, 1857-02-06
From the San Francisco Herald.
Sayings Of the Mormon Prophets.

Sayings OI De M0TWOn fTOpn6tS.
1t will be recollected that the Prophet
( Brigham in one Of his recent TRADES against
the poor unfortunate women, who dared tc
lament the degradation which they are
obliged to suffer in Utah, and to murmul
at their hard lot, stated he would set all
the women in the Territory free on that
day two weeks, if their uhiniag, as he ele
gantly and feelingly termed it, had not
ceased. We have read the files received
yesterday, running from the 18th Of Octo,
ber (thc day on which the women were to
be set at liberty, to the 9TH Of November
! lnt not one single nlHsion in relation~to
The promised manumission could @e find
Of course, at the time we knew that there
was not the slightest sincerity in this pas,
sionate declaration Of the prophet, and we
alluded TO it then, and now refer to it
simply as a proof Of the degraded condi-
tion TO which the women Of Utah are re-
duced. They are regarded as very little
better than slaves scarcely sermon is
delivered which does not contain some say.
age slight upon them. Here is specimen
Of the manner in which the most trivial
indiscretion is reproved 1t is an extract
from a recent sermon Of the Prophet Brig.
ham !:
" | will saySin regard to the sisters who
bring children here to make noise, they
have never yet sufficiently thought, nor
sufficiently considered their own place in
this world, nor the place Of others, to know
that there is any other person living on the
earth but themselves and they think,
when they hear people talk, that it is q
noise through dark veil. | cannot say
much for the education, based on good
feelings, that such persons have Were l
to describe il in plain way, should say
that they are people of no breeding, that
they were never bred but cone up; thht
is about as good character as l can
afford to give to any mother that will keep
a squalling child in q meeting. have
never said to the congregation, look and
see who they are, for you may distinguish
by your ears, without looking, the mothers
that have had good teaching and been
brought up in civilized society"
MOhhON hOhAllll Hill GllNAlED.
The following extract from recent SER
mon of Jedediah NJ. Grant, one of the
Twelve Apostles, will convey some idea Of
the high moral conceptions of the Saints :
81 want the women to understand,
when they have q good husband, one that
does his duty, that he is president over
them, and that they have made covenants
to abide tho law of that husband. Talk
about women leaving their husbands l
would be far from taking a woman that
would leave GOOD man. A woman that
wants to climb up to Jesus Christ, and
pass by the authorities between her and
him, is a stink in my nostrils. have large
noStris, and l often talk about smelling,
for my olfactory nerves are very sensitive
| want women TO know their places and do
their duty but there is low, sinking
pride in woman that wants to leave a
good husband to go to another What
does it matter where you are, IT you do
your duty? Being in one mans family or
the other mans family is not going to save
you, but doing your duty before your God
is what will save YOU"
1t will be seen from the above paragraph
that the sanity Jedediah censures the habit,
albeit in very mild language, of women
leaving their husbands, and solemnly an
nounces that "he would be far from taking
woman that would leave GOOD (the
capitals are not ours) husband )" thereby
allowing the inference to be drawn that if
the husband was bad there would be very
little difficulty about the matter. Jede-
diah, like oil the other prophets, is sound
upon the question Of enforcing obedience
among the women. In fact all the Nor
mon sermons, or at least all of them that
we have read, consist Of three ingredients I:
Objurgations against the women for want
Of obedience anathemas against the men
for lack of promptness in paying their
tithes, and general and Incorporate railing
against the outside, or Gentle world, as
they are pleased to term it. want
women" he says, "to knOio their places and
do their duty (; but there is a lOc, sinking
pride in o woman that wants to leave u
good husband and go TO another. What
does it matter lohere you are if you do your
duty ?" Anything to exceed the low sour
rility Of this language, particularly as ap-
piled to the weaker sex, we have never yet
seen in print, and yet the dwelling, licen-
tious dotard by whom it was uttered calls
himself an Apostle 1t is positively as
founding to think that in this age of en-
lightenment any considerable number oi
persons could be found willing to give in
their adhesion to such doctrines preached
by such divines u. Yet the population
OF Utah is increasing-hundreds of men,
women and children seek it on foot over
the plains, dragging behind them in carts
the necessaries for the journey. 1t is a sad
commentary on the times. Here is another
extract from the sermon Of the meek and
lowly Jededah:
"It is the greatest piece of nonsense
that was ever placed in Gentle breast