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Show ; .ft v v .! . i ' i r i ; f kv H ' nr 1 ( i . V ' V :i: i . .. . i; Ji - :.-- i s hue l(ir amt JO?, and .... JV tern JJJxn l VOL. 1. , ? i 1 ' . V: NO. 10. . ei nng $oman i ; i . , . 1 I ar. 7 ; 2. f , , , ' ' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JANUARY,' 1881.''.' To the Women of America:., marriage was so great that he incurred Let every happy wife and mother who Josephs severe displeasure, and they He taught the reads these , lines give her sympathy , quarreled violently. principle to some ladies whom Joseph prayers and efforts to free her sisters had designed for his own kingdom, from this degrading bondage . Let all which created a disturbance and event- the womanhood of the country stand ually Caused a rupture between the ' united for them : There, is a power in saintly pair. Among the earliest. converts to; the combined enlightened sentiment and symsystem, of plural wives was a brother pathy, before which every form of injus- I hare ler own 'Qnahand. PRICE .. A friend of the second .wife , thus speaks of her .sorrowful history : She, was a young innocent girl unaccustomed to deceive, and being also high spirited,, she chafed under the false and cruel position in which she was placed. She was told it wris imperative for her to keep the .fact of her marriage a secret for the time being for fear.her husband would be prosecuted by the, authorities and punished,, as the Gentiles did not recognize the law of the Lord,1 but that after a while, all' would' be 'right, and she acknowledged as a true and lawful wifei But' when her'child was.born; and the finger of scorn pointed at her. and, .her baby branded ,as. an outcast, she, began to realize her position yet .stjll she was too faithful to her religion to justify herself even then.', At length the load of deception, shame arid grief grew heavier than she could endure,' and she died, the first would to God we could add, and the, last 'martyr to the. infernal doctrine of polygamy, ; CENTS. 10 ingand complimentary notice of a man who had been given, by one of the county officials, a small position. The question naturally came, why this preferment to such a man, and why this flattering notice to one occupying such a minor place. Going back in the history1 of. the man, we see him the husband of an estimable woman,' whom he afterwards abuses and deserts to take another, then goes off to England named James Noble. This man was on a mission and leaves his first wife tice and cruelty must finally go down.' blindly, fanatically devoted to Joseph and mother of, his; children, :to starve, Harriet Beecher Stowe. and believing implicitly iii him as a and then when at his .field of labor, inprophet of the Lord, he never dreamed sults her, by writing back, to a neighbor .of questioning the truth of the revela- The Lost Chord. - (we omit thaf he hopes' his old tion, hence he was a most docile pupil the expressiohy.wife will be dead efore and not at all averse to, reducing, the BY ADELAIDE PROCTOR. his'return. Before his coming, starvafallen to had r. practice. Joseph theory tion, and cruelty had done their' work . in love Nobles with whom wjth, sisterf and she occupies a heartbroken1 piau-pe- ts Seated one day at the organ,, v; she that much so had also he success, ease at ill ; I was weary and grave. We are often surprised at be sealed to him in ac- to promised wandered the success of men in persuading .woAnd my fingers idly, new with He the revelation. cordance ; men to do their bidding, . even after Over the noisy keys. then advised Noble to follow his ex- they have so sadly wronged therm AfI know not what I was playing, ample, so consequently one dark night ter the family of Mr. H. had grown up Or what I was dreaming then; the two.men in company wi,th their, and the boys were engaged in business chosen celestial brides, went to the But I struck one chord of music, he went into polygamy arid abandoned Like the sound of a great Amen. banks of the Mississippi River, and his mate who had shared his joys and there in a lonely spot the unhallowed burdens for so .many years, j. Before It flooded, the crimson twilight, vows were taken and two victims sacriLike the close of an angels psalm; ficed on the altar of the unclean and marrying again he deeded over the Jine resilience' and grounds'to her arid took And it lay on my fevered spirit inhuman monster; Joseph performed his departure to another city. A' few With a touch of infinite calm. the ceremony, for Noble,, who in turn months1 ago he had an opportunity to no with who come Utah to People his to sister. sealed the These and sorrow,' It quieted pain prophet very decided principles1 or fixed .ideas sell, that residence; but the' occupant were the first plural marriages of. which of Like love overcoming strife ; morality and. religion, not .unfre- - did not propose to give, up her home, I known echo authentic harmonious is It seemed the although quently become votaries, of the Mor-:h- e and refused to sign the deed.' .Teachanythjng fact was well established that if he mon Church that From our discorded life. they may gain pat: ers and bishops; and seventies,, and a had been consistent, Joseph . should, officials, called upon ronage or else to cover ,up some of host of Latter-da- y It linked all perplexed meanings long before that have been sealed to a thejr 0wn crimes.1 Examples of such the lady and argued long and earnestly Into one perfect peace, number of women. rire to be that if she refused to sign the deed and large seek thus who gain pecuniary ; And trembled away into silence Mr. Noble' took his ' new affinity seen almost everywhere in Utah, while give up the property, Mr. H. would be As if it were loth to cease. his who was to a those who embrace the doctrine to mad, and when the day of resurrection