Brigham's Home Life.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

Brighams Home Life.

How He Takes Oabe of Hib Numerous Family.

The following personal description of Bri^ham Toung is from the Tribune's report of Ann Eliza Young's recent lecture in t hicago . During a residence of three and a half years on his farm, Brighams visits were like those of angels — few and far between. He had, at the end of that period, built her a cottage in Salt Lake City, where, goaded to desperation by Brighara's treatment, she made known her feelings to her mother, who was •hocked at the revelation, but who acknowledged that she had been unjustly treated. Brigham provided her with just two plain print dresses, two years before she left, and she had obtained his permission to keep boarders, and sold the milk she should have given her children ito maintain herself with. She was advised, finally, to leave Brigham and have recourse to the i ourts. -nd it waa while stopping at the Walker House, in Salt Lake City that she had begun suit for divorce and alimony. The Mormon ' Teachers,' a secret police in Brighams interest.arraigned h r before them, and on questioning \ er she told them she had no faith in polygamy. They said she might become Brighams favorite wife by remaining with him, and then gare her a blessing and left. She was taken sick, and, attended bv a few Grntile friends, recovered sufficiently to take a close carriage and be conveyed to a station on the Union Pacific J'ailroad, and thus escaped The lecturer read a well- written letter from her mother. da"cd July 23, 1873, in which she was admonishpd of her unwise cour*p, and also another, dated M^j 17. 1874, wherein she expressed penitence for having espoused the cause of polygamy, and renounred the Mormon doctrine for ever. The writer said she had labored thirty veara, and had at last found herself mistaken. In sketching Brighams present ■tatus, she said he wan 71 years old and had nineteen wives, fifteen of whom were his own, and the other four he had taken by proxy on th« death of Joe >mith. She did not belie\e that Young in his own heart, believed in the doctrine he professed. He had forty-five living children, the names of whom were given bv the speaker. Amelia Van < ott was his favorite wife. When he married Wary Van Oott, '. melia tore her hair in race When the lecturer once called on bin on private business Amelia came in, and seeing her, ran out and slammed the door behind her. Brigb&m trotted after her, *nd left the speaker in no enviable frame of mind. This statement caused a laugh among the auditors, the earnestness and sincerity of the lady giving the story a rare zest, "he described the manner in which Brigham and his wives sat down at meals in the Lion House, the favorite taking a seat at the Saint's right and having all the luxuries, while the others took the plainest food at other tables. There were 200,000 Mormons, and they boasted that if they could not reach iCongrtii through their religion, they

cou'd through their money. Congress, she said, had given them too much latitude already, and she closed the tale of her wrongs by making an appeal to hor auditors to assist in castiDg out the false prophet, ami to refuse to support the member of Congress from their district who voted in favor of the Mormon. She hoped they would put a brand on polygamy, which had wrecked her and thousands of others, and free her poor sisters from thp terrible bondage under which, they Buffered.