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 jealousy when
Gentiles are about. Wooing, the en-
gaging, absorbing and exquisite pleasures
of counting, are not even INDUCED 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.
ton, that characterizes the loves of the
young all the world over, do not embellsh
the matter of fact marital negotiations of
the Mormons. There is an entire 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-
ton, 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 indie.
cent conduct and to indecent exhibitions.
All 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 Poygamy 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 man have mother and
daughter, or two sisters, or his own nieces
for his wives.
attempts to gam 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
squaw place in his Harem. All efforts,
however, to induce the Mormon women to
unite their fortunes with the Indian have
been thus far unavailing.
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 a
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 womans nature. 10 suppose
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 she
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 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, incipieht
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" proclaim their
misery. The frequent in6delities of the
young wives, when they can be committed
without detection, are evidences of their
discomfort, and the shrinking of the young
girls from their hated doom, bears testimony
of their repugnace of Polygamy.
Characters and Manners of the Mormon,
Women.-The Mormon women are coarse
types of the gentler sex. They are as a
class, common and unattractive in appear.
ance, chiefly, if not entirely from the lower
walks of life. They exhibit none of those
| refnements and graces for which the better