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The Dynamiter was suggested by certain attempted outrages in London which had all turned out to be fiascos. She began with the Mormon tale and followed with the others, one for each afternoon. Afterwards, when a lean time came at Bournemouth and money was badly needed, these stories, temporarily forgotten, were recalled, written, and published as the second volume of the New Arabian Nights series.
As I got through they all huddled around me and commenced to relate the horrors of Mormonism. They advised me to have nothing to do with the Mormons, for said they: "As old Joe Smith votes, so will every Mormon in the country vote, and when they get into a fight they are just the same way; they stick together.
"I guess I'll feel it an honour to have my name joined with yours. I haven't got the length of taking off my shoes yet." Darling began to sing one of the inspiriting Mormon hymns. "When Joseph to Cumorah came." "Poor Joe!"
Wherever a Gentile was employed in any Mormon institution, he was discharged, almost without exception, whether or not he had been an active member of the American party.
I must marry him, accept the Mormon faith, and bring up my children as Mormons. If I refused they would hang Lassiter, leave the heretic Jane Withersteen alone in the valley, and take me and break me to their rule. "I agreed. But Mother Jane absolutely forbade me to marry him. Then the Mormons took me away. It nearly killed me to leave Uncle Jim and Mother Jane.
And finally, it is the prediction of the priests that no apostate can prosper; and though the Mormon people are charitable and do not intend to be unjust, they inevitably tend to fulfill the prophecy and devote the apostate to material destruction. The great doctrine of the Mormon faith is obedience; the one proof of grace is conformity.
I will here submit to my readers a letter directed to Mr Courtenay in 1842 by a superior officer of the United States artillery. What does this mean? Why this exact discipline of the Mormon corps? Do they intend to conquer Missouri, Illinois, Mexico?
Lincoln, 'the military authorities have the same title against the civil authorities that closed out Bob's Mormon title in Missouri." Judge Weldon says that after this anecdote he understood what would be the policy of the Government in the matter referred to as well as though a proclamation had been issued.
"There are some questions I would like to ask you," I began, "and one or two of them may seem impertinent. But they won't be asked in that spirit and please don't answer any that embarrass you." They exchanged glances, and then told me to ask as many questions as I wished. "First of all," I said, "I would like to know the real attitude toward polygamy of the present generation of Mormon women.
And if a Gentile brought a suit, the Mormon jury would do just as it pleased about bringing in a verdict, and when the judgment of the court was rendered no Mormon cared for it and no officer could execute it.
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