Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-06-04
OUTRAGES IN UTAHl
DOINGS AMONG THE MORMOAS,

Brigham Young is as thorough a despot
over this deluded people as ever held the
scepter. Let me relate an incident to illus
trate the arbitrary power which he exercises
even in the most minute details of the af-
fairs of his subjects. A marriage, even,
without his sanction, is considered of no
validity. A young man named Orson Miles
had been paying his addresses to very
amiable and pretty young lady named Whit
ney, with whom he formed an engagement
of marriage more than a year ago. Not
long since Miles went to Brigham, as in
duty bound, to ask his consent to the mar
riage, which was unhesitatingly grsnted-
Soon after Miles had left the r,yal presence,
a man from one of the Southern settlements
entered Brigham's Office, ard asked if he
knew where he could get anorber wife
The cold-hearted villa told him that he
would give him Miss Whitney. Being re-
minded by the applicant that she was al
ready engaged, Brigham declared that Miles
should not have her, and if she did not be-
come this applicants wife he would give
her to S me one else. Subsequently Miles
met at the young lady's house plant tool
of Brigham's, named Ferguson, (the same
creature who figured conspicuously in the
dissolution of the United States Court,) who
was ,endeavoring to induce Miss Whitney to
join his stock of 'spirituals Z" Miles agreed
with Ferguson to submit the question of
possession to the young lady's own decision,
and she at once gave her preference for the
former. The next morning Brigham sent
for her, and told her that. she must have
either Ferguson or an old man who was
then sitting by Ferguson's side in the room
With degree of courage that even men
rarely evince here in the presence OF our
tyrant, Miss Whitney replied that she would
have nobody but Miles. Brigham immedi-
ately ordered Miles on Mission TO the
Sandwich Islands: if he refuses to go he
will be excommunicated, and in constan,
danger of his life. How the affair will ter
inmate remains to be seen. In all proba-
bility the poor girls only refuge from dis
honor is suicides grave.
MORMON NEoPHY1Es-HUsBANps BY rRoxY.
There has been great deal of activity
lately in that mystery of mysteries, the "En-
dowment House," and hundreds of the new
converts have passed hrough the degrees -
and taken the fearful Mormon oath in which
they swear fealty to the Prophet and eternal
enmity to the Government of the United
States. As large proportion of these new
converts are ignorant proselyted foreigners
just arrived from the Old World, you NAV
suppose that this oath is sworn with will,
and without mental reservation. Thecere-
mony of initiation is generally concluded
by the sealing" of one or more women to
every male; and on one day not long since
fifty females were thus taken as "spiritnals.' -
Unappropriated women are becoming scarce
in the Territory, and the polygamous mon
sters of the Mormon Church are beginning
to compel the merest children to their wick.
ed embraces. 1t was only few days ago
that two little girls, between ten and eleven
years of age, were "sealed" to old men. 1t
is very common occurrence for girls of
fourteen to be taken as wives. One object
seems TO be to get these children into the
horrible system ofpolygamy before they are
old CROUCH to think for themselves, or the
natural delicacy OF theirsex shall be aroused
and rebel against it.
Another doctrine, almost too disgusting
to be mentioned, is beginning to be agita-
ted, and its PRONUNCIATION is seriously con-
templated. Monstrous as it may appear,
am assured on good authority that it has al
ready found practical application to consiu-
cradle extent. although not yet publicly pro
mulgated. This is the doctrine and the
theory on which it is based. One of the
leading tenets OF Mormonism prescribes
the duty of" "raising up Kingdom to God !"
and as Missionaries, absent from their fam
lilies while engaged in the labor of making
prnselytes in other countries, can not fulfill
their duty in this regard, it is held that their
place at home ought in duty to be supplied
by others. 1t is proposed, refore, to ap-
point proxies in all such cases, who shall
act the part of husbands Cor the wives of
the absent missionaries. This shameful
doctrine, of course, is founded on the "rev-
elation Of inspiration" So say the lead
the "inspiration' consists of the depraved
,oiH of Brigham Young and his associates,
who had looked with evil eyes upon the
wives of absent brethren; so the cloak of
religious duty is made to cover a new depth
of Mormon infamy.
The PRICE OF woMAS IN UTAH.
Some two or three weeks ago | met, BY
accident, a very interesting girl, appar-
emily sixteen years of age. l was informed
not long afterwards that Brigham Young
had sent for the girls father. directing him
to come at speciied time to his Office
He went. and found with Brigham a man
by the name of McRay, who has several
wives all eady. Brigham said to the father:
"lou have two daughters; what are their
ages!" TIE father replied that one was
ten and the other sixteen years of age
Young then told him that he must give the
eldest to ebay. The father, not daring
to give fat refusal, put them off by saying
he believed she was engaged. Subsequently
Heber c. Kimball, who stands next to
Young in the Priesthood, offered yoke of
oxen and wagon for the girl. This pur-
chasing OF young girls from their parents is
not uncommon here, and if, in such cases,
the father refuses either to give or sell the
girl to some one OF the band, he will soon
be cut off from the Church and become a
target for every species of outrage and op-
preston. This McRay to whom have al
luded, is the Territorial Marshal.
RAISING WOMEN FOR sALE-THE PENALTY
OF VISITING THE GENTILEs.
One can scarcely help pausing here for
a moment to admire the economy and ad-
vantages which Mormonism enjoys. The
untutored savage when he becomes enam-
ored with some dusky maiden, marks the
strength of his devotion by the number of
horses he ties up at the lodge of her father.
The horses sand tied until family consul
tation is held in which the pirl has a voice