New-York tribune., 1866-12-01
NO. FORTY-FITE.

Matrimonial adyices from Utah state that Mr.. Brig
ham Young has Just taken foriy'hlth wife: the ac-
tua number Of bis family not being increased, as No.
23 died the other dag. This looks very little liko
abandoning polysamy; and it IL automatically de-
monstgable thai q Mormon gna.eis 70 have half
hundred wiyes, tia Gentle" inhabitants must many
Of thOm, be forced p seibaSy' iato which the gem
tie reader ii he were also Gentle and living at salt
Lake, might possibly regard as unjust, if not intoer-
able. Putting moral considerations out OF the ques-
ton It is evident that as mere matter Of economical
arfShsement. while e1efg y man Should have one wile
be Is eatited TO 20 moro than onei and
when somebody gets forty.liye somebody else
must go without any. Whether the effect Of this
deprivation in Utah is to exacerbate the bachelor
Gentiles and so render them difficult to get along
with, we do not know but if the accounts which
reacl from that quarter are to be credited there is
altogether more assassination going in these parts
than We should consider agreeable These little
events our correspondent writes to rs, are "of COM
mon occurrence" which must be unpleasant to those
who do not receive the gospel OF the late Smith. We
are certainly for the largest toleraton; and gen.
eral rule, we would have nobody prosecuted for con-
science sake but we would have a man who feels it
to be a religious duty to shoot us mildly restrained
We wonder that Mr.. Young, who is SO
much under the influence Of lovely woman,
does not grow more amiable; but We Won
der still more, being man Of sense and in many re-
spects Of good judgment that he does not at once
abolish all the nonsense aud wckodness of poygamy.
1t s only question of time. The practice Is doomed
later 10 disappear; it is precisely what it
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the sophstry in the world can make 1t nothing else;
and, as il is not absolutely part Of the Mormon faith
but Is only tolerated by that faith, and as it is totally
incompatible with the best forms Of civilization We
do not understand why Mr.. Brigham Young does not
set good example to his neighbors by putting away
fortyfour OF his wives, and by ceaying faithfully 10
the fortyh. The ceremony would be impressive, and
furnish the subject for grand historical picture, with
twenty-five repudiated ladies' upon one side an equal
number upon the other, and No. Forty-fye standing
side by side with the Governor In the center! The
day which witnessed such spectacle as this would be
the brightest in the history Of Utah Then and then
only would There begin to be something like social peace
in that beautiful terrtory and until then the Stae re-
lgion II We may call ii SO, will be q prosecuting in.
tolerant, numbering religion, such as nobody has a
right to set up and maintain in any State or Territory
subject TO the Constitution of the United States AS for
the religion such as 1t is 1t must take its chances if
there be anything goodinit that good will survives and
whatever is bad ought not to survive another day. 1t
Is worse than folly 70 talk about conscience when con-
science mpes to crime or to oppression. What respect
arc we bour to have for the conscience which prcks
on ts possessor 10 MURDER aud to urder in its most
shameful shaDei Any rascal eau pl0ad q revelation.
Any homicide can justify himself by the Divine COM
mand There Is but form Of religion that is not TO
10 toleyged IN al AWeglgei and ii II tbat VhieA sea