Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-08-28

ham has no education.
He never writes his letters, merely die
tates them. This was also the custom of
j. Smith. Smiths letters TO A, Bennett,
Clay, and Calhoun, and his address as
candidate for the Presidency, which was
thought to so clearly evince the man, were
written, by Phelps, the Mormon devil,
w. Clayton and others. In ike manner
the epistles, addresses and messages that
simple saints have believed were the di- I
vine effusions of Brigham's graphic
pen" O were written by General
D. w. Wells, Albert Darlington, and
others. His autograph, which is quite
characteristic, dashed energetically up
and down and curling off with little
flourish, is almost as far as Brigham's chi
Biography extends.
Brigham has some seventeen or eight
teen of his wives in his " Lion House"
Each wife has a separate sleeping apart
ment, except in case of discarded ones,
who sleep by twos. The rooms are scru-
pulously clean and neat, sufficiently but
not well furnished. They are the sitting
rooms during the daytime for their oc-
cupants. When well, all in that and the
adjoining house are expected to eat at
the general table. 1t is curious spec
tacle in Brigham's dining hall. Wives,
children, workmen, visitors, a crowd of
hungry dinner seekers. 1t needs no
small amount of cooking, nor any slight
quantity of edibles. Brigham keeps no
servants his wives, unless sick, wait on
themselves. In that case they must wait
2 on each other. Cooking, cleaning, dairy
: work, washing, mending, tending children
i has to be distributed among them accord
D ing to the taste and skill of each oil
: else, by the absolute and final dictum O.
the Prophet +! Before the general table
system was adopted, each wife was sup
piled in rotation, and by weight and quan
tity, with vegetables, fruits, &c. Lik'
d old feudal barons, Brigham is obliged t
/ keep stewart and purveyor for his nu
: merous dependents.
1t must not be imagined that thes
) wives lead an idle life. Brigham is
u working man. Sternly practical in hi
views of policy, keeping the whole of tn
u people constantly and diligently at work
le he makes his household pattern for tn
s. Saints. "There must be no idlers i
to Zion, no drones in the hive is Brigham
i. hobby-cry, and consequently the whole {
In his family work. His sons among th
ry stock, herding, branding, driving. III
a. wives at household affairs, looms, spin
ning-wheels, knitting needles, and quill
IS ing frames. They boast very EXTENSIVE
ie- ly of how many stockings, quilts, var,
al of flannel, linsey. and carpet they hay
ly made. "Ifa womancannot support he
by SELF and partly provide for her famil
cir she is only half a woman" say the Mo
igs mon domestic economists.
cs.
all The whole secret of Brigham's inflen
ad lies in his real sincerity. Brigham mi
ig- be a great man, greatly deceived, but
at is not a hypocrite. Smith was an il
eel poster that can be clearly establishe
ce, Brigham Young embraced Mormonis
i've in sincerity, conscientiously believe
in faithfully practised, and enthusiatica
The taught it. As devoted TO Smith as Ki
YES ball is now to himself, he reverenced h
net, as a Prophet, and loved him as a mi
I is For the sake of his religion, he has o'
DON and over again left his family, confront
BAD the world, endured hunger, came ba
Use, poor, made wealth, and gave it to
INST church. He holds himself prepared
use lead his people in sacrifice and want,
him in plenty and ease. No holiday frie
raw or Summer Prophet, he has shared til
han trials, as well as their prosperity.
never pretends more than /" the inv
.ciaI monitions of Spirit )" and, not as SIN
hen to direct revelations and physical IN;
lan- festations.
ltter No man prays more fergeutly, or n
He frequently, than Brigham Young.
His man can more win the hearts, or imp
s an the minds of hearers than Brigham ! 0
are while in prayer. Few men can pei
his in believing him hypocrite, after b.
hem. ing him pray either in his family or
felt. private meetings, or in public. lam
e al vinced that if be be an impOster, he
per- commenced by imposing on himself.
and Brigham, however described, is sti
am is lad man, and a dangerous man and
cites much more dangerous, being sipeeft
fore thinking he Is doing Gods work, a
noes madInan Is than an impostor one b