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. . the Saints remained. Gentiles com-bined in groups for society and protection, and Mormons didthe same at command of the church, to which they were boundby such absolute oaths; and this, of course, led to local andsectional hatred, which, among people who habitually worearms, soon culminated in blood. Men became afraid to stirabroad, except in squads; riots and regular skirmishes,amounting almost to pitched battles, took place; blood wasshed, lives
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. . the Saints remained. Gentiles com-bined in groups for society and protection, and Mormons didthe same at command of the church, to which they were boundby such absolute oaths; and this, of course, led to local andsectional hatred, which, among people who habitually worearms, soon culminated in blood. Men became afraid to stirabroad, except in squads; riots and regular skirmishes,amounting almost to pitched battles, took place; blood wasshed, lives were lost, and the exasperation of both parties wasraised to the highest pitch. The Western press teemed withaccounts of the enormities of Nauvoo: no doubt greatly exag-gerated, but with considerable truth. While matters were in this condition two shocking murderstook place in Iowa, not far from Nauvoo. A PennsylvaniaGerman named Miller, and his son-in-law Leiza, had come intothe Half-Breed Tract near Keokuk to buy land, and it wascurrently reported they had brought |5,000 in gold. Onenight their door was suddenly broken open, three ruffians. (99) 100 POLYGAMY; OR, THE MYSTERIES rushed in with bludgeons and bowie knives, and began theirdeadly work. Both the men grappled with their assailants, andsuch was the vigor of the old German that, with the long bowieknife twice buried in his bosom and his skull fractured by aclub, he still forced the murderers from the house and fell deadin the yard. The screams of the women and barking of thedogs led the murderers to dread an alarm, and they fled with-out their booty, leaving Leiza alive but mortally county rose as one man, and very soon the trail of themurderers was traced to Nauvoo, with evidence sufficient towarrant the arrest of two brothers named Hodges. Tiieirbrother, Amos Hodges, appealed to Brigham Young, whoconvened the Municipal Court, and refused to allow the Iowaofficials to arrest the accused. This put an end to
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