New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-31

Industrious shrewi. newspaTerreading community
The results which are naturally 20 be expected from
II are evidently appearing in full bloom Domestic
siseerd las invaded the penetralia Of MormoniOm,
and the nursery kitchen and parlor of the sanity
bousebolds are already in hot water on account Of
Of iIful wives and battling babies Hence the neces
sv for new revelations telling the tia. there must
be no esp-puling face scratching or bsby-spanking
Of others than their own BARNS If the thirty loves of
BdrLsu Young. or whatever the number is have lot
OF eherubs apiece al under roof or in neighbor
hood as they are possessed of domestic precelents and
practices Of American women, it is matter OF course
that they cannot dwell in all that sacchsne softness
Of communion with one another which The Seer sets
down in ts catalogue of good behavior and that the
Institution which degrades and elslayes them VIII
inevitably be oyerthrown Among these sixteen mortal
rules for the guidance Of poygamc wives the shortest
and last OF the lot is most significant that there Is
screw loose in the uxorou arrangements Ofhe saints
Il runs thus:
Ruiz l6M-Let each mother correct her own children
and that they do not dispute and quarrel With each
ether Lor with others let her not correct the children
of the others without hherytO do so lest il give otense
The husband should that each mother maintains
Wise ard proper discipline her children especially in
their Younger years and his duty 20 that al OF his
b51en are cbedicut TO himself and 70 their respective
Oore wife allowed 90 quarrel with and abuse those
Of The others neither 10 be drespectfu or mFudent TO
any branch OF his family.
Now rules are never made against aught but eut-
ties. Crimes come before laws, and faults before
corrections and adysals IT, then. the pOygamy of
tie Mormons be let alone to work ont its neces
sary results it is certain that Rule No l6 with its
fifteen antecedents, will become speedily obsolete.
This being the cOmmonsense OF the matter we hope
there will be no talk Of sending army to conquer
the Mormons and compel them b. sack and blOOdshed
20 renounce this monstrosity. We might well think
Of putting down the concubinage of slavery by the
same means Besides the MoFmons form an injepend-
ent community and it would be hard to say whence we
should derive the authority to cotrce them into CON
formy TO tie faith laws. and usages established by
the separate States of the Union but not provided for
in the Constitution or legislation Of the Union itself
And even If there were moral certainty that poyg-
any VII extipgish itselfin Utah. it would by no means
be plain case for resort to violence. Wisdom would
still dictate waiting for the action Of mental and moral
Influences instead Of resoTtug to the temporal arm
Certainly the institution as il exists there is not 10 be
put On level with polygamy among and in defiance
Of the laws Whatever done universally and legally
though Wong is attended with more less Of com
pensatig Pflhcpei heLce tue PiViession VI So"0i'
whose business it is TO kill according to law, is better
thn tlat0 brgand whose business it is 70 kill with
cut law 80 too of poygauy in accordance with Nor
non law in comparison with bgamy in our latitude.
The one is a crime by the law Of this community the
other is not only permitted but held to be yiruous and
laudable by the law Of that We cannot force our
laws on the Mormous bur we may be sure that # we
leave them at peace the necessities of Society and
the progress Of intelligence and the moral sentiments
anoae thom will lead 10 the correction Of the evil we
deplorc