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THE MORMON PROPHET
AND
HIS HAREM;
OR,
  AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG,
HIS
  NUMEROUS WIVES AND CHILDREN.
BY
MRS. C. V. WAITE.
——"And with a piece of scripture,
Tell them,—that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.
CAMBRIDGE:
Printed for the Author; and Sold by Subscription.
J. S. GOODMAN AND COMPANY,
5 Custom House Place, Chicago.
  1867.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
Catharine V. Waite,
    In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Second
    Judicial District of the Territory of Idaho.
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
    STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
    H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.
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PREFACE.
No apology is offered for presenting to the public the only authenticaccount of Brigham Young, of his polygamous family, and of thatcomplicated and incongruous system of social and political machinery,called Mormonism.
The only form of religion in this country which refuses to conformeither to the spirit of progress and improvement and enlightenedhumanity which characterizes the age in which we live, or to our lawsand the genius of our free institutions,—drawing constantly fromforeign countries hosts of votaries, impelled hither not by a love ofrepublicanism, but rather by a desire to exchange a political for areligious monarchy,—is Mormonism, which presents an antagonism to ourGovernment, and can scarcely fail to result in national trouble.
The elements of a second rebellion are in active progress in Utah, and,as in the case of the slavery rebellion, the great danger lies infailing to place a proper estimate upon the power of those elements formischief, and to take the proper precautions in time. Religiousfanaticism is more active, and, when hostile, more dangerous, thanpolitical ambition; hence the arrogant and intolerant spirit, and thebitter hostility of the Mormons, are more worthy the serious attentionof our [iv]statesmen than would be the opposition of so many mere politicaltraitors.
Again; their power for mischief is much increased by the position theyoccupy upon the great thoroughfare between the eastern and westernportions of our country.
It is with the view of calling the attention of the Government and ofthe people of the country to the dangerous character of this monarchygrowing up in the midst of the Republic, that the political history ofUtah has been written.
The chief interest of the work, however, with a large class of readers,will doubtless consist in the information it contains, relative to thefamily an                        
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