The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-04-21
EDUC ALTON AND HAB ITS OF THE NOR
MONS.

EDUC ALTON AND HAB ITS OF THE NOR
MONS.
| On the 18th ult., Judge Cradlebaugh, late
one Of the U. S. Judges in Utah, made a
speech at Circleville, Ohio, on the subject
Of Mormonism. We make q single ex-
tract:
"The little education the children get con-
sists in preparing them for the reception of
| polygamy. So at varience is that practice
with all the instincts of humanity, that it
has to be pressed upon the people with
great assiduity, rs part of their religious
duty. To prepare the women for the re-
ception of the revolving practice, it is nec-
essary to brutalize them by destroying their
modesty. The sentiment of love is ridiculed,
cavalier gallantry and attentions are laughed
at; the emblematic devices of lovers, and
the winning kindness that with US they doat
on, are hooted at in Utah. The lesson they
are taught, and that is incu Gated above all
others, is ''increase and multiply" 10 order
that Zion may be filled. The young peo-
| pie are fnmiiarized to indecent exposure of
all kinds; the Mormons call their wives
their cattle; they choose them pretty much
as they choose their cattle; and that great
pink Of de icacy, nsber C. Kimball, the
next in prominence, as also next in sin, to
Young, calls his women his cows.
A man is not considered good Mormon
that does not uphold poygamy by precep.
and example, and heis suspected Mormon
| that does not practice it. The higher the
man in the church, the more wives he has.
Brigham Young and Heber Kimball are sup
posed to have, each, between fifty and a
hundred. The reverend Mormon bishops,
apostles, and the presidents of stakes, have
as many as they desire, and it is n common
thing to see these hosry headed old Turks
surrounded by troop of robust young
wives. The common people take as many
rs they can support, and it is not uncom-
mon to see house with but two rooms,
inhabited by man, bis half dozen wives,
and proportonate number of children, like
rabbits in a warren, and resembling very
much the happy family that We read-ths
prairie dog, the owl, and the rabbit.
Sometimes, the same man has daughter
and her mother for wives at once; some
have AZ wives their own nieces, and Aaron
johnson, Of Springfield one of the most in.
fuential men in his parts, has in his harem
of twelve women no less than FIVE Of his
brothers daughters. Ono Watts, a Scotch
man, who is one Of the church reporters, is
married to his own half sister. On her mr.
rival in the country, be applied for permis-
sion to marry her, but Brigham at first re-
fused, and settled the matter by taking her
into his own harem; but in few weeks he
relented, the seal was broken, and he gave
her to Watts.
To suppose that polygamy conduces to
happiness is to suppose a total subversion
of woman's nature. In the matter of affec-
ton woman is a complete monopolist she
must have all the heart or none. But in
Utah she has to be contented with small
fraction Of that smallest of all hearts, a
Mormon beart, little attention. and no de-
votion. The little home, which ought to bs
her throne and her empire, is lost to her,.
They arc jealously watched, and drendfully
abused if they are seen to snow, by even as
much as glance, that they are unhappy.
But the long and serious countenances of
the "mothers of Israel" proclaim too plain y
the entire misery. The ill-sorted children
the offspring OF one father and many
Gss.ha-s--run e about like so many wild ami.
mails. The 6rst thing they do, after learn
ing vulgarity, is to wear leather bot with
a butcher knife stuck in it; and theEnext is
to steal horse from the Gentiles; then t6
ride the animal; and, as soon as hey can,
'by hook or by crook" get a horje, pair
OF jingliog Mexican spurs and revolver;
they ore then Mormon cavaliers, and ct to
steal, rob and murder cmigAnt.. The
women and girls are coarse, mtculine and
uneducated, and are mostly irafted from
the lowest stages Of society. It's but seldom
you meet a handsome or Attractive woman
among them.
The foreign element largely predominates
in Utah. Tho persons etigrating to the
Territory are generally ft6m the mining,
manufacturing and rural districts of Eng
land. The American pqftions Of the Nor
mems are generally shre&der than the rest,
and are chiefly from Che New England
States. Most Of these men are no doubt
fugitives from justice, and most of them are
bankrupt in both fortune and character.