The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-18
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We IRE indebted to the Cincinnati Enquirer
for the following lucubration
Mormonism is still in practical operation
amongst US. A few days since, tall, raw
boned Saint, with complexion very strongly
resembling that of boiled tripe, arrived here
from Pittsburg with a couple of wives but
deeming his flock too small to start Salt Lake
ward with, held forth as follows to an admir-
ing audience, at a house over the canal, with
aview to the completeness Of domestic felicity.
His text was
aMen is skeerce aud Weemen is plenty"
aBrethern and Sistern-perticller the Sis
tern Il want to say few words to you
about Acknowledgement for my own sake. but
sr yourn. for men IS sEeerce and tceeHen IS
plenty.
cipIe. which SEES that it amt good for man to
be alone, and mighty sight worse for wo-
man. Therefore, il man feels good with a
little company, good deal of it ought to
make him feel an awful sight better.
"The first principle of Mormonism is, that
woman air good thing, and the second prin-
ciple is, that you can't have too much of a
good thing. Woman is tenderer than man,
and is necessary to smooth down tho rough
ness of his character, and as man has good
| many rough pints in his natur', he oughtn't
to give one woman too much to do, but set
each one to work smoothing some partikler
pint.
"Don't think Pm over anxious for yon to
| CINE us, for l amt. I'm not speaking for my
| good, but for yourn for men is skeefce, and
tceenqen is plenty.
81 said woman is tenderer than man, but
| you needn't feel stuck up about it, for so she
ought to be she was made so purpose. But
| how was she made so ? Where did she get
| it from? Why, she was created out of the
side-bone of man, and the side-bone Of man
| is like the side-bone of turkey-the tender
l est part Of him. Therefore, as woman has
three side bones, and man only one, ofcourse
| she is three times as tender as man is, and
| is in duty bound to repay that tenderness OF
| which she robbed him. And how did she rob
| him of his side-bone ? Why, exactly as she
robs his pockets nowadays of loose change
she took advantage of him when he was
asleep.
"But as woman is more tender than man,
so is man more forgivner than woman; there
FORE wont say any thing about the side-bone
or the small change, but invite you all to jine
my train, for I'm big sheperd out our way,
| and fare sumptuously every day on purple
| and fine linen.
"When first landed on the shores Of the
Great Salt Lake, wasn't rich in weemen
had but one poor old zoe, but men is skeerct
and ,0esnaen is plenty, and like keerful shep-
| erd begin to increase my flock. Weemer
heard of US and our lovin ways, and they KEEP
q pourin in. They come from the North, anG
they come from the South, they come from
the East and they come from the West, they
come from Europe, they come from Ashley
and a few of 'em from Afrikey, and from beil
the miserable owner of one old zoe, become
the joyful shepherd of mighty flock, with
right smart sprinklin of lambs, friskier and fat
ter than anybody else's and I've still got room
for few more.
CAS- said before, I'm not talkin pertickle
for my benefit but for yourn-for men j
skeerce and weemen is plenty. Still, I'd
leetle rather you'd go along with me than not
pertickler you fat one with the caliker SUI
bonnet. Don't hesitate, but take the chanc
while you git it, and FL make you the bell 20
of the flock. I'll lead you through green pas
lures and the high grass show you wher
you may caper in the sunshine, add lay dow
in pleasant places and, as you are in prett
good condition already. in course Of time yo1
Shall be the latest of the flock. Jine in, jim
in, jine my train; jine it now, for men
skeerce and weemen is plenty
The appeal was irresistible. At the las
account the fat woman with the caliker sun
bonnet had fined in,' and two or three 9th
ers were on the fence, with decided leanin
toward the "Keerful Sheperd."