Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-07-09
From the II. Louis News, June %.
A Mormon Woman in Distress II Working
of PolyeamY.

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The ia Il woman now IN st. LOUIS who has
been made n victim Of Mormonism. to whom we
desire To- invite the attention. and IN behalf "f
whom we wish Ia enlist the sympathy Of the phi
lanthropie. Ten year- ago she was living hap
by with her husband. WHO WASH clever slioclaa-
ker. in London, comfortable IN circumstances
aud blessed with domestic peace. About that
time tie husband became a convert IL Mormon
i'm ut.drr the influence oftle preaching q! the
prosclytes of the Church of Latter Day saints,
who were strnlling over England and Wales
/ Of course his wife received md embraced the
firth. ioo-the nbominahle doctrine of pclygamy
being sturdily denied by those who pretended Ia
be the orthodox cxpnunders Of the creed. Her
husband abandoned his trade md turned preach
er. travelling over Francc and England Ia disSem-
mate the Mormon doctrines. OF course the wife
WIS left pretty much tn shift for herself and her
young children,
Things went on till she came to America. about
year ngo, on her way to tab, with IA company
of Mormon cmigrant,. Her husband remained
in Europe to superintend the cmharkatlon II
other einigrants, and promised To meet her in St.
Louis. When the poor woman arrived here, she
found no provision made for her support, and no
arrangements for her passage ACROSS the piaIns.
She was therefore compelled to seek employ
ment to earn n scanty support tor herself and
her starving children. BY stitching shoes she
managed to live through the winter, and in the
spring her husband arrived, and proceeded forth
with up the Missouri river IN the Mormon en-
equipment at Atehisen, in Kansas Territory,
commanding her to follow. Devoted in her at
tachment to her brute of II husband, and trusting
sincerely in the Mormon fifth as represented to
her, she embarked on another boat aud reached
Atchison in quest Of her husband. There she
found him living in tent with two women, to
whom he had been spiritually ''sealed.'
Her feelings anl condition may be better i'm
agined then described. She was crushed and
heart broken, She tried to induce the brute to
abandon his miStresses and protect her, but she
was spurnrd by him, who minated that She must
shift for herself. She represented her case to the
ecclesiastical chief, on the ground.and urged him
Ia see her righted, bnt that precious di>cipl" told
her that she WINS Il stiff necked reprobatr, stink
ing in the uostrils Of every good Mormon. Heart
broken and despairing, She took her two children
made her way from the camp, five miles to Ateih-
son, where She stated her case to IA generous citi-
zen, He promised to protect her with his life
and aided her in getting ON board the +. y. Au-
bry, then on her way down the river. She had
but three dollars, which, she offered TO the cap
tain for her passage to St. Louis, but he, like a
generous man that he is, brought her down for
nothing.
Information of her situation reached the ears of
two or three charitable ladies of the city, who Sc
cured n place foI her the Home ofthe Friendless,
and provided n temporary retreat for her chill
drcn. Iier situation is Il sad one, and She truly
deserves the sympathy and assistance of her sex.
We trust she may receive it. She may be seen
at the Home of the Friepdless and we suggest That
the benevolent call there and hear the touching
tale of her griefs from her own lips.