Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-12-14

ono husband with one wife. In Utah,
what they condemn as "the great institu-
ton of monogamy" is practiced under
the pretense of religion, of revelation, of
duty, of morality. Nor is this all, teach
es them that man may take as one of
his wives his half sister, the offspring Of
his o,on mother. Religion" tells them
that it is right and fitting that the daogh-
tiers of his own brothersand sisters may
be made the mothers ofhis children" Re-
ligion" assures them thata man may take
mother and all her daughters into the
sacred companionship'of wifehood togeth-
err, living alternately IN that relation with
each as the weeks and months pass by,
and having the children of them all, by
one father, domiciled under the same
roof. Need l pursue this argument fur
Their? If such incest and bigamy are to
be tolerated and vindicatod as "religion, {"
it is certainly no wonder that the Apostle
finds it difficult to say" whether the
Hindoos ought to be restrained in their
fiery "relgious" rites, if they immigrated
hither.
| ~. IS UTAH WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
Here only, in the whole civilized world,
are practices like these | have referred
to tolerated: Here only, in the nation,
arc the laws of the United States openly
ignored and defed. Here only, from
ocean to ocean, dare any man proclaim
that, as he has done before, he will drive
out the officers of the Republic if they
preform their duties EXCEPTIONALLY to him.
Four long years the nation struggled, in
an agony of blood, to compel obedience
to its laws and submission to its authority
all over the South. [ would not revive
the recellectious Of that struggle, now
happily ended, except to say that hun
dreds of thousands of those who warred
against us were led by pulpit and by
statesmen alike, as well as by the public
opinion which surrounded them, to believe
that they were right. But the nation
resolved that wherever the territorial area
of the Union extended, and wherever the
flag ofthe Union had right to float, there
the laws of the Union should be obeycd
and the authority of the Union should be
respected. Unlike those, however, who
sought to secede from the Union, the
Mormons claim the benefit of every law
that they see fit to approve-homestead,
naturalization, protection of property by
courts and government, legislative and
judicial Offices in their territory, etc.-and
trample under foot such other laws of the
government under whose flag is their
home, as they see fit to reject 1t is time
to understand whether the authority Of
the nation or the authority Of Brigham
Young is the supreme power in Utah
whether the laws of the United States OF
the laws of the Mormon Church have pre-.
cedence within its limits.
have endeavored fairly, and without
bitterr ess, to discuss this question in the
various places in which it is presented by
the Mormon preachers themselves.
have not looked to armies as the solution
of this question. But there is a mora
power in the people Of the United States
if they speak in regard to this stain OF
tht national cscutcheon, with one united
voice, as England did to the Brahmins
There is an authority in the Congress o.
the United States, which is everywhere
else recognized. And in that power, and
in that authority, if combined and made
manifest, | have faith and hope.