The Placer herald., 1870-03-19
MONGRELIsM AND POLYGAMY.

Inls56, fourteen years ago the Rep biz
can party iu National Convention at Phila.
delpbia, solemnly announced TO the world
10 its platform: "That the Constitution con-
fsrs upon Congress sovereign power over the
Territories Of the United States for their
Government, and that in the exercise Of this
power it is both the right and the duty Of
Congress to prohibit in the Territories those
twin relics Of barbarsm, polygamy and
slavery" This party has now been in pow
er for nine years, and what has it done to
prohibit polygamy9 Nothing, absolutely
nothing. But now that bill is before Con-
gress to prohibit polygamy, Tom Fitch and
little Aaron Sargent, both mongrel Congress.
men from the Pacific coast, each makes a
speech against an adjustment Of this twin
relic Of barbarism and plurality OF wives.
Remember that these are the only two Re-
publican members Of Congress from the Pa.
cific coast and that they both uphold Brig
ham Young and his mormon coherls 10
their "barbarisin." It is fair 10 infer that
Fitch and Sargent express the will and wish
Of the Republican party on the Pacific
coast on polygamy. From the day Dick
Yates, then Governor of Illinois and now
United States Senator, was left 10 tie brush
with bis female major (uot his wife) down
to the present moment, the leaders Of the
Republican party bave been leaning, both
in action and doctrine to lecherous, free
loveism, the twin relic Of polygamy. Va
rious correspondents from Washington have
depicted the Treasury department as little
better than a Turkish harem, ASSERTING that
in many instances the female clerks were
notoriously the mislresses of Congressman.
II echerous, free love scoundrel seduces
the wife Of a modest citizen and Justice is
visited upon the villain, the whole crew Of
mongrs hounds, from Congressman down
to the lowest pulpit brawer, cry out mur-
der and demand the blood OF the rjured
and ruined citizen. These things have been
preached and practiced BY the rulers Of the
Republican party until mormonism has be-
como emboldened and is now proseIy ting the
sinners OF the Beechers, Pbilipses and
Froihinghams right in the city Of churches
on the Atlantic, to the sanity doctrines and
practices of open, barefaced concubnage,
and the two Republican Congressman from
the Pacific coast upheld it and make speeches
against the policy Of prob hitting polygamy
at Salt Lake. Sargent and Fitch say it will
not do to attack Brigham Youug's system
Of polygamy, even by statutory provision
because it will be followed by war, and the
Pacific Railroad will be cut
Tbese puny, sardine Congressmen were
eager for war that resulted in the murder
Of million of oar bravest and best men,
left the country swarming with mourning,
starving widows and orphans, our Treasury
bankrupt and our people taxed as no free
people on earth ever before endured, but
now they oppose law to enforce the very
doctrines they proclaimed fourteen years
ago agains. about two hundred practical
polygamists at Salt Lake. Brigham Youog
growls and Sargent and Fitch 60 down in
their boots.
Washington correspondents agree that
the most successful lobbyists among the
mongrel, tbevpg tyrauis in power at the
Capital are females, aud one of these cor,
respondents suggested in letter that Brig
ham should, when the polygamy bill came
up, select and send to Washington bevy
of his finest looking and smar'est spiritual
wives as lobbyists. Brigham may have
adopted this suggestion; at all events Sar-
gent and Fitch have declared against the
suppression Of polygamy and enough other
mongrel Coogressmen may join them to de.
feat the bill.