The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-03
Ann Eliza Young.

Mrs. Ann Eliza Young has had a men,
orable career, as lecturer. Indeed,
taking all the circumstances Of her life
into account, her success in the lyceum
has been without parallel. 1t began in
an obscure town IN the far West, on the
9th of December, 1878. On the 1st OF
January, 1875, she had lectured 223 times
from Portland, Me-, to San Francisco,
CAL, from Washington TO st. Paul,
MINI. Wherever she went, she over
came prejudice and obloquy by her sim
cere and modest presentation of the
wrongs of her sisters in polygamous
bondage. Driven, by her own agony and
the impelling voice OF conscience, to at
tempt their liberation from the degrading
slavery in which the women of Utah are
kept; undeterred by the foul ISLANDERS
with which the agents and hirelings of
the Mormon priesthood have pursued
her, she has aroused everywhere SEN
timent of righteous indignation against
them, as well as against the Congress
ional inaction which is responsible for
the perpetuity OF the infamous institu.
ton in the United States. She propos-
amy shall be abolished by the same pow
er which crushed Southern slavery.
Mrs. Young makes no claim whatever
to the gifts OF oratOry; but she faces no
audience whom she does not convert.
Many come to sneer who remain to pray.
In Washington, President Grant was
one of her auditors, and said emphati-
cally that her argument was sound and
that the Delegate Apostle Cannon should
be expelled from Congress. The move
ments that have been made to unseat
this unclean saint are due wholly to Mrs.
Young's lectures at the capital.
The prophet was quick to see that his
rebeliOus wife must be silenced or that
his authority would soon come to an end.
With swift iniamy of action, he sent
tered ISLANDERS through the yenal West
ern press. Money was spent without
stint to make her name odious. But this
cowardly policy. the feeble renewal o.
the same remorseleSs course which
caused the Mountain Meadow massacre,
was met with prompt defiance and expo
sure, and it's only effect was to give
wider celebrity to the earnest crusader.
She has lectured in every Northern
Slate, and before audiences of every de-
gree of culture. She has been recalled
in many instances as often as thrice in
the same month, and Tor next season the
agents are already receiving applications
from committees in every part of the
country. Engaged for the first time as a
''sensation," she is recalled on her own
merits as lecturer, and especially be-
cause it is found that she touches the
hearts of the people, and draws large au-
dlences of the best citizens of every
place she visits.
The question is often asked by persons
who do not duly estimate the almost om-
nipotent influence Of early education:
How is it that refined woman, who
shows that she is able to write lectures
that rank among the best, should have
become a Mormon at all, and especially
that she should have consented to be the
nineteenth wife of Brigham Young? The
answer is that she was born and eluca-
ted in. the Mormon Church, and never
until after her marriage with the proph-
ct, conversed with the believers or read
the manuels of any other creed. She
drew in an unquustioning faith in the
Mormon religion with her mothers milk
and her iather's first words. What we
look on as Il great wickefness-the prae-
tice OF polpgamy-was shown to her as
the crownlng glory Of sanity woman
hood.
Mrs. Young will succeed in her mis-
sion as surely as the abolitionists sue
ceeded in theirs. The "Twin Barbar-
ism" must disappear, and it is fitting
that it should fall by the hands OF a w0-
man,-BostOn Globe.