The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-03-03

..wfrAr THE MoEMoxs PROPOSE TO DO
A Letter from one Of their High Priests.
From the Louisville COurier-Journal.
AGENCY OF THE MORMON MissIOS,l

states and Territories. and to raise an army
of $4,000 men to enforce its unrighteous
enactment Lincoln called for 1900 men
10 suppress the rebellion, and killed not less
than 100000 men, North and South. in bat
tie. in camp and in hospital, TO accomplish
the result. They declared the rebellion sup
pressed. and yet keep larger army and de-
mand larger estimates TO preserve the peace
than they thought necessary to suppress
the rebellion. Your currency is trembling
in the scale with reputation and now you
propose an aggressive war upon NORA pa
ais; war against an institution OF pr1VaIe
life, an institution sanctioned by patriarchai
ages. with Solomon, the wiseSt OF men, as
! its chief excmplar and exponent. TO us
who see the undertow OF human life. whlch
| bears back into the deep the bubbles tina;
| burst against the shore, the movement Is
| even ridiculous it does not assume the pro-
| portion to threaten. Why, sir, when our
prophets announced the theory of human
| life il was received by priest. lay men and
| tue big church with mingled jeers and des
ecratiOns. 1t was regarded as the vagary OF
] a mailman. When progressive 1ntellects
/ rallied around us. anu Nauvoo arose in its
/ beauty and loneliness, a thing OF marvel.
1 men guilty of incest and adultery arose in
/ their madness and drove us among the In
di1ns. and into the waste and desert place.
| We conquered the Inhospitalities OF climate
| and unfruitfulness of nature, and We erect
| ed in the wilderness temples of beauty, and
| clothed the sterile field with luxuriant and
useful vegetation. And now washington
| city, with Grant, the butcher captain, a. its
head with Sickles, the murderer of his
| wife's paramour, TO represent US in enlight-
| eued courts, aud Fitzpatrick, the rider, with
his amours marking his diplomatic career
| as his torchlight of temples and dwellings
once marked his military path with its We
nality, shaming Rome in its most corrupt
| days, its hordes of office holders living on
/ public pap, feeding on the entrails of rot
! ten treasury this conglOmeration of gam
bling hells; this prOtege OF Wall street, with
with Fisk. DR., of the Opera House, the
spoiled first-class actor, as the representa-
| tive of one Mrs. Grant, the great eXemplar
of monogamy; this devil turned monk, will
now preach and initiate practical crusade
against polygamy. Let all the mOnOgamists
| in Washington City come; let all without
| the sin of polygamy come with rocks in
their hands, and with a corporaFs guard of
| saints we will defy them. | am missiODa-
nv OF the Mormon Church. and | know that
| whereof [ affirm. Shakerism, without vi
! Gality, fingers in your midst; but Mormon
ism, like young giant has set its civiliZa-
| ton upon the steppes of the Rocky Noun
tains. Of ancient race, in its new birth it
has grown like the giant trees of the Wes-
tern wilds, and now its shadow rests even
| upon adulterous Washington. | will say
| nothing of our revelation; that is reserved
| for those who wish to investigate it's claims.
Let Grant remember that it is the Grand
Army of the Republic that wins the fight.
and not the millions of STAY at home pat
bullets. Now, our force is altogether an ag-
gressive force. 1t equ2ls in military. in civ
il-militant and progressive and defensive eff
| ticiency full five times their number of mere
ly individuals with inherited sentiments In
progressive force we have large majority
| in the United States. We can raise five
times as many lighting men as the United
States government ca9 raise for prOscrip-
| tive war. Your forts and arsenalS are not
threatened; your authority is not subyert-
ed; your rakes and prOfligates, from pri-
Yates to major generals. (and they are le-
gion,) will not fight against a practice, fol-
lowed under the forms of law, which they
| have followed without the forms of law
Qne-half of the white men in the United
States are practical poly gamists, one half of
all the white unmarried women favor it,
The majority of all your married men and
women at times are tired of monogamic life.
