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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 19: Red Mormonism. (search)
ve been actually baptized into the Mormon Church. Red bishops have been consecrated for the government of these mountain tribes. Nine years ago, while staying in Salt Lake City, studying the system introduced among men of European stock by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, I wrote these words: What have ,these saints achieved? In the midst of a free people, they have founded a despotic power. In a land which repudiates State religions, they have placed their Church above human laws. Amr view of Indian life confirms my first belief that some of the ideas and many of the practices, found among the Mormons living at Salt Lake city, are a growth of the soil, older than the advent of Brigham Young, older than the revela tion of Joseph Smith. Apart from the devotional spirit, the sense of order, and the love of work, which are the virtues of New England and of Old England, never yet divorced from men of Anglo-Saxon breed, the Mormons seem to have derived their chief ideas, and
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 20: White Indians. (search)
nd Black Hawk still see — a White brother, whose big chief and medicine man, Joseph Smith, was shot in Illinois for asserting that the Red-skins are of sacred race, ns. Brigham Young, on the other side, regards the Red-skins, like his leader Joseph Smith, as a peculiar people, chosen though chastised, and holding in their custodyitions existed among the Indians of Vermont and New York, in which countries Joseph Smith resided in his youth, as well as in the prairies of Illinois, where his systny squaws as they could louse, and sought for blood atonements in their feuds. Smith tried to introduce these principles of the sacred race, as well as to diffuse ality was one of the additions made by Brigham Young to the gospel taught by Joseph Smith. Smith had only one wife. That lady, still alive, asserts that neither in Smith had only one wife. That lady, still alive, asserts that neither in public nor in private was the prophet ever sealed or given to any other woman than herself. The prophet's sons denounce the doctrine of polygamy as the spawn of he
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 21: polygamy. (search)
uses were, therefore, very near the throne. To get still nearer, Elder Stenhouse proposed to Zina, one of the prophet's daughters. The position of this girl was passing strange. By birth she was a child of Brigham Young, by grace a child of Joseph Smith. Her mother, Zina Huntingdon, is one of four holy women, who pretend to have been the secret wives of Joseph Smith, and as the prophet's widows live in proxy wife-hood with Brigham Young. Brigham has done his part, but Zina Huntingdon is nJoseph Smith, and as the prophet's widows live in proxy wife-hood with Brigham Young. Brigham has done his part, but Zina Huntingdon is not regarded as his wife and queen. Joseph will claim her in the world to come, and Zina, the younger, will be gathered to her mother's kingdom. A lovely and a clever woman, Zina is a favourite with her father, who loves her none the less because his celestial law prevents him from counting her as his child. Before he spoke to Young, Stenhouse believed that he had won his prize. Zina was an actress, Stenhouse a dramatic critic, with a popular journal in his hands. More pretty things, accor
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 23: Communism. (search)
t, and bought estates with the money, in a common namethat common name being Joseph Smith. His plans broke down, and personal property was spared, yet Smith reservedSmith reserved his principle by insisting on the payment of tithes. Each Saint had to pay a tenth of what he owned into the church. Each year this tithing was repeated on the costeward was the Church. Brigham Young, living nearer to the sacred race than Smith, and having Lamanite examples always in his sight, pushes this pretension of hihich springs directly from the patriarchal system, and which was borrowed by Joseph Smith from his sacred brethren, the Lamanites. This doctrine led to the Mormon expulsion from Ohio and Missouri, and was the cause of Joseph Smith's assassination in Carthage Jail. A suspicion that this doctrine of Retaliation animates Brigham Yuld supply a hundred tragedies no less singular in detail than the murder of Joseph Smith in Carthage Jail. A law abiding people! says to me a magistrate of muc