The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-22
The Story of Mormon W WOman-EHects
of FOl,gamy.

NJ. Remy, in his Journey to Great Salt
Lake City, just published in London, tells
this story of lite i'll Utah:
On cur reaching the borders of the Jordan,
not far from the city walls, We perceived two
women siliing on heap OF Indian corn stalks,
" no appeareu to be plunged IL the uittrrt ST
grief. They were a mother and Il dAus r.
The nother, the widow of Il neir relative OF
Joseph the prophet, had been married Sc
cnd time 10 Il priest whom We had once met
with on a distant mission. She was an Eng
Hsh woman, and, Independently of an eu uca-
ton little usual i'll the class 20 which She be-
longed she was endowed with all Ihcs- quail
ties which ma Ike her country women so respect
able. Her daughter, Mary, the only child vi
her first marriage, was a young person from
sixteen to eighteen years OF age, aS in teiligen
as she was pretty; it was inn poss bic to grow
tired OF observing III her face that graceful
blending of beauty and Innocence winch in
spires in every man OF feeling respectful ad
miration. Alter pressing these women TO tell
us the cause OF their suffering, they made the
following statement:
In the spring previous the missionary re-
turned home, after having been preaching 10
the S;tvages tor the space OF three years. He
was received with open arms, rs he had every
right TO expect. However, it did not appear
to hlm that the sacrifice of his long absence
was sufficiently compensated hy the affection
of a woman who coald not bear him cnil-
dren, and he requested and obtained from the
presidency a revelation authorizing HIM 10
marry second wife. So far no one had
reason to complain, since all this was in con-
formity with the manners of the place and
according 10 law. But the missionary took
il into his head to ask the hand of his step
daughter. Mary. The poor CHILD refused, at
first very timidly an gently, in hope that
her step-father would no tinslst upon it. But
he tormented his wife TO use her authority
over the child, to make her consent to this
marriage; but her mother heart utterly
rejected this Office, she did nothing, and the
consequence was dissensions in the family.
The supreme authority OF Brigham Was in
yoked; but the pontitf, whose good feeling on
this occasion is worthy of praise, refused to
do anything more than give his advice.
Neither menaces, nor caresses, nor counsel,
had any effect upon the girl, whose noble in
stincts revOlted at the idea of her becoming <
her mothers rival, and who, moreover, was
passionately in love with man who had sol
emnIy promised to marry her, and her alone.
The missionary found at last that there was
no making head agaiusts so determined will,
and, out of spite, went and selected woman
from amongst the waiting women attached
to the harem of II. &. Kimball. But a new
storm Was on the point of bursting. The se-
cond wife was no sooner installed in the con
jugal dwelling than she found out that she
WAS only u Make-shift. Calling TO her aid
every art which hatred could suggest,
she succeedeUin captivating her husband S
heart; and the latter had So far forgotten him.
self as, on the very morning OF the day on
which we met these weeping women, to mall
treat them SO grossly as to compel them TO
abandon the roof they had assisted in build
ing and ornamenting with the fruit of their
industry. They made no one responsible tor
their misfortunes they inveighed neither
new wife, nor the missionary. They prayed
God to forgive this man his blind violence,
and TO read in their hearts the good feelings $
which animated them.