The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-27

more husbands than every husband has wives, and
this our qut tam inforlners have abstained from
charging Is there any intelligent visiter Of our
settlements, then, who has the thing among
The otherwise abundantly itinerant officers visited
nowhere outside their boarding house. IL they
any thing impure there. weren't they the mon to
shit their lodgings! What was to hinder their be-
ing mercilessly hoaxed, 100, with what they showed
they wanted so much hear "Grecdiest swallow
bolts most gnats 1t was Willard Snow, not Pro-
fessor Orson Spencer, heard the boys say, stuffed
Brandy Without" with II story that he had two
wives, "onc ut home and one over in the lot"-his
defence being, that his first wife was too sound
sleeper for hum and the great unmixcddid not take
the joke that "the lot was our grave yard and
that the first wife had been snoozing there for II
couple of years But, rs to this charge of polyga-
my again: suppose | should admit it at once
whose business isit Does the constitution forbid
1t! Is there anything in the act for the govern
ment of the territory forbdding it! And where
else IRE we to find it written down as a crime!
Was either Brocchusor Brandebery sent out to hold
an ecclesiastical court, and to discipline sinners
against the seventh commandment for the good of
Their souls Couldnt their commission be extended
them while they are living in the District of CO.
iImba on full pay for doing nothing Except writ
ing lies for the newspapcrs), to reform morals
there? Or, is it true that the concerns of the bed
chamber lose their national interest rs they APP
proach the shadows OF the capitoll And this leads
me again to the murder charge. Both of the eases
by the hand of the husband who was wronged. |
say the murder was right and whatever Others of
our people may say to the contrary, for stand
up for the defence. Power of truth! How would
like to do it here in good, bold, burning words that
would make the grounding sears Jingle, denouncing
our whole present system of laws good for
thing to afford protection to anything but property
and appealing from them TO the Great Gods law
the law of principles that lasts from hundred years
to hundred years, and will last because it is
the simple logic Of human right and duty-the per-
feet science of all reason put in practice.
''Sba for fear Of feeble
Tie Spirits course in restrain ..
Alas! to speak thus would be Mormonmm and
dare not But ask my countrymen, hounderng
as they arc i'll every State, among the double and
triple reformed constitutions, and revised and re
revised Revised Statutes, does any amount of trans
lating yet seem TO fit the present English law TO
our brave country! When the lords of Great Bri
tam could meet their dues from their own peers,
giving vcidicts upon honor, it was all well enough
Tor the rest of the people that had their rights to
bed, board, and wages, but had nothing to do with
honor, chivairy and fine sentiments. But with the
progress OF these Latter Days, every American is
gong to be born noblcman and gentleman, and
will claim the rights and feel the wrongs Of noble
man and gentleman. And if our laws do not
offer an honorable redress to the American citizen
he'll have it outside OF the law because he will
seek 1t by the duelo of the old nobility The open
duels Ct the West that fed people make so much
fuss over. ae one OF the greatest signs of cviza-
ton of the times. / have seen II duelist protect
virtue and restore honor never heard of the law
doing it yet. Try it by u case. have in my
house one flower. u wife OF only daughter, throagh
and for whom alone the light Of life is dear to ms.
And miscreant, not content with robbinr me Of
this. trampes il under foot, dcGles it with his filth,
and then loading my head with it rs shame, turns
me-tnrns us--out on the highway. jeer and u
Missing for the rasscrs by. And am to be the Low
Englishman to hire an attorney to sue him in the
courts for o trcspass qua scuitm to get back the
hire have lost !-the hire Of my rose bud my song
bird, my beauty, my darIing,--hc angel sent mo
by God, sent down hy him to hell No by the
Lord, but will spill his blood!
And If do, Will they hang me No he was on
his way again this man. sowing his rot among the
pet lambs, when met and slew him; and they know
it is they bounty for the scalp of his cursed
VOLTS head But have committed what they must
call murder: and for this they try me- aud tncn
hold tkeir own laws up for laughing stock to show
how easily they admit mockery justice.
II go on III this strain. shall be called n Cana-
tic, and discredit the highest truth that is in me-
But do speak wild of The factsl Here is slip |
cut from that moral paper the Tribune. since you
published my other letter.
Near st. Adams VT, the only daughter Of blind M
ther ard decIepit father rushed before train Of
run over and killed Cause, seduction under unrul
ilied promise OF marriage How much better than Il
murda,r is the villain who ruined this gc,
This is the public sentiment And you can't get
man punished for murder who carries IL out; though
every once week about, there is para graph runs
through the papers, Of in'anclde or suicide by
girl that has been betrayed. Ia the New Jersey
eases of Mercer at Camden, and the Irish girl ut
Jersey Clty. al tie powers earth could pre-
vent the jures from breaking their oaths, to find the
assassns insane; and numerous the eases every
where, in which, Us in that of DR.. Wilson in Mary
lard, tie Governor speaks for the community, when
he says. rs he exercises the right Of PARDON that she
is ashamed to have TO do it, Is this right--to
beak the law outright, or to evade it, or to have
to 10 wrong! Shall whole communicate sovc-
reign people, having tho right to make their own
laws, consent to coniederated hy pocrisy common
jugglc! No. swear the Mornons. This is no fore
fathers law. or law of ancestors Of ours. 1t is
Charles the seconds law; law. the modern fountain Of
which was that dirty, Scotch fddng lecher, foul
with all disorders Two generations nearly before
that klnging came back from the stews Of France,
our ancestors had declared the first American law
tie law Of massachusetts, Bay and Plymouth Rock,
that 10 English Restoration could disturb. This
was tie Law of the Bible; that law we now affirm.
And by 1t adultery is punished with death. Mark
this. Read Bancroft if you want to if this
penalty was inexoraby eniorced; and, spouters for
Buncombe. only little too hastily crammed read
the other Yankee historians else be little care
ful what you say Read them. if you only want to
see how many other things that you object aguns.
the MoiEons, from the Jewish masquerade of Rhode
Island to the Seven Pillars of Connecticut. were
characteristics OF the pilgrims before US. Why! Be-
cause as Norton, of Bancroft's own authorities,
says, New England Hike Utah,l New England
was religious Plantation, not plantation for
trade
hope it will not be long before an act OF our ter
ritoral legislature, making death the punishment of
adultery will be IN before CONGRESS for i'll annroyal
or recession, We will stand there upon the broad
question Of State rights There is room for doubt
u handful IN territory have right to decide for
themselves question like that Of slavery, affecting
the settlement OF lands, and therefore important TO
the interests OF the United states the proprietor
and administrator Of the public domain; but defy
any one, strict consructonis not to strike dit
ference between the right of a fully organized sooi
ETY. N u Territory and one III State, to decide for
itself what shall be its domestic institutions.
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT
NEW IoRR, May !, 1852
SIR send you copies Of my letters 70 the New
York Herald and request FOR them your perusal.
Though they are written in Il loose and popular
style, you will see that tender issues involving bold
decisions IN questions Of high importance. We
claim, IN their broadest sense, the rights Of
|. Religious liberty, including the right of ndi-
viduais to establish and maintain, we'll as to be-
stow ecclesiastical titles upon, church hierarchy,
as far as themselves judge proper. Upon which our
stand is will he Eomap On thnlics