The Ann Eliza Young Vindicator.

(XIXth WIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, PROPHET, SEER AND REVELATOR.) VOL. 2. BIOGRAPHICAL. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, September 13, 1844. Her parents were of the Mormon Faith and diligently trained her in the tenets of their religion. When she was four years of age, the family removed to Utah. At the age of eight she was baptized according to the usages of the Mormon Church. At sixteen she was baptized again, preparatory to the rites of the endowment house. In her nineteenth year she was first married. The fruit of this marriage was two boys. In her twentyfourth year she was married to Brigham Young, as his nineteenth wife. After sustaining this relation for several years she became more and more dissatisfied with Mormonism and Brigham Young, its head, and on July 17th, last, fled from him and took refuge at a leading Gentile hotel in Salt Lake City, and instituted legal proceedings against her husband for divorce and alimony. Finding that the conflict between the territorial and United States courts would delay her suit indefinitely, she resolved to take the platform as a lecturer, and acquaint the public, outside of Utah, with the real character of the Prophet Brigham and some of the beauties of his polygamous system. Her opportunities of mental culture have been such only as Utah in its isolated condition afforded. But she has inherited a quick mind and resolute will. She has improved every opportunity of mental culture. She has an abundant store of information, respecting which she though the public should be enlightened, and she re-solved to put this into lectures and give it to the world. She tells a plain story, in good, clear English, and can interest and profit any audience. Mrs. Young has a good voice and distinct utterance. She is of attractive face, figure and address. The American public should not fail to improve this, the best opportunity ever offered, of looking at this modern Mohammed and his system through the eyes of one who can speak from the observation and experience of a life-time, of this blot upon our country, and the foul advocate and exemplar, who is its chief exponent. MRS. COOKE. Mrs. S. A. Cooke, who has spent a lifetime among the Mormons, and has won high esteem for her useful services in the cause of progress, has consented to accompany Mrs. Ann Eliza Young upon her lecture tour. This lady filled the position of music teacher in Brigham Youngs family at the time of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, and the following year, D. Kearney, then Indian agent, brought two young boys up from Southern Utah, named John Calven and GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 10, 1874. Myron Tacket, aged about seven and nine years, and placed them in her care for board and instruction (until he took them back to the States.) They remembered the fearful scenes of that most dreadful massacre, and mentioned by name persons in whose possession they had recognized the property of their parents and relatives. Mrs. Cooke has suffered through the avarice and injustice of Brigham Young, and because she would not submit to his cruel extortion and allow him thus to wrong the widow and fatherless, and sought legal redress, had incurred his displeasure. The best wishes She now proposes to expose to the world a system that has been so cruelly imposed upon her, and upon thousands of women of Utah. We have heard her lectures. They are well written, well delivered, and very interesting. We think they will do good. We commend Mrs. Young to the kind regards and patronage of those who respect the laws both human and Divine. JAS. B. McKEAN MRS. JAS. B. McKEAN I have heard the lectures of Mrs. Ann Eliza Young. They are simple, but truthful and thrilling tales of her life and connection with the Mormon church and with the family of Brigham Young. They tell with pathos, the heart-rending scenes of practical polygamy in Utah as she knows them. They expose the tyranny of the priesthood over the souls and bodies of their poor deluded followers. They divulge the secret oaths taken in the Endowment house of eternal hostility to the people and government of the United States, and to avenge the blood of the Prophet Joseph Smith. They unveil the crimes of the Mormon Blood Atonement doctrine, by which the blood of apostates is shed in the name of the Lord, to save their souls. Mrs. Young is a lady of marked ability and intelligence, and of unblemished character, and her lectures may be relied on as literally true. J. H. WICKIZER Special agent, P.O. Dept., Salt Lake City.
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of her numerous friends in Salt Lake attend this lady on her humanitarian mission.

Letter from Rev. C. C. Stratton and wife, of Salt Lake City, and Presiding Elder J. M. Pierce: SALT LAKE CITY, November 26, 1873 We have known Mrs. Ann Eliza Young from the time she severed her polygamous relations. She has been a frequent visitor at our house and an attendant of the Methodist church. In abandoning her former faith and associations, her situation became at once peculiar, delicate and trying. She knew not how to meet those who shrank from her for having abandoned her late faith and domestic relations, and was uncertain of the reception they might give her. Her first experience among them did not reassure her. Nevertheless, her womanly instincts and native good sense have steadily won friends, and she now has the respect and confidence of all who have been conversant with her daily life. We have no hesitancy in commending her as a pure and true woman, and earnestly trust that her efforts to diffuse information respecting the social and religious condition of Utah, as well as acquire a competence for herself and children, may be successful. C. C. STRATTON Pastor, 1st M. E. Church Salt Lake City MRS. E. J. STATTON Endorsed: G. M. PIERCE Presiding Elder Utah district Rocky Mountain Conference
T. Clergymen and Christians of all Denominations:

