Excerpt from The Revelation in the Mountain

When the Mormons first came to Utah they were embittered against the government of the United States, and it seemed to be the purpose of the few men who controlled the organization to keep alive and in tensify that bitterness. Then polygamy, which had been long practised in Nauvoo, was openly promulgated by Brigham Young as a divine ordinance - the only rite which secured perfect exaltation to the spirits of mor tals, after the death of the body here. To carry this out cruelties unspeakable were perpetrated. Then, too, all who did not indorse the system were held as ene mies, and the rank and file were taught that such peo ple were enemies of their church and were seeking to Oppress the elect because of their religious beliefs. Under such a leader as Brigham Young, in the deso lation of this then wilderness, atrocities unspeakable were committed. Moreover, Brigham Young kept a band of blood-atoners always in call and enemies were put out of the way. There is enough in the sermons preached in those days, in the acts performed, which are still in the memories of old residents, and in the skeletons found in excavating cellars in Salt Lake City to corroborate all that is said here and to show that the contents of this book make clear the spirit which ruled Utah for thirty years after 1847.

The justification for publishing it' now is that when the barbarism which ruled here was sufficiently beaten back to make it clear that the chiefs of this people saw disfranchisement immediately before them, they pledged the government and the Gentiles of Utah thathenceforth the political rule which they had always held over their people should cease, and that polygamy should be abolished. Upon that they obtained state hood.

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