Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-28
gradfurd Reparter.
Towanda, Thursday, March 28, 1867.
THE MORMON SIN.

met in Chicago in 1860, and nomina-
ted ABRAHAM LINCOLN for the Presi.
dency, denounced Polygamy as a
twin barbarism with Slavery,
thereby promising, indirectly, if not
positively, to put it down, if the gov
ernment was placed into its hands
and now that Slavery is wiped out,
the growing, and equally infamous
sin of Polygamy, is calling for atten-
ton.
The Judiciary Committee o. the
last Lower House of Congress made
a report on the subject, which should
be read by every christian man and
woman in the land. The committee
denounces it as "relic of heathen-
ism and barbarism, contrary to the
spirit of religion, and subversiye of
the marriage relation in all nations
where it is tolerated"
! 1t is fact, known to almost every
person who reads newspaper, that
Mormonism is increasing rapidly
British men, and foolish women, by
the thousands, are flocking to Utah
from this country, and the name is
"legion " of the hordes of the ignor-
ant Europeans, generally Germans,
who flock thither, it's deluded victims.
This better class of emigrants usual
ly bring money with them, and it has
been Mormon policy especially to en-
trap these people and they have
added amazingly to the wealth and
population of this public brothel.
With these facts standing out bold
ly so that all can see them, it has
been a matter of astonishment to us,
that the moral and religious portion
of our country, have not by petition,
or some other mode of expression,
forced Congress, and the Govern
ment, into a determined effort to
crush out this enormous public evil.
For if there is at present one great
wickedness in this land, which is dis
gracing US as people, and threat
ening to subvert all public virtue, it
is this lecherous canker in Utah.
1t is not only at Salt Lake where
polygamy reigns. If it was confined
in its operations, and effects, to that
particular locality, there might be
some excuse for the public neglect !;
but some half dozen rival societies
in the western States, are now flour
ishing, and even threaten to out
Herod Salt Lake itself But more -
In every county in the United States
and i'll some of the counties, many
of the townships-there are men who
openly advocate plurality of wives,
and are only Kindred from practicing
it by the severity of the laws. This
was not s. few years ago ; and
what is spreading this moral virus to
such an alarming extent ? 1t is the
effect, or the result, or Mormonism at
Utah. And if it is not arrested, in
less than twenty years, its advocates
will have gained such strength in ev-
cry part of our country, that it will
be impossible to hinder the system of
plurality of wives from being prac-
ticed in every State and county in
the Union ! Any man who can take
Mormonism as it stood, when it was
driven from Illinois, and compare il
with its present proportions, can de
monstrate this beyond a peradven.
ture to his or her own satisfaction
Yet here are protesting friends of the
country, protesting christians, and
protesting moralists, all standing by
quietly, and allowing this serpent
: that is certain to sting us to death, tc
coil its folds around US to our ruin
, What are the men, and especially the
: women, of this land dreaming about
: Awake, before it is too late
Do people forget that no evi
among men is so seductive, 50 calcu
lated to feed their natural tenden
cies, as this doctrine of a plurality
OF wives Mahomet owed to thi:
peculiar part of his creed, his wond
erful success, so that in twenty year:
he over-ran half the habitable globe
The warm-blooded Asiatics took to i
by the nation and in this country
the Indifferent, the lecherous, anC
wicked, are by far the largest por
tion OF our community, and what
chance is there for religion, for NOR
ais, or for the nation, with such al
evil once pervading the public mind
Do people not see that we arc stand
ing on volcano