nineteenth wife of Brigham Young of this place. I am personally acquainted with her, and believe her to be both honest and sincere. She is so considered by all anti-Mormon people of this city. From her past experience and her relations with Brigham Young, she has it in her power to throw much light on the social conditions of women, and the grievous wrongs she has suffered. I wish every American citizen might hear her truthful story. I think every good citizen, especially every Christian of our whole country, has a direct interest, in the question Mrs. Young has to present to the public. Anything, therefore, you may find it in your power to do towards giving her a hearing in your community will be regarded as a favor by, Yours truly, JOSIAH WELCH Pastor Presbyterian Church Salt Lake City. Denver, Col., Dec. 10, 1873 To Whom it May Concern: The writer of the above letter is my personal friend, Rev. J. Welch, for a long time and now, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake. His statements on any subject are entitled to full credit. Mrs. Young delivered her first lecture in this city last evening before, perhaps, as highly cultivated and critical an audience as she will ever stand before in this country, and retired with their deepest sympathy and favor. Yours, &c., E. P. WELLS, Pastor 1st Presbyterian Church Denver. FROM C. P. LYFORD, PASTOR M. R. Church, Provo, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Dec. 1st. 1873 To the Clergy of the States: Brethren: The bearer, Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, of this city, goes East on a lecturing tour in the interest of her sex and of Christian civilization in Utah. She receives here the warmest sympathy and most cordial endorsement of the clergy, all Christian people and of all the friends of the anti-Mormon cause in this unhappy territory. We all understand and know that her former position as the wife of Brigham Young, was more her misfortune than her fault, and for her heroic efforts to emancipate herself and the poor women of Utah, she is deserving of all praise. She is a woman of culture and pure Christian character, and her lectures are pronounced by all to be of such a character as to greatly please and interest the public. I beg to assure you that you cannot render more efficient aid in the anti-Mormon cause in this territory than by assisting to get Mrs. Young before the people of our country. Fraternally yours, C. P. LYFORD, Pastor M. R. Church, Provo, Utah.

POLYGAMY. The recent abominations of Polygamy which the Mormons preach and practice as a divine ordinance are of too revolting a character for the outside observer to comprehend. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of the Prophet Brigham, has had painful experience of these enormities, and in her lectures reveals the secrets of her late prison house in a narrative that is both thrilling and novel. The Mormon teachers and their priests never tire of singing the praises of the religious feature of their monstrous faith; but as the Utah women are its victims, it is but right that they should have a hearing on the subject. Mrs. Young speaks for all her sisters who are LETTER FROM THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF yet held in the folds of this foul demon, UTAH AND HIS WIFE. and her lecture cannot fail to have special SALT LAKE CITY, NOV. 28, 1873. interest to the ladies of our whole Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth country. wife of Brigham Young, has been a guest for some months, at the same hotel FROM REV. JOSIAH WELCH, PASTOR where we are stopping. Her lady like PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SALT LAKE CITY. deportment and her modest, womanly Salt Lake City, N.T.,} instinct, have won our respect and Dec. 1st, 1873. } esteem. Born of Mormon parentage, it To the Clergy of the Presbyterian Church: was her misfortune rather than her fault I beg leave to introduce the bearer of that she was entrapped into polygamy. this letter, Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the

FROM REV. D. J. PIERCE, PASTOR: BAPTIST CHURCH, LARAMIE, WYOMING TERRITORY. LARAMIE, W. T. Dec. 3, 1873. To Lovers of Humanity: The story of Ann Young should be heard by every lover of reform, and result to create a strong public sentiment against a giant evil in our land, which is winked at by the powers that be and misunderstood by all not immediately cognizant of its terrible effects. She gives a plain picture, yet in such chaste and modest tints, as not to offend the most critical. Her story is told in a sweet, unostentatious manner, most pleasing to all, and cannot fail to act, in the great cause of religious reform. All were delighted with its simplicity and pathos, and wished for more. I cheerfully recommend her to the sympathy and aid of all who believe in womans cultivation and reform. Whatever efforts can be made in her will bring a rich return. Yours truly, D. J. PIERCE, Pastor of Baptist Church, Laramie, W.T.

