Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-08-28


Then came the snow. and then the poor
remnant Of the party had TO experience al
the horrors Of starv alton and frost. Deli
cate girls, nursing mothers, aged men and
young children, had ~ perform the work Of
oxen-wade half frozen rivers aud creeks
climb rugged hills, and toll through valleys
knee deep in snow, and still drag the ever
lasting hard cart and its ceaseless load be-
hind.
was told by one who was first to meet
the party, Of young man who had BEEN
remarkable as fine. generous, athletic
Young fellow, but then was worn and was
| ted to q skeleton; when spoken to he burst
into tears; and when told to cheer up. re-
piled in . tone of piteOus distress: q don't
mind for myself; but if die, what is to
become of my mother and those poor girlsl
Even now when we reach camp, l haven't
strength to sweep the snow away; they can
not pitch the tent without, and it kills me
oh. it kills me to see them suffer as they
do Tears choked further utterance, and
the party who addressed him turned away
| to hide their own.
II is due to the Mormons who met them
with teams to say that they did everything
! in their pow er to alleviate the distress But
no one doubts the sincerity and good heart
edness of the Mormon people, especially
when hidden by Brigham on an errand
agreeable to him. 1t is the heads which
conceived, and the hearts which carried out
such murderous plan, who deserve the
eternal execration of mankind.
THE SOURCE OF THE PROPHETS wxALrII-uIs
wHOLEsALE ROBBERY OF TIE PEOPLE.
Why were they not permitted to remain
a winter in the 5; ates, where they could
have obtained employ, till spring should Of
fer the prospect Of journey free at least,
from the SHOWS of the terrible South Pass :?
Why, but because their impoverished con-
dition on their arrival here would BE such
as to Justify Brigham, in his later declara-
ton, that the time was not far distant when
he would buy up the poor as slaves for q
bushel of wheat. Well may he boast. as he
did in one of his last discusses Of the gold
his Golfers enclose-gold which he averred
1t required a wagon and two yoke of cattle
to haul to Provo. Where was it obtained
and by what means? Ten years ago he was
not worth ten cents, where probable he wv
owns ten thousand Time and space would
fail me to give accounts of how he obtained
the wealth he toasts of. Volumes might
be filled in relating it.
have spoken of the hard cart system
and its frightful consequences | did no,
speak Of the flour which was collected from
house to house in this Territory by
the minions of the Church at that time nor
how readily the people gave it to the teams
which went out to convey it to the starry
ing emigrants: nor how every pound which
those cmgrants eceived was carefully 10
ted down, and afterwards charged to many
at high prices! Who received the pay
Not the donors-but the Church
Again, when they sent around last veal
and LEVIED a tax upon every inhabtant fol
the support of their standing army, anC
when, shortly after that, the army wa
abolished, and notice given that all proper
ty subscribed wonld be refunded, how mucf
of stock, clothing or saddiery, to say moth
ing OF wheat and other food which each hat
given, was returned to the owners? Nc
three cents worth out of every ten. Ye
again, while that army, or part Of it was on
for long dreary weeks last autumn, doing it
best, ignorant as it was, to defend thei
church and her authorities, word came int.
this city that its soldiers were half naked
and clothing was wanted to protect then
from the frost, a call was again made upor
tie inhabitants for donations of clothing, I,
be left at a store des: gnated by the authori
ties. Obedient to the call-poor and desti
tute as hundreds were-mothers and sister,
having cut up their last remaining flame
petticoat for the husbands and brothers lon:
since sent out in the canons- still obedien
to the call-clothing absolutely needed TO
the naked at home, was entrusted to tn,
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and for even these hard wrung articles
the poor and infatuated creatures who re.
ceived them were charged-charged fo
what had literally been taken from tn
backs of their wives and children. A poo
woman told me the other day only, of he
husband having to pay four dollars tor ,
half worn out article given him in Ech'
Canon, and Brigham at the same time boast
ing of his Golfers full of gold! Has the mai
no bushes for such barefaced robbery of tn
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