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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The story of a Mormon woman — effects of Polygamy. (search)
ything more than give his advice. Neither menaces, nor caresses, nor counsel, had any effect upon the girl, whose noble instincts revolted at the idea of her becoming her mother's rival, and who, moreover, was passionately in love with a man who had solemnly promised to marry her, and her alone. The missionary found at last that there was no making head against so determined a will, and, out of spite, went and selected a woman from amongst the waiting women attached to the harem of H. C. Kimball. But a new storm was on the point of bursting. The second wife was no sooner installed in the conjugal dwelling than she found out that she was only a make-shift. Calling to her aid every article which hatred could suggest, she succeeded in captivating her husband's heart; and the latter had so far forgotten himself as, on the very morning of the day on which we met these weeping women, to male treat them so grossly as to compel them to abandon the roof they had assisted in building a