have driven from his bed and board. Like the debased Judean, he has thrown a pearl away richer than all his tribe. The lady, we are informed, will commence in St. Louis on the 26th inst., under her new engagement. From the Denver Tribune. MRS. ANN ELIZA YOUNG. We have been at some pains to have both the purpose and the character of t his excellent lady fully understood by the public, regarding her, as we do in the light of a national benefactor. The curse and disgrace of Mormonism are generally acknowledged; but they have not been brought home to the people of the world as they should have been, or felt by the Nation as they are. In this emergency appears one, specially gifted by nature, and thoroughly versed in all the damnable intricacies and pretences of the superstition, with heroism sufficient to brave all dangers, and martyr-like to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The appearance of such a character at such a time is most fortunate, and cannot but be hailed with delight by all who have the honor of their country at heart, or who hope to see the stain of organized polygamy wiped from off the national escutcheon. Such is the mission of Mrs. Ann Eliza Young and it is one in which she will have the good cheer and God speed of the whole of Christendom.

The impression made by Mrs. Young upon her audience was, we think, one of perfect sincerity and earnestness, and honesty of purpose, and we will give the conclusion in her own eloquent language. * * * * From the St. Louis Daily Globe, Dec. 31. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth wife of the Mormon delivered her first lecture at Mercantile Library Hall last night. There was a good audience, who were well paid for attending. The lectures described the heart burnings, the strife and unspeakable misery of polygamy. From her account it had not a single redeeming feature. In conclusion, the fair speaker avowed that whatever might be her future, she would never regret the step that had brought her to freedom of conscience and action. [Applause.] From the St. Louis Daily Timer. Mrs. Young is a convincing and telling speaker, who without any brilliancy of phraseology or effort carries conviction straight to the minds of her hearers. She is so thoroughly in earnest in the work she has undertaken, the thorough exposure of the evils of the vile system under which she and thousands of others, have suffered, that no one can listen to her without can listen to her without feeling the deepest sympathy for her. From the Leavenworth Commercial. ANN ELIZA YOUNGHER LECTURE LAST EVENING; The largest audience that ever assembled in any hall in the city was that at Laings Hall last night to listen to Mrs. Youngs lecture on Polygamy.The vast hall was literally packed every seat being occupied. The audience was com-posed of our best citizens, who paid marked attention to the speaker throughout. This is the sixth time she has ever appeared before an audience, yet any one unaware of the fact would be willing to assert that she had been bred to the stage. Her enunciation is very distinct, and her voice so clear that it could be heard in every portion of the vast hall. Mrs. Youngs relation of her life and sufferings while among the Mormons, was peculiarly touching, and many an eye was suffused with tears of sympathy. In fact, she held the audience almost spell bound by her Well told tale.

earnest eloquence will win her millions of friends and immense money in her noble mission through the coming years. The press and the people of America will be pleased to see and hear her for her cause. From the Rocky Mountain News. MRS. ANN ELIZA YOUNG, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, delivered her first lecture before a metropolitan audience last night. She came amongst us with the prestige of being the wife of the Mormon chief, a woman born and educated in Mormon circles and lately withdrawn from its contaminating influences. A great deal of interest had been manifested by the people of this city to hear Mrs. Young and when the church in which she appeared was thrown open last evening, there was a tremendous rush for choice seats. It was not many minutes before the entire auditorium was filled to its utmost capacity, and when the seats were al occupied, the aisles were all filled with chairs. Hundreds of people who could not obtain sitting accommodations, turned reluctantly from the house, determined however, to be on hand tonight at a very early hour. Mrs. Young appeared upon the rostrum promptly at 8 oclock, and was accompanied by Rev. Mr. Scott and another clergyman. Mr. Scott advanced to the desk, and in a few well directed remarks, introduced the lady to the audience. Mrs. Youngs features gave evidence of the anxiety that has long worn upon her mind. The first words that fell from her lips showed plainly that she is possessed of elocutionary powers to an eminent degree. With a clear, full voice that penetrated to every corner of the house, each word of the lecture was distinctly uttered and perfectly comprehended. The lecture was told in a straightforward manner, and the impression it left upon every hearer was of the most favorable character. There was not a person who left the house displeased; on the contrary, the audience was in raptures over the lectures and intensely interested in the subject of the lecture. Upon the conclusion of the lecture, Mrs. Young was warmly applauded and the audience reluctantly turned away, as though they felt the story had not been half told. WHY IS IT? Why is it that men are serving out terms of from two to ten years in every State penitentiary in the United States for bigamy, while in Utah that crime is openly and unblushingly practiced? Why are the rights of persons who do not embrace a certain faith violated by unjust discrimination in the administration of law in this territory? Why does not the Congress of the United States protect the rights of its citizens, and vindicate the dignity of its law, now trampled and spit upon?

