New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-11-30

The great prophet of the Salt Lake Valley is
covered with annOyances his ills are really
quite as great as he can bear. Not only has his
card castle been rudely knocked to the ground
and his sacred rights to court and marry any
woman he might persuade to have him been
questioned IN the Courts Of the land, but to cap
his sheaf of disgrace and anguish, his wives
have been interviewed, and their personal his
tory has been given to the public. There have
been twenty nine marriages in Brigham's mad
matrimonial career, and Of these women who
have shared the prophets households we are
told that the thirteenth and twenty second are
dead that the sixteenth ran away and that
information is absolutely lacking concerning
numbers twenty-four to twenty eight Not
withstanding the specification of the indict-
ment3 charging Brigham with fifteen more
women than he really has right to, it appears
that there are now actually in existence TWEEN
ty.one Mrs. Brigham Youngs The eldest is
fifty, and the youngest twenty four. Two of
the wives have become either wholly or par.
TALLY insane, the first wife from abandonment
of herself and children, and the second died
raving maniac, because she had become con-
WINGED that poygamy was wrong, and that her
mistake was irreparable. One is called "the
sweet singer of Israeli" and has recently pub
ished a volume of poems. great majority
of the hymns used in the Mormon Church were
u
charity which is not common as might be
wished, has adopted and gives real mothers
care to the three children of the poor woman
who died maniac, and left her true and loyal
husband to become "plural wife, to the false
prophet. Another, an English GIRL was taken
away from the man to whom she had given her
heart, because the prophet had fancied her.
The twenty third wife, commonly called by the
Gentiles the Light of the Harem," the real
Fatima of this contemplate modern Bluebeard,
Is lovely woman, who, it would SEEM was
afflicted with a real affection for the tickle
Brigham, and succeeded by womanly artifice in
almost entirely winning him from his other wives.
Indeed, the review of the lives of these I'M
fortunate women shows Brigham Young in
light which makes his pet crime doubly hide
Gus. lie has set at naught the love of woman,
Tor ne has not only made her sacrifice it in his
lavor when 1t was fixed upon another, but he
has spurned 1t away when it was given entirely
to him that he might crafty fresh caprices.
tie has williulls deserted and neglected, NOR
ally, the women to whom he hypocritically
pretended he had certain duties. and has al
lowed them to rear children nursed in the
bitterness OF hatred or jealousy. This grand
matrimonial bufioon has shaken his cap and
bells in the face of love, aud cut his mad an
tics In the ipnermost sacred courts of affection
lie Is represented as n miserable slave of pas
sion, whose soul was troubled to its profoundest
depths by the sudden vision of pretty face.
and whose will alone made victims To his cruel
mockery of marriage yearly. OF heart he does
not seem to possess more than the ordinary
allowance, although one would certainly think
a little addition TO that important organ neces-
sary for one who has courted and married and
sworn to cherish twenty nine wives-Boston
Journal