The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-04

grouped on the parlor WaIlsl But,
taking the entire community together,
it is estimated that not one man IN
ten is in Polygamy," and the ratio
Is placed by many much higher
Very many are too poor to afford IT,
and others, [ am constrained to pc
lieve, cannot reconcile it with the
nobler instincts Of their hearts anG
their attachment to the one ,Wlie o.
their now cheerful household. AS
iilnstrafive of how the system
works when practical application OF
= = ottamnted. | was informed
~ - cod authority. that one
~ ~ tbe Mormons, highest IN au--
t ~ and influence, whose name L
have had an interesting and lovely
d@rghfer lust ripening into woman
Loo9 One of the loTdly Saints, the
nossessor of several wives, had it re-
Eeaied to him that she was to be
!. sealed to him in marriage: The
father got wind Of the revelation, and
quietly but expeditiously he hurried
her of to one Of the Northern States
and there she remained until her
death. It was unnatural to the low
ing fathers heart to permit his
the altar of bestial passion.
Said well-informed young lady.
born and reared in Salt Lake, and
devoted Mormon in all out Polygamy,
said She" do not know OF a single
happy and contented family where
Polygamy exists. in all this city, ex-
cept one, and that is G1here the husband
married sisters" / was invited with
a number of ladies and gentlemen,
travelling companions, to spend the
afternoon, yesterday, at the attractive
and comfortable residence Of lead
| ing Mormon. After pleasant call,
where all was neatness, order and
apparent happiness, meeting only the
one wife, who alone inhabited the
house with her intelligent and agree
| able daughters, one of our ladies com
| plimented the husband on the pleas
| ant visit, the happiness OF his house
| hold. and expressed her great graft
fcation that he only had one wife.
beg your pardon, madam, was his re-
lsponse, but / have just lite while
ago returned from visit to my othel
q1ife. who lives down on - Street.
| The Iady's husband told me this
morning that his wife went back tC
| her room at the hotel and burst into
tears at the thought of such a state oil
domestic society. And SO it must at.
i feet every pure womanly heart. The
oldest of these daughters, a sWee
miss of sixteen, has been absent II
New York and the East visiting thit
summer. and she has returned home
a bitter opponento of the whole religion
and openly declared her intense loath
| inc of Polygamy. She also said tina
some of Brigham Youug's most in
teresting daughters boldly told thei
father that they never would marry
Mormon, and that the first Gentle tina
won their hearts should have thei
! hands In marriage. The leaven i
working among the young Mormons
as they see more of outside society
but the power, and superstition, ant
bigotry of the Church are as yet all
, perVading; and there is no dawn yet
that I could discover.
] Said I to one of the prominen
| Government officers of Utah Terri
, tory, How can we keep this large
Furnishing and orderly community GU
of the Union?" Never" said he
let US recognize this institution o
polygamy, this system Of debaueher.
{ and crime. Let them stay out of thu
Union as a State till the cracE
, O. doom. Let us see (if it does no
soon destroy itself) if the Almight.
will not make of this plain a seoonC
, Sodom and Gomorrah Of destruction
or hurl upon them these Wahsatcl
Mountains"
And so with last look at the granC
mountains robed in their snowy dress
and the beauty Of the plain, we hur
ried away in the stage to-day to tn,
station, and now await the train fol
Sacramento. j. w. T.