DENVER, Dec. 10, 1873. Mrs. Young delivered her first lecture in my church last evening. The house was crowded to its utmost capacity, and many were unable to obtain even standing room. Her revelations were thrilling. Every hearer was deeply moved in behalf of the unfortunate sufferer. I hope every Christian and lover of humanity in cities where she may go, will lend their aid and secure her a From the Missouri Democrat, Dec. 26th. hearing. God speed the right. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, nineteenth wife WINFIELD SCOTT, Pastor 1st Baptist of the Mormon Prophet Brigham, Church Denver, Colorado delivered the first of her lectures last night at Mercantile Library Hall. The From the Salt Lake Tribune audience was deeply interested and well ANN ELIZAS PROGRESS compensated for their trouble. She made With a heroism that stamps this woman a favorable impression on the audience as noble in soul and resolute in purpose, by her general appearance and frank she broke away from the religion that open countenance. Perhaps her enslaved her, and a polygamous relation comeliness and modest demeanor were that degraded her, and struck out for her strongest cards, what she unfolded freedom. The perverse Gentiles received was from the bitter book of her own her with open arms, and have started her experience as the nineteenth wife of the upon a career that will reward her with Blue-Beard of Salt Lake. Others have told fame and fortune. similar stories second hand, and were The contrast between the degradation subject to suspicions of exaggeration, but imposed upon a woman by the Latter-day this woman told only what she knew, and faith and the liberty of action and all she uttered bore the impress of truth. distinguished consideration accorded her in the Gentile world, has struck Mrs. From the Missouri Republican, Dec. 30th. Young so powerfully, that she is devoting INTERESTING LECTURE.Mrs. Ann her superior talents and employing her Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of intimate knowledge of the crushing bigamous Brigham, took the witness wrongs that have oppressed her, to stand last night at Mercantile Library. procure emancipation for the thousands of her sisters who still groan under their She gave her testimony against that muchly wedlocked prophet, seer and grievious burden. There is something so repulsive in the revelator of the Mormon Church of Lattertyranny of the Mormon faithso Day Sinners, commonly called saints, and crushing to the soul, and degrading to very clear and conclusive testimony it the gentler sexthat it wants but few was. The hall was very well filled, and missionaries like Mrs. Stenhouse and Mrs. the auditors included some of the most Young to excite so indignant a feeling in respectable people of the city. Promptly the public mind that the downfall of this at eight o clock Mrs. Young appeared on theocratic despotism will be demanded, and Congress, if not of its own volition, the stage, dressed with quiet elegance, in will have to yield to an outside pressure. black, self-possessed, as if with a Alas what shall we say of that dotard, the consciousness that she was mistress of Prophet, who is so absorbed in his gross, the situation. She spoke readily, in clear sensual indulgence that he could not and distinct tones, and with remarkably recognize that bright sparkle of genius in correct emphasis and intonation. the wife whom his neglect and parsimony

The Rocky Mountain Herald of the 13th, says: The successful debut of Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of the Mormon prophet of Utah, was the sensation for the past week here, among the curious and church folk. Below will be found the pith of her two lectures, both of which were largely attended by our best citizens: As a lecturer, she gave the greatest possible satisfaction, both by her subject matter, and the style of delivery. She looks very young, very handsome and very interesting. For face or figure she can cope with any fashionable belle between the Pacific and Atlantic. Her modest mien, natural niceness, and From the Rocky Mountain News,

THE OVATION TO MRS. YOUNG: Every crook and cranny of the First Baptist Church was filled last night by the eager throngs who were anxious to hear the ex-wife of the Mormon Prophet narrate her sad and tragic story. In fact, many hundreds were obliged to go away from an inability to procure even standing room. The lectures was all herselfa calm, dignified, resolute and unquerable woman, conscious of having a great mission to perform, and endowed by the grace of God with the ability to meet all the requirements of the responsible and arduous position. Such is Mrs. Ann Eliza Young; and the good and true throughout all of Christendom will endorse and cheer her on in the great mission she has so nobly undertaken. From the Topeka Commonwealth. ANN ELIZA YOUNG---HER LECTURE AT THE OPERA HOUSE. A very large crowd assembled at the opera house, last night to hear Mrs. Young tell the story of her own life and marriage, and Brigham Youngs hypocrisy and tyranny. Her lecture was listened to with marked attention and interest, and produced a decided sensation. She has a clear, full voice, of considerable compass, her articulation being very distinct. She was dressed in a plain black silk en train, with point lace barbe upon her neck, hair in braids, without ornament of any kind. She was introduced by Rev. Mr. Thompson, of this city, who took occasion to give her a few words of encouragement in the work she had undertaken, of dethroning the polygamous lord. Denver Daily Tribune, Dec. 10, 1873, DEBUT OF ANN ELIZA YOUNG. Since the days of Hammond, the Evangelist, there has not been such a outpouring of people as assembled last evening at the Baptist Church to hear the story of the first of Brighams wives who has broken the enslaving bonds, that are riveted by the accursed system of polygamy. The church was literally jammed, and hundreds were obliged to go away, there not being standing room. At exactly 8 oclock, Mrs. Young appeared in the pulpit under the escort of Rev. Winfield Scott, by who she was gracefully introduced. The lecturess was plainly but richly attired in black silk with white kid gloves. Her hair was tastefully arranged and her entire appearance most prepossessing. She has clear bright gray eyes, unusually penetrating and firm, a fine forehead, with beautifully arched brows, and in all respects is very unlike any of those who make a profession of lecturing. The Virginia Enterprise gets this off: Ann Eliza Young, the Mormon Prophets apostate wife, is coming West on a lecturing tour. She is said to be a good analyzer of Mormonism. Deaf and dumb people make good Mormonsthey do as they are told and dont talk back.

