Georgetown weekly news., 1855-04-12
nIormon.sn IN Salt Lake City.

MOrmonisEn in Salt Lake City.
The San Francisco Herald publishes what
purports to be an address delievred by
Brigham Young, at Salt Lake, which, for
gross obsceni y profaniiy y and total disregard
OF the Christian religion, exceeds any pro-
duction we have ever seen emeDating from
civilized being. The extracts are from a
letter dated February 9th, at Salt Lake
City, and addressed to a gentleman in San
Francisco. 1t is almost impossible to be-
lieve that this speech which is attributed to
Gov. Young can be his, so different is it
from those which go before the world
through the medium Of the Desert Meas, and
yet it is in admirable keeping with the po-
lygamic faith which he PROCESSES. Much of
the address is absolutely too indecent for
publication, but the following paragraph
exhibits specimen of the traitorous senti-
ments which are reported to have fallen
from his lips:
''If the gallant gentleman (Col. Steptoe)
whose nome has been mentioned as my sue
cessor, had received the appointment by this
mail, | should have taken my hat and bow
ed myself out politely; but let him or any
other civil officer dare to tread on my right,
or those Of the church, and | am death on
his heels and hell against him. | will chas-
tise him and drive him out as [ did Broc-
chus Great applause) When | drove
Brocchus out many Of the Saints were
frightened, ,andwent blubbering about. Here
Brigham put his face in his hands and boo
woo-ed very naturally But [ told them
let the General Government come, and We'll
die in our tracks. [ said to them, or
said to them the other day, when the flag
was taken down for day or two as the
halyards were broken, and the MOrmons
thought it was something significant; Let
them take down the American flag, we can
do without it. (Cries of Amen, good. y
The General Government is our worst enc
my, and we have right to think so. The
President and his Cabinet are nosed around
by the priests, and these are the men who
presume to direct the pure Saint in the
Valley Of the Mountains. The authorities
assembled at Washington are the damndest,
most corrupt set Of men out Of he'll.
Part Of the sermon was intended to over
awe the women. With word about their
melancholy condition | will bring my let
ter to close. AS a general thing a woman
here having satisfied what we call the 'lust,
but what the Mormons call "the holy de-
sires" OF some righteous elder, is left to shift
for herself Not the least support does she
receive from him to whom she has been, in
mauy cases, forced to prostitute herself
Their condition is sinfinitely worse than that
of the slaves of the South
One Of the wives of the Chief of the
Twelve Apostles washes for a boarding
house, to support herself. Two wives Of
Farley z. Pratt, another Apostle have re
peatedly begged for work. Women here
have told me that their pretended husbands
have not visited them for months and years
One Of the Apostles asked a family OF three
daughters to marry him-and to get them
he would take the old mother. They re-
fused, and he has since maligned them in
every way.
We receive many requests for assistance
to leave, from women in every position
Their case is, peculiarly, hard separated
by hundreds of miles OF plain and desert
from the outside world, brought here under
false inducements, degraded and oppressed,
with no hope Of succor-they are in great,
very great numbers disaffected the@ abhor
the very thought Of polygamy-the very
name Of Mormonism. This is the honest,
simple truth.