Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-10-19
"Whited Sepulohres !" or Salt Lake
City.

This was the subject of recent
lecture by Miss Anna Dickinson, at
Music Hall, Boston. who commenced
her address by quoting the old prov
erb of See Rome and die" The
new adage should read, "Sec Salt
Lake City and Twelve to WORK.
She was aware that there was a grow
ing sentiment in America against
work; it was a growing feeling that
men should learn from nature and not
exert themselves. She had noticed in
California that on the prairies there
was an immense variety Of wild oats
and other kinds Of crops and herb
age that bad been there time out Of
knowledge, and would probably con-
tinue time without thought. There
were places on that Pacific land, that
reached over the length and breadth
of it, that had never been cultivated.
but which were so beautiful as almost
to call out the remark OF Charles the
Emperor, that Florence was too
pleasant to be looked upon only on
holy days" Beautiful as the place
was, however, it needed to bc cultiva-
ted. As she travelled to and fro the
streets of the new Sodom salt Lake
City, and looked into peoples faces
and considered their existence, and
looked at the evil in their midst, and
thought of its continuance and the
utter and absolute carelessncss of the
people to this thing and about it, and
saw how the evil was going on day by
day; seeing this, she could not hell
recognizing the measure of damnatior
that was being filed up against al
people that did not exert themselve:
in the matter; she stood still and lift
ed up the voice of her soul and asked
to die. But then she would like tt
live, knowing that there was a worl
to be done for the elevation of human
ity. 1t was at the close OF beautiful
June day that she first looked upol
the city of the saints-a vast levc
stretch of plain; an inland sea Of
sapphire, rejecting sapphire sky
range after range of mountains glow
ing through maryelously clear all
whilst over all ranged the die mon,
bridge of the eternal wall of snow
In the midst Of such scene rose thi
whited sepulchre, fair unto the eye
pleasant to the contemplation of tn
traveller, but whose inhabitants wer
in the depths of hell. Wide, clea
streets. miracles of cleanliness to tn
Eastern eye, with stream flown
down the principal avenue, and littl
branch riyulets flowing through tn
cutters, so that one might drink th
nectar of the gods from his front dool
: Each hat standing on its own patch 0
groun d, literally surrounded an
swamped by mass of greenery, wit
c flowers and shrubs loaded with thei
5 productions. Cleanliness, order, gu
r et-too quiet in fact, as a stagnar
i pool was quieter than the flown
brook, but it could not be said to
e purer-order perfect; quiet absolute
Y for the man who ruled Utah and Sa
:. Lake had brains brains sufficient,
they pleased, to govern this countl
), or any other. Nowhere was thel
S more absolute despotism, a more cor
S plete illustration of the power of
r.; hierarchy than in the person of Bri
o ham Young. When that man died
I and God hasten the day-the botto
y virtually dropped out of the tub
e Heaven hasten the day she said, a
d though there would be a vast amour
) Of inconceivably dirty water spillt
'r over the world. The mans pow
/ was absolute; he was head of Il
= church and head of the state; he W
: absolute in neutrality-suspicious., civ
y military. The territory was distri,
" ed, and the city was districted, al
over each of these districts was O
of Young's intelligent tools, who W
a bishop, a civil magistrate and jud
" of elections at the same time. Ut
" was not territory of the republ
r. r. it was kingdom of Mormonism;
a was not part of the United Stat,
81 it was a domain of Brigham Your
re The elections there were by ball
N but yet they had the worst features
ce our open vote, for the system was
it under the espionage of these men "
nd presided over districts that each ma
Id vote was known to the authorities, a