The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-03-28
Education of the Mormons.


On the 18th ult., Judge Cradlebaugb
late one Of the u S. Judges in Utah
made speech at Circleville, Ohio, on the
subject of Mornonism. We make q sin.
gle extract:
The little education the children get,
consists in preparing them for the recep
ton OF polygamy. So at variance, Is
that practice With all the instincts OF ba-
nanity, that it has to be pressed upon the
people with great assiduity as part OF
their religious duty. To prepare the wo-
men for the reception OF tie revolving
practice, it is necessary to brutalize the u
by destroying their modesty. The sen
timent of love is ridicuied. cavalier gal
lantry apd attentions are laughed at, the
emble q attic devices oil lovers and the win
ming kindness that with Us they doat on.
are hooted at in Utah. The lesson the J
are taus sht, and that is incalculated atove
all others. is increase and multiply" in
order that Zion may be filed, The
young people are famiiarized to Indecent
exposures OF all kind; the Mormons call
their wives their cattle; they choose the u
pretty much as they choose their cattle;
aud that great pink of delicaey, HabeT
G. Kimball, the uext in prominence, as
also the ucxt in sin to Young, calls bis
women bis COWS.
y man is not con-idefed good Nor
mon who does not uphold rolygamy By
prescpt aud example, aud be is su~pec-
ted Morpon that does not practice it
The higher a nsn is in the church the
more wives be has. Brigham Ioung
aud Hcber KIuball arc supposed to have
each between Gtg and hundred. The
reVercued Mormon bishops, apostles and
the presidents of stakes haze as many "a
they desire, aud it is a COM ron thing TO
see these bosry beaded old Turks sur
rounded By troop Of robust young wives.
The common people take as many as they
can support, sud i; is not uneoumcn to
see house with but two rooms, INHABITED
by mau, BIZ half dozen Of wives, aud a
proportionate number OF children, like
rabbits 10 warren aud resembling very
much tic happy family that We read of
the prairie dog, the owl and the rabbit.
Insects is COMMON. Sometimes the sau
man has daughter and her mother for
wives at once; some have as wives their
own neices, and Aaron johnson, OF
Springsille, one OF the most influential
men 10 his parts, has in his bsreD, OF
twelve women, DO less than five of hi-
brother's daus hters. One Watts, a
Scotchnan, who is one of the church re
porters, is married to bis Owe half sister.
On her arrival ia the country he applied
for permission to marry her, but Brig BAN
at 6rst refused and settled the matter By
taking Der iuto bis own harem; but 10 a
few weeks he relented, the seal was bro
ken, aud he gave her to Watts
To suppose that pol5gamy cooduces
to happiness is to suppose total subver-
sion of Won ans, Dature. In the matter
of aEection woman is complete moDopo-
hst; she must have all the heart or none.
But 10 Utah she has to be content With
small fraction OF that sw aliest of all hearts,
a Mormon heart, little attention. and no
deFotious. The little home, which ought
TO be her throne aud empire. is lost to
her. They are jealously watched, and
dreadfully abused if they are seen to
show, By even SO much as lance, that
they are unhappy. But the long aud
ANXIOUS countenanees of the "mothers in
Israel" proclaim too plainly their entire
miserY. The i'll assorted children he
offspring of one father and mothers-run
about likesso many wild animals The
fret thing they do. after learning vuleari-
ty, is to wear leather belt with butch
er-kpife struck 10 it; and the next is to
steal from the GeDtiles; then to ride aDi-
mails; and as soon as they can, "by hook
or by crook, get horse, pair OF jung
ling Mexican spurs and a revolver, the J
are then Mormon cavaliers and fit to
steal. rob aud murder emigrants. The
women and girls are coarse, masculine
and uued uca ated, and are mostly drafted
from the lowest stages of society. 1t is
but seldom you meet handsome or attrse'
tive women among them.
The foreign eleGent largely predomin.
ates in Utah The persons ewigrating tc
the Territory are generally from the min
Jog, manufacturing aud rural districts OF
England. The American portion Of the
Mormons are generally Shredder than the
rest, aud are chiefly from the New Eng,
land States. Most of these men are nc
doubt fugitives from justice. aud most OF
them are bankrupt 10 both fortune and
character.
A true pbilauthropist aud well train