The Nevada journal., 1854-10-06

policy. It runs thus:
AND again as pertaining to the law o.
priesthood, if any man espouse virgin
and desire to espouse another, and the frs
give her consent; and if he espouse tn.
second, and they are virgins, and have
vowed to no other man, then he is justified
he cannot commit adultery, for they are
given unto him; for he cannot commi
adultery with any thing that belongeth te
him, and none else; and if he had ten vir
gins given to him by this law he canno
commit adultery for they belong to him
therefore he is justified.
But it might very we'll happen that the
first wife should not give her consent, pro.
vision is made without il:
And again, verify, verify, say unto
you, if any man have wife who holds the
keys of this power, and he teaches unto hel
the law of my priesthood as pertaining to
these things, shall she believe and admin
lister unto him, or she shall be DESTROYED
saith the Lord your God; for will de-
stroy her; for l will magnify my name
upon all those who receive and abide in
my law, therefore it shall be lawful in me
if she receive not this law, for him to re.
ceive all things, whatsoever the Lord his
God will give unto him, because she did
not believe and administer unto him accor-
ding to my werd and she then becomes the
transgressor, and then he is exempt from
the law Of Sarah, who administered unto
Abraham, according to the law when
commanded Abraham to taking Hagar to
wife. And now, as pertaining to this law,
verify, verify, say unto you, will reveal
more unto you hereafter. Behold, l am
Alpha and Omega. Amen
Thus blasphemously winds up this ne W
revelation of last and sensuality And now,
as fitting conclusion, let US look little
at the PRACTICAL workings of the system as
seen by our author:
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
'Polygamy,' says Mr.. Ferris, is intro
ducing new style of building at Salt Lake
City. A man with half a dozen wives
builds, if he can, a long, low dwelling, hav>
ing six entrances from the outside and
when he takes a new wife, if he is able to
do so, adds another apartment. The OBJ
ject is to keep the women and babies, as
much as possible, apart, and prevent those
terrible cat fights which sometimes occur,
with all the accompaniment of billings
gate, torn caps and broken broomsticks.
AS the divine institution extends, these
buildings increase, and in few years the
city will look like a collection of barracks
for the accomm bdation of soldiers. Some
have separate buildings in parts OF the
city remote from each other, and others
have farm houses, and the wives are thus
kept separate, the husband dividing his
time among them all
EFFECT OF POLYGAMY ON POPULATION
The effect upon population IS decided
ly deleterious. The prophet Joseph had
over forty wives at Nauvoo, and the rest
of the priesthood had various numbers cor
responding to their standing and inclina-
tions; and nearly all children OF these po-
lygamous marriages died at the same place;
indeed it is alledged by Mormons that not
one of them was taken to Utah. Brigham
Young has thirty children, of whom eight
are by his fist and second lawful wives
the remaining twenty two are by his spir-
stuals. He has about fifty wives, some of
whom were widows of Joseph Smith, and
are probably past the time of having chill
dron; but, supposine he has thirty who
are capable of having issue-which is be-
low the true number-the twenty two chill
dren would be less than one to the concu
bine. If each Of these degraded females
could have been the honored wife of one
husband, the aggregate number of children
according 10 the usual average Of four in a
family, would be one hundred and twenty,
showing loss of population Of ninety
eight.
The children are subjects to frightful
degree Of sickness and mortality. This is
the combined result of gross sensuality of
parents and want of care toward their Off
spring. AS general rule, these sanity
pretenders take as little care of their chill
dren as their mothers; and of both less
than the careful farmer in the States would
OF his cattle; and no where out of the Five
Points in New York City can a more FL
thy, miserable, neglected looking, and des-
tltute ~ebble of children be found than in
the st. It's of Great Salt Lake City. The
Governor again, whose attention to his
multifarious family we are again bound to
suppose greater than the average, affords
fair illustration. He was twice lawfully
married, and had eight children, who are
all liking. He has had large number of
children by his concubines-not known
how many-it is only known that there
are only twenty two surviving. These fe-
males do not reside in the Governor 5
house, SO called, but in different establish.
ments, from one up to dozen in place.
PROGRESS OF INDECENCY.
Their system of plurality has oblitera-
ted nearly all sense Of decency, and would
seem to be fast leading to intercourse open
and promiscuous as the cattle in the fields.
A man living in common with a dozen
dirty Arabs, whether he calls them wives
or concubines. cannot have very n,ce
sense of propriety 1t is difficult IN ,,;,,o i,