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Right now… our country is filled with outrage! The fact that we have found yet another hidden group of families practicing the unlawful marriage practice of polygamy.

This novel recently transcribed is available at archive.org. It is a sweetly written story written about the history of Mormon Wives in the 1800’s. Many women traveled to Utah with the full intention and knowledge that this marriage practice was mandatory… but some did not.

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This novel can be used as an educational tool for those that don’t understand what the role of polygamy played in the Mormon religion in it’s early days.

You can read this small book in about an hour: Mormon Wives

The author was outraged with the idea of Utah becoming a state. It seems that the Mormon religion was considered a form of slavery.

Here is a portion of the introduction:

The American people, absorbed in their grand
schemes of physical development, are apt to shut
their eyes to the moral aspects of their society.

This moral apathy it is which has allowed the system of slavery to grow and expand until it is now fast
becoming the controling element in the government;
and this apathy it is which would allow the introduction of polygamy into American institutions to
become one of the elements of our society.

Who shall be to blame if that instrument of barbarism becomes
linked to our country, protected by its army and navy,
by its Constitution, by its moral force and sympathy ?

Let us not be deceived longer, but open our eyes
to the serpent now asking to be warmed into life
by our national hearth-stone; let us arise and say,

” Away leper ! cleanse thyself! and then come, and we
will gladly receive thee into our household will then
gladly give thee equal share in our councils then
will protect thee as our fathers protected Bunker’s
Hill? Away with thee, and cleanse thyself!”