Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-30

the doctrine to me and defended as "A
ordinance Of God. Under this law, two
young men, Margetts and Cowdy, when
leaving the Territory, were followed more
than five hundred miles and barbarously
murdered, and hundreds more have met
the same fate, Of whom nothing will ever
be heard, only that they started at such
time for California and "never wrote
back" "Indians" has been the conve-
nient phrase to explain all such affairs.
The third anti-American feature OF
Mormonism is the complete subseryiency
and mental slavery Of women, not as to
polygamy alone, though that is an out
growth, but in everything. Their theol-
ogy (7) teaches that "ss Eve led Adam
out of Paradise, he must lead her back,
and though they hesitatingly admit that
she may secure "a salvation" without
mans help, she can not secure ian ex-
altatiop." She must have husband ITO
lead her into the presence of God, and
introduce her to that husbands glory
"She will not necessarily go to hell be-
cause she is single, but she never can
rise to the first glory" Such an afro
cious and unchristian idea can have but
one tendency, to make woman merely a
creature for mans convenience and plsa-
sure. Hence, all our American ideas, OF
dover, partition, equal descent, and wo-
man holding land in fee apart from her
husband, are unknown to the laws OF
Utah. Everything woman possesses at
marriage becomes absolutely the property
of her husband. The feminine interest
is nowhere provided for, and, in looking
over their laws, if they have any common
law at all, it seems to be transcript OF
that which prevailed in the time Of James
/. The further we pursue the investiga-
ton the more this tendency appears, till
it is plain to be seen there is none of what
we call Americansm here. The spirit
exists neither in their birth, training nor
religion. To them Brigham is the gov
ernment, and Utah is America. They
know no other, and consider it the hight
of presumption for the United States au-
thorities to claim the right to rule over
them. True, they claim to be true Amer
leans, just as the Abyssinians claim to be
true Christians, while it is evident neither
understand their own words. But there
is another curious fact bearing on their
views On the 25th of December, 1882,
Joseph Smith delivered remarkable
phrophesy, detailing what was to happen
to America for her persecution OF the
Saints" II was published in The Seer
--Mormon-of April, 1854, of which
copy lies befJ,a ne. Here it is:
"verily thus saith the Lord concern
ing the wars that will shortly come to
pass, beginning at the rebellion of South
Carolina, which will eventually terminate
in the death and misery of many souls.
The days will come to pass that wars will
be poured out upon all nations, begin
ming at that place for behold the South
ern States shall be divided against the
Northern States; and the Southern States
will call upon other natioEs, even the ma
ton of Great Britain, as it is called, and
they shall also call upon other nations in
order to defend themselves against other
nations; and thus war shall be poured
out upon all nations. And it shall come
to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise
up against their masters, who shall be
marshaled and disciplined for war. And
it will come to pass, also, that the rem
nant which are left of the land 1.-THE In
dians-B J, shall marshal themselves and
shall become exceeding angry, and shall
vex the Gentiles with sore vexation.
And thus, with the sword and by blood
shed, the inhabitants of the earth shall
mourn, and with famine and plague and
earthquakes, and the thunder of heaven,
and the fierce and vivid lightning, also,
shall the inhabitants Of the earth be made
to feel the wrath and Indignation and
Christening hand of an Almighty God,
until the consumption decreed hath made
an end of all nations; that the cry of the
Saints and of the blood of the Saints
shall cease to come up into the ears OF
the Lord of Ssbaoth, from the earth, to
be avenged of their enemies. Wherefore
stand ye in holy places, and be not moved
until the day of the Lord come; for be-
hold it cometh quickly, saith the Lord.
Amen"
You will perceive that of the thousand
predictions in relation to our civil war,
Joseph was among the most shrewd, and
certainly hit on two or three very curious
things. But he met with the difficulty
common to all prophets in these days;
when he ran into particulars he missed
il seriously. With the benevolent de-
sign of saving the country, Joseph Of
fered himself for President, but as he
was rejected. of course the evil is bound
to come. With the Mormons this is the
grand prophesy. War is to go, they say,
till nearly all the men in the Union are
killed, and then the Saints are to return
and set up "Zion in Jackson county,
Missouri, and the faithful, who have
meanwhile gathered, are to possess the
whole land and be husbands to all the
widows and fathers to all the orphans.
Then is to come the time mentioned by
Isaiah, when "seven women shall take
hold Of one man" and agree to earn their
own support if they only may " be called
BY his name to take away their reproach,"
which reproach Of course is childlessness;
or, commercially speaking, women will
be at heavy discount, and men at 500
per cent. premium.
As near as can determine, there have
been about ten thousand commentaries
written and preached on this prophesy,
for the varying circumstances Of every
year, aRd almost every week require new
calculations Of the way it is to come !
about. The war, Of course, settled Il al !
for awhile, but that stopped so suddenly J
lhey maintain il must soon break out J
again, and several Of their commentators /
coucluded this election would signal its /.
What folly for any people 70 !
pretend fAlfy- 10 an institution which ]
hey claim Is going 10 eternal smash in 1