Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-04-30
A WOMAN'S QUEsTION-THE MORMON
MONSTR OSITY P

MONSTROSITY.
"Were my daughter to marry Gentle,
weuld save her in this Kingdoms; namely, cut her
throat from ear to ear.-Bingham Young.
The above pleasant piece of atrocity is
one of the many specimens of Mormons
io-religio-political morality that we find
in our examination of the theory of those
intolerable scoundrels. We could load our
pages with principles equally disgusting;
but we do not deem it necessary to annoy
our readers, or ourselves, with multiple
cation table of horrors.
In A. D. 1857, with Christian preachers
in any quantity, in any number of counties
in the thirty-one States Of the Union; with
ia government of laws-laws the result of
morality and Christianity, combined with a
new Administration, fresh from this People
flaw and civilization, with abundant liberty
in our hands, and abundant hands to make
that liberty a thing forever, we cannot deny
/ that we have in our midst-in the midst of all
this health, morally and physically "a Tester
ing sore, corrupting disease, and that we
have allowed it to gather force from all the
loathsome avenies of the lowest condition of
human nature, and from all the foul and reek-
ingregions of the oyerpopulated countries be-
yond the seas The wonderful truth exists,
. in the history of the last Administration,
that it allowed this blot to blacken and ex-
tend; and as yet no positive step, of pecu-
liar and effectual force, has been taken by
the new Administration to heal and eradi-
cate the error. The sword is not to do it
the law has not done. it.-Society, in it's
purest mood and chastest lenses, alone can
do it. Society, with political organization
of its men, cannot effect it; but society, with
its feminine attributes, with it's angelic gen.
derism, can do it, and must do it. We in
woke the assistance of that higher law, Wo-
man, to unite in one deep and potent organ
: ization, and we ask them to appeal to Gov
eminent, as Government was never before
appealed to, and shake down this edifce of
sin, this Mormon temple Of deyilment, and
forever after close the public ear, the youth
full ear and heart of the rising age, and the
present age, from the abominable orgies that
have spread over the land from terrible and
: detestable Utah. There is something SOL
EMMY sickening in the view in which this
affair is presented to our mind and though
l. it may not exactly be within the especial
province Of this paper to preach, we certain
ly have right, in common with all man
kind, to pray, and pray we Go, to our beau
tiful countryWomen the intelligent and
pure women of America, whose cause is
most at stake intthis abuse-to come forward
and by an expression of their united detes-
tation and reproach, call upon the Admin
istration to expunge from the bosom of our
land, the. incubus that thus pollutes 1.-THE
Mormon Righteousness. that degrades the
character of woman, brutalizes that of man,
and ignores the existence of G od.-Porter's
Spirit.
I The MoRMoNs.-A writer in the Nation
al Inteligencer estimates the Mormons in
Utah at 100000 persons besides having
200, 900 spies and agents scattered through
: out the country, who Immediately commu-
nicate the acts Of the Government and the
sentiments Of the community to the leaders
at Salt Lake. He represents them as be-
ing opposed to the Federal Government,
and insists upon the necessity of taking
prompt and decisive measures to protect the
country from the dangers which threaten it
from this quarter. The writer seems to be
somewhat imaginative or suspicious, for he
insinuates that the secret vigilant organiza-
ton in California has something to do with
this Utah hostility to the Union their Sc
cret passwords, emblems, &C., were all
prominent signs of Mormonism, and nobody
knew the object Of the vigilant organization
but those who recognised Brigham Young
as their prophet, priest and king.
BRIGHAM You've THE MoRMoN.-It ap-
pears from an article in the Buffalo Conn.,
nsercial, that President Fillmore, in appoint
ing Brigham Young to the Governorship OF
Utah, did so after consulting many respec-
table persons in the several States, among
them Col Thos. L. Kane, Of Philadelphia,
brother of the late Dr. Kane, the Arctic
navigator. Col. Kane spent m any months
in Utah, and at that time formed high
opinion of Brigham It seems, however,
that at the time the appointment was made,
the doctrine of polygamy was not ayowed
by the Mormons, and that if they practiced
it they did so and concealed the fact from
the world. They have since Incorporated
!. it in their creed as one Of the leading arti-
cles, and have openly defended it. and hence