Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1857-06-05
Democracy Mormonism and squatter
Sovereignty.
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The pro-slaycry democracy s,cm juhilant
over the idea, that in the passage Of the
Hinsa"Nsbra,ka Bill they established tho
great principle that the people Of a terri.
tory should De " lrh perfectly free TO form
their own domestic institutions in their own
way =" and while they have been preaching
the mormuns IN tab have bccn pr1hugc.
Th. dortrin, oi squaitcr sovereignty, as
explained by the border ruiian democracy
is nothing short Of a complete sanction and
approval OF Po'7camy Marrag,i.a " DO.
mg.,ic institution" and il the people Of a
territory are % b LETT "peyEa'y tree " to
form their own domestic Institutions, then
they can orlain that a man can have one
wife or fl,y, just as he may fancy.
Brigham Young and hi- followers in Utah
SO understand It, hence they have established
p5lysamy IN that territory, and to such an
extent i, tins infamous practice carried on
that the whole territory is but one rrcat
house Of lewdness and prostitution. These
corrupt mormon priests contend that It is
no more \ wrong Cor man 70 have half a
dozen wives, than il is Tor another man in the
same territory, who owns slaves, to have
the same number Of negro concubines; aud
we don't see why their reasoning is not cor
rect. Slavery Is the great fo,tcr.houso Of
the wors, species Of prostitution, and 80 far
as the moral OF the question i concerned,
polycamy is pie,y when compared with it.
Polygamy in Utah Is bu, the legitimate
fruits Of the political hcresics now advocated
by the border ruiTan democracy. The s.n
has not only been winkcd at, but actually
encouraged by aat party. In the first
place they lay down the principle that the
people OF Utah have a right under the con-
s,itution OF the United States to establish
this abomnablc, hcathenish practice in the
next place they continue In Office, US Cover.
nor Of the territory, that most corrupt Of
all sc1undrcls and villains, Brigham Young.
And while the liccn,iOus old rascal has been
keeping around him some forty or fifty
wives; while he has been, by himself and
his diabolical agents, entering peaceful
homes and seducing and enticins away
mothers ard daughters from their families,
all over the country, TO reduce them to a
condition TO horrible even TO relate while
be has imprisoned and murdered at will any
and all gentilcs who would not succumb to
his de,ilish code Of morals, while he has
been controlling and oyer.awins every court
Of justice in his territory, scorninc and con-
fscating their records while he has been
openly and VIGOROUSLY trampling under his
feet the laws OF Congress for the govern
ment Of the territory, aud while he has been
bidding defiance to the United States au.
thority, and driving the officers sent there
by the general government out Of the terri
tory, he nas been continued IN Office by tho
so-ealled democracy, and no effort on the
part Of the national administration has been
made to arrest his usurpations or correct the
evils existing IN the territory. Here this
vile instrument Of all that can DO internal
on earth Instead Of being checked IN his
career by the only power that has authority
TO do it, he 10 girsn po,er and clothed lrih