Chapter III.
Practical Polygamy.
- Family arrangements
- Favorites
- The men
- Domestic happiness
- Sleeping alone
- Making tabernacles
- Mormon salvation
- Wife hunting
- Mothers and daughters married to one man
- Half sister
- The women
- First wives
- Whisky
- Termagents
- Adultery
- Jealousy
- Fanaticism
- Brigham on connubialities
- Single girls
- Proportion of the sexes
- Arguments used to induce young girls to marry polygamists in preference to young men
- Why they do not leave
- The children
- Mortality
- Barrenness
- Boys
- Girls
- Early marriages
- Divorce
- Mrs. M'Lean and Parley Pratt
- Mrs. Cobb and Brigham Young
- Utah marriages.
The only correct method of judging a cause, is by the effects that result from its operation. The most confounding argument against the Mormon doctrine of polygamy, is the Mormon practice of polygamy. The Mormons ever endeavor to conceal the real workings of their system from outside inspection. They must feel great confidence before allowing any one to grow intimate. One must be very intimate, before being competent to correctly describe their "family arrangements."
The intention of marriage was to increase personal happiness, to propagate a healthy offspring, and to secure to those children protectors, instructors, and support. What are the effects of polygamy on these objects?
