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Chapter 21: polygamy. in Salt Lake Valley, as in Los Angeles, San Jose, and other places, the Red aberrations of White people are in process of correction. White polygamy is perishing in Utah, like Red polygamy, of which it is a bastard offspring, not by force or violence, but by the operation of natural laws. It dies of contact with the higher fashions of domestic life. I gather, not from what you tell me only, but from every word I hear, and every man I see, that there is changeWhite polygamy is perishing in Utah, like Red polygamy, of which it is a bastard offspring, not by force or violence, but by the operation of natural laws. It dies of contact with the higher fashions of domestic life. I gather, not from what you tell me only, but from every word I hear, and every man I see, that there is change of practice, if not change of doctrine, I remark to President Wells and Apostle Taylor. That is your impression? asks the Apostle. Yes, my strong impression; I might say my strong conviction. Pardon me for saying that the point is very serious. If you mean to dwell in the United States, you must abate the practice, even if you retain the principle, of plural wives. Nature, Law, and Accident are all against your theories of domestic life. Nature puts the male and female on the ea

romised land, they drove their stolen herds in front, and helped themselves to anything else they wanted on the road. Vexed by their losses, and caring nothing for the Great Spirit, the White men gathered in from ranch and mine, and going into Tierra Amarilla, where the Indian agent, John S. Armstrong, lived, requested that officer to recover and restore their stock. An Indian agent has to answer for his tribe, and Green River is not only a station on the railway, but the chief artery of White settlement in the mountains. Chacen, a half-breed interpreter, was called into the agency and sent out with an order. Follow the trail, said Armstrong, and when you catch the raiders bring them back, together with the stolen cattle. Chacen over-rode the tribe. A mixed blood, high in favour with the Whites, he seemed a great man to these Utes. At any other time, they would have listened to his advice and acted on his warnings, but now, inflamed by holy zeal, they told him to go back.

Chapter 23: Communism. To introduce the Indiin doctrine of Common Property in lodge and land, with the village adjunct of Blood Atonement, into a community of White people, is more than Brigham Young has yet been able to achieve, though he has pressed those doctrines on his people in Salt Lake Valley with a sleepless energy, acting through the Indian machinery of secret societies and orders, bound by oaths to carry out his despotic will. Men who can be persuaded by their bishops to marted States is done in Illinois. Science might find in these occupations of the people a moral basis for Ku-Klux; that wild form of justice which in some Red sections of the country takes the names of Light Horse and Mourning Bands, and in most White sections the names of Lynch Law and Vigilance Committees. In Europe, Illinois is chiefly known by the tragic story of the Mormon settlement in Nauvoo, from which locality the Saints were driven by fire and sword. A full account of life in the

Chapter 24: White vendetta. In Illinois every man claims to be a law to himself, and every second man claims to be a law to other people. Wild justice, as among the Indian wigwams, is the favourite form of punishment; if pure revenge, the rule of eye for eye and tooth for tooth, may be called punishment. Under this Indian system, men of violent instincts assume a right to reject the public code, and even to resist the popular magistrate. In many parts of Illinois, the public rule is chcliffes and Cranes. Not far off lived a family named Stocks, in which were three young and pretty girls, sisters and firstcousins, who were objects of attention to the youngsters in all these parts. Illinois is one of those States in which White women are in great demand, the White males being nearly a hundred thousand in excess of the White females. A house in which three or four pretty girls are growing up, is a centre of much resort, and the scene of many jealousies. Sallie and Nell

an antelope or elk; an Indian kills his neighbour's ox as readily as he slings a buffalo calf. White men shoot game in sport, on which bucks and braves go out and kill their enemy's cows. They sae chief, came over the border into Kansas with his band. His herds, he said, had been driven by White thieves, and in revenge, he stole a herd of cattle from the nearest run. Some cavalry, then patrsquaws, and about eighty ponies, are encamped near the frontier, looking in .vain for game. Two White men ride into their camp. These persons come from Medicine Lodge, in Barber county, Kansas, andA company is riding hard and fast, and from their arms and horses the hunters know that they are White men, forty or more in number. To fly is ruin, to resist is death. Tents, skins, provisions, poa council held. Two Osage bucks, armed with rifles and sixshooters, ride out to meet them. Two White men advance to greet these heralds, shake hands in sign of friendliness, and ask them to come in

ed, and may be shed again in Vinita; but not, we find, the blood of White men and women. In spite of smart reporters, no White women live iWhite women live in Vinita; and no White men, except seven or eight railway servants, and a dozen fellows who have married squaws. The only White men who haveWhite men, except seven or eight railway servants, and a dozen fellows who have married squaws. The only White men who have got into trouble at Vinita, are two scalawags, who brought whisky to the place, and tried to sell it, contrary to law. Some braves got drunkic, adopted the name of his French patron, and married a woman with White blood in her veins. While the tribes were moving to their new groueigning chief. Boudinot proposed a change. He wished to live like White men, under law, and to divide the tribal lands among the heads of foss. All those who wished to settle down,, divide the land, adopt White customs, and prepare for citizenship, rallied round Stand Watie ande. It is a saying in Vinita, that the son of Strong Buck is rather White than Red. The scare of which we heard at Olathe, on the Kansas f

ch of help from Washington, what were the liberated slaves to do? In theory they were free; in substance they were only free to starve. They had no tents, no guns, no ponies. Not an acre of the land belonged to them, nor had they now a place within the tribe. While they were overlooked on the Potomac, these Negroes found no change in their condition on the Arkansas and Red River. They are a feeble folk, these coloured people;. and their masters, though unwilling to face small bodies of White men, are ready to fight any number of Blacks. When news arrived at Fort Gibson and Fort Scott that the war was over and the Negroes emancipated, the Cherokee and Choctaw masters yielded with a sullen fury to their loss. They kicked the liberated Negroes from their camp. Beyond the reach of help from Boston and New York, even if Boston and New York had means of helping them, how were the Blacks to live? In theory they were now free; but having neither tents nor lodges, where could they