have my thanks I 1 have read them quite carefully and I 1 see you have a good deal of trouble with government officials so far as I 1 can see I 1 think they had better get a living some other way and ancl let the mormons cormons Mor mons take care ot their own affairs even if they have different ideas from their neighbors so long as they do not interfere with the latter it is none of their business any way 1 I see by last nights papers that geo Q cannon has been arrested for unlawful cohabitation now it seems to me tha has become an intolerable nuisance audit and it is time that some change was made so 0 that people could have some protection from meddlesome persons but I 1 see your situation is peculiar it if you should resist by force such proceed proceedings then the cry would be down with the mormons cormons Mor mons and break them at all hazards drive and scatter them and seize their property or destroy it and for the present I 1 can see but one course open and that is hide yourselves for a little time lime until the indignation is over that is have nothing known to the world about your affairs nothing whatever have no communication corn in uni cation or dealings with those who desire to bring trouble upon you I 1 suppose you will sav it is very verv difficult to do this well I 1 know it Is but if there is no interference of divine providence in your behalf or any favorable and unexpected change it appears to me that yoa voa will be completely broken up and perhaps driven from your homes unless you adopt some course differing materially from the past last now it is not entirely judge edmunds or the ane government of that cause you so much trouble itis it is ane constant clamor of priests of all sorts and of the people almost universally that keeps up this cry against the mormons cormons Mor mons I A believe that the priests feel that they are entirely unable to meet the arguments of the mormons cormons Mor mons poly polygamy amy excepted on bible ground and therefore seize upon that as the only way of es escape to save themselves itom ridicule cay an and protect themselves in their present condition now in regard to polygamy I 1 do not propose to say a word to try to convince you that I 1 it t is right or wrong I 1 will only say a few words about how bow it appears to me there is nothing in the bible so far as I 1 can see eee that warrants such a conclusion but a good dealah deal against dinst it see genesis 2 chap 21 to 24 verses mathew 19 4 5 6 mark 10 67 6 7 8 9 10 and many other places that they two should be one flesh and that what god had joined oust must not be put asunder I 1 wish to talk a moment on polygamy I 1 suppose that today to day a large majority of the inhabitants of the earth are polygamists but I 1 do not find any tribe or nation among adiong them all that has ever made any great advancement iu in arts or eclen sciences es or government mentor or anything ng else that goes to make a man or nation great they scarcely ever reach more thau than a semi civil iced condition while on the other hand the monogamous nations have always stood very far in advance of all others the reason why polygamous people can never dever reach a very high degree of intelligence is because lifes forces are turn kurnec Wina in a wrong direction A man that is associated with many women especial lyl if they are fascinating will find lifes forces turned greatly to them the animal forces aiu gradually increase greatly in a few generations and the mental will decrease nearly to the animal take for instance the jews though from a hardy stock they became a nation of if adulterers and in order to preserve any of them worth saving they had to be driven to cold and forbidding countries where their animal desires could not to any great extent be indulged in 1 I know it is said and with a great deal of truth that wherever there is a church built either protestant os 0 catholic there will be houses of prostitution tit ution within the sound of their bells well this is a terrible wrong and it seems to me rather encouraged by the churches at least to forne extent as they rarely take any stand against them it that the laws of nature demand a terrible ter retribution of libertines and it must be paid the blood is corrupted they do not raise man many e child hildren renand and such as they do raise soon n yd disappear i sap pear through corruption of blood inherited from their parents parente a poor inheritance indeed darwin has truly said the fittest survive it is only the children of the virtuous that survive tor for any great number of generations erat ions now this is the way it looks to me can this be wrong and as to polygamy the question rests entirely on revelation if god has revealed it to you or to any of the mormons cormons Mor mons dont hesitate one oni moment obey the demands of the one who has created the heavens and the earth let the consequences be what they may you cannot be responsible for the consequences the laws or of heaven must be obey edat all hazards whether life tir r death but as the doctrine ot of polygamy has not been revealed to roe me and as the laws of nature and the bible present no evidence but rather seem to present overwhelming evidence against it I 1 think it will not seem strange to you that I 1 am not a believer in I 1 think in every other respect so far as I 1 know I 1 am a believer in the mormon doctrine I 1 hope you will not think it unkind 0 or r u unfriendly in me to write as I 1 have in regard to polygamy I 1 have only written what appears to me to be correct all others other shave nave just as gooda good a right to their views as I 1 have neither d do 0 I 1 think any less of a person because he does not agree with me it seems to me right that every person should have perfect liberty to believe whatever everee he thinks is right if he does not trespass on the rights of others I 1 wish this polygamy polygamy question cou d be left y to the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 think that much jhb best way to settle the matter I 1 think there would be no trouble about it if they were left to govern themselves |