Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-22

dence. NO comment is needed-thls recital
tells its own horrible history
Monday March pa few days ago we
received the news of the robbery of man
named Parish, Ga dissenting Mormon, who
was intending to leave the Territory in
SpIingville town about sixty miles south of
here. Some men came to his premises in the
night and took two span of horses and
wagon, with which he contemplated to leave
the Territory this Spring. Hearing them
moving his property he went TO the door,
where he was met by man who presented a
pistol to his head threatening TO blow his
brains out if he made any noise or offered any
resistance. The next day he found one span
of his horses in the stable of one Bullock, the
Mayor of Provo. He claimed The horses, but
Bullock refused to let him have them. He
then applied to the Judge of the Probate
Court, Ga Mormon Tribunal, but the only
Court left us since the forcible dissolution Of
United States Court), for a writ of replevin,
which the Judge refused to issue, and he
could get no redress.
We have received the report and particu-
lars of the murder of Parish and two other
men. A party of the "apostate" Mormons,
Parish, and his two sons, Potter and Darger,
having been stripped of all they possessed by
Mormon process and open robbery, deter
mined to leave the Territory at all hazards.
Being Enabled to procure teams, they start
ed on foot and passed out of Springville in
the afternoon. They had been watched, and
as soon as they had started several men were
called out to assist in the affair. The party
had hardly proceeded hundred yards from
the gate of the town before they were fired
upon by band of disguised Dantes. Potter
was killed outright, having been pierced by
five balls. Parish and one of his sons were
bo I'LL
them, and cat PartSBS throat from ear to
ear, and ripped open his boVe5s. Other
wounds upon his person showed that he
struggled hard His son, though severely
wounded, ran about eighty yards, when he
was overtaken, and his throat aoaS cut and his
boaoels ripped open. The other two men being
q little in the rear escaped.
As soon as it was known that the victims
of this terrible crime were making prepara-
tions to leave, an express was sent to Brig
ham, which performed the journey and re-
turned in less than twenty -four hours, al
though the distance travelled was about one
hundred miles-bringing orders the nature of
which may be reasonably inferred from the
horrible results. The Bishop laid his hands
on the heads of some men, (the supposed as
sassins,) previous to their starting out, blessed
them and prayed the Lord "to gjUe them
strength to perform the aoorb Of the Lord.
We have reports Of others being killed, but
have no positive knowledge, as the Mormons
take care to hide from every dark deed
when they car help it. One Of the Bishops,
the other day, in preaching to his congrega-
ton, said that he would cut the throats of
the apostates with as little conjunction as he
would go into pen of hogs and butcher
them" One of the % Seventies " said that at
first he shuddered at the idea of killing all the
apostates- men, women, and children-but
had.become reconciled to it that he was sat
isied he would be saving them and assisting
in building up the kingdom.
The Mormons pretend and assert it as q part
of their doctrine that no man can take Sec
ond wife without the consent of the first
That consent is not unusually obtained by CO.
ercion, and the lash and starvation are fire.
vuently resoi ted to for that purpose, many in.
stances of which have come to my notice.
But Brigham has adopted another mode of
insuring acquescence. If the first wife .evin-
ces any repugnance to the addition he depos-
es her, as he terms it, from her position as
first wife, and assigns the place to another,
With the mail that left for the States on the
LIST inst, was Horace >. Eldridge, who has
gone to st. Louis to take charge OF that ''Stake
OF Iion, and, if possible, re light the Lama
nary Ga Mormon paper,) which was extin-
guished for want of proper fuel last season.
Just before leaving us he had two young
girls (sisters,) scaled to him, against their
will, and in spite of their tears and remon-
strances. Their father was a bigoted Nor
mon, and compelled them thus to become
concublnes to man who has several women
IN his harem already. He was too conscious
parsonage in the church to be prudently
thwarted, and the father inclined deaf ear
fr fhoir oY,fq A.
creature whose soul must be insensihle to
every generous emotion. What else could be
expected from devotee of Mormonism, whose
religious belief is that woman should be the
passive instruments for the qualification of
mans sensual appetltes, and who laugh to
scorn the idea Of her moral or intellectual
worth.
young woman, who forsook her friends in
England and came to this country last Fall.
under the delusion that if she could only reach
"Zion," her happiness would be completely
insured in this world and the next was taken
on her arrival into Brighams family as his
mistress, when the monstrous state of affairs
was soon revealed to her. She anxiously in
quired whether it had always been thus, and
if there was no hope for change. She was
told that, instead of any hope of improve
ment, affairs daily were growing worse when
the poor woman in her agony exclaimed,
Oh, am lost lost !! lost %
A.
Joseph Young, the not over bright son of
Brigham, returned last Fall from mission to
England. AS the son of the Prophet, he was
hattered caressed and almost worshipped, by
the faithful abroad, and has returned inflated
with vanity near bursting. He left young
wife behind him when he went, whom he has
entirely neglected since his return, except to
keep her locked up in his fathers seraglo-
| He has lately been i" sealed" to two Young
women, one of them daughter of one Grant,
brother of the late Jedediah. She is about
seventeen years of age, and represented to be
very amiable and lovely. She was most bit
terly opposed to the marriage, and begged and
implored her father not to force her into the
arms of a man whom she loathed and alb
| horred but he was deaf to her entreates, for
the son OF the Prophet must be gratified.-
| Since she was sealed" she refuses to associ
ate with him, and walks her room all night,
her agony unrelieved by tears, in state bor-
| dering on insanity.
This is the hearty acquiescence that the
| Utah women give to their prostitution. Wom-
en- in this community are considered little
more than household drudges, or mere TOYS, to
be disposed Of as the prophet dictates 1t is
vain for them to assert rights which heart
less tyrant disregards-in vain 10 raise the i'm
ploring voice--ln vain are their anxious
| prayers or agoni2ing tears. All must be sac
rihced to the unhallowed appetite or sordid
| views OF a despot. Such has always been
woman's condition in heather countries where