Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-08-08
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/ detects the evidences Of conscious degrade.
tion, or the bold aud defiant look of habit.
ual aud hardened sensuality-the women.
with but few excep tions, shrinking from the
goze. OF the stranger, as if fully alive to
the false aud degrading position they are
forced to occupy. Some seem overwhelmed
with shame, Others wear forlorn and
baggard appearance; while few put on u
cheetful air, affecting TO be satisfied with
their sad condition. 80,
has Without entering into minutin, / moy
instance the following as few OF the bodily
pecnliares that strike the medical man ia
mingliDg with the inhabitants of Salt Lake
City Besides the attenuation mentioned.
there is n general lack of color-ihe cheeks
of oil being sallow and cadaverous, indi.
eating an absence Of good health. The
eye is dull and lustreless--the mouth al
most invariably coarse aud vulgar. i In
fact, the features--the countenance---t
whole face, where the divinity Of the mau
should shine out, is mean and sensual to
the point Of absolute ugliness. have no.
where seen anything more pitiful than the
faces Of the women here, or more disgust
ing than the entire appearance of the men.
~ is singular circumstance that the ply
siognomical appearances of the children
are almost identical. The striking peculi
arity Of the facial txpression-the albu.
minous types Of constitution, the light.
yellowish hair, the blue eye, and the dirty.
waxcn hue of the skin, indicate plainy the
diatbesis to which they belong. Tho are
puny and of scorbutic tendency. The
exlesnal evidences, are numerous that these
polygamic children arc doomed to an early
death--the tendency TO phthisis pulmonalis
being eminent aud noticeable.
'''T The evidences Of natural degeneracy .ars
more palpable In the youthful than in the
adult population; the evils of this pernici-
Gus system not having taken full effect
looking race Of children have not met
with, even among the vice and squalor of
our larger cities Que looks in vain for
those signs of constitutional vigor and stur.
dy health common to the juvenile portion
oil what may be considered but country
town. SO far as food, climate, aud other
external causes are concerned, the children.
as well as the adults here, are favorably
their sanitary conditions
are generally good; wherefore, we must
look to the evils cngendered by their rel-
gious and social system for the agents of
this physical -inferiority. In this system,
the, Psychologist and moralist will not fail
TO detect The ample causes for decay even
SO marked aud melancholy. That is not o
mere fancy, or the result Of prejudice,
may say, the same impression has been
made upon all who have ever visited Salt
Lake City, aud published their opinions oa
the subject. Indeed, we, fad, in oil the in.
stincls and habits Of these people. , full con-
irmaton OF the physical facts above set
forth. They are as gross aud vulgar 10 all
their tastes, thoughts, and styles OF expires.
siOp, as in their bodily appearance. More
than half their language Is made up of slang
phrases; nor do they relish the efforts Of
heir preachers, unless well iuterlarded
vi this style of speech. As conse.
Iheace, these men indulge freely in the
most trivial aud, sometimes, in the most
vulgar apd blasphemous expressions, to the
great delight aud mental Utilization Of their
hearers. .---.. ..... ....
Tue Mormon, with few exceptions, is low.
1red aud vulgar. Dancing is bis favorite
nu,ement-forming, in fact, not only
pas'Ime, but part of his religious exer.
;,ses. I His conversation is of the most SIM
Die and commonplace character His
thoughts never soar above bis amusements
r. domestic affairs. He deals in the gos-
ip and scandal of his neighborhood. Tue
lo mons, of both soxes. are an Unlocking
ct, and when we have said that they are
rugal, industrious and content, we have
about all the virtues they cau
lain, or that we can conscieutiously con-
EIDE TO that wretched system of degrade.
ion known as Mormanism.