Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1858-09-14
From the sullivan Dsmoc "a
of MORMON Women,

au1rer, writing from Gen. 5Johnson
camp. gives he following picture of the
brutality exercised toward the Mormon
smales by their keepers Of masters: tss
The army, en- roqte. to this place, had
occasion to pass oyer a tportlon of tAe
Provost road. This road was tltrongad
With the wagons and herds Of the retgfns
Ing population APiteous spectaGls was
Witnessed on this road, which poiyfed fh-
dubitably to the vile degIadatighIof Che
Mormon people as aFmass, we .sate. ttOo
9gomea Ate1ea 70 a cart dfa2giiag i aIotk.sg
through he dust IKE oren,tor IN the dis
gushing language Of Heb6ir Kimball, like
rteows, z sphie tie 5ar5ariitte, their IDS
5ard, walked beside Me cdn drigfng Item
IN We looked I'll see the brute getBin
the cart and be hauled by His wives, but
for shame If indeed he is capable Of such
aelins--he diGnot So long as we obseryed
bin. Let yomenkind' ID Tho Christian
world pityftcomen ip Utah Nowhere lis
woman 81 degraded, 50 trampled upon,
as in this country. VIE
|. Nqf is the incident Thave mentioned
fhel only one which illustrates the depraT y
iiy(of this people. have been told BY
Mormon women themselves, who. haFe
,apostatized, that women here are OFTEN
driven, like herds Of slayes,0by their bra
fish masters, to the fields, to irrigate afd
70 cultivate them. Several women of the
party, released by Gov. Cumming, told
fne as they passed through Camp Scott
on their way to the States, that they had
been compelled, to gain 4 substance, 10
Eiic diteltes at twenty 1--WE cents adaE,
payable in provisions at \ high price, fpr
their rich neighbors! Women here are
little else than mere chattels bought by
HE highest bidder i orwhat q the same
thing, compelled, for many reasons Of ne
eessity, to marry personspf known fdeli-
Ity to tie church. Many industrious
IN Dung, mon cannot get wives at all. The
churchiis jealous of themland as it's most
nourished and cherished principle isto eh:
slave and prostitute the greatest number
81 women, the women are forced to mar
~ any deerepid old wretch who is we'd
stled To- the church Of Brigham. One old
man in Salt Lake, who isl seventyfolr
years of age, married recently in add
ton to his other wives, two young girls
-one fifteen and the other seventeen
years Of age. The girls we're sisters, and
married on the occasion. . -sE + 4
b All the IswomenI have seen are poorly
clad, many of<them barefooted, dirty,
and destitute almost of clothing, AS, We
passed along the Provost road, meeripg
hundreds 4of these poor deplorable We
men, many a bright eye gazed at us i'm
ploring and hopeful, as if expecting from
Us the. means for their aInelioration. And
with this maomentons dream Of some fa-
ture happiness, the blush which had
Hinged their cheeks at the CONSCIOUSNESS
81 their degradation, would pass away
Let us, not1be tho harsh in our opinion Of
these women, / ana satisfied that blt
Comparatively flew of them voluntarily
snbmitthe plurality system at frat. They
have been decoyed and sedaced here by
thehoneyed words and deceptive, promi4z
is Of lie Mormohs emmissaries abroad.
MANY too, have followed their husbands,
whom they have sworn. 70: foFe, AZ th1ls
lpiaee, and, with brokenh hearts aHd crush
ri sn;rits have been compelled 10 ALLOW
at1,ers hi divide With tllem their hus
bands hearts. ONCE ln /" l.llon' theAF
cannot flee. FIJI /9