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The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children — John Shaqi

The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and ChildrenWaite, C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg)

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The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children

Name: The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children
Author: Waite, C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg)

Waite, C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg)

Latter Day Saint churches; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

A company of United States troops were stationed on what was called "the
Dug Out," to prevent collision with the Mormons on their return to Salt
Lake. The officer commanding related to me the following incident:--

     "I witnessed the most extreme destitution among the returning
     emigrants. I saw a number of women cooking around a camp-fire,
     and their clothing was extremely scanty. The supply of a
     family of fourteen persons could have been compressed into a
     small-sized trunk. One evening I saw two or three women
     cooking supper, and observing that they had neither tea nor
     coffee, I questioned them, and they replied they had had none
     for two or three years. At this time, according to report, it
     took a four-mule team to draw the Prophet's gold and silver,
     besides some that went in other conveyances."

The saints again entered into possession of their deserted homes, and
began, as well as the lateness of the season would permit, to cultivate
their farms and gardens.

Thus ended this crusade against the modern Mohammed and his followers.


FOOTNOTES:

[49:A] _Deseret News_, November 18, 1857.

[52:A] John Hyde, Jr., in his work on Mormonism, page 146, says:
"Fillmore, by the advice and intercession of Col. Kane, _who had
embraced Mormonism in Iowa_, appointed Brigham as the Governor of
Utah."




CHAPTER V.

POLITICAL HISTORY CONTINUED.

     The Mountain Meadow Massacre and other Crimes of the Mormons.
     --Attempts to bring the Perpetrators to Justice.--Doings of
     Judge Cradlebaugh.--Governor Cumming and the Military Officers.
     --Judge Sinclair's Court.--Governor Dawson and his Misfortune.
     --New Governor and Associate Justices appointed.


The darkest chapter of Mormon history is now before us. It becomes my
duty to relate one of the most perfidious acts of cruelty and wholesale
butchery to be found in the annals of this or any other country. In
doing so, free use will be made of the statements of Judge Cradlebaugh
and others who were thoroughly conversant with all the facts.

The following is from the able speech of Judge Cradlebaugh, delivered in
the House of Representatives on the 7th of February, 1863:--

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children

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