Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . l differences, and so come within the justcognizance of law. A grea( fool, as well as a great brute,must that man be who can find no safer and more certain wayof subjecting a woman than by violence. Of that small num-ber who tyrannize over their wives, those who do so by brutestrength are not as one in ten; they do not, in our state of civ-ilization, make one in a thousand of the male population; andif these were all we had to consider, we could ea

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Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . l differences, and so come within the justcognizance of law. A grea( fool, as well as a great brute, must that man be who can find no safer and more certain wayof subjecting a woman than by violence. Of that small num-ber who tyrannize over their wives, those who do so by brutestrength are not as one in ten; they do not, in our state of civ-ilization, make one in a thousand of the male population; andif these were all we had to consider, we could easily settle thematter by a just and judicious hanging. Subjection is easy farshort of physical violence. And as to the just and generous, every man of experience knows, that with ninety-nine womenout of a hundred, he who grants most and most persistentlyrefuses the exercise of power, gains the most complete ascend-ency ; for it is an empire over the mind as well as the body.Let the state of society be what it may, women 7nust trust menin every department of life. A Mormon woman is just asmuch in the power of a Mormon man as a Gentile woman in. (441) 442 POLYGAMY; OR, THE MYSTERIES that of a Gentile man; no more and no less. They must trustmen to work for them, guard them, fight for them, love, marry, and take care of them, just as much in one state of society asanother; and, as these things make up nine hundred andninety-nine thousandths of the afiairs of life, it would seemthat the little remnant dependent on voting is not worth arefusal to trust. But before the Deseret denouement the McKean courtsand juries were overthrown by the Supreme Court of theUnited States. In June, 1872, the personnel of the Courthaving been largely changed, the old decisions of that Courtreferred to were overruled, Chief-Justice Chase, who deliveredthe Courts opinion, saying that, rightly understood, it did notoverrule them. In the case of Hornbuckle vs. Toombs (Octo-ber term, 1873), the Court, again c