The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-11-27
Hurry up that Wood!
Mormon PolygRmy.

Mormon PolygHmy. ~ i...5
AS mi ght readily be supposed, the new
doctrine OF Congressional non-interven-
ton in the affairs of the Territories, to
which Mr.. Buchanan and his party are
committed. finds warm support among
the 'nest Of licentious impostors around
the Great Salt Lake. We can readily
imagine the solcitude Of these impure
Latter Day Saints" for the defeat Of
the Republican party, after having ex-
amined its platform 4; and, as they assure
us Tin the proclamation" which will be
found in another column that "the dem
ocratic party is the instrument in Gods
hand by which is to be effected the re-
cognition Of Utah as sovereign State, :"
we have no doubt that Brigham Young
and his forty-wived associates will have a
grand celebration when the news Of Bu
chanan's election reaches them.
Brigham. it must be remembered. is
not merely the spiritual director of the
Saints" but their temporal governor
also. When Mr.. Pierce undertook to
dispense with his services in this latter
capacity, and appointed Col. Steptoe to
supersede him, Brigham openly de6ed
the authority of the U. S. Government,
and declared that he would hold on to
his Office until the Lord said TO him
Brigham, you needn't be Governor any
longer !" Brigham, it is TO be inferred,
has not yet received summons from
that source TO resign the cares OF state, nor
is it at all likely he will, until Utah is ad-
mitted as sovereign State" through
the workings of the democratic principle
Of popular sovereignty" when he may
receive revelation to take the post OF
u. S. Senator, and establish himself and
forty wives with their innumerable prog.
eny in The federal city
Brigham is political preacher, too,
as we learn from couple of sermons
preached by him to the " Saints - subse
quent to the issuing of this proclamation,
in which he shows himself thoroughly
posted in the modern democratic doc
trine of intervention. OF course he
argues from this that Congress has no
more power to interfere with polygamy
in the territory Of Utah than it has to in
terfere with slavery there, both being
"domestic institutions" We have no
doubt that had Brigham's abilities as an
exponent of popular sovereignty been
generally known, the Buccaneers would
have imported him from Salt Lake to
aid them in the late campaign; and this
notwithstanding their well known aver
sion to political parsons"
But, seriously, this question Of Polyg-
amy has grown TO be one of great magni-
tude, land the Government and people of
the United States will soon be called on
to meet it. How shall it be met? We
are well aware that these apostates from
all virtue and decency endeavor to cloak
their RIGHTEOUSNESS under the holy name
of religion. But we do not need to Pc
ruse the details of this system of prosti-
tuition in Utah to know THAI it springs
from sheer depravty, and that the name
oe religion is given to it to screen its par
Elephants from the vengeace of violated
law, and an outraged community. Reli-
gion Such concentrated and systema-
tized pollution called by that hallowed
namel We had better destroy the Bi-
bile at once dismiss conscience unlearn
all that we have ever learned of what is
right, and just and of good report, if we
must SO entirely reverse all our not ons Of
guilt and goodness, and baptize with so
sacred name such an unequalled mon
ster of iniquity. Shall Christian gov
ernment, and Christian people, hesitate
about putting stop to such system
an evil addressing itself to the basest pas
sions, and like maelstrom, drawing
within its vortex multitudes of the cred
ulous, vicious and ignorant = on the
ground that Brigham Young and his foul
crew practise it in the name of religion {?
If that is religion, what's guilt and vice?
We believe it to be not only the duty
of our Government TO refuse the admis-
sion OF Utah as State while it tolerates
ills adulterou5 system, but to take ef-
feetiye measures for the total suppress
sion ofpolygf my in the Territory.
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