. 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 . or.—The Saints arrive in IowaCity. — How the Summer-time was Wasted. — Beginning a TerribleJourney.—Suffering by the Way. — Going Cheap. — They reachCouncil Bluffs. — Levi Savage Behaves Bravely. — Lying Prophecy ofthe Apostle Richards. — How the Emigrants were Deceived. — BrighamYoung sends Help to Them. — Two Apostles are Denounced. — TheProphet in a Fix. — He lays His own Sins on the Backs of Others.—Preparing to Receive the Em
. 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 . or.—The Saints arrive in IowaCity. — How the Summer-time was Wasted. — Beginning a TerribleJourney.—Suffering by the Way. — Going Cheap. — They reachCouncil Bluffs. — Levi Savage Behaves Bravely. — Lying Prophecy ofthe Apostle Richards. — How the Emigrants were Deceived. — BrighamYoung sends Help to Them. — Two Apostles are Denounced. — TheProphet in a Fix. — He lays His own Sins on the Backs of Others.—Preparing to Receive the Emigrants. N the history of any peoplethere has never been re-corded a case of suchjrross mismanagement asthat of gathering the for-eign Saints to Zion in theyear 1856. Until this disastrousyear the emicrrants hadalways made the journeyacross the plains with ox-teams, under the chargeof some of the returningelders, who were trium-phantly bringing the fruitsof their labors in foreign vineyards to garner them in able-bodied walked, and those who were too young, tooold, or too feeble to perform the journey on foot, went in the. Thk Emigrants Landing Place,(.•istlo (lunleiis. Sew York. Tim DIVINE EMIGRATION SCHEME. 20I wagons with the baggage. It was in tne same way that theSaints themselves made their first journey across the plains,and in the proper season of the }ear was a safe and a pleas-ant journey. Tedious and wearisome, to be sure, but in noway perilous, as plenty of provisions, bedding, and clothingcould be carried, not only for the journey, but sufficient tolast some time after the arrival. The cost of emigration in this way was from £io to £12,English money, or nominally $50 to $60 in gold — notvery expensive, surely, for a journey from Liverpool to SaltLake City ; but to Brigham, in one of his fits of economy, itseemed altogether too costly, and he set to work to devisesome means for retrenchment. During the entire winter of185
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