home legal. wife, a timid and I seek it but woman, I have sought, very good sheild their crimes are numbered by came, he would not call her .up, and vainly. weak,. Mormon. She was strictly enjoined to the hundreds. We quote one case in she would be left in the grave forever. That one lost chord divine, , That came from the soul of the organ keep the matter a profound secret, and particular to illustrate well this point : This silly arg iment was used so effectAnd entered into mine. through love for her husband and re- - B. and wife were very pleasant people, ually that the signature was attached to fanatism, she consented to the well calculated to make friends and the deed, and others now enjoy the fine It may be that Deaths bright angel ligious arrangement,' which, as a matter of gain popularity. He in his profession- residence while she finds shelter in a Will speak in that chord again ; course produced untold misery to both al duties visited the houses of the well miserable hut, in marked contrast to It may be that only in heaven women., They .were obliged for the to do citizens, and had opportunities her former home. I shall hear that grand Amen. sake of prudence to maintain at least of seeing the deleterious effects of po- Leonora. an appearance of peace and good will, lygarny. She, with her winning man December, I88 Sketches from the History of Polygamy . while in reality they hated each other ners, fine voice and artistic performance The First Polygamous from the very depth of their hearts. Gf music, became a popular instructor For, and About Women , or dream can No one of that and received the imagine, except Marriages. patronage those who have experienced it, the in class of earnest supporters of polyga Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has writin women that hatred found tense the polygamy be for my among priesthood, ten the libretto of an It may interesting perhaps opera to which those who are unacquainted with the can feel for each other. Women have These associations and influences sadly Adamowski is the reputation of disliking each other blunted her ideas of propriety, and composing the music. early history of Mormonism, to know anare during the husbands absence she Mrs. Elizabeth S. Morton has bethe particulars in regard to the first pretty thoroughly when they in the but Before men. with hatred, drives other ordinary that took ever jayed place plural marriages queathed $1000 to the Society for in the Mormon Church. It is a fact acceptation of the term is nothing- long through jealousy and differences the Prevention of beCruelty to Ania separation came, when the husband well known by old Nauvoo Mormons, compared to the feeling existing mals. , numbers of whom are still in this city, tween women who have been wives It is a Persian saying that, often that Joseph Smith contemplated hav- to the same man. unlawfirst The sequel to that measures of talk that came down ing the Revelation for sometime befoie the which ful prepared act, from heaven, women took nine.. avowing he had received it. But of for wholesale go the through they might prostitution strange inconsistency, when he did way It was a Windham wife, who, has that of sacrament the had thus God marriage spoken acknowledge that when her husband was brought to him, it was only to a few intimate since been carried on was a fitting home intoxicated, thanked Ood that friends whom he thought he could end to the unholy drama. The first o of strain the keep-tstand not wife could he was not a blood relation.' trust, and these were solemnly bound com-di- d her silence sorrows, few of Some these it a secret. through ing keep Two ladies of wealthjn New York not take very kindly to the new pelled to share her home and husband a sombre suit and deeply veiled when of the City support a missionary in one of doctrine, because they could not close with anotherwoman, and so her life ever she appears on the streets and she the worst districts in the city.. Mrs. their eyes to the numerous indiscretions became utterly wrecked. She died city. Remorse is at work, death-at-thbut not, however, un- - speaks of her Tears of of the prophet, and one plain spoken broken-hearteRogers, the missionary,1 keep an husband, kindher of, same hands, the cruelly wronged brother had the temerity to ask him til Death had perlormed open house li house ot refuge for so became fear few A. and this weeks release and her how it happened that he knew so well ly office for rival, given women1 vho wish to live better ' ' a made the that The ' woes. " hasty from couple all will the of the Lord, before he had poor girl great, earthly lives"'"' ... ,, , chosen to reveal it. v. :i j, , The Church sank under. her burden, pf shame and flight. r ,.v in-- . be to Those once must, Miss in Hilda she became, polygamy Records have not preserved the pro- dishonor until at; last, Montalba, who,, lately Of the advocates be active condition in that consisterit, visited .her , Royal Highness at Ottabeen sane and remained phets reply,' but. it must have ' them leads this and givd was not which she while tp system, happily lived, very convincing, as that same brother wa, and who has, just sold apaint-- a soon embraced the' divine doctrine, and for long. She left onb 'little boy, the preferment in business andiiniassocia of spline in, Venice, for $800, practiced it with1 uncommon faithful- - first child born in polygamy; who 'tions indifejo those w(ho are guilty, a, is and, friend of particular ness. And his subsequent success as a grew up and was for some time a resi- - the, same crime, A; few days ago I read in a Church organ a very flatter- - the Princess Louise. preacher of the system of celestial dent of Utah. ... i . , i f . j , , , , 1 , , ' . , ' I . . . ; ; : : . , . : . , I , , I : j i e d, L ; ' , ' ' ! , ; , , . , . . ' -- , ; . , , , |