| Show lf r t III 1 I I j h hS b pert u m. kJ k I J J I i S t vi In one of the interviews which I Horace Greeley had with wilh President Brigham Young on his visit to Salt Lake In the summer of 1859 the noted noted editor asked the question re regarding regarding regarding re- re garding polygamy In a blunt manne manner man man- ner ne asking the he president of t the tho church How lIow genen general is polygamy among you vou The The reply was more or less evasive but President Young replied thus I could 1 not say cay Some of those present heads of of- the church have each but one wife others have more each determines what is his bis Individual duty The interview Is in Inthe the book boole written written written writ writ- ten by Horace Greeley entitled Two Hours With Brigham Young and In his comment the Interview Inter Inter- vI view v. Mr r. Greeley said said- Pr President Young spoke readily not always with grammatical acCuracy accuracy ac ac- ac- ac curacy but with no appearance of ot hesitation or reserve and with no apparent desire to conceal anything anything any any- thing nor did he repel any of 01 my questions as Impertinent He was via very plainly dressed In thin thin- summer summer sum sum- mer flier clothing and with wit no air of sanctimony or fanaticism In appearance he Is portly frank natured good rather a set thick I Iman man of 01 55 seeming to enjoy life I and end to be in no particular hurry to get to heaven His associates are plain men evidently born and andi andrear i rear cared to a life Bre of labor and nd lookIng looking looking look look- ing as little like hypocrites or swindlers as any body of ot men 1 I ever met The absence of cant or or snuffle from their manner was marked marIed and general STUDY OF MORMONS Then In another chapter of the same same book boole the famous editor tells of opportunities for tor studying the Mormons In their social or 01 festive and nd In devotional assemblies and continues I have been told that the thc Mormons are remarkably Ignorant ignorant Igno Igno- rant superstitious and brutalized but the aspect of ot these congregations congregations congregations did not sustain that assertion Nor or do r I accept the th-e current Gentile Gen tile presumption that the Mormons are an organized a. a a horde of ot robbers and assassins r I I c that polygamy as I Iwas iwas It was a graft on the original stock of Mormonism will be outlived by the root that root that there will be a new revelation reve reve- lation ere many years w whereby the saints will be a admonished d to love and cherish their wives which they already have but not to marry any anymore anymore anymore more beyond the natural assignment of one wife to each husband That the thc great newspaper er man was apparently ap ap- ap- ap a prophet came later on md nd the manifesto was Issued d abol polygamy The Deseret Typographical I Union J and Pi Press ess association entertained Dr Greeley At that time there were tw two newspapers In Salt Lake the Deseret News pews which h represented represent represent- ed the L day Saints and which is the oldest paper In the Rocky mountains and Valley Tan an which had been established In 1858 as an Mormon anti paper A few weeks after the thc departure of Mr Greeley a third paper was placed in the field The earlier numbers of ot Valley Val Val- ley Icy Tan were vere Issued at Camp Floyd CAMP DESCRIBED On continuing h his s Journey to the coast ar Mr Il Greeley wrote thus of Camp Floy saying that It was on the west side of ot a dr dry valley ten miles wide bv lW thirty t long separated from the hills by Utah lake which h was was twenty to thirty miles distant on the northeast The buildings were low adobe houses neat but small The lumber to construct th the houses was furnished by BrIgham Young and hi his hll son law for which they received 70 per 1000 feet teet their profit being It was said around and which came from the only s sawmill operated In the only canyon opening Into the Salt alt Lake valley The cost of Camp Floyd Floj d was in round numbers |
