Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-03-28
rom he ". Y. Tribune.
The Twin AbominGtiOns. ..

Most men would think poly samy to be
an olfense carrying with it its own punish.
meut. If the tendency of even monoga
nous simplicity be to lift aud breakfast.ta
ble debates, what must be the ma agnjfcent
wrath ola patriarch who can arraign q
score Of wives upon an indicl tHent of cold
tea aGd half.baked rolls but who is still
compelled TO withdraw his charges by the
rafting musketry of twenty nimble tongues.
Brigham of Utah is represented TO be a
Stout creature, with quite an oriental talent
for administering the affairs of bis Serag-
Iio aud we will do him the justice to say
that, 10 our knowledge at least, be has new
er sacked any insubordinate spouse ia his
Salt Lake Bosphorus. But the mild and
truly atfectionate Government OF the Uui.
led States is qale right in taking it for
granted that Young was getting to be a
little old, requires relief and in proposing
to take from him ninety nine per cent. of
his uxoriouS embarrassment. 70 our utter
astonishmeut, the Mormon objects to this
proceeding, is unwillin TO part with one
single individual rib of his whole mqgnifi
cent collection, and must be mildly persuad
ed Tor his own good, through the potent
logic of an Indictment. Ills a curious
world. Here at the East, hundreds of
aretches are clamoring 10 the Courts to
rid them of one spouse, and theIe at the
West, Brigham aud other much.married
Saints are struggling for assorted lois, mum
bering from dozen to a gross, of the
same article. Thus il is that human ma
Iure is most incousistently asinine. Thus
il is that the burbarous Mormon Bible,
which is nolorIously pack OF lies, has
Taught 10 its admirers patience which, in
90 many instances, the highest Revelation
has failed 10 lnculcate IN It's ptoiessOrs.-
WOuderIu is habit, and the world Is real-
y Indebted to the Sultan Of Salt Lake for
u new proof of It's po'eucy. Mithrdates,
breakfasting upon batadOHta and luucniug
upon a. ,senic, was loul to hlm.
We shall await the result Of this curious
experiment 10 social ethics with couslderu.
ole inteles' for if the Government eau put
doan prlrdilty Of wives ~ Utan, whv ~.li
doubt It's abihIy to put down tue Reoel.
hou : In DOeh cases, We cuufeSs that VIZ
en- erlaIn lively hope Of The most faVOiI-
tile results. ln DOin cases we have a righL
To anticipate The trlut9ph OF thSl ImPerious
civilization which makes no terms elIher
with legalz zed brothels or ba raeoOhs---
There Is restraining po@er somewhere
which forbids man 10 60 backward, aud et
iecluslIy prevents The leconstructIon OF
Oarbarous Instl, l,utiOa- Of LarOarous lnsIitu
tloGs The Anglo Saxon race is rs likely
to discard It's coat aud breeches. aud. oblv
ous OF gunpowder, u belake itself in us
own painted skin, TO the speanng OF game,
as to Sustain. a society having for its base
either Polygapy or Slavery, IL Is one Of
lhe dlvluesL things 10 the economy OF this
dlyiuely created world. that there is no
resurrecliol f6f convicted aud executed
aud buried falsehood There is 30 console.
Ilou for Us, in this chaos of conflicting NOR.
al elements, except in a steady faith that
whatsoever things are unjust bear but u
limited life. Ii is not in vain that so many
OF the Incorporated bluudsrs OF . uiankiuo
have already totlered aud tumbled into d
omb from which there can be no resurrec.
Iion, 1t is not in vain that our eyes,
! placed 10 the frontal regions, must look