Omaha daily bee., 1874-01-03
AMONG THE M0RM0NS.
What O Gentle Knows About the
Young Family.
Correspondence OF tho Bee.


OGDEN, January !, 1874.
EDITOR OMAHA BEE:
A few items from this outpost of
Latter Day Saintdom may not be UNI
interesting to your readers. There
has been quite a stir here lately, in a
quiet way, concerning the expected
legislation in Congress in regard to
poligamy; and although they are
like the old man and his vile, who,
going to law in a certain case, used to
talk it over at home 90 nights" ana
get the case every time; yet they
secretly fear that they will come out
as this same ma and vito did in
their case; they fear hat the law
yers wont do as they (the Mormons)
desire. The arguments used by the
Mornons when they are c%onversing
to the ithful are very falacious to
one VINO don't believe in n divine
revelation to Joseph Smith. One
great argument they use against any
interference of the United States
with their peculiar institutions
Is that poligamy existed before
Utah belonged to the United States.
Perhaps this may be true, but when
they came under the U. s. laws that
fact would not release them from
obeying all laws thus on the statute
book until their repeal. They also
forget that they, the Mormous, went
into Mexico and established a GOV
eminent, and foreign to hat of the
country they then lived in, and at
varience with it IN every particular
and acknowledging no allegiance to
it at all. In other words, they stole
the land of another country and then
complain that they are misused by
the government that buys tho correct
title from the real ownerof the coun.
try they then live in.
A case of peculiar hardship under
the workings of their polygamous
practices has just become, in meas.
ure, the property of the public, and
it will not fail to interest your read
ers, as showing what q woman will
bear from her love to a so-called re-
ligion. Mr., John w. Young, son of
President Brigham Young, had two
wives (?). The first had borne him
three children, the second two chill
dren. About this time he went
east on a visit with several
OF the prominent Mormons,
While there he became acquainted
with a cousin of the second wife from
Elkton, Ind, and made himself so
agreeable that she cleft all and fol-
lowed him." This lady was then q
married woman, though not living
with her husband. (She lived with
her husband only about a week when,
from some incompatibility of temper,
she took herselfaway). 1t is believed
by those %conversant with the facts
that this lady from the first deter.
mined to follow out the plan which
mas lust been contaminated. About
a month after the party reached Salt
Lake this lady, now Mrs. John w.
Young, (3rd) was divorced from her
first husband and then married to
Mr.. Young, according to the rites of
the Mormon church. Here begins
the trouble. She refused to marry
Mr.. y. unless he would divorce the
other two wives, and he, infatuated
with a new face, did so, although rs
yet he has not ceased to provide for
them and their children; but a wo.
man who can accomplish 10 much can
compass even this. What makes the
case one of peculiar hardship is the
fact that the wife who has turned the
others out Of doors, as 1t were, is
an own cousin to the second wife,
their name being Garfield. The sec.
ond wife's name Is Lucy and the third
Lizzie.
Supposing this case were to come
court before an unbiased jury, |