Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . and I slept together upon a straw bedon the ground near his house. He grew confidential,and we talked till midnight of the massacre, and relatedincidents. Of that conversation I record here only thesebrief extracts : The company had quarreled and separated east of themountains, but it was the biggest half that come first. Theycome south of Salt Lake City just as all the men was going outto the war, and lots of women and children lonely. Their con-d
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . and I slept together upon a straw bedon the ground near his house. He grew confidential,and we talked till midnight of the massacre, and relatedincidents. Of that conversation I record here only thesebrief extracts : The company had quarreled and separated east of themountains, but it was the biggest half that come first. Theycome south of Salt Lake City just as all the men was going outto the war, and lots of women and children lonely. Their con-duct was scandalous. They swore and boasted openly that theyhelped shoot the guts out of Joe Smith and Hyrum Smith, atCarthage, and that Buchanans whole army was coming right12 178 POLYGAMY : OR. THE MYSTERFES behind them, and would kill every G—d d—n Mormon inUtah, and make the women and children slaves, and . .They had two bulls, which they called one Heber and theother * Brigham, and whipped em thro every town, yellingand singing, blackguarding and blaspheming oaths that wouldhave made your hair stand on end. At Spanish Fork—it can. JACOBS POOL AND JOHN D. LEES WIFE. v^K.^-T^S* be proved—one of em stood on his wagon-tongue, and swunga pistol, and swore that he helped kill old Joe Smith, andwas ready for old Brigham Young, and all sung a blackguardsong, Oh, weve got the ropes and well hang old Brighambefore the snow flies, and all such stuff. Well, it was mightyhard to bear, and when they got to where the Pahvant Indians AND CRIMES OF MORMONISM. 179 was, they shot one of them dead and crippled another. Butthe worst is coming. At Corn Creek, just this side of Fillmore, they poisoned aspring and the flesh of an ox that died there, and gave that toihe Indians, and some Indians died. Then the widow Tomlin-sou, just this side, had an ox poisoned at the spring, and shethought to save the hide and tallow; and rendering it up, thepoison got in her face, and swelled it up, and
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