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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 19: Red Mormonism. (search)
Chapter 19: Red Mormonism. From Winnemucca, an Indian camp in Nevada, to Brigham, a prosperous Mormon town in Salt Lake Valley, we race and wriggle through a mountain district, not more striht of Mont d'or, from which we slide by way of Humboldt Wells and the American Desert direct to Brigham in the land of Zion. Ten years ago, this line of country, four hundred miles by road, belonged me to keep it. Brigham Young might use these words. The Lord has given Salt Lake Valley to Brigham and the Saints, just as the Great Spirit has given Nebraska to Red Cloud and the Sioux. The Lord has told Brigham to keep that valley, and Brigham will hold it so long as the Lord gives him strength to keep the Gentiles out. Whatever I do, says Red Cloud, in the tone so often heard at Salt Brigham will hold it so long as the Lord gives him strength to keep the Gentiles out. Whatever I do, says Red Cloud, in the tone so often heard at Salt Lake City, my people will do the same. Whether asking or refusing, Red Cloud is but carrying out the wishes of his people and the will of God. Brigham Young has done something to appease the feud
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 20: White Indians. (search)
or, as we wander in and out among the Temple shafts and passages, noting how slow and solid is the growth of that edifice which is to be completed, in the strength of prophecy, when the Lamanites shall have come to blossom as a rose! Increasing surely, though not fast. My evidence of eye and ear is out of harmony with that of the Apostle. Things are changed in Zion; changed in many ways, from dress and manner upwards into modes of thought. In other times, the Church was all in all. Brigham was king and pope; the Twelve were princes of the blood. A bishop was a peer. Not to be an elder was to live outside the court. A Gentile was of less account in Main Street than a Sioux or Snake, who kept, although in darkness, some traditions of a sacred code. A railway train has done it all. The change in Zion, since the railway opened, is like that from Santa Clara under the Franciscan friars to that of Denver under Bob Wilson and the young Norse gods. Much evil pours into the
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 21: polygamy. (search)
sick; only just well enough to sit up in bed and be married now and then. But Brigham is not likely to renew his search for wives. The biggest Indian chief is happy in a dozen squaws, and Brigham, though deserted by his youngest wife, still owns eighteen obedient slaves. Poor man, his last adventure in the way of courtship tmith, 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.ld not be induced to live apart. You must take them both, said Young. Brigham wants to get rid of the old lady, jeered Sister Fanny, growing cynical. Stake one of them ; if one won't have him, another will. Stenhouse suspected Brigham of opposing him. He shewed his teeth, and Brigham smote him in his paper, whicBrigham smote him in his paper, which began to fall in circulation. Losses ensued and bitterness increased. Sister Belinda, seeing that her husband was falling out of favour, applied to Young for a
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 22: Indian seers. (search)
pired; on which the broken band covered up his face with dust, and then resumed their march, utterly broken and impoverished by their holy war. Red Cloud, like Brigham, is elected to his office by the acclamation of his people; like Brigham he may be deposed by popular vote; but while he keeps his throne, he reigns by grace of GBrigham he may be deposed by popular vote; but while he keeps his throne, he reigns by grace of God and is divinely aided to fulfil his task. The Indian legend runs, that when the tribe, divine in origin, assemble for a pow-wow, every one is touched and led by an invisible and unfallible guide. Let us have Red Cloud for our chief; a warrior cries, on which the bucks and braves all raise their wild yep, yep. This chorus is thhis nation; David Smith has separated from Brigham Young, carrying with him more than a thousand families of his people; yet Red Cloud remains the Sioux chief and Brigham remains the Mormon seer. Seceders cannot take away the grace which covers an appointed chief. The seer not only talks with the Great Spirit, but executes his
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 23: Communism. (search)
his people in Salt Lake Valley with a sleepless energy, acting through the Indian machinery of secret societies and orders, bound by oaths to carry out his despotic will. Men who can be persuaded by their bishops to marry a second and a third wife, or seal two sisters for the kingdom's sake, can not be induced by Danite bands, Avenging Angels, and Sons of Enoch, to make over to the church, that is to say the president, as trustee in trust, their shops and sheds, their mines land mills. Brigham is trying to induce his people to abandon their private property, and live on a common stock, like their Lamanite brethren, the Shoshones and Utes. Joe Smith tried the same experiment in Missouri. Getting some of his early disciples to put their money into joint-stock banks, he raised a Common Fund, of which he acted as trustee in trust, 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 S