The Mormon Menace
Auteur : John Doyle Lee
Date de publication : 2013-09-16
Éditeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Nombre de pages : 372
Résumé du livre
"In this subtitle the reader will recognize a timely subject. An introduction by Alfred Henry Lewis explains the Mormon purpose. Lee's autobiography was written while in prison awaiting his death, and although published soon after this event occurred, was suppressed by Brigham Young. It is now published to warn American men and women 'of the Mormon viper still coiled upon the national hearth.'" -The Bookman, Volume 21, March, 1905
In 1857, John Doyle Lee, a chief among that red brotherhood, the Danites, was ordered by Brigham Young and the leading counselors of the Mormon Church to take his men and murder a party of emigrants then on their way through Utah to California. The Mormon orders were to kill all who can talk, and, in their carrying out, Lee and his Danites, with certain Indians whom he had recruited in the name of scalps and pillage, slaughtered over one hundred and twenty men, women and children and left their stripped bodies to the elements and the wolves. This wholesale murder was given the title of The Mountain Meadow Massacre. Twenty years later, in 1877, the belated justice of this Government seated Lee on his coffin, and shot him to death for his crimes. In addition to writing about his life, Lee also gives among other matters the story of the Church of Mormon from its inception, when Joseph Smith pretended, with the aid of Urim and Thummim, to translate the golden plates. Lewis then goes on to allege that in the name of Mormon safety, Brigham Young, by money and other agencies worked to have this book suppressed.
In his own words, a lurid look at the Mountain Meadows Massacre atrocity and John D. Lee. This is a book that every thinking person and student of history must read.
CHAPTER I - THE STORMY YOUTH OF LEE
CHAPTER II - LEE BEGINS A CAREER
CHAPTER III - LEE BECOMES A MORMON
CHAPTER IV - THE SAINTS BESET WITH TROUBLES
CHAPTER V - THE MORMON WAR
CHAPTER VI - LEE LOCATES THE GARDEN OF EDEN
CHAPTER VII - THE SAINTS GATHER AT NAUVOO
CHAPTER VIII - LEE AS A MISSIONARY
CHAPTER IX - MORMONISM AND ITS ORIGIN
CHAPTER X - LEE CASTS OUT DEVILS
CHAPTER XI - HOT FOR LEE IN TENNESSEE
CHAPTER XII - OF PECULIAR INTEREST IN NAUVOO
CHAPTER XIII - DEATH OF JOSEPH SMITH
CHAPTER XIV - THE DOCTRINE OF SEALING
CHAPTER XV - THE SAINTS TURN WESTWARD
CHAPTER XVI - LEE GOES TO SANTA FE
CHAPTER XVII - LEE IS TREATED BADLY BY THE BRETHREN
CHAPTER XVIII - THE DANITE AND HIS DUTY
CHAPTER XIX - THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS
CHAPTER XX - THE MUSTER OF THE DANITES
CHAPTER XXI - THE BLOOD FEAST OF THE DANITES
CHAPTER XXII - THE DANITE CHIEF REPORTS TO BRIGHAM
CHAPTER XXIII - LEE NEARS THE END
APPENDIX I - BLOOD ATONEMENT
APPENDIX II - THE STORY OF LEE'S ARREST
APPENDIX III - DEATH OF JOHN DOYLE LEE