Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-03

Tn.r-z.y, Fsbrusry ., 1870.
A NEW CHAPTER OF MORMON
INFAAY.


4 NEW CHA PTER OF MORMON
INFAAY
Mormonism is the most delightfully."- impu-
dent Of all the impostures that ever broke
lsw, or deded public opinion. The Dese-et
News, organ of the Church, in Its issues of
January 14th and 18th, contains several full
columns OF reports, under this head:
Great Indignation Nesting
OF the Laolics of Salt Lake Guy to pro-
test against The passage Of Cutton's
Bill.
Now just this heading is, itself, amazing,
stunning, prodlgious. But the proceedings
themselves include q series OF resolutions,
aud the reported speeches of some twelve
women, whose assertions and expressions
quite outdo anything that our readers could
ever have dresmt Of. Mrs. Sarah H. Kim
ball presided. and in her opening remarks
said
"We are not here to advocate womans
rights, but mans rights. The bill in ques-
tiOn would not only deprive our fathers,
husbands and brvlhers Of enjoying the priv
ileges bequeathed to citizens of the United
States, but 1t would deprive us, as women,
Of the privilege Of selecting our husbands,
and against this we most unqualihedly
protest"
Then BRthshcbs W. Smith made speech
to the audience, (Which, it is stated, "dense-
ly packed" the immense Tabernacle saying
she knew Joe Smith and his brother Hyrum
TO be "pure men," that from their lips she
had been taught "the principle of celestial
marriage" 1. 9. Palygamy; and closing
thus:
~ cannot but express my surprise, min
gled with regret and indignation ut the re-
cent proceedings Of ignorant, bigoted. and
uufeeiing mcn, headed by the Vice President
/ TO aid inIUlersnt sectariln and reckless spec
ulators, who seek prescription aud plunder,
and who feel willing to rob the inhabitants
of these valleys OF their hard-earned posses
sions, and what Is dearer, the constitutional
boon of religious liberty"
Mrs. Levi Rtcr's address Was brief, but
she said great deal, in a small space. I'm
slikc women in other States she was "happy
pnd proud" to say, the Utah women edo
not ask for the right Of franchise nor do
we ask for more law, more liberty or more
iIbnt1 eha AtOCoohA AtOIA Jul hurpeAAo
and brothers. for there Is no spot on this
b wide earth where kindness and affection
y are more bestowed upon woman, and her
!. rights so sacredly defended"!l
The resolutions denounce Mr.. Cullom's
Bill, and Senator Cragin's Bill, agalnst Poly
gamy, as "foul blots, "absurd Documents
"atrocious " insults" and "mslicious at
= tempts to sutvert the rights Of civil and 10
~ ligious liberty" But one resolution thus
reads:
& Resotued.-That we acknowledge the In.
Institutions of the Church of Jesus Christ Of
Iatler-day Saints as the only reliable safe
kuard Of female virtue aud innocence and
e. Inc only sure protection against the fearful
bin of prostitution and its attendant evils,
how prevalent abroad, and, ss such, We are
and shall be united with our brethren, In
sustaining them against each and every en-
croachment.
Mrs. Wilmarth East then spoke, and de-
clarcd that she was thankful today" that
she had the honored privilege of being the
happy recipient of one OF the greatest
principles ever revealed to man for his re-
demption and exa,tation in the kingdom
of God, namely plurality OF wives!!"
She was followed by Eliza II. Snow, one
of the unfortunates who live in Brigham
Youngs harem. She asserted that there
was no place " on the face of the earth.
where woman has more liberty, and where
she enjoys such high and glorious privi.
g leges as she does as a Laiter-day Saint,
and she stated, that /" unlike Josephine" nc
political inducements, threats, or persecu
tons could compel the Utah women to re-
lipguish "their Matrimonial ties."
4 Harriet Cook Young, another of Brig
hams women, Mrs. H T. King, Mrs. Horne
Mrs. Pratt, and Phoebe Woodruff, also
q spoke, to the same tenor, the Mrs Horn,
s. saying that she was "the wife of mar
{" who practices plurality of wives, and ex
6 poets always to sustain him."
"a Now, of course, this meeting was only
new dodge of Brigham Young. Polygam,
is indicted by the Christianity, and civiliza
lion of the country, before the bar of Con
Il gress, and bills are introduced which will
strike at the root of the monstrous and hor
rible ulcer. Whereupon, this man Young
ingenious as Satan, and with brazen effron
terry that no Satan ever yet depicted coul
have begun to equal, actually forces the poo
e puppets who have become his own and h.
Institutions victims, to trumpet to the worl
defence of their own fallen condition, an
assert, in the face Of the worlds pity, th
81 horrible delusion which has to their eye
ii. Ga
For them, no one can do otherwise tina
weep, hut for the knaves and hypocrIts
who Obliged them thus to brazenly fiaur
their condition before the public gaze, n
law that ever General Cullom, or Judge Or,
gin drew can be ton prompt or too decsiv,