Omaha daily bee., 1874-01-05
AMONG THE M0RMONS.
What q Gentle Knows About the
Young Family.
Correspondence Of the Bee.

OGDkN, JunuaIy - lo'1'
EDITOR OMAHA BEE:
A few items from this outpost OF
Latter Day Saintdcm may not be un.
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 wife, who,
going to law in a certain case, used to
get the case every time; yet they
secretly fear that they will come out
as this same man and wife did in
their case; they fear chat the law
yers wont do as they (the Mormons)
desire. The arguments used by the
Mormons when they are conversing
to the faithful are very falacious to
n who don't believe In a 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 Mormons, went
into Mexico and established a GOV
eminent, and foreign to that Of the
country they then lived in, and at
variencc with it in every particular
and acknowledging no allegiance to
1t ut all. In other words, they stole
the land of another country and then
complain that they are misused by
the government that buys the 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 a meas
ure, the property Of the public, aud
it will not fail to interest your read
ers, as showing what a woman will
bear from her love to n so.called re-
i;Sion. MI. John w. Young, son of
President Brigham Young, mad 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 90
agreeable that she 'left all and fol-
him." This lady was then a
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 hcrselfaway). It is believed
by those conversant with the facts
this lady from the first deter
mined to follow out the plan which
mas just been contaminated. About
month after the party reached Salt
Lake this lady, now Mrs. John w.
Young, (3rd) was divorced from her
husband and theE married to
MIR. Young, according 10 the rites of
Mormon church. Here begins
trouble. She refused to marry
MIR. Y. unless he would divorce the
other two wives, and he, infatuated
a new face, did so, although as 1
yet he has not ceased to provide for |
hem and their children but a wo. |
nan who a accomplish so much can 6
compass w this. What makes the $
'ase II of peculiar hardship is the
act that the wife who has turned the
out Of doors. as it were, is =
m own cousin TO the second wife, /
heir name being Garfield. The Sec $
nd wife's name is Lucy and the third {
lizzie. l
Surprising this asa we're to come I
ato court before an unbiased Jury, 9