The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1882-03-18
ANTI-P0LYGAMY.
Large Gathering ef indianapolis
Citizens
At a Meetinsy Of Congratulations
Over the Passage of the Bill
TO Abolish the Evil.
Speeches of GovornDr Porter, Hon.
John 4. Eoluuap and Others Let
ters From Hon. Schuyler
Colfax and Bishop Cbatard.
From the Daily sentinel of Thursday

From the Daily Sentinel of Thursday
The announcement that an anti-polyga
my meeting would be held at English's
Opera House last night called out large
and intelligent audience. Shortly after s
o'clock the meeting was called by Rev. Mr.
Hyde, who nominated Governor Porter as
CT airman of the meeting, with the follow
ing Vice Presidents all of whom were elect.
ed: Judge w. q Gresham, Mayor Grubbs,
Thomas H. Sharp, Hon. w. p. Fishback, ex-
Governor Baker, A. w. Hendricks Judge
Holman, Judge Hove, Judge Adams, DIR.
P. II. Jameson, DR.. Theophilus Parvin, DIR.
DR.. l.. d. Waterman, John H. Holiday, w.
R. Holloway, f. NJ Halford, j. C. Shoe
maker Rev. Bishop Chatard, Rev. Father
Bessoines, Austin II. Brown, Professor H. S.
Tarbell, J. A. Closer, T. p. Haughey, s. A.
Fletcher, Jr., Ingraham Fletcher, Hon w.
H. English, Hon. John Caven, Hon. Thomas
A. Hendricks, f. ID Ohm, s. f. Bowen, L.
burn, Fred Baggs, Hon. d. 2. Baldwin, Hon.
John NJ. Butler, A. l.. Roach, L. B. Martin
dale, Bishop Talbot, Revs. II. G. Mabie,
son, E. B. Kawles. \. A. Hyde,
F.. A. Bradley, David Walk, Myron w. Reed,
f. NJ. S. Taylor, II. w. Evers6 o. G. McCul-
loch, I. X. Pye, r. T. Matthews, r. D.
Morey, l.. G. Hay, C. c. Herriott, H. J. Tai
bott, i. A. Lynch. A. II. Carrier, C. w.
Pritcbard, /. n. Clark, John Poucher, w. NJ.
Wallace W. n. jackson, Wilson Morrow,
Major J. w. Gordon, George Merritt Aquilia
Jones, J. s. Spann, Vinson Car
ter, A. D. Lynch. NJ. v. McGil-
lard, ]. c. Yohn, Samuel Merrill, Alfred
Harrison, w. s. Hubbard, Hon. James A.
Wildman, General George B. Wright Pro-
fessors ]. NJ Bloss and J. H. Smart, w. H.
H. Miller, William Henderson, NJ. b. Will
liams, r. c. j. Pendleton, George w. Stubs,
General r. S. Foster, III. III. Lee, Jason
Carey, R. n. Lamb, Israel Taylor, F. w.
Hess, Robert Browning, F. A. w. Davis
Secretaries-H. s. New, Charles G. Stewart,
Joseph Cobb, A ]. Haltord.
Cemmitte on Resolutions was selected as
follows: Ex-Governor Baker. John H. Hol-
liday, T. P. Haughey, d. '. Burns, William
Wallace and Rev. Father BessOnies.
/ The meeting, after being organized,
was opened by prayer by Rev. I. n. Clark,
pastor of the South Street Baptist Church,
after which Governor Porter delivered a
short address, which was as follows:
The bill to abolish polygamy has already passed,
and this meeting Is a meeting OF congratulation.
The stability of our institutions de-
pen0S upon lne Virtue Ol lDe Idmlly
relations. The duty of parent and child are re-
ciprocal Every child has the right of the unre-
mitting care of two parents Polygamy means
the neglect of cha.ren The yirtnous and intel.
ligent young aic always the reinforcements of
liberty. Polygamy degrades woman; it intro
duces the associated spirit of sery1lity and degra
dation in place of the American spirit OF equal
ity and aspiration 1t Substitutes for the house
mold, with all its hallowed associations, the
harem with all its vicious associations. An instl-
tuition of that kind cal never take root in this
SOIL Applause.
w. II. H. Miller here read the following
letter from Schuyler Colfax:
SOUTH BEND lad March II, 1882.
