The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-20
WHITED SRPULCHRES.
Anuo n,eh,u.on on salt Lake City R1d tse Nor
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ASSn Srn.agssGfRSeni Life aud Woman Slavery.
Lest evening, in the presence of large au-
aience, the 'Star Course of Lectures" was
inaugurated at the Academy of Music by
Miss Anna e. Dickinson, who delivered her
new lecture on "Whited Sepulchres; or, Salt
lake City"
The fair oratress commenced her address
by quoting the old proverb of "See Rome
and die" The new adage should read, "See
Salt Lake City and Twelve to work. She
was aware that there was growing sentiment
in America against work; il was 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 herbage that had been there time
ont Of knowledge, and would probably con-
tSnue 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 plea
SAM to be looked upon only on holy days.
Beautiful as the place was, however, 1t
neededto be cultivated Asshe travelledto 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 con-
FINANCE and the utter absolute carelessness
of the people to this thing and about 1t, and
saw how the evil was going on day by day.
seeing this, she could not help recognizing
the measure of damnation that was being
filed up against all people that did not exert
themselves in the matter; she stood still, and
lifted I'D the voice of her soul and asked to
die. But then she would like to live, know
ing that there was work to be done for the
elevation of humanity 1t was at the close of
beautiful June day that she first looked upon
the city of the saints-a vast level stretch of
plain; an inland sea of sapphire, rejecting
sapphire sky; range after range of mount
aims glowing through marvel
lously clear air, whilst over all ranged the
diamond bridge of the eternal wall of snow.
In the midst of such q scene rose this whited
sepulchre, fair unto the eye, pleasant to the
contemplation of the traveller, but whose iu-
habitants were in the depths of hell Wide,
clean streets, miracles of cleanliness to the
Eastern eye, with a stream flowing down the
principal avenue, and little branch riVulets
flowing through the cutters, so that one
might drink the nectar Of the gods from his
front door Each hut standing on its own
patch of ground, literally surrounded and
swamped by mass Of greenery, with flowers
and shrubs loaded with their productions.
Cleanliness, order qrliet-too quiet, in fact,
as a stagnant pool was quieter than the flow
ing gbrook, but it could not be said to be
purer-order perfect, quiet absolute; for the
man who ruled Utah and Salt Lake had brains
brains sufficient, if they pleased, to govern
this country or any other. Nowhere was
there more absolute despotism, a more COM
plete illustration of the power of a hierarchy
than in the person Of Brigham Young. When
that man died-and God hasten the day--the
bottom virtually dropped out of the tub.
Heaven hasten the day. she said, although
there would bea vast amount of inconceiva-
bly, dirty water spilled over the world. The
man power was absolute; he was head of the
Church and head of the State; he was abso-
lutte in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., civil, and mill
tary. The territory was districted, the city
was districted, and over each of these dis
tricts was one OF Young's intelligent tools,
who was bishop, a civil magistrate, and a
Judge of elections at the same time. Utah
was not Territory of the republic, it was a
kingdom of Mormonism it was not part of
the United States, it was a domain of Brig
ham Young. The elections there we're by
ballot but they had the worst features
of our open vote, for the system was SO
under the espionage of these men who pre-
sided over districts that each mans vote was
known to the authorities, and the voter was
accordingly Immediately recognized as a faith
ful follower, a devout brother of the Church.
to be rewarded and trusted; OF he was rene
gade, and was hunted down. Every dissatis-
faction that grew to open revolt in Utah was
speedily done away with by assassination
Regular military organization, each man
trained to arms hatred to the Government of
the country, were inculcated in q system
preached, once a month at least, in which
a long list of their grievances against the
United States were recounted: system in
which the people were told that the United
States had no legal authority over them, and
yet enjoining absolute subiugation to their
own President, who had a revelation direct
from heaven, which he announced the next
Sabbath morning, when the wisdom of gov
eminent OF anything relating to his
property was called into question. And he
was always obeyed, even to the giving of enc
fifth of their subsistence-for the benefit of
the Church, of comse-although Young went
10 Salt Lake a poor man, and was now the
third depositor in The Bank of England The
&trangest part of it was that there was not
man IN authority in the Territory who was
not an American-American brains monopo-
hzed the houses, the lands the profits, the
smoluments, and the wives. There was
very conamon mistake in regard to Utah, and
that was that the women far outnumbered the
men. Such was not the case: there were
really more men than women. A great MANY
mad but one wife; the majority had no wives
at all The bishops of the Church. the
apostles, the elders, and the gov
ernors of districts, have the
money whereby they could support
wives, and the young girls there, KNOWN y
that they would have an unhappy time if thew
married q poor man, looked after the com
forts as much as possible. The theory of
polygamy was universally adopted believed.
and supported by their lips and by their
hearts, but it was not universally mt into
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