The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-14
THE MORMON ABOMlYATI0y

| Observer, under date OF Camp Floyd. CUtab Tarri
| torV) July 9th, writes as follows: " "- -eitA
| You cannot surely know the high-handad cr;,oos
which this people commit in the name of the r,ost
| High God. You surely know not the blackness of
| the heresy-know not the fearful rapidtv with
| which these abomnable doctrines are promulpated
| md embraced, or you would speak and warn the
| unwary W
The basest passions of the basest men have full
scope OF qualification in the name ofreligion in the
name OF reilglon arson and murder are committed.
| TO save the souls of men who have apostatized
their throats are cut. If women refuse to become
the second fourth or tortieth wife of some lustfu
SAINT; their throats, in many instances have been
found cut in foul murder and the renort started-
committed suicide for fear of the wrath of Godr"
| All these, and more are done in the name of the
| Lord, and by and with the advice and consent of
| the heads of the church, C!) The Judge of this
| Judicial District (the lst) informs me there arc
| now over one hundred and sixty murderers many
| OF them known and acknowledged to be such run
ming at large, and in full communion with and pro-
tectGd oy the Mormons--a large proportion of whom
are Bishops and Elders, and other church dignia-
| ries. This is the district in which were committed
| the Mountain Meadows murder, the Parishes the
| Jones and Forbes, and others.
The bones of the murdered of the Mountain Mea-
dows, lay bleaching where the dead fell, until the
present May, when Judge Cradlebaugh with a de-
tachment OF soldiers gathered up and buried the
bones of about one hundred and twenty persons-all
but forty of these were women and children Chill
dren whose little skulls were not yet knit together
whose bleached and bleaching ribs are not a fin
ger In length-were among the killed. A few skulls
We're saved and are in camp to be used in
w asmngton city at the proper time. There also
IN camp sack full OF long female hair, (mos mel
ancholy memento,) gathered off the sage bushes
and rocks, amid the bleaching bones whittier
the wind had blown and fastened it.
Eighty Mormons are known to have been person
ally engaged in this murder; and writs have been
| issued for forty odd persons-among the writs is
one for President Haight, Bishop Fee. and in fact
for every Elder, Bishop and Legislator in that
Proc rho hac, N,J
Over eighty thousand dollars worth of property
of this murdered train, has been reclaimed from the
Mormons, in the last few months
Twenty children of the train too small to testify
were saved alive. me weeks after the murder
the largest girl of the saved children, was fouly
murdered, for saying to the Mormon woman with
whom she lived, ''you have got on my mothers
dress" thus giving evidence that she knew too
much for their purpose. The MoImons have denied
all knowledge of this murder until lately, hitherto
attaching all blame to the Indians. They can no
longer deny the fact oft being done done by the
command ofthe church; thetestimOnv is too strong
While write, murderer sin this (Judre Eckel's)
room, who has turned States evidence, and stays
in camp 70 protect his life-0therwise the Mormons
would kill him.
This people have pretended prophets and revela-
tors, who pretend revelation for any emergency,
commanding the preparation of any crime, that
may be desired to accomplish any end, in the
of God.
All their wives are taken in accordance with pre-
tended visions, dreams or revelations. Should the
woman object, she is asked to ref ct with care and
adm0nished to obey counsel. This admonition, to
obey counsel is OmnnuS, savOTing of thrpats cut,
pretending suicide. But, poverty here is so dis
tressingv great, and women who are not wives,
have little liberty, together with the fact that
many more women than men members of this
pretended church, that women hardly object
to becoming the wives of any men who can in any
wise assist in their support, careless how many
wives the men may already have And herein is
found the excuse for polygamy on the part of the
females though they NAV pretend to receive the
institution as from God The men profess to marry
wives wholly religious duty claiming more
wives as religious light and knowledge increased I
opne excuse can be more easily found for this
abnminable p lygamous habit.
| know seven men who have the mother and
daughter t1 wife. And one, who has the mother
and four daughters to wife, and children by all of
them This man has ten wives The reporter of
the Tabernacle services having FIVE wives has his
half sister to WIFE They have three children. One
man in this district an elder, refused to seal to his
a spiritual wife but had himself sealed to that
woman as his tenth spiritual wife and lived
with her as such fo- two months, then divorced her
and sealed her to that son in question; and such
they now live.
| cannot find how many wives brigham Young
has-probably from forty to one hundred. The
common statue laws acknowledge Only one wife,
the others all called spi ituals by one of Jos.
Smiths revelations the record OF which kind of
wives are kept in the church archives that is, fany
record is kept of such marriages Hence the diff
cultv Of obtaining correct information upon this,
to the Mormons, delicate subject. But | suppose
Young has thirty-nine sPirituas in his harem at
Salt Lake City, and one more in every town and
settlement in the Territory, and perhaps several in
the States, and even in foreign countries.
! know several men who have married women
years after they were dead and buried and in some
instances women that the men had never seen in
life. Little dead girls of few months or years old
are often married to old grey-headed spirit
uals. This they do. to the souls Of the dead
females from purgatory, and to furnish for them
husbands for eternity alleging that women can
not get from that place OF fancy without mems
Stance, and must be married on earth or 90 COM
panionless throughout eternity, in that world
they neither married given in marriage
Thus scrip is perverted to the basest purposes.
They preach vulgarisms in the Tabernacle; this
| aver from personal knowledge. Heber c. Kim
Bile is famous for this | have heard John TAYLOR
take for hiH text, Jump out of the FRYING pan in
to the fire." have heard OrSan HYDE prnnhesy
in the name of Tsrea's God. Brigham Young, a
few Sabbahs since, said in the Tabernacle. that he
(Young) was expecting a revelation from God COM
manding his children by wife to intermarry
with his children by another wife, to secure pure
priesthood. RICHARD.
From the Nery Hdren Journal and Courier.l
INTERESTING OLD PAPERS
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