The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-01-30
AN EXPOSURE or monsASi.m.
SAINT wuo WAS NO SAINT, nuT LgI {
TIIk SAINTS IN ntearar

! AN EXPOSURE or MoRNANisM.
. AsAtNr wuo WAS NO SAINT, auT Lgp
E rus SAINTS IN DISGUST.
The Daily Union l'iaeie. 'gentil,
paper published by army officers IA Sa
Lake Cry, making fierce assault upon this
Mormon' ~ their own home. glves tho
following letter from a disgustod ex.Mor
Z mon, wt h an explanatory introduction /
Inc following Is q portion Of letter
written by an immigrant convert TO poly
gomy' who was formerly respectable
workln5 man IN the employ of Lawrence
and Co. wire merchants Of IIer,lond, Ena,
land After a few years slavery in Utah,
nc worked his way 10 Sacramt nto, Cali.
lorna, where lte wrote this letter. hopin,
Wout be the means OF preventing otli.
ers IN 'in'i country from being doluded bs
me misrepresentation of Mormon prosc
yiizers, The pollution OF whose system lie
became dlsgnstrd with aud thus describes
SACRAMENTO CITr, California,
y. . America, September, 23, 1865.
or i.--lil my last leiter to my mother
promised 70 send you little OF INV exper.
renee while AZ Salt Lakr which was
AFRAID 70 po while living her, m my llEi
would have teeh in danger BY so doing
bui a' ! am now il u tree country ca,
Hotter my wings, aud can send 10 my
trends The truth Of things as they exist
there wiIh.ut being afraid.
In my previous letters | have been
very slirni % the polygany question. -
lhihk a liile Gews OF that kind will bo
very interesting 10 on and few of your
friends. In the first place, old men Of
seventy marry girls n fourteen wears of
age, and ~ satAe Instances they ciye n.
parents 81 y" chil a COW or an old gun.
Or some oiafr ir'hng thing. In lAe nesi
pace, u man will marry girl and thut
e'fi ofo'h VIII marry her husband,
daushIer, and very frequently man mar.
ries two n three sisters but. wor., ~
all many % 50 Tar as 10 marry n wou,au
ana her daughter, or daughters as tho
case may De. Again, The missionaries
from there % The old countries urge m.
emigration, especially that of the fcmale..
ana many women have, when they b.a
not sufficient means 10 emiarate with Iheir
whoie family ,cmg aied with their d,uaLl.
er'' ana lel' their husbands aud the rec,
oil the family 10 follow them the mex, rca,.
or as soon ai'er rs they can procure th,,
means. In many Instances when th. man,
gels there he finds out that lis vile i mar.
l'ed 10 another man, and should he bs so
fortunate rs TO get there with his gile. r.
mas 10 Keep one eye open all iLe time, or
ne VIII lose her, especially ii size In. III,
appearance ol being smart wonu: for
can assure you that they are n ,r, Of obi
men, with one leg IN tho grave aud n.
other out crawling round after wo,n.n.and
should they see one that they think ihey
would like, they will tell the poor woman
nat her husband can't save her, and pury
uade her to get man higher in priest.
iood than her husband, and these old
rlppies often succeed in getting her awayg
md the poor man cant help himself
{ is the order Of the Kingdom Of their
iod. a.
! havefoll you bow dey marry.
Tll now tellyou how some Of fben 6v..
WIN speak OF those in the neigIborhood
lived. Hfee Of my nearest neiybhor.
,ere Polyeamisis--one an old man whu
ad no children he lived pretty fair with
Is women. The other two lived IN.
evils they used TO fglt and call encl,
ther lllthy names. II the man l,as r,ean.
nough he gets house for each of "a.
omen, II not they all live together. One
Dung woman that we were acon,in,ad
lth went and listened one night at tie
indow Of the other wife Of her husband
nd heard something that she did not likef
hc up withh heT fist and broke almost AZ.
y pane OF glass in The frame, aud for the
anes she broke, her wages was several or
sr teeth knocked out Oh Zion. when
li0k Of thee A sister of one % ,hs
posIles has no less than four ,busbands..
I'd all living. Women there, if thex
mt like their husbands, 70 to Bnothey
rgham, and be gives them biz of Al.
'rce, for which he charges ten dolIays
hich her late husband has TO nav. ana
Ils that his pocket money.
Mr. W., ! can assure you that there Il
i that happy smile there upon a woman's
unienanee which characterizes an Fog.
b woman. Many Of them, as soon A.
ey get there begin TO peep through ~.
'ol that has been drawn over their eyes
obably for years, and some Of them
ne out and say Mormonism 10 Utah
q Normonism ia England has no com.
rison. found il 50 long before / sos
Sail Lake, but would liked 10 hav.4
md u ont before | lefI ay home. Al
rate am quite satisfied now, and
se come 70 this conclusion, that IL Col
rs that people, The devil owns the beu,
j am, SIR, your humble servant.
w. HARr.