THE WHISKY GOD.The following sign such as to win attention and claim may be read in Salt Lake City, in this, the admiration. Her dark brown hair is in 19th century: strong contrast with her clear HOLINESS TO THE LORD. complexion, which now, however, carries more of paleness than it its wont, as she has been reduced by care and anxiety, and suffered the loss of that healthy bloom which always characterized her. Personally, Mrs. Young is attractive and ZIONS CO-OPERATIVE MERCANinteresting, having a manner devoid of TILE INSTITUTION. affection. In her naturalness lies her great success, for she assumes no manners, that are repulsive or dilettante, and her conversation is marked by an WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS evenness of temperament that shows her AND RECTIFIERS. to be cool and determined, earnest and impassioned, yet refined, lady-like, and It is said God revealed this sign unto womanly. Brigham, the Profit. Mrs. Young is not given to superfluous talking. What she says is to the point, BRIGHAMS TEMPORAL RULE. decisive; yet she looks with some little If the Almighty will only prolong earnestness upon the good people with Brighams stay upon this earth a few whom she is thrown in contact, to aid in years more, he will live to see the end of her work by kindly counsel. She comes Mormonism as a temporal power. It may accompanied by a multitude of friends in survive as a religious sect and retain a the shape of warm letters from intimate few adherents, like the Second personal acquaintancesthe people of Adventists, but its reign as a Church of her land who have taken an interest in the Latter-Day Saints, where recued souls her work, and hope to see her carry it to are to gather into Zion, will be a thing of a successful termination. These missives the past. The Prophets Boubonism will of commendation and introduction are kill it deader than a door-nail. He forgets full of good wishes of prominent people, nothing and he learns nothing. As a and, coming from the clergy, the bench leader he is so infatuated as to suppose and the bar, are high tributes to her that he can shut out the nineteenth worth as a woman, her attainments as a century. While the whole world is in lecturess, and her knowledge of Mormon rapid movement around him, thought life, from her life-long association with extending its researches and civilization the polygamous religion. No woman arraying herself in new and brighter could start out with better credentials, garments, this ignorant and perverse for she is clothed in the panoply of the man is engaged in the futile attempt to choices friendship of eminent people. hold his followers in the same condition of ignorance and blind devotion as he Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the latest wed of found them a generation ago. With the the wives of the Mormon Prophet, whose influences that surround this people, a suit for divorce last summer caused so wise ruler could not hold them to their much excitement in Utah and received so allegiance many years, but so besotted and reactionary a rule as the present is much comment throughout the country, driving the faithful away in platoons and announces in a private letter to this city, her definite determination to tell what battalions. she knows about Mormonism from the Rocky Mountain News, Dec. 7th lecture platform. She intends starting for ANN ELIZA YOUNG. the East sometime this month and will ARRIVAL OF BRIGHAM YOUNGS probably give her first lecture in Denver. NINETEENTH WIFETHE LECTURES SHE She takes this course less in obedience to HAS PREPARED ON POLYGAMYHOW MRS. YOUNG LOOKS, AND WHAT SHE HAS her own wishes than to the solicitation of many of the most intelligent opponents of TO SAYAN ESTIMABLE LADY. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth the Mormon system in Salt Lake and wife of the prophet, seer and revelator, elsewhere, who believe the information Brigham Young, arrived in Denver she can give about the lives and practices of the Saints will aid in solving the yesterday. On yesterday afternoon one of the Mormon problemNew York Times. editors of the News called upon Mrs. Denver Tribune, Dec. 11. Young at her room at the Inter-Ocean OFF THE TRACK. hotel. Upon entering he was met by the lady with extended hand, and cordially The Denver papers boast that she welcomed to her apartments. An Mrs. Ann Eliza Youngpreferred to excellent opportunity was afforded the make her debut in that city. In that she newspaper representative, during the makes a serious blunder, for there is no conversation that ensued, to gather a place in the country where the people are good idea of the ladys personnel. We so indifferent to lectures and the found her a woman of medium height, legitimate drama, as in Denver.Central fair complexion and pleasing Register countenance. Her features would be If the Register had witnessed the called long, her nose aquiline, her crowded audiences that have greeted the mouth well cut, and eyes of blue. two appearances of Mrs. Young, it would When moved to smile, her lips display a have seen the hundreds whose money line of pearly teeth, and her expression is was refunded from an inability to provide

