Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-12-16
MORMON w MEN.


rea iers will ask for our views of the condi
tiou and social status of the Mormon
women With very few exceptions, the
Mormons did not introduce US to their
wives, and we we're told that is their usual
custom From all we could observe, how.
ever, and from the assurance OF our GENTLE
friends, some Of " hom have lived in Salt
Lake for years, We became satisfied thai
there is not cheerful, contented. aud real
happy Mormon woman in all Utah. As
we saw them in the streets, the tabernacle,
and elsewhere, they appeared to Us detected
and heart-brOken. Perhaps we can better
illustrate their condition, If pardoued for
revealing the following incident; On the
evening We left Chicago. a large number Of
ladies and gentlemen called at my house 10
bid the Speaker aud myself good bye. Some
Of my lady friends gave me a miscbievous
nudge and soid: You will take Salt Lake
in yonr journey I replied Certainly,
that lies directly upon our raroute. Well,
they said, now don't stay there too long,
and let those Salt Lake beauties steal away
your heart. Poioling to madam. said
Do you see that palefaced lady there
amoug the crowd I Yes, see Mrs. B =
said That feeble woman, always in deli
cafe health. bas ruled me perfectly for,
twenty Eve years, and what in the world
could do with half dczep stroug, healthy
wives z Talking playfully with several
Mormon gentlemen on polygamy. | told
them this little incident, when one OF them
remarked, with significant emphasis (: II
you had halfa,do1en wives, itwon'G then
be your place to rule That's it exactly.
The Mormon women are ruled, aud, from
the very position in which they are plsced,
they must be. They are, and must be,
slaves not only to the viii, but 10 the lusls
of men. When woman ceases to be the
equal and the glory of her husband. she
becomes hopelessly degraded. Envy. jeal'
ousy, and her other baser passions subdue.
and. SO 10 speak, sponge out the higher
and the nobler principles of her nature -
Thus 1t often happens that the more wives
a man has, The more all but the last ope
will urge him to take. For instance, No.
Five is The youngest, aud the pet of the
husband. 10 order to bring down her high
looks, The first four regard with favor the
prospect Of the sixth being added to their
number, and often even ,eonspire with
w,omauly art to bring the match about -
The differeuce between O ffih and sixth
part OF husbands attentions. as the math
ema ,icisus sometimes say of in6nilessima
quaint tiles, Is SO small that it may be neg
lected. In This way, as in many Others.
the tendency Of polygamy Is to extend aud
increase the :inseparable evils by which
Providence has surrounded II. The certain
results Of this system do not yet appear, for
,ihe leading men among the. Mormoas grew
to manhood 10 New aRd Old EUglsnds New
York. and other Siates,j bat. IL permitted
10 exist--as II eertaiply should not---4for
two or three generations, the. essential
brutality Of degrading woman to The posi-
ttloq of q mere animal. TO give birth to
other human animals. viii be manifest in oil
its glaring aud stppendous ~Ickedness.-
May The nation be spared from the sin and
the reproach Of such, aspse.sels. ''''' 'l''"
| ('at IEleHAx YouSs
Il A a -. II 4 Il Al "a