The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-07-15


AS the divine institution extends, these
buildings increase, and in a few years the
city will look like a collection of barracks
for the accommodation of soldiers. Some
have separate buildings in parts of the city
remote from each other, and Others have
farm houses, and the wives are kept separate,
the husband divides his time between them
ALL
! EFFECT OF PoLYGAMY UPON THE POPULATION.
" The effect upon the population is decided
ly deleterious. The prophet Joseph had over
torty wives at Nauvoo, and the rest of the
prizes thood had various numbers, correspond
ing to their standing and inclnations and
nearly all the children of these polygamous
marriages died at that place; indeed, 1t is
alleged by Mormons that not one was taken
to Utah. Brigham Young has thirty chill
dren, of whom eight are by his first and
second lawful wives the remaining twen-
ty-two are by his 'spirtuals.' He has
about fifty wives, some Of whom are widows
of Joseph Smith, and are probably past the.
time OF having children; but, supposing
him TO have thirty who are capable of hav-
ing issue-whch is below the true number
the twenty-five children would be less than
one child 10 concubine. If each of these
degraded females could have been the hon
ored wife of one husband, the aggregate
number of children, according to the usual
average of four in a family, would be one
hundred and twenty, showing loss in pop
uation of ninety y-eight
"The children are subject to a frightful
degree of sickness and mortality. This is
the combined result of the gross sensuality
OF their parents, and want of care for their
offspring AS general rule, these sanity
pretenders take as little care of their wives
as of their children and of both, less than
a careful farmer in the States would of his
cattle; and nowhere out of the Five Points
III New York city can more filthy. misera-I
bic, neglected. looking and disorderlv rabble
Of children be found than in the streets of
the Great Salt Lake City. The Governor
again, whose attention to his mutfarous
family we are bound to suppose greater than
the average, affords a fair illustration. He
was twice lawfully married, and has had
eight legitimate children, who are all living.
lie has had large number of children by |
his concublnes-no one knows how many
1t Is only known that there are only twenty
two surviving. These females do not reside
in the Governors house so called. but in
different sablishments from one to dozen
III place"
PROGRESS OF INDECENCY.
Their system Of plurality has obIiterated
nearly all sense of decency, and would seem
TO be fast leading to an intercourse open and
promisCuous as the cattle in the fields. A |
man living in common with dozen dirty
Arabs, whether he calls them wives or con-
cublnes, cannot have very nice sense of /
proprlety. 1t is difficult to give a true ac-
count OF the effects which have resulted
from this cause, and at the same time, pre-
serve decency of language The Saints are
progressive. Last year (lS52) they seriously
discussed the subject of introducing new
order into the Church, by which the wives
OF absent missionaries might be sealed to i
SAINTS left at home. There are a number of
cases III which man has taken widow
and her daughter for wives at the same time.
One has widow and her two daughters -
There are also instances OF the niece being
sealed to the ancle, and they excite no more
attention than any ordinary case How far
the plague spot is to spread in this direction
remains to be seen. Brigham Young stated
in the pulpit, in 1852, that the time might
come when, for the sake of keeping the line
age OF the priesthood unbroken, marriages
would be confined to the same families; as.
for instance, son of one mother would marry s