Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-10-07
ANNA DICKINSON ON M0RMoNIsM,
Mormon Tamtty-Mr Smith and the
Mrs. EtAftns.

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the parlor, and in came man and woman
"Miss Dickinson, my wife Mrs. Smith, and
in came another woman, ''my wife Mrs.
Smith, and in came another, 'my wife Mrs.
Smith Qaughter) so on through 8
whole lot of them, all ''my wife Mrs. Smith 7
and not one of these women came in as the
happy wife or mother, or as the mistress oi
that home, but all skunk in with dcbarred
servile air, looking like tolerated slaves ratl-
er than anything else. One Of them told me
that she had six children, another that she
had twelve and another that she had fifteen
I-(laughter) and half of all them were dead,
and looked at the other half, and when
saw the wreiched unhealthy creatures, l
cried, "My God. the hand Of death is on
them too"
went to the theater went expecting
| to be dsgustrd, but | was more than that
There were women all around me, and |
would see one man here and another there,
each bending over ten or fifteen women, and
was told they were his wives. As looked
| around and saw these women and their deg
| radiation, such n sense and feeling Of shame
and despair came over me that | cried, 80!
God, let me die where staud;" and then
the second thought came. and said, "Oh
no, let me not die for that would he cow
ardly indeed, but give me strength 10 with
stand and do batlleagaiust this.
NAUGHTY GENTLE VISITORS
came ou, TO Salt Lake City with the best
men in the cOuntry--men whom the couuiry
delights to honor and reverence -.nd, us we
all knew we We're coming To 5 ,lt Lake City,
we naturally talked great deal about il,
and what do you think was the tenor of
these mems conversation? Why after had
listened for some time, thought should
pray for deafness or cotton to putin my ears,
They thought Mormonism II fine Institutions;
it must be II jolly place where Il man can
have dozen or two wives and yet be re.
spectacle. IL must be jolly TO live in place
where divorces can be had for five dollars,
and where, If you get tired ofyour wife, ynu
can tack on pretty little Mormon and no
one can say word to you. Nice converse
ton for respectable men, and all of them
married but two, and they were the best be-
haved of the lot. "Oh, ii was only u joke"
Well suppose it was joke. Surprising a
lot of respectable married women were TO
talk in the cars and say, "Oh it's fine iu
stiution, Mormonism. You can have q
dozen husbands, and get divorced any time
for 50. When you get tired of your hus-
band you can get rid OF him. shove him to
one side and get the best looking young
Mormon you can find" Now what would
people think who heard them speaking that
even ' if it was all joke!" Why, they
would think them women who were lost to
all sense OF dignity and honor.
EASTERN spEEon-MAHERs.
When got to Salt Lake City they were
serenading 1t wasn't me they were doing
ii to- Qaughter)- they were serenading
some OF the big-wigs that had come alorg
and then those respectable" men got out
and made speeches. Such speeches They
didn't know i was listening to them, but we
women hear great deal more, and are sharp
enough to he awake great deal oftener,
when anything is going on, than we get ere
dit for. | was at my window listening to
them, and there heard one honorable Con-
gresham and well known Representative
stand up and pledge himself, and pledged his
companions, to do their utmost 10 support
and care for the interests of these people.
AT BRIGnAM's TABGRNAcLE-A wELLKNowN
CLERGYMAN AMONG THE MoIMoNs.
went to the Tabernacle, and expected
to be disgusted there, Too, and was. There,
seated in the midst of a lot of ''elders, was
a reverend gentleman, a well-known and
much talked OF divine with white necktie
the Rev Thomas Todd--and while was |
there this most reverend gentleman stood up |
and he made u speech. and he told little |
story, in which, il he didn't directly illustrate |
il, at any rate he gave the inference that |
Mormons were Just as eligible for heaven as |
any one else. And all this was just type |
of how the world outside treat OF Mormon
ism and gloss over its abuses.
SHAMEFUL INDIFFERENCE OF CONGRESS.
Congress has no time; its committees have |
no time. But they have tiLle to scamper
across the Continent ard spend public money
in seeing sights and doing nothing. And
there are the newspapers, they have no time;
their columns are filed with any trash or
stuff, but not word IN this. And in the
pulpits, day after day, the clargymen who
fill iheM speak On religion and reform, but
not a word do they say on this. And the
of The land, they know it they
know how their sex are dcbased and degrad-
I'd in this s,cnud Sodnin, and with all the
influence and power hut women possess, If
they only chouse tn use it. they do nothing;
they sit in elegance and comfort and they say
not word.