M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-10-15

are not very expensive to their lord
and master. Indeed, Brigham has the
conscience to preach that the prophe.
cy OF Isaiah should be literally fulfill
ed. See Isaiah iv., /.
THE NUMBER OF BRIGHAM's WIVES.
| The number of women belonging
10 Brigham is not really known by
any one except himself. He has some
twenty-five around him. These live
ihNhis two houses and in some adiacen
cottages. lie intends to see them al
once a day, ifpossible: ifnot, then al
least once a week. Should he be sick
however desirous any of his wives
might be to attend on him, of course
they have to be excluded. Twenty
five women in sick chamber would
be no trihe for deranged nerves !
They generally eat at one table in the
dining hall, and that dining hall is a
curious sight. He keeps no female
servants, his women have to be his
servants, and their own. The domes,
tic labor is shared among them cook,
ing, washing, repairing and dairy
work, is distributed according to in.
dividual ability, or, in case of differ.
ence, the absolute dictum ofthe Proph-
ct ID appealed to and that is final.
OF course, Brigham does not love
all his wives equally, and necessarily
they are aware of it, but they all love
and believe in him and if tlrey can.
not share his love here, they hope to
be able to participate in his "glory "
hereafter; and although distributed
among so many, it can come only in
homeopathic doses to any one of them
That they are sincere in their faith
their suferings and privations evince
1t cannot be licentiousness that indu,
ces twenty women to share one hus,
band; to have their woman's love
neglected, their woman's heart crush.
ed, their woman's jealousy constantly
aroused, and yet continually stiAed.-
Deluded outrageously, monstrously
deluded--th are, but their intentions
and their conduct are pure.
THE CHILDREN.
He necessarily must have had ma
ny children ; but, for the number O
his wives his family is comparative
ly small. Very many of his children
are dead. Hardly ono of Smith
children by his extra wives has sur
vived. 1t was so with MohammeC
and it is so with Young. 1t is Ma
ture's argument against polygamy.-
Brigham's houses are filled with hil
women; their offspring are in theil
graves. Of those surviving, he has
several married.
Boys and girls surrounded by sucl
illustrious examples, constantly hear
ing the most shameful conversation
and illusions cannot help but be pre-
cocious. They hear and see till they
think, and think till they try to imi
tate. Some remedy has to be adopt
ed. Brigham has adopted that o
early marriages. "Boys ought to b,
married at fourteen and fifteen, anC
girls at thirteen and fourteen" say
Kimball. Boys should be married
and still live with their father" say
the patriarchal Brigham. That neg
lect of offspring, inability to provide
and educate them, great immoralit
among the children Of these juvenil
polygamists should be found, is no
surprising. They are the inevitabl
results-nature's penalties for the liz
fractions Of her laws.
SLAVERY.
AS he not only initiates, but far eS
ceeds Judaism in polygamy, so Brig
ham attemps to surpass Jadaism j
adopting the institution of negro sls
very. On this subject he is pointe
and characteristic. Isaac, a Yer
smart colored man, was one day hold
ing a favorite horse Of Brigham's, VIII
remarked, There's my horse an
there's my niger ; the horse is min'
and Ike is mine too; and | woul
just as freely shoot the rascal who at
tempted to pursuade Ike to run of,
/, | would if he were to attempt runnin
off with my horse"
Brigham is very fond Of talking
shooting. He once remarked, Il a
. ways carry two loaded revolvers o
me, and the man who touches me
take me as a prisoner, dies. In Il
name of the Lord, l have spoken it! /!
On another occasion, he commando
> ; a man named Albert Smith, to clet
j out Of the Territory, and. that rigl
STRAIGHT toon and threatened mo