The power which BRIGHAM holds over his people is almost incomprehensible. They hang upon his lips with reverence and awe, catching and treasuring his lightest word as though it were a pearl of inestimable value. ... He is a man a little above the medium height, somewhat inclined to corpulency, with a dull, bullet-looking sort of a head, sandy complexion, and an exceedingly sensual-looking mouth. When walking in the wind he usually wears a great pair of green goggles. With these upon his nose we would naturally take him for a country schoolmaster, who had wielded the birch years enough to acquire a chronic backache. ...
Elder TAYLOR of New-York, formerly editor of the Mormon, is far his superior in personal appearance and in intellect.
[James W. Simonton, Highly Important From Utah, The New-York Times, 30 July 1858, 1/1â€"6]
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