Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . Utah. 183 draw the line at black faces, say the Mormons, why shouldyou not let the Americans draw it at two thousand miles fromWashington ? » The moral question can not be dissociated from that ofMormon history. The Saints marched from Missouri andIllinois into no mans land, intending there to live out of thereach of those who differed from them, as do the Russian dis-senters transported in past ages to the provinces of Tauridaand Kherson. It is by no fault of theirs, they say, that theyare citizens of the
Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 . Utah. 183 draw the line at black faces, say the Mormons, why shouldyou not let the Americans draw it at two thousand miles fromWashington ? » The moral question can not be dissociated from that ofMormon history. The Saints marched from Missouri andIllinois into no mans land, intending there to live out of thereach of those who differed from them, as do the Russian dis-senters transported in past ages to the provinces of Tauridaand Kherson. It is by no fault of theirs, they say, that theyare citizens of the United States. There is in the Far West a fast increasing party who wouldleave people to be polygnists, polyandrists, free-lovers. Shak-ers, or monogamists, as they please; who would place the so-cial relations as they have placed religion—out of the reach ofthe Isiw. I need hardly say that public opinion has such over-whelming force in America that it is probable that even un-der a system of perfect toleration by law, two forms of thefamily relation would never be found existing
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