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The prophets, or, Mormonism unveiled. Belisle, Orvilla S..
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LIZZIE MONROE IN HER PRISON.—BRIGHAM YOUNG MAKING INSULTING PROPOSALS.

THE PROPHETS; OR, MORMONISM UNVEILED. With Illustrations

PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY WM. WHITE SMITH. 195 CHESTNUT STREET.
LONDON: TRUBNER & CO

1855
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Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855, by ORVILLA S. BELISLE, In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO
MRS. J. H. JONES,
OF
CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY,
This Book
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE
AUTHOR.

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PREFACE.

IN seeking to lift the veil from an unpleasant spectacle, the heart has often sickened and shrunk back from its task, while reason reproving bade the hand finish and hold up to the gaze of the world, the enormities into which fatal fanaticism had plunged so many thousands of our brethren—for such still they are, as no crime can blot out the impress of the God of nature's hand, although it may so deface it, that nothing less than the Divine attributes can recognise his handiwork.

The first four chapters of this volume, are the authentic records of the Prophet's family, from his infancy to manhood. From thence commences his career as a Prophet, and the most successful diplomatist of the nineteenth century.

Here his political history begins, and these chapters have been recorded, that the world may view the man who claimed a Prophetic mission, as he was, denuded of all that could mislead, or bias the judgment.

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From this time many of the details of his progress could not be incorporated in a work like this; but enough, it is believed, has been revealed to illustrate the man, as he lived and died. One other reason more potent still, for withholding them. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, still survive—and a reluctance to inflict a deeper grief on them than now weighs them down, has caused them to be withheld.

As it is, behold, oh, Americans, the blot that has made you a by-word to the citizens of the old world—a libel on your manhood, an insult to the mother that cradled you in her arms, and a curse to your wives and daughters.

THE AUTHOR.

Camden, 1855.

CONTENTS.

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