The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-06-06

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...s,s.-. n March 2, 1851
q Shut in as NO arc from the world at
large, by the snows Of winter, and unpro-
tectsd by even the show Of ) judiciary,
the heads Of the church have been ena-
blsd to perpetrate against us every spe-
cies Of crime and cruelty. Gentiles have
bccn robbed Of valusblc property, aissen-
ting Mcrmons, who have bedonc dis
gustsd with the Gcndish rites Of the
sSainGs' have been outraged and mur-
dered; and even women who have been
presumed TO rebel against the commands
of Che inisna,ned Church, have been
mecilessly persecuted, and driven from
house to house, until they were compel
led TO yield to the brutal demands ofthcir
tyrants or seek refuge from them in sui
eide. On Christmas night woman cut
her throat, a. the only way in which she
could escape from the moro terrible fate
that awaited her. Helf-destruction by
the less violent means Of hndanum is
very common. There is class II young
girls who, too timid to res.rt to extreme
measures, are driven to become concu-
bines Of the loathsome vipers who pre-
tend to be Saints food Their hopes
and happiness are forever blasted, and
the consciousness of degradation contin-
ualiy gnawing into their hearts. Of this
the following is melancholy instance
A man named Nash came to this Terrific
~ last fan, bringing with him his daugh-
ter, q lovely and beautiful girl Of seven
teen summers, 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
vile polvgamists. She succeeded, how-
ever, in escpaing them all until the death
Of her father, her only protector, which
happened in early winter. The funeral
rites were performed by Bishop Carter,
who, after finishing 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 friendless, and seeing no
place wherein she could take refuge and
escape condition she 30 much dreaced,
was obliged to yield, and is now doomed
to q life Of sorrow and dishonor What
an amount of blood and tears of agony
will call for judgement against a power
full Government, which has knowingly
permitted such villainy and outrage to
continue four years unchecked within
its jurisdiction.
One Of the principal features Of Nor
monism is the constant endeavor Of the
rulers to make the women mere creatures
of passion, aud slaves Of their will The
barriers Of modestv and virtue are over
thrown by them in all their discourses,
AID oil refinement and elegance are stu
diously ebliterated. They glory, as Hc-
Der B. Kimball says, Gin calling things
by their right names. 1T was only q
few Sundays ago that kimball, in the
presence Of between TIVE and three thou
sand people, delivered discourse on the
intercourse Of the sexes, in which he
made use of language too obscene and vul-
gar for the most degraded to utter, lit
orally calling things by their right names.
Frequently, to further their villainoss
designs, they accuse women by name, in
the ward-meetings of being prostitutes,
thus making them. lose all self-respect,
| and inducing them more easily, as they
see no incentive to chastity, to yield to
their opportunities. A certain Bishop
of this city took a fancy to his neighbor' 8
wife, beautiful woman. Finding that
she was too pure to consent to his sug-
gestions, he determined to effect his pur-
pose by othsr means. He told her hus-
band that his wife was unfaithful, and
that he knew she had often been visited
BY other men while he (the husband) was
absent he added, that he would not have
his ward dcfled by the presence of sach a
woman, and unless he turned his wife
away, his house would be pulled down
over his head The husband, Influenced
either by the slanderous tails, or intimi-
dated by the more powerful threat, dis
carded his wife, when the Bishop i'm.
mcdiately proposed to her to come into
his family, when she Indignantly refused
and took refuge in the house Of an &C
quaintance. The Bislop, however, WA
not to be foiled SO easily, He compelled
all families who sheltered her to turn hel
away, until the poor woman in her an
gnish appealed to Brigham's sympathies
and begged him to protect her from hel
prosecutor. But Brigham advised he
to be sealed to the Bishop, and in utter
despair she at length complied. The
Bishop accomplished his purpose, bu
the connection was Of short duration, AM
Brigham was soon called upon to unsea
the two. fg
Those who have left the Mormon churcl
| are the objects Of frequent outrages, AM
whenever any Of them are suspected 0
endeavoring to leave the territory, the
are Immediately stripped Of eyorythini
they possess. Mr Jarsn, who has
store on South Teaple street, was ex
communicated last iali on account of ap
ostasy, and has been endeayoring to Sc
bis property in order to leave for tn
States in the spring. On the night Q
the 18th ult, some men entered the stor
Of Mr.. Jarvis and asked for tobacco. Nj,
j., in handing it to them, was seized b
the hair and dragged into the street, an
there most mercilcssly beaten BY some
the party, while others af the villain
. broke up the counters and shelves, buil
fires on the foor with the fragments an
threw the goods into them. They the
repaired to the chambers, where the
!. also built fires, burning the furniture an
clothes Of the family. Some females VIII
. attempted to give the alarm were set NJ
on with reyolvers and knives, and fright
. ened into silence. Having nlade wrcc
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