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Mormon Church until the United States marshals chased them into 

 the mountains. Robert T. Burton, who murdered four of the " Mor- 

 I'isites " after their surrender, was rewarded with the offices of collec- 

 tor, sheriff, and bishop, and two extra wives given him. Bill Hick- 

 man, who confesses to twenty murders, was a member of the Legisla- 

 ture, and had during his career ten wives. Samuel Smith, Bishop of 

 Boxelder, rejoices, presumably, in the ownership of six wives, of whom 

 two are his brother's daughters. It is not conclusive that these men 

 represented the average moral tone, as they were appoiuted by Brig- 

 ham before being elected by the voters ; nevertheless, I do not remem- 

 ber having heard the appointment spoken of with disapprobation by 

 the people. I visited both Haight and Lee at their homes in Southern 

 Utah, and, while the latter was under some popular condemnation, 

 the former was a leading citizen of Toquerville. Polygamy, like sla- 

 very, is necessarily the practice of a minority a select aristocracy ; 

 but in both cases it is to be noted that the great majority who could 

 not enjoy its benefits, if any, were its most ardent defenders. Could 

 this social and political condition have continued three generations, 

 then would the future scientist have found in Utah an entirely new 

 variety of our species Saxons without a constitutional government, 

 Britons with no consciousness of a personal sovereignty, Americans 

 lacking even the wish for a republic ; wives willing to share a hus- 

 band's heart, maidens looking for an "exaltation" in polygamy, and 

 children with blood relationship so mixed that no "heraldry Harvey" 

 could ever have succeeded in tracing the circulation. From a scien- 

 tific standpoint, it \a almost a pity the Gentile could not have left 

 Utah untouched for a century it would have been such an interest- 

 ing experiment. With the Gentile invasion and establishment of 

 United States authority, the experiment practically comes to an end ; 

 but, let it be dealt with as wisely and mercifully as it may, the break- 

 up must be attended with fearful suffering. 



SKETCH OF PROF. J. S. NEWBERRY, M. D., LL. D. 



JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY, whose portrait we give in the 

 present number of the Monthly, was born December 22, 1822, 

 at Windsor, Connecticut. He is sprung from old Puritan stock, his 

 ancestors having formed part of a colony which, in 1635, emigrated 

 from Dorchester in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and made the 

 first settlement in Connecticut, at Windsor. Many members of the 

 Newberry family earned high distinction by their services in the field 

 and in the council during the colonial period, in the War of Indepen- 

 dence, and in the later history of Connecticut. 



