The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-24

MEETING OF ExTREMEs-HoRACE GREELEY
AND BRIGHAM YoUNG.-When fanatic meets
fanatic, and both are in the opposite extremes,
something ludicrous may be expected from the
collision. Horace Greeley, after writing home
fabulous gold stories from modern Ophir,
which deceived thousands to their ruin, visits
Brigham Young, in Utah, and writes an account
of that parsonage and his harem which is
equally reliable. His letter will be found in an
other column. The idea of such man as
NouDg submitting tamely, like child, to be put
through his catechism by such man as Greeley,
is story that will do to "tell the horse ma
rines" Horace reports bis questions and the
answers of Brigham; but he takes good care not
to report Brigham's questions and bis own
answers. He says that Gin the two hours con
versation much was said incidentally that would
not be worth reporting" and as some of the con-
disputation, he could hardly give it i'm
partially" Now, the parts left out are just
those in which Young doored Greeley with his
posers.
Brigham Young is fanatic in religion, but in
other respects he is no fool. He is far shrewder
man than Greeley, who deplores the darkness of
the ism by which the Mormons are deluded, but
seems unconscious of being himself the victim of
numerous isms equally dark and fanatica, in
GLIDING abolitionism and teetotalism-of being
led about by every wind Of doctrine and deluded
by every humbug, from Slievegammon" to
Pixies Peak.
At one time the ;gnis fatm4s of Fourierism leads
him on FOOLS dance through quagmires aud
slougbs, and we find him delivering lectures to
the pattern phalanxes after which the whole
population of the United States were to be
modelled. In these communities in some re-
spects all things were in common, while in others
the order of nature and of common sense, of
philosophy and history, was equally reversed, and
the man with least intellect and the most igno-
rant, who did the dirtiest and coarsest work, re-
ceived most remuneration, while the artist and
the man of genius if art or genius could be
found in such an atmosphere) were put on the
lowest pittance. This was by way of honoring
labor, and exalting the man who had most afiuity
with the brute above the man who most resem-
bled the divinity. These Utopian concerns,
with their "social and industrial REFORM" have
long since gone to limbo, while "the false condi-
ton Of society in which we are placed by mis-
taken and vicious civilization" still continues,
to the disgust of Greeley and the Tribune phi
losophers. AS long an this delusion lasted it
was sort of religion with him to wear dirty
old white coat, threadbare and riddled with
holes, his face and hands filthy, his shirt black,
and his boots the reverse. His exterior has since
become somewhat improved.
For another period Greeley was sorely exer
cised about Graham bread, apd during the time
he was under the spell OF that infatuation there
was nothing fit for human food but brown coarse
wheaton bread with the bran in it. Those WHO
INDUCED in the luxury Of beef and mutton were
no better than cannibas, and were violating the
physical laws Of the constitution of man. Eat.
ing flesh meat was the cause of all the ills that
human flesh iss heir to. There is none who
has greater appetite for fat pork now than
Horace Greeley.
The doctrines of Free Love and Women's Rights
and Spiritualism with all its " affinites," found
:,
was pronounced to be of no more force than a
cobweb. 1t is hard to say how long Greeley
continues Of the same mind. But Judging from
bis letter from MOrmondom, he is still stckler
for "woman's sphere aud destiny" and the
genius of the nineteenth century," whoever he
may be. Now it is singular how extremes meet.
Horace Geeeley, the pot, calls Brigham Young,
the kettle, black. The one, by his polygamy,
degrades woman below her sphere; and the
other, by bis woman's rights, degrades man aud
unsexes woman, throwing her out of her sphere
and sending her among the clouds or to the
moon. Greeley pronouncing on Young and
his Mormonism is like lunatic in one ward
of an asylum pronouucing different kind o
lunatic in another ward mad. AS for the Nor.
mon chief, he has rather more method in his
madness than the champion of Womau's Rights
He has realized $25O00O, which is above the
capacity of Greeley And to have fifteen wives
together, some of them "old ladies'" and to love
and cherish them all, is not half 80 immoral or
80 injurious to society as to change wives
fifteen times, the husband getting rid of
each In succession, on the ground that
she has no affinity for him, and seek.
ing out some new flame more coneenial to
bis desires. Brigham Young holds that "no
man should ever put away his wife except for
adultery" Horace Greeley holds that he should
put her away il she did not, after due trial, hap
pen to be his affinity" But when we add that,
according to the Woman's Rights and Free Love
a haun bue1 md IN,
succession, all being still alive-that, in fact as