Mormonism: its leaders and designs./ By John Hyde.

PRACTICAL POLYGAMY.
between himself and his first wife, at Salt Lake City, was, of
course, an introduction to the woman who had supplanted
her in his affections! The first wife was neglected, till her
wrung heart demanded a divorce, which was readily ac corded. It was an easy thing to sacrifice the wife of his
youth and the mother of his children for the paramour of his
affections.
A Mr. Batie was married to an amiable person, and they
had a very interesting family. He desired another wife, had
seen and loved a young person and courted her. Mrs. Batie,
however, for a long time, had refused her consent, and had
weepingly told him if he married this girl it would break her
heart. To yield to her affection was to submit to be controlled. To consider her feelings was to be "ruled by petticoats." As she would not consent, he was married without
her consent, and without her knowledge. Is there any man
or woman who can fail to conceive her feelings?
A Mr. Eldredge had a very handsome lady for a wife.
She had shared her husband's sufferings and privations. Together they had toiled, happily and affectionately. They had
amassed some property around them, and were very comfortable, too comfortable for Salt. Lake City. On their dream
of peace Brigham Young rudely broke by a command that
"Brother Horace must take another wife!" Disobedience
would be contumacy, contumacy is to be cut off, and that is
taught to be perdition. He chose to obey. iHe married a
second, who was inferior in every thing except in age, to Mrs.
Eldredge. She, however, speedily weaned her husband's affection from the first wife, whom he soon after turned out of
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