The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-02-08
Polygamy-Demscraey.

e there was hmes not long ago, when
slavery and polygamy were wont to be
referred TO as ''twin relics of barbarism. -.
Slavery Is dead, but polygamy, it seems,
must hsve a yokefellow, and how could
it be better mated than with Democracy
that kind of Democracy which learns
nothing and forgets nothingP But the
polygamists should reflect whether they
can afford the union; proposed by the
Democratic party. Thatparty is q sort
Of upas-tree which spreads, . deadly
malaria throughout the radius of its
malign influences -Tf-.
The pathway traced by the Demo-
cratic party in its hunt for the last ditch
Is strewn with the wreck Of measures
and systems of administration upon
which it has layished its poisonous af-
lection: The embraces Of the Demo-
cratic party are, like those of bear
hearty but fatal As over the entrance
10 his He'll, Dante inscribed this awful
warning; AL hope abandon, Ye who
enter heres so history writes over the
portals Of the temple of modern .Ameri-
can Democracy. alliances with this,
political hariots are signs Of impending
ruin" v'fs1afs 81. 80 - -
Slavery was intrenched behind the.
Constitution and might long have defied
the Abohtionists. But, recklessly throw
ing itself into the arms of the Demo
cratic party, it quickly perished- "a
The Democratic party eoaxed the
Southern people into q ''solidn alle-
glance with it after the peace Of ,Appo-
mattox, and for fifteen years all enter
prises at the South languished, decayed
and died, while the solid Republican
North prospered. But at the first sign
of revolt in Virginia the sound Of reviv-'
ing industry Is. heard throughout the
length and breadth of the late Confed-
eracy. srgo 81 soai sli 90 SsrsTsa ~.
The Democratic party took Greeley.
and Trumbull. and Doolittle, and host
of Republican malcontents to its bosom
breathed upon them. and they are po-
htically dead and long since buried out
of sight. a1aar ~ s5-is ra1
Uncle Sammy Tlden took. his State
reform measures into the Democratic
camp, declaring that reform was "nec-
essary,n and the Democratic party
shouted the refrain hoarsely, and mar
shaled their truncheon hourishers, and,
Notwithstanding his school-district sys-
tenn of campaigning, carried the hero Of
Cipher Alley in funeral procession to his
grave, burying him with his promised
reforms. n 71i l.lEa tf.. Irt.l Ms,
But there is no objection to an alli-
ance between the Democratic party and
the polygamists, at least on the part Of
, those who want to see the abomination
of Mormonism wiped from the face Of
the earth. The alliance was to be ex-
pected in the natural order of events.
The struggle with the monster of po-
lygamy has been long, but rather lam
guild than arduous. The abuse still
f1ourishes in an :. oasis in the DESERT"
situated in the heart of the continent.
Its isolation has thus far protected il
from the sturdy blows of the reforrner.
But civilization approaches it on every
side. In. the stronger light cast upon
it its hideousness is more clearly re-
vealed. Its Increasing prominence rem
ders the affront of its continued exist
ence the more Fpalpable,a the more
shameful. 1t trayesties law, insults de-
cency, menaces public virtue At this
point the House of Representatives
feels keenly the disgrace of association
witha polygamist Delegate sitting in
its hall. A Republican member moves
resolution against the admission of
polygamists as Delegates, and asks its
consideration as a privileged question
on the ground that the House is in bad
odor with the public because of its
seating individuals living in the prac-
tice of that crime. And the Democrats
voted that it should not be CON.
siiered. Another Republican member
presented q bill embodying the same
provisions. which required unanimous
consent for consideration, and Dem
ocratic leaderLSpringer, of Illinois,
jumped promptly to his feet with 'aI
objecti" eid 6ss"-a geaeI ~
At last, then, there is an issue be-
tween the two greatparties of the coun-
try represented in the Lower House Of
Congress, and strangely enough it is on
the subject of polygamy. The Demo-
cratic party takes the hoary old abuse
to its bosom. hugs 1t. and hotly sob
jectsn to its being disturbed. Springer
might well have repeated of polygamy
what Douglas said Of slavery in the
Territories: "I don't care whether it Is
voted up or down" But the alliance
between Democracy and polygamy is to
be rejoiced at rather than deplored. The
alliance seals the doom of polygamy.
The union of the two renders each of
the contracting parties more hideous;
and there is poetic justice in the fact
that polygsmy is destined to meet its
death in the arms OF the political mon
sterin whose foul embraces slavery found
its grave Chicago Tribune.