The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-15

able of his attention liis visits were fire. !
ouent after that his business cares so oc- ,
cupied him, he said, that he only called /
about once in three months. After that /
he came lust as it happened.
When | was married hc Waited my /
mother to live with me in the city, and
wear from the marriage he sent Us to take
charge of his farm, where we remained till
last August, and | removed again into the
civ. While | was at the farm be came
rbrg seldom to see me, and oftentlmes
while he would visit and look at the farm
he never came into the house. had caused
him no trouble indeed, he had said | was
the best wife he had, for had never given
him n cross word or look. But for that
good temper take no credit, for my 81
ience was all through fear. never loved
him. and never said to him that loved
him. l looked upon him as heartless
despot. ,-... ..1.
i. From the very begR.tiing of my married
association with Brigham Young his man.
ner of.nrOviding for me was of the meanest
character. l had to come up, even from
the farm, four miles distant, to the COM
missary of his family, and was glad when
] could get five pounds of sugar, one-quar-
ter of a pound Of teas a bar of soap and
pound of caudless That would get about
once month. About a year ago l com
planned to him that had not sugar enough,
and he allowed me what l required.
When l returned to the city he furnished
me with house in n very. ordinary way,
and continued to live in the best manner
l could. Bit it was the same stingy way.
When a beef was, killed / got some fresh
meat /; but was frequently months with
out seeing it: y:~ir'
! Tired With this manner of existence, l
asked permission to keep boarders, with
! the view of aiding myself and procuring
I 4 r ffr.l cfT mt
| as he was, pa ssionately fond of music. The
| permission was granted, and | kept board
ers from last March. Ny: :h|use was small,
! ard the business was not very lucrative.
l consequeptIy went 10 him, six weeks ago,
and asked him to aid me-to give me some
assistance to make life tolerable. He
Se5ired angry, and complained that he had
SO many expenses, and that he wanted me
to keep myself-to take the money that
had saved to buy an organ for my son and
keep my family with it. / got u stove out
of hin, but that was all. During the last
year l only obtained from him two calico
dresses. -
This interview made me sick, and was
| in bed for a week, with heart sickness.
One of the boaFders-who was lawyer
and his wife, asked what ailed me, and |
told the story of my troubles and inquired
if there was no redress. He said that he
thought there was, and he would consult
with other lawyers and see what could be
done. During all my sickness while / was
his wife he showed the utmost indifference.
He would hear what had to say, but make
ALMOST no answer. Last fall IT7as attacked
With pleurisy, and l managed to get to his
Office to see, him TO tell him how i'll l was,
and to get some few things. He appeared
to comprehend. nothing, and finally called
"JOhn," the commissary for his family,
ard told him to get me two bits worth of
l.
house for nearly a year. =
About five weeks ago l got very weak.
/ | don't know what was the matter with
me-probably general debility from grief
and Bsental suffering: Ny boayders, seeing
my condition, aided me freely and were
! very kind to me. | resolved to leave his
house, packed up my clothes and instruct
ed an auctioneer two weeks ago te take
away the furniture and sell it, as a part of
it was my own, and Thought L. was enti-
tied to the rest. The suit CONNIE need has
been instituted by my attorneys, who haye
every confidence that can obtain alinony;
but whether / do or not / think the world
should know Brigham Young as he is, and
my story is page of his biography.
THE PROPHETS OTHER WIVES.
In regard to his other wives, Mrs: Young
says he keeps them so under his thumb
that they dare not saw anything. Te their
|
are very much tried with his course. They
are mortified by his partiality to Amelia,
and his profigal expenditure of money TO
give her everything she wants, while they
live in very plain way and are forced to
earn good deal of their support. 1t puz-
zles every one how Amelia obtained 81
much influence over him. The other wives
think that he is afraid of her because she
| is such a virago. She has threatened to
leave him hundreds of times; l suppose.
1t is said that she tTOts him about every
where that she pleaSeS, and when she gets
into one of her tantrums she smaSheS fur
niture and everything around. She is the
only one in the family that he breads. He
thinks, doubtless it would be great scan
dal if she left him; besides, she is aCquaint-
ed with great many things that he would
never want brought before the public.
Mrs: Young says, if the Court compels
Brigham to support her, that tie young
wife he married few months before mar
rying her would also leave. When this
lady had daughter to him Amelia was 81
enraged, as she had been childless herself,
that she forbade Brigham ever to be hus-
band to that young woman again. This
| wife, Mary. is very miserable. She is
young ana Beautiful; and Brigham would
probably visit her, but dares not. After
he had been absent several months from
her home he called to bid her good-by as
he was about to go South last fall She
refused to shake hands with him. and told
him if lac could afford to stay away so long
from her while he was li|3ng in the same
city with her she could afford to not Shake
hands.
In answer to the inquiry whether she
does not think that the prophet takes these
young wives because his religion requires
him to do so, MRS. Young says: SIN for
mer times he had some other passion to
crafty, now it is vanity l do not think
that he believes in his own religion
STATEMENT CoRROBORATED
Mrs. Young statements are corrobora-
ted by the testimony of her physician, and
those Who have known her. They GER
tainly produce a strong impression that she
has been treated as the slave of her hus-
band, who obtains slaves by marriage far
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