even standing room, if it had heard the extravagant offers for tickets and seats, ranging as high as $30 and even $50it would not have given utterance to any such expressions as we quote. The people of Denver are possessed of a critical and exact taste. They abhor humbugs and frauds in the drama or on the rostrum, but they are second to none in the homage and patronage they bestow upon all meritorious presentations. SQUIBS AND FUNNYGRAPHS The brethren from the interior; who are living in log huts and tumble down adobes, are respectfully invited to inspect Brother Brighams new $100,000 house. The truth is, these tithe-eaters are terribly extravagant these dull times; and there is something rotten in Zion as well as in Denmark. It is not all gold that glitters. neither is it all fun for a man who boasts fifteen or sixteen wives. Brother Brigham knows that to his cost. The women folks can be very ugly sometimes, and no doubt Brigham thought so on a certain occasion, when, after buying his favorite wife, Amelia Fulson, a Weed sewing machine, she became very wrathy and pitched down stairs after the old man, with the remark: I dont want and wont have a Weed machineI want a Singer. She got it too; if she hadnt Brother Brighams back would have been broken long ago. What with runaway wives and women who would not scruple to double up his spine if he offended her, the old man has a pretty rough time of it. Small bonnets and big bustles. At the Tabernacle yesterday afternoon, Orson Pratt lectured the good sisters upon the wickedness of following the fashions of Babylon, saying that he was grieved to find a tendency amount them to ape the manners and dress of Gentile ladies. Brother Pratt denounced the postage stamp style of bonnets, and held up to ridicule the barrel sized bustles which the Saintesses persist in wearing. Isnt it a little strange that, while one department of the Church makes money by selling to the sisters these abominable bonnets and busties, another department openly denounces the use of them? As Jim Nye once said, Consistency, where art thy jewelry? So say we. Henry Wadman, a good Mormon residing in Plain City, Weber County, undertook to cure the broken leg of a Swedish brother named Peter Lod, by the laying on of hand. Peter stood a couple of trials without murmuring, but the third trip, while the zealous Wadman was blessing the injured limb, and rubbing it with sweet oil, Peter squirted a small sea of tobacco juice in Brother Wadmans left eye, kicked him in the stomach with his uninjured leg, and told him to git, as he didnt want that thar leg fooled with any longer. Peter sent for a doctor and had the leg set without any more trouble.

THE MORMON ALPHABETAFTER MOTHER GOOSE. A are the Apostles, the twelve of the Lord, B are the Bishops, who manage each Ward, C is the Church to which they belong, D are its Doctrines which may be are wrong, E Are the Elders, who all people teach, F are Fanatics who believe all they preach, G is the God whom they profess to adore, H is the Harvest they reap from the poor, I are the immoral Israelis which the Gentiles resist, J is the Justice, which doesnt exist, K is the Kingdomthe Kingdom of Zion, L is the Lord and Brigham his Lion, M are the Mormons who live in the Land N are the Needy, a numerous band, O are the Offerings made at all times, P is the Prophet, who pockets the dimes, Q stands for Quall, a son of a gun, R is the Righteous, of which he is one, S are the Saints, who act up to their creed, T are the Tithes that from them proceed, U is the Uncle, Sam is his name, V is the Valley thats owned by the same, W is the wealth gained by Brigham, the Seer X with an X is the strength of his beer, Y stands for You, who act underhand, Z stands for Zion, the Latter-Day Land.

