The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-10-14
Anna Dickinson.

ioihPbiy ct thC dppOltltu MISS
Dickinson came forward and commenced
her discourse, which occupied Just one
| hour and twenty minutes in the delivery.
She commenced by graphically desciib-
| ing her recent trip across the continent,
and painting, as with master hand, the
grand and gorgeous scenery of the Rocky
Mountains and the Sierras. Her doscrip-
| ton of the scenery in the immediate Vi
cinity of Salt Lake-the lofty SUBMITS
| of the surrounding mountains, raising
high and still higher on every side, and
surmounted with browning battlement
OF eternal snow, which sparkled like a
belt OF diamonds in the rays of the sun
wos at once grand, sublime and beaus;-
| full.
Passing from this pleasing picture, she
at once entered upon the discussion of the
theme which she had announced as the
| subject of her lecture the 'Whited Sep
ulchre '--Polygamy, as practiced by the
Latter-Day Saints
We give her opening remarks in full,
as follows:
1t was at the close of lovely day in
In June, one of those grand evenings on
| the plains, that [ saw them stretching
their golden expanse away as far as the
eye could reach, and saw the sapphire
sky above, and away off from the city,
those grand mountains, with the ever
| cleaning, brilliant snow shining above
them all !; while, amid all this glowing
scene, lay that plague spot, Salt Lake
| CIty-a foul blot on nature face, whit
ed sepulchre without and within, what
A beautiful town, indeed, it is, with its
broad, cool, clean streets; with its little
| streams Of water in ali their mountain
| freshness and icy GOODNESS, so pure and
clear that, paradoxical as it may seem to
you, one can stooD down and drink nee
tar from the gutter itself; with it's pic
| turesque scenery, Its beautiful buildings,
its little abode huts and all, it is beau
tltul city IN the desert, a lovely and
pleasant spot to come and feast ones eyes
with, alter Journeylng across the ard
wastes. by their fruits We shall know
| them, said the Master of old, and by its
| fruits We shall know Mormonism, and
what you sec at Salt Lake City is neither
| better nor worse than what is to be seen
any day in San Francisco or New York.
True, In Salt Lake there is no noise, no
drunkenness, no gambling, no riots, but
order and quiet day and nigt There are
no churches save one, and what a church
is that? The children you see playing
in the streets are debased, wretched, IN
| healthy looking, bearing in their counter
ances the impress of the most brutal
passions of men.
A MORMON FASILY-MR. SMITH AND THE
| MRS. SMITHS.
! | called at house there, and I sat
down in the parlor, and in came man
and woman. Miss Dickinson, my wife
l.
my wife Mrs Smith = laug liter and
so on through a whole lot of them, all
wife Mrs. Smi not one of these wo-
men came in as the happy wife or moth
er, or as the mistress of that home, but
all skunk in with debased, servile air,
looking like tolerated slaves rather than
anything else. One OF them told me
that she had six children. another that
she had twelve, and another that she had
fifteen laughter and half of all of
them were dead, and looked at the 9TH
er half, and when | saw the wretched,
unhealthy creatures, | cried, My God,
the hand OF death Is on them, too.
BRIGIIAMS THEATER.
L went to the theater. | went expect
ing to be disguised, but | was more than
that. There were women all around me,
and L would see one man here and anoth-
er there, and each bending over ten or
| fifteen women, and | was told that they
were his wives and as | looked around
and saw these women and their degrade
| ton, such sense and feeling of shame
! and despair came over me that | cried,
! oh God, let me die where [ stand >
and then the second thought came, and |
| said, oh, no, let me not die, for that
would be cowardly indeed, but give me
strength to withstand and do battle
against this iniqnity'
Here Miss Dickinson spoke of con-
! versation between several gentlemen with
| whom she travelled on the cars to Salt
Lake. They INDUCED in some talk rela-
| tive to Salt Lake society, to which Miss
d. objected, but which we omit for want
OF space.
INSIDE OF A HAREM.
I'm Salt Lake City l went to tie house
of Mormon elder. | was told before
| hand he had two wives, and that they
| had both lived together some fifteen
years, and were perfectly happy and con-
tented-they lived together in their house
and were perfectly contented with their
lot, and would not change it if they could
l. L IL
word of it; so | went to see for myself
l talked freely to her; there was no him
drance to that. asked her how long she
had been married. Seventeen wears.
Married here?' No Married in
Epgland?' No Where we're yea
married, then?' In St. Joseph.
I ssked her if she was sati fed with
her present life-if she was willing that
her husband should have more than one
wife? She replied, Yes, | would not
change it if | could But was still
incredulous, and determined to get at the
bottom of that woman's heart.
commenced and questioned her about
her English lite, and | painted the pic
ture of the little cottage at home, and
the courtship, and at last the marriage
to the whole souled, honest husband
and how they would live together, and
how she would wait at the door of their
home and watch for his coming in the
evening land | asked her if she could not
be happy there And she put her hand
some hand to her face and bowed her
head and cried, oh, my God couldn't
L ! and then it was plain, it was easy
to see, how that woman really thought
and felt
Miss Dickinson then portrayed the
enormity of polygamy in all its horrors.
and invoked the aid of good men and
women everywhere in creating public
sentiment throughout the country which
will render its continuance in this land of
Christian civilization and human progress
impossible
IDLE GIRLS. 1t is painful spectacle
in familses where the mother is the
| drudge. to see the daughters, elegantly
dressed, reclining at their ease with their