The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-07-16
) OTTUMWA. IOWA, THURSDAY, JULY l6, 1857
Correspondent Of the National Police Gazettes.
GREAT SALT LAKE CRY,
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Correspondent Of the National Police Gasettes.
GREAT SALT LAKE CRY,
sf March 20th 1857.
The history of this city and its mixed COM
pound has net been half written. The villainy,
prostitution and treason of the Mormon church
has never been truly and fearlessly written;
for, since the spiritual wife system has been
openly advocated and prscticed, they have
been far from the States, where they feel safe
in their incestuous and reasonable course.
: "A man living here, who is'snot himself a
Mormon, is watched and doeged by the hire
lings of Brigham Young whereve. he may 60.
This letter, ana others which | shall write
may never reach you, for everything is under
the immediate control Of the Prophet and his
.co-workers in the field Of sedacti ton, treason
and black-hearted ASSASSINATION e sea'
Inthe course of few months shall give
the readers Of the National Police Gazette a
true andsc oncise history Of matters as they
exist here in their reality. In this letter Twill
look into the secrets Of sEnlowment,: - and to
the power Of the leaders Of the church of Nor
mon. 60 s9saz s.ls ~ eEpgg =.t ss
The privilege Of every Mornon to marry
as many wives as he wishes, or can
support, is here carried to its fullest extent.
Some have fifty or sixty in their harems, while
othe,s, less in power, or in the animal, have
but five or six. They lead life Of the most
incestuousd dye. Two sisters may often be found
sharing the same bed with an old libertiae who
has dozen others that have been "sealed''
to him BY arevelation which Brigham claims
to have from God. To get iato the confidence
ard good will of the Prophet will ensure the
deepest dyed villain, to force the fairest and
purest Female in Utah TO become bis "spiritu-
alp
The power of Young can accomplish any
perfidy which his inordnate vanity or self will
may suggest to his mind, is still crushing the
mass under his tyranical heel. His harem is
stocked with beauties from every cline. There
are those who have been bright and shining
ornaments in socle'y--they are from the States
from our own very honles--.hose we admired
and loved in youth, are among the licentious
swarm. They have been seduced by the wild
fascination of the Church of Mormon; and
then when they have left their homes and
friends, 10 become followers Of the "Latter
Day Sans" they have been forced TO become
prostitutes, or the mistres. e, of some Mormon
leader.
1t is taught here day by day that unless a
woman be married, or "sealed," up TO some
man spiritually" she can never enter the
Kingdom of Heaven. BY administering to
his unholy lust HE will take her safe TO the
land of promise. If she refuses, ther he will
damn her here and hereafter; for he may be
'one who is admitted into the fullness of the
Lord.o
Many poor, d.luded and betrayed beings are
here, who, IL they had an opportunity, would
flee to the States. But the chances of escape
are entirely cut off, and they are doomed to
dwell in their great charnel-house Of crime and
lust.
But short time ago I had an interview
with Luciaea Straiton. "spirituap' of Heber
Z. kimball. She formerly lived in Ohio,
where herself and family were res pccted, loved
and esteemed by all. But Mormon preacher
or missionary, entered her once happy home
and ms pernicious doctrines, which lured that
peaceful family to this city. Mr.. Stra,ton
was murdered in one month after he reached
here, because he cried out against theeplurali-
ty wife system. His wife died soon after,
and then their only child was IN the hands of
this destroying band. Only fifteen years of
age, yet beautiful and accomplished much be-
yond her years. But not long was she 10 en-
JOY the calm, innocent retrospection. The
teinpter was there in almost every form, and
the destroyer in one. That man is Heber C.
Kimhali, whose white hair tells his years Of
crime to be over half century. His haram
is filled from the elite and educated Of many
once happy homes. He has fifteen s'spiritu-
ais" and forty two illegitimate children! Sis
ters have married the same man, and their off
spring both call him father, and both claim him
as their husband.
The children are most all Of them girls, for
the male offspring are most always strangled
at their birth. This may seem almost impos
sible to those who have never been here, or are
not acquainted with the customs and usages
OF Mormonism. But have The facts from
those who have beheld their own newborn
offspring torn away and smothered, and then
thrown into some privy vault
Lucinda Stratton was a small school girl
when first became acquainted with her. Ours
was friendship of younger days, when we
had no care or sorrow 10 shade the future
with cloud Of darkness. But to meet her,
the victim of Wild religious fanaticism, which
drove her to the necessity OF supplying Hsber
&. Kimball with another mistress. She must
become a prostitute or starve there was no
other road left open to travel, for the church
had confiscated all her fathers property at the
time of his assassination.
SIZE had made several attempts to reach the
settlements on the frontier, but each time bad
failed, and had been sent back TO be a mistress
still. 49, gg
The wife Of . Mormon Elder was found a
few nights ago in the street, in almost nude
state, with bullet hole just over the left eye
which had scattered her brains upon tie side
walk and in the gutter in which she lay. 1t
was an act Of self destruction. Tired OF life,
which Tor two yeals she dragged along as a
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