Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-06-03

naS' perhaps, some twenty, which he keeps in
MS large house-the remainder are scattered
aOou'' two or three in q place, in his different
houses In the city. | was informed by Nor
inons' who had the means of knowing, that he
owned house in every ward in the citv, where
ne Kept some of these women.
vi the number of spiritsals kept BY any one
Individual, Brigham goes far ahead of any of
MS followers. Of the exact number, no one
knoweth. Indeed, a distinguished Mormon told
me that he presumed Brigham did not know him.
SELL The winter that was there, they were
computed by Mormons, who had the best oppor
'unl'y OF knowing, at ssUenty or eighty, and he
was frequently adding to the number. per
tory, have set the number down at ninetv ~
others have as high as twenty and thirty-otI-
ers nine and ten-others five and six-and 9TH
has again two and three, The rule which Brig
ham advocates on this subject is, that every mai
should have as many as he can support
AS most Of the inhabitants at the Ogden,
where | winered had but recently came to the
valley, the number of spirituas were less num-
erous. Yet there were enough in all conscience
to render the place damnabe in the sight of oil
decency. Why, there was Graham cohabitng
with mother and her daughter as his wives,
openly, without rebuke from any one, indeed
by Brigham's sanction. And there was Brown,
a high Mormon, he had at least eight or ten
spintuals. His old wife, "a poor disconsoate,
wretched woman, according to the showing of
the Mormons, | never saw her, he left in the
city. Although there were not many spirtuals
at the Ogden, | found there was getting q
mighty itching among the men to have them,
which caused no little futtering among the
wives For however cody a woman may look
upon this system at distance, as practiced by
others, it cuts to the quick when it comes to her
own door. Callous indeed must be that female
heart, who can see without emotion, a stranger
enthroned in her husbands affections--to witness
all those tender lies which bind the affectonate
wife to the heart of her husband--sundered at
a stroke. A man by the name of Moore, at the
Ogden, who had lived several years with an
amiable wife, early in the fall fell in love wit
young woman-struck up bargal-went
down to Brigbam-was married-returned, and
duly installed his new bride in his appropriate
place, under the domestic roof. Of course his
old wife dared not remonstrate-indeed she was
compelled TO be present and witness the celebra.
ton of the nuptials. She even tried to be cheer
full, but the most casual observer could see that
worm was 'gnawing atthe heart. And though
she appeared in company with the NEW Mrs
Mer-e he. hassvasd laelr- .s.sls 10
..~l tho @orunnn women we're compeheo "
speak Of her as poor broken-hearted woman !!
And there was Lorain Farr, the president Of
that branch of the church-the father of several
children, he became enamored of pretty black,
eyed Welch lass, just budding into womanhood,
but his wife happened to be of the true blue
She foundered like newly caught Land Civ
ing the reigns 10 that unruly member-the
tongue, she poured out such a torrent of burning
lava from the pent-up fires within, that the black
eyed beauty fed from the house as though the
heaven and earth were coming together and the
poor love-sick Loran had to give up the idea Of
spiritual for that time.
And there was a man by the name of Dana
I(he might think himself slighted, ifI did not
give him my complimentary lie came into the
valley the fall that did. We were told by the
Mormons that lie forsook a wife and family Of
children in the States. Soon after he came into
the valley he married wife, and also took a
spiritual, and was Immediately elevated to higl
position in the church.
At the visit of Brigham, and the twelve, to
the Ogden and Viewer, to which have more
than once referred, great deal was said In thell
public addresses, not only in defence of this sys
tom of concubinage, but by way of urging its ex
tensiye adoption. Brigham said, " he felt that
the brethren were holding up his hands whel
thew got number of wives" He knew it was
safe 10 trust men who had married several wives
for they had too much at stake to betray his
cause. For if Mormonism were to be blown tc
atoms, and they compelled to submit to Unite
States law, the penitentary would be thei
doom. 1t was safe to trust that scoundrel Dant
lust as soon as he came into the valley and mar
, red wife, with high ofices-for now he mus
sink or swim with Brigham--for should he eav
the valley and 60 to any State in the Union, tn
ghost Of that forsaken, suffering, broken hearte
murdered wife, would probably haunt him, an
he might possibly get his deserts among man
-, other infamous wretches in the penitentiary.
, is with such tools that Brigham holds his swa
!. over that kingdom.
8 There were other things in this connexic
v which had thought to mention, but they are tc
}. polluting and forbear. will only say that {
s one abomination after another came to n
d knowledge, Of the most filthy and llcentio'
a character, it seems to me as though the vel
f earth must open her mouth and swallow the
l. up, and more than once involunarily exclaime
10 to my family" we must up and out OF tn
At place, for God will surely destroy it,"
s, But lest this picture should be thought
Mt some to be overdrawn, will quote passat
rs from the communication Of an oficer-a Maj
n, in the United States arny-whch was publls
IN ed in the st. Louis Intelligencer, and referr
to in NV first number: "Truly" he says" we
g an angel from heaven to tell you Of the wick
s. practices. and the base unproVoked crimes
n this people, you would discredit the report
l- Such is the euormity of their conduct that in
Id series of resolutions drawn up by PreSbyteri
o. clergyman" THAT clergyman was the Rev.
cd Slater, from Tennessee and signed by
70, emigrants, the truth and the whole trutl
dy was designedly avoided, lest it should be
by shocking for belief" " With them, hum
it. feeling has been debased to worse than Oeas