The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-11-14
INSIDE VIEW OF BRIGHAMY.
Mrs Stenhouse Lectures on the Peculiar
situation of the Utah Saints.

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which gave rise to the polygamic evil, aud
lie effects upon the women Of Utah and
elsewhere. She was in Switzerland at the
tine, aud il was her mission to break it to
the sisters there. She felt as if she was
bringing q blight upon every home, and
pointing poniard at the blcastof every
woman in tho land. She then described
tue practical working Of the system IN
Utah, quoting from Brigham Young him
self II. prove the deep. unuttcruble and
universal unhappiness caused by it. The
nlurmurs and tears Of the women are un-
needed. They we're commanded to round
up their shoulders aud bear the burden, or
expect complete aud lasting divorce. =
Those who complied were promised rule
as kings and queens in heaven; those who
did not we're 10 be damned The terrible
maladications Of Young meant something.
They knew that he would ruthlessly apply
bis doctrines of blood atouements il ne.
cessary, and many man and woman had
for their opposition been buried IN quiet
graves where they would rest until the
day when they should meet their mur.
derer, not as judge, but as q trembling
culprit. So little we're women respected
10 Utah that elders Ind said, 1--WE think
no more Of marrying wife than Of buy
ing cow" But there we're no wives in
Utah. they were nothing but slaves.
Mrs. Stenhouse then gave new and
startling statement Of the attitude ard ex,
pectation Of the blormons daring the great
rebellion. They gloried in The courage
and predicted that the males would be
killed, except a very small remnant, aud
then they would take the Gentle woman
as their spoil. They applied a passage Of
Scripture to that anticipated result, and
believed that seven women would lay hold
Of one man and say We will eat our own
bread, etc, only let us be called by thy
name to take away our reproach.
Her picture Of the plural wives, their
lonely. comtortless and sometimes destitute
condition. was touching, aud constituted
a strong argument against the infamous
practice.
Brigham Young was denounced as
stern, applicable tyrant, and bis conduct
toward bis wife, Harriet Cook, cited as
proof. This young, high spirited woman
aspired to the position Of Sullana, as hav-
lug borne the prophet the first son under
The new system, but Young bad steadily
ignored Der pretensons. One day the
child was punished by her, aud stigmatis-
I'd as q bastard. The sting was not intcn.
dcd for the boy, but for his father, who
was in hearing. He came forward and
said, Harriet, that is the last bastard
you shall ever have" And for quarter
Of century she has been husbaudless
wife. Other instances Of similar char.
acter were narrated.
The fearful practice had its female sup.
portcrs, of whom Eliza Snow was chief
She had recently published letter pur'
porting to come from countrywoman, III
which the degrading vice is praised as
beneficial to the temper and character Of
woman. Mrs. SteDhouse knew Of one
wife who went insane when her husband
took another to his home, and when be
died soon after, she ran out Of her bowel,
and with curses and naniacal rawlings
threw stones at his coffin.
The Union Pacific Railroad came, and
Young gave woman the suffrage, not that
they might cmancipate themselves, but
because the ciphers should magnify him,
the only figure recognized Of value. The
horrors Of the edowment house we're then
exposed, and story told of Orson Pratt.
which, from its perfect telling, aud the
world Of woe i. reveals, ough. to be pub
iished rerbatim as q tract. and sown
broadcast over the world wherever the
apostles Of polygamy seek to make con-
serls. Denver Kansas Tribune.
The Deepest Well in the World,