From the Illinois State Journal MRS. YOUNGs LECTURE A good audience assembled at the Second Presbyterian Church last evening to hear Ann Eliza Young, ex-nineteenth wife of the uxorious Prophet Brigham, rehearse the story of her wrongs, and unveil the hypocrisy and tyranny inseparably connected with that twin relic of barbarismMormonism. The story, so graphically told by the lecturer is not only incidents of her own life, but also illustrates the lamentable condition of thousands of plural wives in the Kingdom of Brigham. The lecture was listened to with marked attention and interest. Mrs. Young has an excellent voice, and though last evening suffering from a cold, her articulation was so distinct that she was heard throughout the church. In short, Mrs. Young has a story of importance to tell, and right well she tells it. After the lecture a large number of ladies and gentlemen advanced to the front and offered Mrs. Young the best wishes for her success in her mission. She goes from here to Blomington, and to the people there we commend her as pleasant as an acquaintance and as a lecturer entertaining. From the Bloomington Leader. That she is earnest is apparent, the moment she speaks of the wrongs that are being perpetrated under the cloak of religion in Utah. That, although gentle and pleasing in manner and disposition, Brigham caught a Tarter when he made his nineteenth matrimonial venture, is abundantly demonstrated by the inside view she gives of that gentlemans domestic relations. Probably Brigham has never before received such telling blows upon his fortress of lies, as this earnest woman is nightly dealing, as she stands before the people and modestly yet truthfully tears from the great Montebank the disguise that has hidden from gentile eyes, the essential diabolism of Polygamy as practiced by the pretended saints. Gentile writers, it is true, have told many tales of the evils that exist in Salt Lake, but these have been treated by the people as largely imaginative, and perhaps tinctured by prejudice. But this woman tells of what she knows. She has been there herself and in revealing the secrets of Mormondom, she is laying bare the secrets of the degradation of those whom she loves.

Brigham is fast becoming reconciled to the late departure from his family. He takes it philosophically enough and is evidently of the opinion that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. SUGGESTIVE PARALLES We were a little curious on Thursday to see what our neighbor around the corner would do with the dispatch respecting Mrs. Youngs lecture in Laramie. With that peculiar kind of courage which characterizes its attacks on the judiciary and other United States officials who are restrained by the very delicacy of their position from responding; or which makes its frequent mention of Chaplain Newman while he is 10,000 miles away; or its flings at others, generally supposed to be non-combatants, it bravely bolted the bitter dose after having sufficiently slimed it overa process well understood in certain orders of the animal kingdomwith the following remark. It is noteworthy that the lectures have been primed, prepared and doctored by a mission jurist, an attorney and a clergyman. We might enter our caveat against the conclusion suggested by the language quoted, but prefer for the present to demur, simply on the ground of common custom. After the manner of the lamented Lincoln, we are reminded of a little story. We find it related by Mr. Stenhouse in his Rocky Mountain Saints, the incidents occurring during the visit of Vice-President Colfax, Mr. Bowles of the Springfield Republican, and some others. Brigham Young had been requested to speak for the benefit of his visitors, and he undertook a defense of some of the distinctive features of his system. We will let the author quoted tell the result: On that occasion, in support of polygamy, he brought up the very questionable charges against Martin Luther, that he countenanced polygamy in acquiescing in the marriage of Philip, Landegrave of Hesse Darmstadt, to his second wife while his first wife was yet alive. Brigham was utterly ignorant of history, and the brethren in his office prepared him notes for this special occasionthe first he had ever tried to useand he was perfectly confounded. On the paper before were a few hard words about Philip, Landegrave of Hesse, and poor Brigham, innocent that the word Landegrave was a title of nobility, spoke of the supposed polygamist as Mr. Philip Landegrave, a worthy example for the world to follow. The visitors could hardly contain their mirth, while the intelligent Mormons almost expired with mortification. Respecting the Presidents performance that day, Mr. Bowles wrote: It was a curious medley of spiritual exposition and exhortation, bold and bare statement, coarse denunciation and vulgar allusion, cheap rant and poor cant. Now, admitting all that the Herald claims, a member of the flock should not be blamed for following the example of the chief shepherd. But, we must not be too hard on the Prophet or his strikers. He is evidently profiting by his experience, if they are not. His recent address at Provo was not only written but read for him. It seems to have been an improvement on his speech before the Presidential party. Whenever his loved and lost makes such blunders as Philip Landegrave, or has to depend on her friends to read as well as write