DEAR SIR-Home for Sunday, between Western
and Eastern lecture weeks, have your invitation
to attend your indianapolis anti-polygamy meet
ing, and can assure you, although engagements
prevent my personal attendance, will be with
you then heart and soul.
There is one supreme duty before our millions
of citizens this time. 1t is TO demand that the
National law shall be respected ana 0beyed in
Utah, as in all other Territories, by Mormons,
equally as by Protestants ana Catholics Jews and
Gentiles. There is ore supreme hour when the
people should demand that obedience should
defiance, and that hour is nd@-nOt next year or
the year after.
Now is the hour OF opportunity, and of power.
too When the majestic uprising of the people,
irrespective of party sect, is answered by the
nationally paid Legislature of Utah by the i'm
pudent claim for admission into the Union as a
State, who should hesitate in substituting Ma
tional Commission there for such an insolent and
defiant Legislature of law breakers?
Let the watchword, therefore, be, at home ard
at Washington, Hearty and united support of
every measure that vindicates the insulted law
and rebukes those who dare to trample 1t under
foot" Yours truly.
Rev. Mr.. Hyde read the following letter
from Bishop Chatard
Rev. Rufus d. Black:
DEAR SIR--Your card of invitation was received
by me here duly. AS I am unavo'dably de-
tanned In this city shall not be able TO take part
in the citizens meeting of March Is You may
rest assured that in all efforts OF the people TO
maintain Christian morals they will have the
s, s,mpathy and aid OF the Catholic Church
have the honor to be. dear sir. yours faithfully,
FRANCIS SILAs CHLTARD,
y Bishop of Vlncennes.
Cincinnati, O.. March Il, 1882.
Judge John A Holman, who was the first
speaker of the evening was introduced to
the audience, and spoke as follows:
JUDGE HoLMAN's SPEECH.
Centuries before the advent of the Savior OF
mankind, the civil zed Nations of the earth passed
Judgment on an institution of barbarism which
stood In the pathway of advancement, and there
The offender seems to have escaped the execu-
| ton of the sentence, and to have gone stalking
| up and down. stopping here little, while. and
| there little while, and living and on, the
Wandering Jew of romance, until within our
own day, It emerged from the sanctuary walls of
| the Mormon Church u was heavy with aga and
hideous in its deformities, but threatening and
| defiant.
| We are slow to recognize the monster. The roll.
| ing OH of ages had left change so deeply marked
in their track, that there remajned but a dim
| memory of the form and linean ents OF the giant
| evil before u.s. But we have identified it, The
| great hand of the Nation has reached out and
| clutched it by the throat, and the process OF
strangulation Is now going on. We hear the grOans
| and blasphemy of dissolution coming over the
massive mountain ranges of the West, and from
the utter and crbable foulness of the carcass
we know this thing 10 be polygamy.
.~r. fofa r>lA Inrrrta
| Americar-the land of generous maj hood and pure
| womanhood, of welded fathers and honorec
| mothers-is being executed. There Is to be nc
more delay; there is no longer OCCASION or the pre-
tense OF excuse for it. The tribunal of American
| public opinion, than which more terrible as vel
| as lust has not been known in history. befor,
which this horrible thing shakes on its totterinl
limbs cries out, in the intensity of its indigna
| ton, and commands that the full penalty shall
follow promptly and inexorsbly upon the con
demnation. And there is TO be no new hearing
The civilized world has to-day no advocate s.
ambitious for fame or SO enthusiastic in his zea
\ as to apply for trial. The nostrils of tn
people are stopped against the suff0catin
| moral stencil. anc IL must be removed that the
| may breathe. The thing which to-day they ho
in their grasp seems as ur endurable as the bod
of death upon the shoulders of the ancient Grim
nal and they hasten to get rid of II. The mass
putrid, and must be put beyond sight and men
notification OF 1t TO Congress has been and Is b.
ing sent in unmistakable terms from the million
, of order loving men to whom fair land ws
given for possession.
But when society hangs q man for his offense,
knows that the execution of its Judgment, as we