The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
The Horrors of Mormonism.

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The correspondent of the New York Tri
bune, writing from Salt Lake ON the ed of
February, gives the following chapter of
horrors. exhibiting the social vices of Nor
monism:
A man named Nash came TO this Terrific
" last Fall, bringing with him his daughter,
"a lovely and beautiful girl of seventeen sum-
mers. He settled at Provo. a town sixty
miles south of this city, and in consequence
of her great beauty, his daughter was much
desired by many of the vile polygamists.-
She succeeded, however, in escaping them
all until the death of her father, her only
protector, which happened early In winter
The funeral rites were performed by Bishop
Carter, who, after finishing his prayer over
the newly made grave, told her that she must
now become his wife. The gentle girl, left
friendless, and seeing no place where she
could take refuge and escape a condition she
so much dreaded, was obliged to yield, and
is now doomed to life of sorrow and dis
honor. She is Carter's seventh victim
What an amount of blood and tears of ago
ny viii call for judgment against powerful
government, which has knowingly permitted
such villainy and outrage to continue four
years unchecked within its jurisdiction.
One of the principal features of Mormon
ism is the constant endeayor of the rulers to
make the women mere creatures of passion
and the slaves of their will. The barriers
of modesty and virtue are overthrown by
them ib all their disceurses, and all refine
ment and elegance are studiously obliterated.
They clory, as Heber C.. Kimball says: Sin
calling things by their right names.'' It was
only few Sundays ago that Kimball, III the
presence of between two and three thousand
people, delivered a discourse on the inter-
course of the sexes, in which he made use
of language too obscene and vulgar for the
most degraded to utter, literally calling
things by their right names. Frequently,
to further their yillainous designs. they ae-
cuse women by name, in the '.ward meet
ings,' of being prostitutes, thus making
them lose all self-respect and inducing them
more easily, as they see there is no incentive
to chastity, to yield to their opportunities.
A certain bishop in this city took fancy to
his neighbor's wife, beautiful Woman.-
Finding that she was too pure to consent to
his suggestions, he determined to effect his
purposes by other means. He told her hus-
band that his wife was unfaithful, and that
he knew she had feen visited by other men
while he (the husband) was absent; he ad-
ded, he would not have his ward defiled by
the presence of such woman, and unless he
turned his wife away, his house would be
pulled down over his head. The husband,
either influenced by the slanderous tale, or
intimidated by the more powerful threat, dis
carded his wife, when the bishop immediate
ly proposed to her to come into his family,
which she Indignantly refused, and took
refuge in the house of an acquaintance. The
bishop, however, was not to be foiled so ca
silly. He compelled all the families who
sheltered her to turn her away, until the poor
woman in her anguish appealed to Brigham's
sympathies, and begged him to protect her
from her prosecutor. But Brigham advised
her to be sealed TO the bishop, and in utter
despair she at length complied. The bishop
accomplished his purpose, but the connec
ton was of short duration, and Brigham
was soon called upon to 'unseal' the two.