for her, or is followed by such criticisms as seemed desirous of purchasing some relic of that resulting from the Prophets attempt at this new departure. exposition and exegesis, it will be time for the Herald to criticize and for her friends to AN OPEN LETTER. interpose for her defense. We believe that The following open letter appeared in the day to be remote. Salt Lake Tribune: To President Young: From the Rocky Mountain News, Dec. 7 Among the late telegrams to the San Mrs. Young lectured in Laramie Tuesday Francisco Chronicle, appears an attack on the evening, Dec. 3d, and the Independent said, private character of Ann Eliza Webb Young, in the course of the notice the following day: your late wife. The telegram springs from a Mrs. Young was modestly attired, and her Mormon source. It is supposed to reflect your bearing, as she approached the stand, was plans. If it does not, you are called upon to dignified but unconcerned. Her face is disavow it. If it does, attend to the following attractive rather than handsome, and facts: Mrs. Young was born in Nauvoo. She betokens both culture and earnestness. In was reared in a strict Mormon family. She commencing her storyfor it seemed as received her religious training in the Mormon suchshe remarked that a nineteenth wife Church. She was a subject of its most sacred in the nineteenth century was an anomaly rights. She has been for five years your wife. peculiar to American institutions. From the What she is, you and your faith have made first word that she uttered until the last, the her. You cannot escape that responsibility. interest of the audience seemed riveted by Can you or yours afford to smirch her her earnest pleading narrative of the wrongs reputation? It is a foul bird that will foul its that had been inflicted upon her by own nest. Mormonism. There was a frankness in her NAKED TRUTH. manner and utterance that won the entire Leavenworth Times. sympathy and assent of her hearers, while Mrs. Young is an agreeable companion in her revelations seemed like the opening up of conversation, and quick to note the weakness a strange world. It is only natural that she of any proposition advanced in support of should desire to raise others of her sex and polygamy. She can readily understand why a former faith out of their degradation and it is man like Mr. Sloan, editor of the Salt Lake this noble impulse that has prompted her to Herald, who went to Utah with a deep-seated go forth and tell the people of these United aversion to polygamy became a convert to the Stated and Territories what an accused plurality doctrine. Mrs. Young can explain institution is permitted to thrive under the his conversion in two minutes. It takes Mr. United States flag. We say God speed, noble Sloan himself two hours. She has lived to woman, and may the fruits of your labor be some purpose in Utah, and she knows what made manifest by the downfall of the polygamy is beneath the surface. She remaining relic of barbarism. removes the veil that hides deformities of the barbarous religion and allows to be exposed THE NEW DEPARTURE the miseries endured for the doubtful At last we have a genuine sensation in Zion. pleasure of being a Mormon saint in some The last and youngest wife of the muchly other world. married Brigham Young has declared her independence, and formally separated from From the Bloomington Daily Pantograph ANN ELIZA. the uxorious Prophet, Seer and Revelator, Last evening whose husbandly ears have been growing the other day Mrs. AnninEliza Young, who but basked the sunshine of the perceptibly, if not beautifully, less during the nineteenth part of Brighams polygamous past four years. With the genius and skill of heart, related the story of her life to the a young Napoleon she projected and largest and most intelligent audience that has successfully carried out a coup de etat that assembled in Durley Hall for many a day. The sent a thrill of surprise and terror through lectures was attired in a plain but rich dress the various harems of the lordly Brigham, of black silk, wearing no gaudy jewelry or and affords food for gossip all over the city. other ornaments, and at once won the good Finding the Bland Prophet disinclined to graces of the audience by her modest dignity afford her assistance and support, she and graceful bearing. The first words that her that she was concluded to support herself, and with a fell from of rarelips showed powers, with a elocutionary small battalion of men and a train of wagons, possessed removed from her house her furniture in the clear full voice that penetrated to every Each of the short space of about forty minutes. There corner of the house. uttered wordperfectly and was little pretense of order in the packing of lectures was distinctly the household effects, but it was found that understood. the wagons could hold them all, and successfully were they transferred to a place The Prophet, seated in regal state at the of safety. The lady herself took apartments at Conference, dressed in costly and elaborate the Walker House, where she received the style, and commanding all his willing slaves active sympathy of all the ladies.Tribune. with the crook of his finger. Sir Edwin Landseer could not have designed a more We will not anticipate Mrs. Youngs lecture, forcible composition. For his Apostles and however, by reporting her talk concerning Bishops to urge upon the sisters plainness of Brigham and his household. It is enough to attire and habits of squalid parsimony, while know that she is an intelligent woman, who this servant of the Lord sits in their midst, a is engaged in a mission of justice to bloated and pampered voluptuary, is too womana mission as noble as ever transparent a fraudthe girls are not to be commanded the support of womankind. It is hooked with such bait. Why the hundred a pleasure to know that she is received thousand dollars he is spending upon everywhere by crowded audiences. The Amelias fine house would keep all the girls interest in her lecture is unbounded. Crowds in the Mormon Church in finery until the next of people were turned away from the doors of Conference. the church in Denver, because every place in the house had been taken. It seems that Ogden cows have become BROTHER CARTER, the well-known tithe-eaters. The Junction accuses them of auctioneer, this morning sold to the highest hooking around the tithing yard. It says bidders the furniture taken from the the pound is the proper place for the fourresidence of Brighams last wife. The various legged pirates, but dont designate the articles went like hot cakes, and everybody abiding place for the two-legged pirates.