The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-16


or any other kind OF marriage 1t will, therefore,
oppose all marriage from cold sense OF religious
duty, as 1t will all marrying for the mere accumula-
siIt will teach the high principles the strict laws
and conditions which alone can render this order 0i
lie successful and then leave 1t, like the question
of being called to preach the gospel to every mans
light and intuitons TO determine when whether 1t
will be right in his case or not. Above all things,
the movement will strongly assert the necessity OF
the highest appreciation OF and Of her high
est development and culture a. the only basis oi
high civilization"
How far this modified or eclectic polygamy
is in consonance with the "highest apprecia-
ton of woman" we leave to the Mormon
elders, aided and abetted by the sympathizers
that have grown so numerous IN TINS COM
munity of late, and who find no stronger
| bond of marriage than inclination.
But in addition to there religious move
ments in Mormonism, there is also political
movement, and the recent conference in
Utah madea demand for admission to the
| Union, which is to be presented and pushed
at this session. The application is in reality
"denand," for it is couched in offensive
| Language, and in terms which resent the pa It
action of Congress. Brigham Young not
lopg since told Senator Trumbull he would
erpel from the territory the Government
officers who we're Objectionable to him. and
I his action in regard to the elders shows he is
as wilful and impulsive as ever.
ference we find an article by Mr.. Colfax in
recent independent, in which the Vice
President briefly but carefully reviews the
history of the Mormons, and then claims
that the laws of the Union shall be enforced
wherever its flag is recognized. In connec-
ton with the discussion, Mr. Colfax shows
how England dealt with the Suttee in India,
OF burning of widows, where they had the
power. This horrid rite was more firmly
Io1 fho
is in the Mormon. 1t was fourteen centuries
older than Christianity. From 1915 to 1926
there were 1854 cases of Suttee murder. Eng
land tried to regulate" it, but failed. The
false religion was too strong. Then Governor
Bentinck determined to extirpote il, and he did
so. despite of Hindoo complaints of ''inter-
ference with their religion, and in spite of
the appeals and agent and money they sent to
England. The Suttee is now prevented where
England rules in India The Mormons claim
the benefit of the laws they oppose. They re-
pudiate those that are not in accordance with
their wishes. The Government has before it
the duty of enforcing its laws and protecting z
its citizens against the old bigot who tyran-
nlzes in Utah. 1t needs not guns to do this.
There is a moral power in the people which
will force Mormonism to respect the law. and
the Pacific Railroad will soon let in light and
example enough to put an end to the hideous
features of their faith.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT-PRO
PECT OF AN EARLY PROCLAMATION.
From the NJ Y. Herald.
1t appears from the official report to Con-
gress on the subject from the Secretary of
State that twenty-one States have ratified
through their Legislatures respectively the
fifteenth amendment, and that those States
are Missouri, Kansas North Carolina, West
Virginia, Massachusetts,, Wisconsin, Maine.
Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Penn
sylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illi-
nois, Indiana. New York, New Hampshire,
Nevada, Vermont. and Virginia, as hereto
| fore given in the HerGL6. 1t appears, how
! ever, that the ratifcations of Missouri and
| Kansas are defective the second section being
omitted in the one case (the section which
| gives to Congress the power, by appropriate
| legislation, to enforce the universal suffrage
| provided for regardless of race or color, and
that in the other case the phraseology of this
section is changed. AS, however, these two
| radical States will each unquestionably soon
| make the needful correction, they may still be
counted in.
| Adding, then, to the official list of ratifying
States Alabama, which has lately adopted the
amendment, and we have twenty-five; but,
deducting New York, whose ratification will
surely be rescinded by our now Democratic
|
twenty-one. We shall, therefore, still re-
quire seven States to make the needful
twenty eight, or three-fourths of all the
States of the Union, which number is thirty
seven. Georgia, in defiance of the recon-
struction laws, having in 1868 expelled the
negro members elected to her organic Legis-
| lature, is to be reconstructed over again,
| according to the fourteenth amendment.
That organic Legislature is to be recalled,
| negroes and all, and the application of the
test oaths will turn the tables upon the over
dainty white members by whom the blacks in
the first instance, were turned out The
President in his annual message, having
recommended this line of Congressional ac-
ton, the bill introduced on the subject will
be passed, and Georgia will be reconstructed
on the basis of the fourteenth amendment
and with her adoption of the fifteenth.
Georgia, then, with Mississippi and Texas,
will swell the States to twenty-four for this
last amendment Rhode Island, Ohio, Iowa,
Minnesota, and Nebraska-all radical States,
with administration Legislatures-will COM
plete the ratification and make the total vote
one more than is necessary, assuming that the
vote of New York will be rescinded immedi-
ately after the organization of the new Demo-
cratic Legislature in January next, and that
this action will be recognized at Washington.
The whole case is clearly in the hands OF
General Grant. We think, too, from his re-
! Communications in reference to Georgia, that
he desires to have this matter settled without
needless loss of time; and, such being the
case, we shall probably have this amendment
proclaimed as part of the supreme law of the
land before the end of the winter. But what
then
This question is answered from various