All OF the negroes are practical and theO-
retical polygalnists. They control all the
Southern States and efforts will soon be in
stituted to make it the fundamental law of
all the States. New England is divided be-
tween Fourierism and polygamy. There
are hardly enough simon pure monogamists
there to plant as martyrs for the seed of the
church. Washington City and New York.
and all your pOpulous cities are but hollow
catacombs OF morality, without any solidity.
The Indians covering our plains and remain
ing on the reserves in Carolina. Georgia and
Florida are poly gamists. East Tennessee is
but hive of polygamists, a harem on every
hill side and in every valley, and the half of
every other tate is in statu quo. The regu-
lar enlisted Mormon force is superior to the
entire military force Of the United States
You say the rebel force is but scattered not
subdued. Mexico, with her chapparal, her
mosquitoes, and her rowing polygamic
hQrdes. are our natural allies. Now what
can you rely on? The mOnOganic church /?
Not at all. The truly religious are opposed
to all wars and the valiant fighting men are
all polygamists. and will not do the fighting
for the cause of your nOn-resisting saints
| Your churches are at war with themselves
You have monogamists aggressive, and DO
lygamIsts defensive, in every church. Your
house is divided. 1t cannot stand itself:
how make war upon united moral power
held together by common sympathy, pro-
gressive tenets, and common persecution !?
| To patriot, it may be sweet in the arms of
| victory for ones country, to die. But what
| rake or prOtiigate wants to die because we
protect and support all our wives, and they
do not? Aud here comes polygamic China,
and the c-y from every district is Come
| over and help us labor - and the cry is heard
in million wales, and there is now pack
ing of household goods and a march to the
sea from every city and town. Soon the
| swarthy Chinaman will shade every Cam
| casian temple, and mOnOgamy will take its
place with Shakerism and other obsolete
creeds as the Off-shoOt of distempered fan
cy which had its day, like General Grant.
| Mrs. Grant, and the actor Fisk. To enumer-
/ in the churches perhaps numbering 100000
/ fighting men, headed by Grant Sickles. and
/ Fitzpatrick 100000. POlygamy has a regu-
lar force org anized-5OO. 600. Now our fight
/ ing force can whip five times the number of
non- miltants.
We have as practical polygamists the head
of the mouogamic army-General Grant
and Cabinet, consuls. diplomats and naval
! officers. We have five million practical DO
/ lygamists in the monogamic church. Now
add all the negroes, male and female: one
I half of the white females now cIamorinc
| for the rights of suffrage and debarred from
marriage; all the female who are made out
casts Tor lapses that are considered gallant
in the males; all of the Indians; all the
Cinnamon present and to come and You will
nnd militant power second to none in the
world. | will add that our agents have
proselytes in every court of Europe: that
our system has advocates in every fireside
there. Mormon emigration is coming. with
wealth and intelligence and physical yiuor
and we bid defiance to every crusade that
originates in the corrupt courts of Wash
ington. We have not, as has Washington. a
soil catacomed for the graves of illegitimate
in tants strangled at their birth. Our chill
dren all receive the fostering care of the
State. The pagan mother of the Ganges
dedicates her child, and custom dedicates the
surviving widow to their gods Monogamv
consecrates its numerous baStards to a secret
death and burial, aud devotes too often the
helpless maid and widow to prostitution
and you call that religion. Go through our |
cities and towns, and where will you find |
legallzed prostitution, restitution, child |
murder, drunkenness and profanity amono
women, and heartless profiigacy. desertio5' |
drunkenness. abandonment, infideliry and /
wife-beating among our men? We cbaI- /
lenge an investigation. IL the tree be judg- |
ed bv its fruits, we will put the meanest /
Mormon town, with its raw recruits from a /
gallant and unfaithful church, skilled in
amours and liasons. and stake our reputa-
tation upon a comparison even of those raw
recruits with Washington morality. We
in ifa Cen Grant INnnflar,on