Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-04-12
The Gazette 4 Golltet

PLAIN TALK IN MoRMoNDoM.--
Free speech seems to DO breaking in
upon Mormondom. The Union We
detto, published at Salt Lake City,
talks ms ii It were not afraid OF
Brigham Young:
THE SACRED GUARD.
Under that head the Vedette says
The citizens who are early risers
may almost any morning eee persons
IN the form Of men---but with few Of
rnanhood's proud attributes aud lofty
sentiment. or they could not brint
themselves to submit TO tho desecra.
tion--skulking home, from the me
NAL and degrading service of guard
ing the harem Of tho chief degrader
Of women in Utah, while tho grand
Bashaw slumbers in that unhallowed
place whore crushed hearts are inn
prisoned, aud woman's fond aspira.
lions blighted.
Foreigners, was ID not crushing
infliction to you Ia the Fatherland,
to be compelled to guard the des.
potic kings and emperors whom you
hated, aud whose rule was grinding
to your souls 7 And yet you here
submit to an infinitely deeper degra-
dation, "a more revolving servitude,
whore there is no compulsion but the
will of tyrant whom you may
spurn. If the proudest and most
despotic Of the European kings or
emperors attempted to degrade the
poorest peasant girls In his empire
by devoting them TO vile and unholy
uses, as the hoary prophet system.
aticalIy degrades tho fair daughters
OF Utah, he would be hurled from the
throne by the volcanic vengeance OF
an uprising people, driven like the
vile Iarquin, to Everlasting ban
ishment." How then, arc you fallen
from manhood's proud estate when
you not only give the aged volup-
tuary OF the Lion House your daugh.
tars and sisters, TO minister to his
vile passions, IA concubines, but
guard and watch him while he mol.
lutes your race and damns your name
to infamyl
BUILDING UP THE KINGDOM.
Under this head the Vedette
chronicles the following:
A Mormon at Coalville, Summit
county. forty miles from here, had
two "babies" born to him tho other
night, by two Of his wives, with Just
forty minutes difference between the
infants ages But what's the worst
about the barbarous thing, is that one
Of those is tho other's mother-not
an uncommon case in Utah The
"happy husband" has been here
with the Saints full sixteen years,
working "like a hired man." and vet
has only an adobe cabin, with only
one bed in it, and garden patch, as
the resalt OF their boosted Utah en-
terprise That's all what's left from
the yearly tithings-barring the
babies.
Then follows a
QUERY FOR THE SAINTS.
We will bet bran new briar stem,
and mere-sham thrown in, that there
isn't a polygamist posted enough in
law to give the relation which exists
between the children begotten by
the same father, but by different
"wives"-where one Of those wives"
was the others mother-a case quite
common here in Utah. And wen
60 them a pipe-stem better, that there
isn't n Philadelphia lawyer in the
country who can solve such misce
genation cases, scientifically, scrip
tu"ally or correctly! o! fie 4 sic |
on such beastly barbarism as that !;
and well ye know, and sho,o IL In
your very CONTINGENCIES that it is SO. |
Your slave bound women show il in
their confidence lacking looks. Both
of ye at heart believe you're doing
morally wrong, and contrary to com
mon decency
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