Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-11-11
polvpamv Defended by a Mormon Elder

POIygamy Defended by Mormon EH"er'
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has let
ter from Jas. Mcknight, Mormon 81
der, with two wives, in which he defended
polygamy, and says:
Our young ladies, accomplished and
beautiful, often choose man with ten or
twenty or Gorty wives, i'll preference to an
attractive young gentleman who has not
one; thus showing their good taste and re-
gard for age and experience. II one OF
your most polite, fashionable, and tascI-
mating young gentleman should come here
he would fin il very difficult to get
wife; and if he succeeded at all, she
would in ali probability be one wnom our
.prav-headed and lnhrm old men would re-
fuse
He also contends that there is more hu-
mainly among the Mormons in the family
of a man who has ten wives, than IN the
mass of families elsewhere, where one
wife precides mistress OF the house, hus-
band and children. This is attributed TO
the fact that in the Mormon belief the hus-
band is the head of The wife, and her Lord
and Savior, and unless she is obedIent
and submissive to him she cannot be sa-
ived.' He says further: There are IN
stances of from 6 TO 10 wives habltlng
one dwelling, and living amcably; though
for the most part each wife has her own
house, and raises her own children. The
children are under the mothers care until
they arrive at maturity, or al an age when
the father need their service
There is more of the same vulgar pre-
tensions and degrading sopistry with
which the miserable poIgamists attempt
to excuse themselves, and commend their
/ falacous theories to the world.
In A TIGnT PLAcE.-The famous
| Brigham Young, the Governor of Utah,
and Grand High Priest of the Mormons,
came near having an ing lorIous end put TO
! his career IN August last. He went down
| into his well to recover lost bucket,
when the kerbing tumbled in, The earth
/ followed, and Brigham Young became,
| for the nonce, a subterranean Saint. But
The zeal of his followers would not permit
anr such finish TO the life of their most
faithful shepherdr Spades and shoveIs
we're brought into requlsiIon; the har'm
Of the buried Governor assembled in force
10 aid the saving efforts of the male mem
bers of the flock, and, in about two hours,
they had the qualification Of pulling him
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FIENDIsH OUTRAGE.-I he New Or-
leans True Delta OF the Goth uIt., says, a
woman named Fanny Smith, was yester-
Iav arrested ON a charge of burning with
moi irons. and Otherwise cruelty ilI-lreat.
Inc. two s.a.e bows whom she owns, and
a.o live Ulrh her in house Gu St Louis
street. Ii is sand that Fanny's establish
', ,I ,l - na. w., o,;onr award her slaves
n.u the ,.' mosl fendish that can possibly be
- III; 'JS' I, ~ 80 10 honcd Ibot 5nch
.fendlshness will not be permitted TO pass
diminished. It's little strange that al
idavirs in relation to charges similar to
lbat made AGAINST Fanny are generally
hidden from the reporters in the Recor-
der's Office Of the Second District Fan
nv had recently returned from California
with ooodlv stores of wealth, but surely
her wealth cannot purchase impunity for
so foul an ofence.''
n---- ~ I'LL or,rres.
dav anneaIod ,o the neculiar tastes of for
eiGners 70 snstain Seymour and rum as
follows:
L;sbnoen Your national institution,
wb;sI.o,, nmn.b ;s IN dancer. Rally TO
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