Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-01-16
An Exposure of Mormonism.
4 SAINT WHO WAS No SAINT But LEPr THE SAINTS
IN DISGUST.

The Daily Union Iidthe, = Gentle " paper
pubshtd y army III cers Salt l. Ike City, N X
ing fierce assault upon The Mormons IN Their own
home, gives tie following letter from dlsgusted
ex-M Mormon, with an explanatory introduction
The following is portion of letter written
by immg ant coovert to polygamy, who was
formerly d respectable working man in the employ
OF Lawrence and Co., wine merch lDts OF HerI
ford Luglaud. After a few years slavery 10 Utah,
be worked MS way 10 Sacramento, Calitorni4.
where he this letter, hoping i would be tue
means Of preventing others IN that country from
oeiug deluded by the mierepre .entations OF Nor
mon lroselyuz-rs the polutions of whose syst N
he became disgusted with, and thus describes
SACRAMENTO CITY, California,
I. 5. America, September %, 1865.
- SIR In my last letter to my mother pro
missed 10 send you a little of my experience walie
at Sait Lake, which was afraid to do while living
here, Is my life would have been in danger by SO
doing. But as am in a free country | can
iutter my wings, and can send t9 my friends the
ruth OF things th-y exist there w.thou, being
a.raii.
81 In my previous letters have been very silent
on the pol, Aamy question. tn nix little news
OF that kind will bs very interesting to You aud
lew of yout friends. II the first place, old men
OF seventy marry girls at fourteen years OF age,
and in some instances they give the parents OF the
child or an old gun, or some other trifilng
thing. In ihe next place, man will marry gir =,
and hat gir.'S brother viii marry her husb4nd's :
lighter: and very frequently man marries two
or three sisters but, worst OF all, many go so far
as to marry woman and her daughter, or daugh-
ters as the case may be. Again, the missionaries
from there 20 the old countries urge the emgra-
ticn, esIie ciaily that of he females; and many
women nave, "hen they had not sufficient means
TO emigrate with their ole family, emigrMe ed
with their daughters, and left their husbands and
the rest of tue family TO follow then the next
year, Us soon after as they can procure the
means. In many instances when the man get s
there he ti1ds out that his wife is married to au-
other man, and should he be forum as to ge
there with his wife, he has to keep one eve open
ali the time, he will lose her, especially if she
h.> the appearance of being a smart woman for
+ | can ass you that they are set of old men,
wi, ieS IL the grave aid the other out crawl
ing round alter women, and shout they see one
/ that they think they would ike they will tell the
poor woman that her husband can't save he,, and
! persuade her TO gel man higher in priest hood
| than her husband, and these old crippies often
succeed in getting her away, and the poor man
cau't help himself 1t is the order OF the kingdom
| of their God.
81 have told you how they marry, will now
tell you how some of them live. | will sneak of
those in the neIghborhood lived. Three of nv
nearest neighbors were polygamists-one an old
man who had no children; he lived pretty fair
with his women. The other two lived like dew
| lis they used to tight and call each other filthy
names. Ii the man has means enough he gets a
house for each of his women, if not they all live
together. One young woman that We
wese acquainted with went and listened one nls mt
at the win OF the other wife of her husband
and heard something that she did not ike. She
up vita her fist and broke almost every pane OF
glass 10 the frame. md flr the panes she broke,
her wages we're several OF her teeth knocked out
On Zlon, when think Of thee A sister of one
Of the apostles mas no less than four husbands,
and all living. Women there, if they don't like
their husbands, go 10 Brother Brigham, aud he
gives them blil OF divorce, for which he charges
ten dollars, which her husband has to pay, ard
calls tnat his pocket money.
:" Mr.. W., can assure you that there is not
that happy smile there upon a womans counte-
nance winch characterlzes an English woman