Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-05-09

-retnaln 10 be fOuted at by this iyrannons pre-
tcnder-remain to suffer prostitution uureliev-
ed by those coarse pleasures which elsewhere
their sisters in iniquity are permitted to seek.
There is something exceedingly painful in
the consideration, that all this wreck of virtue
and of happiness has been accomplished by an
appeal to the religious nature of its victims
Among them, we should hardly look for any
remarkable intelligence but we should expect
to find tendency, however nuuering aud feeble,
towards spiritual culture. How shamelully
this has been played upon and perverted, we
need not say. Weak but enthusiastic women
have been crazed all moral distinctions have
been confused and the spiritual palate, burn
ed to callousness, now finds no sensation except
IN outre violation of all the world has agreed to
consider decent. From a condition like this,
there can be no recovery. The disease is or
ganic, and defes medicine. We may mend a
fracture, but We cannot arrest corruption. OF
course, then, Mr.. Brigham Young runs no risk
of Diminishing the feminine population of his
settlement when he bids them BECOME In tue
whole country there is no place, save Salt Lake
city, in which they can live. Everybody else
they are branded, and their children are base
born. Tie mock Mahomet may torture aud
bully them at his pleasure.
II anything could add to the disgust which
we feel at this scandal it would be the coolness
with which Young rates himselfamong the pat
riarchs, and claims TO be the successor of Alb
raham and Of Isaac. or course we do no, in
tend TO waste one word in exposing the preien-
sion. We allude 10 it only to point out the
wide difference between the Oriental system of
cOncubinage, and that which this sham apostle
has established. An Eastern gentleman may
have twenty wives or two hundred, according
10 the fullness or faccidity of his purse; but he
does not make polygamy part of his religion,
nor do his women expect TO get to heaven by
virtue Of their position. A Circassan girl is
educated for Consianinoplc and for slavery. -
From the time when she begins with her lin.
tied faculties TO think at all, she dreams of her
probable purchaser, and for his sake studies
Turkish, practises music aud dancing, and whm-
sically posters her unfortunate parents. When
she becomes q slave she has nothing 10 DO but
to eat sweet meats, peep out Of her lattice, and
tinge herself with rouge, aniimony and henna.
There is nothing very lofty about life like this,
bu, al the same time there is nothing coarse or
wicked. Conscience does not upbraid there
is no sad memory Of a better time there is no
doubt and there is 10 despair. We need not
point on, how different is such an existence from
the dull debauchety, the prepense wretcbedness,
the systernized sin of Brigham Young's colony.
There is poetry if not piety about the first
there is only pollution in the last and polu-
ion too, Of very disagreeable description.
We think that fraud like Mormonism must
be se,..slmi,ed in its capacity for evil and that
the death Of the arch imposter will be followed
by the dispersion of his dupes. Atpresent the
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and in all parts Of the world, in Eng land and
/ Wales, in Sweden, in Germany, and in the Pa
cfc archipelago, he is making converts. We
wish sincerely that this could be stopped, but
we really see no way of stopping it. Legisa'
lion would be impotent, and an exposure ofthe
iniquity would hardly rescue those who are bert
upon believing. AT the same time we do moi
see why our government, which professes 10 be
a respectable one, should be upon good terms
with the the sublime sinner who is now ruling
Utah. 1t is a scandal hardly second 10 that oi
slavery, that an imposter, who throws into the
shade Cagliostro Mother Lee, Joanna South
cote, and all the other inventors of patent .e
ligons. is permitted to hold the commission o
the United States of America, and 10 govern q
territory which is important now, and must be
very important hereafter. We shall not thinl
that the President has done all in his power t,
rescue the victims OF this knave from degrade
ton and unhappiness, until he has appointed
over them Christian rulers, and has supported
these rulers with the whole force of the gov
ernment.--BOsfOn Atlas.
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