Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-10-19

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renegade, and was hunted down. {
Every disaffection that grew 10 open
revolt in Utah was speedily done away
with by assassination. Regular mill
tary organization, each man trained to
arms, hatred to the government of
the country, were inculcated in sys.
TEN preached, once a month at least,
in which long list of their grievan-
ces against the United States were
recounted; system in which the peo-
Pile were told that the United States
had no legal authority over them, but
yet enjoining absolute subjugation to
their own president, who had a reve-
lation direct from heaven, which he
announced on the next Sabbath NOR
ming when mis- wisdom of government
or anything relating to his property
was called into question. And he was
always obeyed, even to the giving one
fifth OF their subsistence-for the ben
eft of the church, of course-altho'
Young went to Salt Lake poor man,
and was now the third depositor in
the Bank of England The strangest
part of it was that there was not
man in authority in. the territory who
was not an American-American
brains monopolized the houses, the
lands, the profits, the emoluments and
the wives. There was a very COM
mon mistake in regard to Utah, and
that was that the women far outnum-
case; there were really more men
than women. A great many men had
but one wife; the majority had no
wives at ALL The Bishops of the
Church, the Apostles, the Elders and
the Governors of Districts, have the
money whereby they could support
wives, and the young girls there,
knowing that they would have an I'M
happy time if they married a poor
man, looked after the comforts as
much as possible, The theory Of po-
lygamy was universally adopted, be-
lieved and supported by their lips and
= by their hearts, but it was not univer-
sally put into practice for the simple
fact that there were not women en-
ough to carry it out. Order, cleanli-
ness, quiet, peace on the one side; on
d the other no schools-the speaker
r begged pardon, there were schools,
+ buildings that would accommodate
E from 100 to 300 pupils-but they
t, were private family schools, one own
It ed by Brigham Young, and that was
Il filled with his offspring, and Others
If belonging to the prominent there, all
n crowded, but still belonging to one
5 family. No free schools, no genera
N system of education, no libraries, nc
$ reading rooms, no morality in the
streets or in the theatre. The las
named institution, like everything elst
q of any value, was Brigham's own pro
perty. There was no happiness
The people wore a stolid, heavy coun
1t tenance, and their laughter was with
1t out mirth. She had gone into the pla
d ces they called homes, or at leas
v where they lived, and found that a
le one wife after another came into tn
1t room they dropped little. curteS
:" and fell into a chair and behaved no
" as wives. but as tolerated servitorS i
st the presence of chief. She had see
at the children there, and as she hear
OF o. five out OF six dying, and locke
in at the puny, sunken, stuuted animal
re that remained, she could not help cry
Is ing in bitterness to God that they to
H. might be in their graves She ha
Of looked iutO the houses and saw half
n dozen rooms and half dozen wives
rel in the theatre, where one man wOul
at he attended by a score of women, a
th Of them bis wives where the half CT
"a. Gle would be crowded with youn
,st girls, the daughters of one man, bl
he the daughters of forty three differeI
90 living women. She heard stori,
on banded about the streets that Bri
ICE ham Young would admire girls and a
va terward discover they were his OW
Inc daughters, and about Brigham 5 sc
Ike Joseph, who excused himself from Il
,es society of United States officers {
nd the ground that he wanted to 90 al
md make love to one of his mothers
the She had met gentlemen, not illitera
the creatures, but men of honor and 7
md spectability, and trusted and lifted
by to the high places Of the land by t
elp consent of the people about the
ion who, in talking of Utah, made remar
all which were particularly pleasant
yes a woman, who loved her own sex,
lift hear. They thought Salt Lake ca
,ed ital place, separations were easy al
to divorces could be had almost for t
ork asking. How would these men Ii
an their own wives, when off on a su
iful mer vacation, to speak and act
BON they, their lords, did. One circu
vel stance that happened to her was an
of sing. The night she arrived in t
XIV; city Serenade was given to some o
ow. in the hotel-it was not meant
air. her-and after a while some one cri
ond for Miss Dickinson" A displ
ow. took place as to whether it was "Mis
this or Mister Tor these people We
eve. in the same difficulty respecting wi
the are termed strong minded people
ere the Americans were, and so the pr
can lem was solved by some one shout
the "Bring Il out" On Sunday she We
ing to their Tabernacle, and saw there
tile ting in the high places, well met, "
the received, John Todd; heard
the preach sermon wherein he apost
COR. phlzed all the people as fellow s
b of ners and BRETHREN She heard h
and tell story wherein it was stated Il
With differences of creed notwithstandi
heir all good people were sure Of eter
oui. salvation. He did not say Mormt
lant by word, but if not by implication til
wing what was the story worth and "
, be was it told ? and why in the prese
ute; of those people did he say that th
Salt was nothing necessary to their sal
t. if ton but faith in Christ? Who W
ntry the men before him There was b
here op Johnson, whose wives inclut
CON- four sisters and two nieces, and G
of ID. Watt, a church reporter, MARI
tn anlnnr ut horc his ou-n balf sic