Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-23

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The little education the children get con-
sists in preparing them for the reception of
polygamy So at variance is that practice
with all the instincts of humanity that il has
to be pressed npon the people with great
assid1ty as a part of their religious duty.
To prepare the women for the reception of
the revolving practice it is necessary to bru-
talize them by destroying their modesty. The
sentiment OF love is ridiculed, cavalier gall
lantry aud attentions are laughed at, the en-
blematie devices of lovers and the winning
kindness that with US they doat on are boot
ed at in Utah. The lesson they are taught,
aud that is inculcated above all others. is
''increase and multiply in order that ZION
may be filed. The young people are famil-
iariZed to indecent exposures of all kind;
the Mormons call their wives their cattle;
they choose them pretty much as they choose
their cattle; and that great pink of delicacy.
Heber c. kimbafi. the next in prominence,
as also the next in sin to Young, calls his
women his COWS.
A man is not considered good Mormon
that does not uphold polygamy by precept
and example, and be is a suspected Mormon
that does not practice it. The higher the
man is in the church the more wives he has.
Brigham Young and Heber Kimball are sup
posed to have each between fifty and hun
u.
ties 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 a troop of robust young
wives. The common people take as many
as they can support. and it is not uncommon
TO see house with but two rooms, inhabited
by man, his half dszen of wives, and a
proportionate number of children. like Iab-
hits in a warren, and resembling very much
| the happy family that we read of-the prai-
RE dog, the owl and the rabbit. Incest is
common. Sometimes the same man has a
daughter and her mother for wives at once;
some have as wives their own nieces and
Aaron johnson, of SpriBgyile, one of the
most influential men in his parts, has in his
harem of twelve women no lrss than five of
his brothers daughters. One Watts Scotch
man, who is one of the church reporters, is
married to bis own halt-sister. On her ar
irving in the country; be applied for permits
sion to marry her, hut Brigham at first re-
fused, and settled the matter by taking her
into his own harem; but in few weeks he
relentfd, the seal was broken. and be gave
her 10 Watts.
To suppose that polygamy conduces to
happiness is to suppose a total subversion of
woman's nature. In the matt of affe" ton
woman is a complete monopolisf; she must
have all the heart or none. But in Utah she
has to be cOntented with a small trac ton of
that smallest of all hearts, Mormon heart.
little attention, and no devotion The little
home, which ought to be her throne and her
empire, is lost to her, They are jealously
watched, and dreadfully abused if they are
seen to show, by even SO much as glance,
that they are unhappy. But the long and
anxious countenances of the 'm0t ers in Is
rael" proclaim too plainly their entire mis-
cry. The ill-assort d children-the offspring
OF one father and many mothers-run abouI
like so mauy wild animals The first thing
they do. after learning vulgarity. is to wear
leather belt with butcher knife stuck IN il:
and the next is TO steal from the Gent les;
then to ride animals; and as soon as they
can, "by hook Oh by crook" get a horse. a
pair of jingling Mexican spurs and revolv-
O., they are then Mormon cavaliers, and are
lit 10 steal, rob and murder emigrants. The
women and girls are coarse, masculine and
uneducated, and are mostly drafted from the
lowest stages of society. 1t is but seldom
you meet handsome or attractive women
among them.
The foreign element largely predominates
In Utah. The persons emigrating TO the Ter
.ritory are generally from the mining. manu-
featuring and rural districts of England.
The American portion of the Mormons are
generally shrewdcr than the rest, and are
chiefly from the New En.land States. Most
OF these men are no doubt fugitiyes from JUS
tiee, and most of them are bankrupt in both
fortune and character.