Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1859 — The Mormon Abomibation. [ARTICLE]

The Mormon Abomibation.

, A correspondent of the Philadelphia Christian Observer, under the date of Camp Floyd, (Utah Territory,) July 9, writes as ] foMows: j “A'ou cannot surely know the,highhanded I crimes which this people commit in the name i of the Alost High God. 1 “The basest passions of the basest men I have full scope of gratification in the name |ot religion. In the name of religion, arson ilnJl murder are committed. To save the souls of men who have apostatized, their throats are cut. It women refuse to become the second, fourth, or fortieth wile of some lustful saint, their throats, in many install' ces, have been found cut in cold murder, and the report started, “committed suicide for fear of the wratirof God!” All these, and I mus are done in the name of the Lord, usd by and with the consent of the heads <* the • hun li! Judge ot this Judicial District (tile Ist,j informs me there are now over one humlri-d and sixty murderers, and many tliem known and acknow iedged as such, running.at large, and in li 11 communion with, and protected by the Alormons—a large number of whom are Bishops and Elders, and other church dignitaries. This is ti,e trict in which were comm ; ■ }j •. Aleadows murili r.’he P..'■ • I- - J Forbes, and others. •■Brigham Young, u .c -, is-'since, said in ttie Tabernacie, tha- i * was expecting a revelation from God commanding his children by one wife to intermarry with his child, en of another wife, to secure pure priesthood. “Ttiis people have pretended prophets an i revelators, who pretend a revelation tor any I emergency, commanding the perpetration of 1 any crime that may be desired, to uccom- : plish any end in the name o. Go i.

“Ail their wives are taken in accurdmee ' with pretended visi its,dreams or revelations. Should the woman object, she is asked to reflect with care, anti admom-tied to obey counsel. Tins uJns-onitioii to obey counsel, i is ominous, savoring <j( throats cut, pretend- ■ ing suicide. But po erty here is- so distres-- ! singly great, and women w io are wives have j so tittle liberty, together with the fact that, (many more women than men are member.-, ■ ot tins pretended church, that womenhirdly ever object to becoming the wives ot anv 'man who can in any wise assist in their supi port, careless how many wives the man may i already have. “An l herein is found the excuse for polygamy on the part or the females, though 1 they may pretend to receive the institution as icom Goil. 'l'lre men profess to marry : wives whuiiy as a religious duty, claiming more wives as religious light and knowledge i increase!- I opine an excu e can be more : easily found ior this abominable polygamous : h a b it. ••1 kne.w o. seven mc’n who have the m;>- : thi*r and daugut.er to wife. And one. who i lias the mother and her four daughters: to | wile, and children by all of them. This man [has ten wives. -The reporter of the Taberi nacle services having five wives, has his halt jsister to wife. They have three-children. ()ne man in tills district, an elder, refused to.seal to his sfin a spiritual wife, but h:i 1 i himself, sealed to that same woman as his tenth spiritual wife and lived witli tier as such tor two months, then divorced her and sealed her to that son in question, and ;;r----sucli they now live.”