Identifier: polygamyormyster00bead (find matches)
Title: 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.
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897.
Subjects: Mormons.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co.
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
v Several times that day marched this disorderly rabble, with expressions and gestures intended to show that the whole city regarded Mrs. Pratt as an outcast; but she had too many friends to be driven away. Orson soon leturned and heard Smiths story first; he was driven almost wild by the trouble,and for a day or two wandered in the woods along the river,refusing to see his wife. At length mutual friends brought them together; he was convinced of her innocence, and pronounced Smith a fallen Prophet. One conspicuous actor in the tragi-comedy was a Mrs. Fuller, a prostitute living alone near the river. She produced evidence which convinced Pratt beyond doubt that the Prophet was a man of extreme profligacy,and offered to conceal Mr. and Mrs. Pratt in her house, and allow them to witness one of Smiths interviews with her; but Orson indignantly rejected this proposition. Mr. and Mrs.Pratt now withdrew from Nauvoo; Smith stormed at them from the pulpit, and for a while it seemed that the church would
Text Appearing After Image:
74 POLYGAMY ; OR, THE MYSTERIES he rent asunder. The mingled audacity and hypocrisy of the Prophet restored something like order. An interview with Pratt was arranged, and some sort of truce patched up. Pratt returned to his post, but declared that the Prophet had violated the law, and must some day die a bloody death by way of atonement. That prophecy was even then near fulfillment. Mrs. Pratt never resumed her place in the church, but taught her children to hate it. Her oldest son, Orson, is a musician of much talent, an earnest, honest Gentile. Another son, Arthur, is a United States official, and still another, Harmel, an attorney of much promise. Thirty years after the above events Mrs. Pratt used this language in referring to them: My testimony is that of all first wives who speak their honest thoughts. I have suffered greatly, and only became reconciled when 1 brought myself to look upon the husband of my youth as long ago dead. I am now at rest, as the lonely widow of many years may be at

Note About Images