The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-09

their druggery, bear their children, obey
their commands, and minister to their lusts,
they don't trouble themselves farther about
them, except to watch them jealously. when
Gentiles are about. Wooing, the en-
gaging, absorbing and exquisite pleasures
of courting, are not even indulged in by the
young. The delightful tete-a-tete, the even-
ing stroll, the offerings of flowers, the inter-
change of vows, the soft sweet smiles of
fondness, the low tones Of confding love, the
stolen glance of timid but irrepressible affec.
tion, that characterizes the loves OF the
young all the world over, do not embellish
the matter Of fact marital negotiations of
the Mormons. There is an eotire absence
of everything to please and interest the im-
agination. Since the introduction of polyga-
my, the females are subjected to stringent
course OF unnatural principle. They are
taught to check every emotion, every pulsa-
tion, every aspiration of the heart. Virgin
modesty is rebuked -delicacy of expression
is ridiculed. They are taught both by pre-
cept and example to use coarse and vulgar
language. They are habituated to inde-
cent conduct and to indecent exhibitions.
ALI this is done to prepare them for
Polygamy. Their tastes have to be cor
rupted,. their minds. debauched and their
whole natures brutalized, before they can be
brought to contemplate Polygamy without
disgust, aud to practice it without shame.
Incest among the Mormons. revolving
as Polygamy is by itself, the Mormons have
complicated it with the repulsive accom-
paniment of incest. These two crimes, the
most abhorent of all crimes, from which not
only the civilized and Christianized, but the
natural man, even recoils, are Incorporated
with their system. 1t is no uncommon thing
in Utah to see a man have mother and
daughter, or two sisters, or his own nieces
for his wives.
attempts to gain ouer the Indians by means
of Polygamy.-The Mormons have sedul-
ously sought to subject the Indians to their
system in order to get influence and ascend
ancy over them. Thinking that Polygamous
marriages among Mormons and Indians
would conduce to that end, they have
endeavored to bring them about. Some
of the Mormons have taken squaws, and if
rumor can be relied on, Brigham has paid his
red brethren the compliment of assigning to
a squaw place in his Harem. All efforts,
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unite their fortunes with the Indian have
been thus far unavailing. s.s
The PROXY System-It is said, and ex-
tensively believed, that the Proxy System
has been engrafted on the Polygamous Sys-
tenn of the Mormcns; in other words, that
when the husband dies, or is necessarily alb
sent on his own or church business, SUBJ
stitute is appointed by Brigham or some
other church authority. This comedies so
entirely with the Mormon theory that it is
doubtless true.
An Unnameable Crime.-Many instances
of which have come within my own knowl~
edge, and some accompanied or followed by
more than one cold blooded murder, pre-
walls among the Mormons. That it exists,
and is acknowledged, appears from the proc.
lamation from the pulpit, by no less per.
sonage than Brigham Young, that the time
is not far distant when these valleys shall
resound with the voices of Eunuchs."
Polygamy has other appendages and &C.
compartments, which are of too lewd
character to be even alluded to here, and
yet, the SURPRISING atrocity of the system
cannot be fully comprehended without a
knowledge of them.
Are the Women Happy This system is,
repugnant to all the instincts and moral
leanings of woman's nature. 10 suppose
I that the Mormon women are happy, is to
suppose total subversion or perversion of
all their faculties or qualities. Woman is
essentially and peculiarly monopolist in
matters of affection. She demands the whole
undivided heart Her home is in. her en-
pire, which must not be shared by any other
woman. Her husband must be her husband,
solely and exclusively. In his arms che
looks for protection and shelter He is the
oak, and she the vine enwrapping him with
her delicate tendrils, cheering him with
fragrant blossoms and refreshing him with
delicious fruit. The Mormon plants around
this oak q multitude of other vines, thus
mixing with the sweet scented grape vines
those whose touch is poison and whose en-
brace is death. The Mormon women are
not and cannot be happy. True, incipient
virtue is crushed in the bud, taste is vitiated
and manners are corrupted, but nature can
not be entirely extirpated. Some of them
are sustained BY fanaticism, some bear up
from the necessity for endurance, some from
stolid Indifference, but none feel happy un.
der it. The wan and worn countenances of
the mothers in Israel 'sproclaim their
misery. The frequent in6delities Of the
young wives, when they can be committed
without detection, are evidences of their
discontent, and the shrinking Of the young
| girls from their hated doom, bears testimony
of their repugnace of Polygamy. Il
Charaeters and Manners of the Mormon
WOmen.-Yhe Mormon women are coarse