. 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 . me a form was seen inside the barricade. Atfirst it was supposed only the men were in danger, and awoman of the party stepped outside the corral to milk a fell pierced with bullets. At length, their thirst be-coming intolerable, they decided to send two of the littlegirls to the spring for water. Surely, they reasoned, theywill be let to go unharmed ; their 3outh and innocence willbe tlieir safeguard ; the most barbarous s
. 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 . me a form was seen inside the barricade. Atfirst it was supposed only the men were in danger, and awoman of the party stepped outside the corral to milk a fell pierced with bullets. At length, their thirst be-coming intolerable, they decided to send two of the littlegirls to the spring for water. Surely, they reasoned, theywill be let to go unharmed ; their 3outh and innocence willbe tlieir safeguard ; the most barbarous savage would cer-tainly be touched, and the hand of destruction stayed. TWO LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED BY MORMON DEVILS. 24I It might have been, had it been savages with whom theywere contending; but no feeling of pity for even the chil-dren could enter the hearts of these civilized white menwho were engaged in the religious warfare, and shotdown their innocent victims in the name of the Lord. Hand in hand the little ones advanced towards the spring,dressed in white, — fit robes for such lambs of came the crack of scores of rifles, and the tiny. The Mukdee of Two Little Girls. bodies fell, fairly riddled with bullets, in the very sight ofthe frantic parents. It was deeds of this kind which, ac-cording to John D. Lee, glorified the name of IsraelsGod. Then the emigrants knew they could not expect mercy; but their courage did not fail them. If aid could only reach them ! If there was any way in which they could make their situation known! They might hold out a few days, 16 242 NO MERCY TO BE SHOWN ! though starvation and the slow, keen torture of unallnyedthirst stared them in the face. After four days of siege,they drew up a prayer for aid, telHng how they had beenattacked by the Indians, and how they were then surrounded ;it contained a list of the emigrants names, their age, placeof birth, and residence at the time of the emigration. Thenumber of clergymen, phy
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