Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-05
THE WAR ON The MORMONS,


brigham Young R~c'pOuSlbIe fOr he
Mountain uendOW NassHCre--StRte'
mCnt Of a Mormon Woman.
The following is extracted from an in.
terview of a Herald correspondent with
a Mormon woman residing in Lockport:
Mrs. Eliza J. Webb, mother of " Ann
Eliza" the recently divorced wife OF
Brigham Young, has resided here SINCE
her return from Utah, where she back.
slid rom the Mormon faith with her
daughter more than two years ago. Mrs,
Webb was one of the original Mormons,
having JOINED the sect in New York, in
| 1888, when she was sweet sixteen aud
dreadfullv poor. Three years later she was
married in Kirkland, Ohio, to Chauncey
/ G. Webb, a Mormon like herself, whom
she followed through years of vicissi.
tudes to Missouri, to Nauyoo, in Illinois,
in the long Journey to Utah, and through
the wilds and settlements of that famous
territory. She has encountered hard
ships enough to drive q sensitive woman
crazy, yet neither her health nor her
spirits are broken. The worst thing she
had at first to endure after Joseph
| Smiths " revelation in lS43 concern.
ing pOlygamy, was the accession of her
husband to other wives. First he brought
one wife, who, according to Mrs. Webb,
was Il every good girl" When he
brought three more wives, and all in the
course of a month";" says Mrs. Webb,
81 felt that my heart was sore" Mrs,
Webb's long residence in Utah, ner
acquaintance Of ~ years with Brigham
Young, and the former close connection
of her daughter with the prophet, rem
dered her statements in regard to his re-
sponsibility for the Mountain meadow
massacre very important.
EVIDENCE AGAINST BRIGHAM YOUNG.
She received me pleasantly this morn
ing at her cottage home, and thus re-
sponded to my questions
Have you any opinion or evidence, -
asked, Gin regard to Young's connec-
ton with the Mountain Meadows affair p
II have a positive conviction" she re,
piled.
- Nnat rHeCt
"lnat Brigham Dung lnstlgated, and
probably ordered, the slaughter, This
conviction was long in forming, but it
has been matured since htteen MONTHS
Please state your reasons"
"lhey are several. They spring out
OF thorough knowledge OF the life and
character OF Brigham Young, experience
OF the tanatlclsm and regulations Of the
Mormon church, recollection Of circum,
stances at the time of the massacre, and
the testimony OF men familiar with tie
facts brigham 1oung's abilities are
not to be drsPlsed, although he is popu'
larly credited with many that he has not,
10 this day, after all the shocks the
Mormon church and his own reputation
have met with, he continues to hold 900,
GOO people in subsection Some he hold,
through their fears or their sense of self
interest; but the most of them are still
physically, morally and intellectually
RIoSIla'1 pelo'e nm AC the Time o.
masterv oror bis 'l ,,an'Ja n Di.' G,, III,
ahsoLnio tban tbo r noIn ~ ~ r"i "ioiJ
eyer bsvo hoostoJ f'i' ''''' ''"'0
pprrU1w ,s r"n,,
Oils word :" wa n' Iou. "G' in,'fn r.
occonto1 os tbo wo.J &c "%'' u iaJt
omonr tbomsorJs nF otho roG n''nsti.
boiioTaJ :, Wv %n so Y, an vi'i,.o, i',Ps,ciV'!
If tbo Cbnrcb ~ I To,rs ~ ~ b,.,S "T,uoe,
Dov S,insts wos s VuYU' ol'ioI VI - I,'I'el
wa: sworn ~ ohor al .%o "oint *. .'
nr;ostboaJ of wbi:h 9" 1919 nLe oiGSIs VI In'
tho hoad Ia rns g'lE wa,
wor5Linnod ~ o. "Ln"o" ieuseu, Amos
~ hffNH PngPn.t PsIa'' IJ'e'"'oi
be wo. tbo onIn 'i GnJ u, I"V molllon,
thing about on3 ~ tbo -o hnVN an!
moJiotor '' hat NV " Inu i'SC nc 9ioou a
mightv All ovoonGnm "1u lnc Al
bnid ;Lo montaI p,.nS, ". eoutSe' MlS
nobodv cor " oIlnro Co. .V'ci ,"tlon' MMInIcL
bo;or imoainoJ ,b"t "s"Iaat " IeIlpN
With Rrigbam Yornr,s S' roo "ry,o, vonlPlS
smT,r tbo SnnroU,n . ieqIileiue''V' o
""' N''0 u''Ple''Ule'
BRUTAL TfRANr,
Did this feeling, that they mus
obey Young and the priesthood 20 to al
lengths? Did itnotst)p shortat crime
Why, no. The command of the
prophet to do anything whatever mad,
obedience a sacred duty. 1t took ava,
from al! crimes, so called, the faint o
Criminality. 1t made vice virtue. 1
9".Go,!eu Pl"ovlCes VcIaiiy aohorfeht Il
tive For ]ovomnIo ' ya human ma
/ ]nermitteG or Giraptod thn ,Iegueu'I!
Eia f,yoritoa ~ tLo vne marriage o
ters bv other W mem sn'' p p%m Gr'ts uaugh
4 acaA Tho merriaga of brotLo. -. o'.Oou'
and oncn Lo ma5r;od - oniI ',lI SISTERS
children Of tbo sama CtLpIe VINO NGr'
| The same father = Ho " aJnI;I+a oIt no' ;!
neonIe were NOT sn]aicio aaI,r'oeu tn"I tl'
, bear mncb Of tbis hu, "u,"HeTu Z
onenIv Csin.sv b 'h,' w Ju . ~, n one u4fe'
to- swallow il The ma nn" w I'Av w;L ~ n,n
;UG"ono" "a ~ me IA VINO welded al
t ~ott;rm omnthinm n"u nv ulIlculIy u
) made himself fearsJ o %. v,o Pa,aleu, II
through the terr;blo ordor IS a. tb t'Tpecteu
| from which tbo ns Utr rer j., .ne Dahlles
the Church wo,a seyimf HiEels o
Lee Dame and atbo.g wi of Jouh u
AANNN "a NV NlltN = MI IHAHl1UAI I