. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . has preserved more utter silence onthe subject than the Revelator, Brigham Young. CHAPTER XIII. THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE.— VENGEANCEIS MINE: I WILL REPAY. The Results of the Reformation. — The Story of a Fiendish Deed. —The Peoples Mouths Closed. — How the Dreadful Crime was HushedUp. — Judge Cradlebaughs Efforts to Unravel the Mystery. — Whoweie the Guilty Ones . — The Emigrants on the Way to Utah, — ThePeople Forbidden to s
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . has preserved more utter silence onthe subject than the Revelator, Brigham Young. CHAPTER XIII. THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE.— VENGEANCEIS MINE: I WILL REPAY. The Results of the Reformation. — The Story of a Fiendish Deed. —The Peoples Mouths Closed. — How the Dreadful Crime was HushedUp. — Judge Cradlebaughs Efforts to Unravel the Mystery. — Whoweie the Guilty Ones . — The Emigrants on the Way to Utah, — ThePeople Forbidden to sell them Food.— They Arrive at Salt Lake City. — Ordered to Break Camp. — In need of Supplies. — Who was Ac-cotintable ? — Why the Mormons hated the Emigrants. — The Story ofParley P. Pratt. — How he Seduced McLeans Wife. — Their Journeyto Cedar City. — Hungry and Weary, but still Pressing On. — TheyReach the Mountain Meadows. — Attacked by the Indians. — TheEmigrants Besieged. — Dying of Thirst. — Two little Girls shot by theMormons. — An Appeal for Help. — The Last Hope of the Besieged. — Waiting for ? VtNOiAJVCL IS M/Mi.* F all the numberless atroci-ties that succeeded the UtahReformation, and were thedirect outgrowth of theteaching of the revoltingdoctrine of the Blood-Atonement, nothing ap-proaches in fiendish bar-barity the Massacre at theMountain Meadows, where,on the 17th of September,1857, a company of emi-grants from Arkansas andMissouri, on their way toCalifornia, were assassinat- ed in the most cruel and treacherous manner, by a band ofdisguised Mormons and Indians, under the leadership ofofficers of the Mormon militia. Nearly eighteen years have passed, and until within a A HORRIBLE DEED OF BLOOD. 229 comparatively short time, little has been definitely knownconcerning the details of the massacre, either by the Gen-tile world, or by the mass of the Mormon people, who, togive them the justice which they dese
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