. 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 . wife in the middle of the night, when he knewher husband to be absent. Mrs. Law was present, and herhusband called upon her to testify as to whether he hadmade the statement correctly. She corroborated all thathe had said, and added that Joseph had asked her to givehim half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other halffor her husband. The Higbees testified, at the same meeting, to havingfrequently seen Josephs horse standing
. 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 . wife in the middle of the night, when he knewher husband to be absent. Mrs. Law was present, and herhusband called upon her to testify as to whether he hadmade the statement correctly. She corroborated all thathe had said, and added that Joseph had asked her to givehim half her love; she was at liberty to keep the other halffor her husband. The Higbees testified, at the same meeting, to havingfrequently seen Josephs horse standing for a long time be-fore the door of certain improper resorts. This statementwas certainly untrue, and was probably made under a mis-take. The greatest excitement prevailed after this meeting,and the feeling ran very high between the contending fac- 62 THE NAUVOO EXPOSITOR COMES TO GRIEF. tions of the church. Joseph and his adherents, on theirpart, charged some of the apostates with gross immoraHty,and they retaliated by saying they liad only followed theteachings of Smith. Criminations and recriminations werehurled furiously at each other by the two BUKNING OF THE NEWSPAPER OFFICE. Law and some of his associates started a paper calledthe ^^J^auvoo Expositor which they intended to devote tothe criticism of Smiths policy, and the denunciation of hischaracter. As may be imagined, it was not a very long-lived sheet, only one number being issued. Enraged by itsplain speech, Joseph and some of his followers destroyedthe building, broke the machinery, and threw away thetype, in their strenuous endeavors to suppress the freedomof the press. Affairs had reached such a crisis, that to allay the ex-citement and to explain some of his peculiar moral weak-nesses, the Prophet found it necessary to produce the famousRevelation, giving the most unbridled license to all theworst passions of their nature. This Revelation was in-tended to silence the noisy clamorings of the Saints ; f
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