. 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 . ^ forhad not God promised that through the mouth of His holyProphet? Their faith was sublime in its exaltation ; and incontrast to it, the cold-blooded, scheming, blasphemouspolicy of Young and his followers shows out false, andblacker tiian ever. To have deceived a credulous peopleby wanton misrepresentation is wicked enough, but to do it MISERIES OF THE OCEAN-TRANSIT. 205 in the name of the Lord is a sin that can never be atoned
. 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 . ^ forhad not God promised that through the mouth of His holyProphet? Their faith was sublime in its exaltation ; and incontrast to it, the cold-blooded, scheming, blasphemouspolicy of Young and his followers shows out false, andblacker tiian ever. To have deceived a credulous peopleby wanton misrepresentation is wicked enough, but to do it MISERIES OF THE OCEAN-TRANSIT. 205 in the name of the Lord is a sin that can never be atonedfor to God or man. It is the height of blasphemy, and Ifairly shudder as I endeavor to comprehend, in some slightdegree, the magnitude of such an offence. They had been crowded and huddled together on ship-board more like animals than like human beings; theirfood had been insufficient and of bad quality; the sleepingaccommodations were limited, and there was not the properamount of bedding for those who were compelled to sleep inthe more exposed places. Some of the persons who saw. Mormon Emigrants on Shipboard. the emigrants, say that it was like nothing so much as anAfrican slave-ship, filled with its unlawful and ill-gottenfreight. The air in the steerage, where most of the emi-grants were, was noxious, and yet these people were com-pelled to breathe it through all the days of the were too ill to leave their beds, and a change ofclothing was out of the question. The entire floor wascovered with mattresses, and it was impossible to walk aboutwithout stepping over some one. Men, women, and childrenwere huddled in toijether in the most shameless were not much bettered when they arrived at New 2o6 STRANGERS PENNILESS AND HELPLESS ! York; the Apostle John Taylor, whose duty it was to pro-vide for them there, was too deeply engaged in a quarrelwith Apostle Franklin D. Richards, as to which of the twowas higher in authority, to attend to these poor crea
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