Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-05-28
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UTAH.
A TERRIBLE SOCIAL PICTURE.
PROGRESS OF CRIME AND OUT
RAGE.
Insults to United States Officers.
Correspondence n. Y. Times.
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Shut in as wc.are, from the world at
large by the SHOWS of winter, and unprotec-
ted by even the show ola judiciary, the
heads of the church have been enabled to-
perpctrate against us every species Of crime
and cruelty. Gentiles have been robbed
of valuable property; dissenting Mormons,
who have become disguised with the fien-
dish rites of the saints, have been out
ragged and murdered; and even women who
have presumed to rebel against the COM
mands of the misIamed Church, have been
mercilessly prosecuted, and driven from
house to house, until they were compelled
to yield to the brutal demands of their ty-
rants or seek refuge from them in suicide.
On Christmas night young woman cut
her throat, as the only way in which she
could escape from the more terrible fate
that awaited her. Self-destruction by the
less violent means of laudanum is very
common. There is class of young girls
who, too timid to resort to extreme meas
ures, arc driven to become the concubipes
of the loathsomc vipers who pretend to bc
Saints" of God. Their hopes and hap
piness are forever blasted, and the conscious
ness of degradation continually gnawing
into their hearts. OF this the follow
ing is a melancholy instance: A man
named Nash came to this Territory last
fall, bringing with him his daughter, a
lovely and beautiful girl of seventeen sum
mers. He settled at Provo, town sixty
miles south of this city, and in consequence
of her great beauty, his daughter. was
much desired by many of the vile polyg-
amists. She succeeded however, in es-
Gaping them all until the death of her faith
er, her only protector, which happened in
early winter. The funeral rites were per
formed by Bishop Carter, who, after finish
ing his prayer over the newly made grave.
turned to the heart broken maiden and
roughly told her that she must now become
his wife. The gentle girl, left fricndless,
and seeing no place wherein she could
take refuge and escape condition she so
much dreaded. was obliged to yield, and is
now doomed to life of sorrow and dis
honor. She is Carriers seventh vi.tim.-
What an amotnt of blood and tears of ag-
ony will call for judgment, against pow
eriul Government, which has knowingly
permitted such villainy and outrage to con-
tinue four years unchecked within its iu-
rsdc,ion. g 80
One of the principal features OF Mormon
ism Is the constant endcavor of the rulers to
make the women mere creatures of passion.
and slaves of their will. The barriers of
modcsty and virtue are ovcrthrown by them
in all their discourses, and all refinement
and elegance arc studiously obliteratcd.-
They glory, as Heber G. Kimball, saws.
.-in Calling things by their right namcs.''
/ 1t was only few Sundays ago that Kim
ball, in he presence of between two AMI
three thousand people, delivered a dis
course on the intercourse Of the sexes. in
which he made use of language too OBJ.
scene and vulgar for the most degraded to
utter, literally calling things by their right
names Frequently, to further their villain
GUS designs, they accuse women by name,
in the "ward meetings" of being prosti
tuteS, TINS making them lose all self-re-
spcct, 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
neighbours wife, a beautiful woman
Finding tia. she was too pure to consent
to his suggestions, he determined to effect
his purposes by other means. He told her
husband that his wife was unfaithful. ami
that he knew she had often been visited by
other men while he the husband) was alb
sent; he added, that he would not have his
ward defled by the presence of such wo-
man, and unless he turned his wife away
his house would be pulled down over his
head The husband, influenced either by
the slanderous tale, or intimidated by the
more powerful threat, discarded his wife.
when the Bishop Immediately proposed to
her to come into his family, which she in
dignantly refused, and took refuge in the
house of an acquaintance The Bishop,
however, was not to be foiled so easilv.-
He compelled all the families who sheltered
her to turn her away, until the poor wo-
man in her anguish appealed to Brigham's
sympathics, and begged him to protect her
from her prosecutor. But Brigham advis-
cd her to be Scaled to the Bishop, and in
utter despair she at length complied. The
Bishop accomplished his purpose, but the
connection was of short duration. and
Brigham was soon called upon to ''unseal''
the two. -
| Those who have left the Mormon church
are the objects of frequent outrages, and
whenever any of them are suspected of en-
deavoring to leave the Territory, they are
Immediately stripped of every thing they
possess. Mr.. Jarvis, who has store on
| South Temple street, was communicated
last fall on account of apostacy. and has
been endeavoring to sell his property in
order to leave for the States in the spring.
On the night of the 18th ult., some men en-
tered the store of Mr. Jarvis and asked for
tobacco Mr. j., in handing it to them,
was seized by the hair and dragged into the
street, and there most mercilessly beaten by
some Of the party, while others Of the VIZ
lains broke up the counters and shelves,
built fires on the floor, with the fragments,
and threw the goods into them They then
repaired to the chambers, where they also
built fires, burning the furniture and clothes
of the family. Some females who at
tempted to give the alarm were set upon
with revolyers and knives, and frightened
into silence. Having made . wreck Of
oposx.tl,;,,.f A., r,,f3ians left. carving all