"Such then is the _modus operandi_ proposed! Gentlemenly debauchee officers are to be sent out--'good looking ones,' that they may be the better able to take away from vice the horrid appearance it would have dressed in another garb. After these shall have performed their work of misery and death, they are to be recruited by others--fine, dashing, young, good-looking fellows, who will be quite competent to deceive and destroy; real Christian gentlemen with 'new, showy uniforms,' who will be able to corrupt the daughters of Utah, and introduce Christianity in all its beauty as practiced in the United States. They are to take with them a number of pals,--'woman's rights women,' who are to assist in their conversion, and to show them their rights, that the inhabitants of Utah may have ocular demonstration of the beautiful workings of monogamous Christianity, and be brought back to the standard Christian regulation of one wife apiece--and as many misses or fast young women as suits our convenience, that a deadly blow may be struck at the virtue of Utah: and that she may be crowded with voluptuaries, and prostitutes like all other good Christian states and cities; that debauchery and corruption may run riot, that we may have our procuresses, pimps, cyprians, hotel accommodations, and houses of assignation; that virtue, chastity and purity may be banished from Utah; that our daughters may be prostituted and our wives debauched; that we may have our _nymphis du pave_, our 'Five points,' our Randall's Island, [2] our infanticides, our _Maisons d'accouchment_, our diseases, doctors and hospitals and all the other appliances of a good Christian community. That when officers, lawyers, judges, soldiers and Gentiles in general go to Utah they can find the same conveniences and accommodations that are to be met with everywhere among the virtuous Gentile monogamous Christians! And all this glory is to be achieved by the gallant officers and soldiers of our army, under the auspices and direction of James Gordon Bennett. [3] * * * * * * "What are we to think of a man who is publishing a popular journal, and who publicly and unblushingly advocates seduction, and openly proposes the introduction of debased characters into a Territory for the avowed purpose of seduction, prostitution and infamy, for the purpose of corrupting the Mormons and reducing them to our standard previous to their overthrow?" Footnotes 1. New York _Herald_, 15th Sept., 1855. 2. Famous in those years for its hospital for the unfortunate victims of man's licentiousness. 3. Proprietor and manager of the New York _Herald_. CHAPTER XXX. "THE MORMON" FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION--THE U.P. RAILWAY--INTERVIEWS WITH PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCE--U. S. OFFICIALS--INVASION OF UTAH--DEPARTURE FOR SALT LAKE.