The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-08-19
A Case for Casuists.

and all the world besides, Will soon swell the
population to 10000; and Utah. possessing all
the requisites for member Of the confederacy.
will be knocking at the door of Congress, for
admission into the Union. The State of
Utah.
Since polyGamy has been part the avow-
ed policy of the Mormon leaders, and the thin
veil with which it was covered at its COM
mencement, has been laid aside, and the OK
istenc of the institution confessed and defend
edits enornlity as social evil and its gi-
gantic Immortality as political element,
have been favorite targets drawing the fire of
explosive Southern orators, whenever Free
dom was to be rebuked. or well intended con-
| scientious Socialism was be shamed. 1t has
given point and pungency to many paragraphs,
and it has rounded out to still greater rotun-
dity, many an ambitious sentence, born of those
who draw their Oratorcal inspiration from the
other 'bibical'' institution Of the South. In
Congress and out of Congress; on the stump
and in deliberate assemblies; by statesmen
and divines !; by freshmen and fedglings, the
beastly appetite that justifcs the sanity de-
bauchees in their beastly excuses; the thor
ough and essential rOttenness of such civiliz-
alton as the Latter Day Saints hold up for i'm
| tatiou ; the proligacy of the women of the
community, who become harlots in all but the
name !; and the dcbasing effects Of their mani
fold denominations upon the children yet to fol-
!
never been exhausted. But, though enduring
daily ilagellatIon, Mormon polygamy lives
and tlourishes.
I.atterly there has grown up among pOlit-
clans, once recognized as democratic, belief
that denies the power OF Congress to interfere
in any manner with the legislation of the Ter
rit0rics According to them, the representa-
tivcs of the whole country, in Congress, may
not say word of the character OF the institu-
tions to be planted in any Territory whatever.
They dub their doctrine ~ On-h aferv ension"
or, in other cases where a more popular catch
word is desired, "1He Sovereignty Of the PeO-
pIe," 1t is mere sham and impracticable
lie but it serves the purposes for which it was
Matched. Under its operation the Missouri
Compromise has been repealed, and Kansas
and Nebraska have been thrown open to the
encroachments of chattel slavery.
When Utah asks to be recognized as State,
and Brigham Young. the Patriarch, with his
sirty ,rires and an army Of children at his
heels, takes his residence at Washington, and
as the peer of Petit and the superior of Weller,
backs up the claim of those who sent him, u.s.
ing the doctrine of which Douglas is the cham
piOn, to ward off objections that will be made
to the demand - what will the representatives
of chivalry do? They are casusts ofsuch abil-
ity that they can easily resolve slavery into a
blessing they can justify the buying-if not
the selling-of woman for purposes of prosti-
tuition, and they can convince themselves that
a mother torn from her children is only yield
ing obedience to command, Servants obey
your masters" With such accomplishments
in casustry, when Utah, a State. applies for
admission under the rule that they have laid
down for Territories. what. we ask again. will
the casuists do? 1t is q case that we hope to
see resolved. Perhaps, before the occasion
comes, democratic "principles' will, through
the agency of some other Pierce, be modified,
though daily declared eternal ; and some new
test may be imposed by the next Senator from
Illinois. that will make the soiutiona matter of
form. The precedent is at hand. What was
Democracy in 1871 and in lS2O-What was the
creed of Jefferson, Madison and Van Buren,, is,
if we make Douglas, Toombs, Stephens and
Dixon the judges, rank and pestilent Abolision-
ism, now. The day may come, and that rapid
ly--in which Butler may fog his slaves, and
Brigham dwell with his wives under the shad-
ow OF Bunker Hill. 1t is a progressive age!-
Salena Jebtrsonian.
a LIBEL SyTr-Scottsville was largely rep
resented yesterday afternoon in the County
Court, now in session. The cause was u libel
suit, which drew many of the Inhabitants Of
that village hther as parties, witnesses OF
spectators. We understand the facts to be
somewhat as follows AT the town election
in March, q ticket was procured TO be printed
and to some extent voted, on which were the
names Of about dozen ladies of that place
who were designated for theavarious town Off
ccs. Tt was assumed or implied that the ladies
with whom this liberty was taken. favored the
womon,s rights movement TIL, ballot wa.
STYLED the Shanghai Ticket and bore for q
head device cut OF magnificent bird of Chi
ncsc origin
Tho friends of the ladies not rclisbinp This
"f,n': have prosecuted for libel those whom
they believed to be the authors of the ticket
II is said the affair causes no little local excite
mcnt-Rochcster american.
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