M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-04-19
Education anG Habits OF the Nor
mons.

| NH tue l0tn ult.i Judge CraQle-
baugh, late one Of the U. S. Judges
in Utah, made a speech at CircleviiIe,
/ o, on the subject Of MornoniSm.-
We make single extract;
The little education the children get
consist0 in preparing them for the re.
ception Of polygamy. So at variance
is chat practice with all the instincts
of humanity, that it has to be pressed
upon the people with great assiduity
as part OF their religious duty. To
! prepare the women for the reception
of the revolving practice, it is necessa.
ry TO brLtalize them by destroying
their modesty. The sentiment of love
is ridiouled; cavalier galantry and at
tentions are langed at; the emblematic
devices OF lovers and the winning
kindness that, with us, they doat on,
are hooteI at in Utah. The lesson
they are taught, is "increase and mul.
Itiply," in order that Zion may filled.
The young people are tamiliarized to
indecent exposures Of all kinds, the
MormonS call their wives their cattle;
they choose their cattle; and that great
| pink Ofdelicacy, Heber .. Kimball,
the next in prominence, as also the
next in sin to Young, calls his women
his COWS.
? A man is not considered good
Mormon who does not uphold polyg.
amy by precept and example, and he
is suspected Mormon that does not
practice it. The higher the man is in
the church the more wives he has,
Brigham Young and Heber Klmball
are supposed 10 have each between
fifty and hundred. Tie reverend
Mormon bishops, apostles and the
presidents Of stakes, have as many as
they desire, and it is a common thing
to see these hoary-headed old Turks
surrounded by Il troup Cfrobust young
wives. The common people take as
many as they can support, and it is
not uncommon to see a house with but
two rooms, inhabited by a man, his
half dozen Of wives, and a proportion.
ate number OF children, like rabbits in
a warren, and resembling very much
the happy family that we read Of
the prairie dog, the owl and the rab-
bit. luceGt is common. Sometimes
the same man has daughter and hel
mother for wives at once; some have
as wives their own nieces, and Aaron
johnson, Of SpiingviIle, one Of the
most influential men in his parts, has
in his harem of twelve women no less
than five uf his brothers daughters
One Watts, a Scotchman, who is cne
OF the church reporters, is married to
bis own half sister. On her arrival
in the country he applied Tor permis,
sion to marry her, but Brigham at'tirs
refused, and settled the matter by tax
ing her into his own harem; but in {
lew weeks he @lelented, the seal wa
broken, end he gave her to Watts '-
+ 10 suppose that polygamy condu
ces to happiness is to suppose a tota
l subversion Of womau's nature. Ii
r the matter Of affection woman is
complete mon opolist; she must have
all the heart or none. But in UtaI
she has to be contented with smal
fraction OF that smallest of al. hearts
Il Mormon heart, little attention and
J m deyotions. The little home, which
ought to be her throne and her EN-
piro, is lost to her. They are jealous.
Iy watched, and dreadtully abused il
they are seen to show, by even SO
much as a glance, that they are un.
happy. But the long and anxious
coqntenances eff the "mothers in Is
raep' proclaim too plainly their entire
misery The ill.assorted children
the offspring Of one father and many
motberS--run about like so many wild
animals. The first thing they do, al
ter learning vulgarity, is to wear a
leather belt with a butcher knife stuck
in it; and the next is to steal from the
Gentilos; then to ride animals; and as
soon as they can, "by hook or By
crook" get a horse, a pair Of iinging
Mexican spurs, and q revolver, they
are then Mormon cavaliers, and are
fit to steal, rob and murder emigrants
The women and girls are coarse. mas.
culine an uneducated, and are mostly
drafted from the lowest stages Of SO.
ciety. 1t is but seldom you meet
handsome or attractive women among
them.
The foreign element largely pre-
dominates in Utah. The persons EN-.
igrating to the, Territory are generally
) from the mining, manufacturing ard
rural districts of England. the
American portion of the Mormons are
generally shrewder than the rest, and
are chiefly from the New England
States. Most Of these men are, no
doubt, lugitives from justice, and most
OF them are bankrupt in both fortune
and character.
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