Year: 1869

The saints Response TO Her-Her Truthfulness


Doubted She is Declared to be n Female


Charlatan and a Falsiier.


From the Salt Lake Telegraph


We cannot think just now Of any two things more
DIVERSE than the woman and the quality which heads
this article. She is sailing around the country
giving her lecture on "Whited Sepulchres; or, salt
Lake City :" and in doing she keeps so wide from
veraciy that there seems no danger Of their coming
together We can't call her q fiippant Miss; she was
born too early IN the century for that neither will
reckless scold exactly ut her; but she is another


living Illustration of the poets exclamation :-"IIeil
hath no fury like a woman scorned:' for did
she not want to lecture here and couldn't get
the chance? Nothing but the rankest spleen could
account for the unblushing manner in which she
lets ly the widest TOmanclngs and the most shame
less untruths when speakingof Utah and its people
This language may be deemed strong when writing
concerning lady(N; but Anna affects the manners
and position Of the other sex, even to mounting q
mustang male fashion, and as such we will speak
OF her. Her talking apparatus" seems hung in the
middle, and moves at twO-twenty gait and her
great effort in the lecture in question seems to be
getting OFF the grossest and most unsubstantial
fabrcatons. To go through it in detail would be i'm
possible, for only get scrap here and there from
our exchanges, or a synopsis now and again.
in which the reporters vary as different points
strike them. She has been at the Club" lately,
giving the Bostonians taste Of her quality;
and those who judge OF Utah from what she
is reported to have said there may accept Munchau
sen as yeritable chronicler of facts. After the
usual compliments on the appearance of the city,
Anna pitched into religion and politics, government,
at book and speech-making, rivalling Mark Twain's
proposed journey around the world, concerning
which, he assures the public, he can write most and
best Of places of which he knows nothing 1t would
be treat to anybody who can enjoy reckless
romancing, and is acquainted with this Territory,
to listen to this lecture If Anna had taken pains


facts while here it would have spoiled her lee
ture sadly for she could not have indulged her
uberant fancy quite so readily. We have not time
space to quote all the baseess fabricatlons to
which she gave utterance, but will content ourselves
with a few specimens. She calmly says that
there is very common mistake in regard to
Utah, and that is that the women Outnum-
ber the men; but, instead of this, Anna
and the majority of the men have no wives at all.
Anna had great opportunities for finding this out,
seeing that she spent most of her brief stay here
riding around with an embryo United States official
who knew nothing of the TerritOry-oh she posted
concerning the three hundred and odd Cities towns,
and settlements in Utah. We always thought this
was marrying portion of the country, and that if
any man remained single the fault was his own.
But these single fellows are all poor, and the girls
won't marry poor man, she says. We think the
single man who remains in poverty in this country
offers very poor encouragement to girl to become
his wife. But what about all the squalid poverty
which other romancers on Utah delight to picture?
Anna says there no schools here, and then asks
pardonshe has good reason to do oit-and says there
are school buildings that will accommodate from
private schools. Don't Anna know heap about
Utah? By-the-by, she Is greater goose-sOme-
imagined, or she would never have allowed that
to get into print. She should have examined
and then quietly told the reporters that she
only said that for effect but didn't want it to get in
print She didn't know of about two hundred and


fifty schools in Utah, some twenty-five of them, with
two colleges in this city, all public schools. "She
had looked into the houses and seen half dozen
rooms AID half dozen wives" Anna, you didn't
do it, and you know you didn't. What do folks at
the "Hub" call such way of talking? "She had
been in the theatre where one man would be attend
ed by score of women, all OF them his wives -
which is another Anna; and then she cried, go
God let me die where l stand :" but she thought
better OF it, and not wishing to make disturbance
by getting up good die in the audience such things
being reserved for the boards she cried again, and
this time she said, Oh, no, let not die for that
would be cowardly indeed, but give me strength to
Withstand and do battle against this niquiy which
is all claptrap and bosh, and shows that Anna is
specimen Of the female Charlatan But we cannot
follow her much father. She said -"Brazen-faced
things went openly the streets of Utah that else
where wore mask-that were covered up in some
way" and in this, Miss Dickinson, you viHed
women a thousandfold nobler and purer in
thought and act than YOURSELF women who
aided to pioneer this great West, sef-sacri-
ficing, noble, pure, holy, and blameless These
you traduced as you did the noble pioneer
ladies of California; for in your venomed spleen you
are incapable OF apprecating and estimating true
nobility of soul and oftiness OF character but en-
! dowed with brazen impudence and loose tongue


You let the latter run on gabbling of subjects con
cerning which you are totally ignorant, and depend
on the former for carrying you through, and thus
set yourself up as teacher in the nation. Go to:
learn the Christian fah and apply the Injunction OF
Paul. "Bear children, rule the house. and give the
adversary no occasion to speak reproachfullyn-but
get married first.