THE HUSBAND IN UTAH; OR, Sights and Scenes among the Mormons: WITH REMARKS ON THEIR MORAL AND SOCIAL ECONOMY. BY AUSTIN AND MARIA N. WARD, AUTHORS OF "FEMALE LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS." LONDON: JAMES BLACKWOOD, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1857. PREFACE. ONE year since, with fear and trembling, I gave to the world my testimony against the Mormon delusion.* It was not a history of that people, or the rise and progress of their singular creed. It made no pretensions even to trace them as a body through their various settlements in the Western country previous to their emigration to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. It was designed simply as a record of personal experience-a transcript of events written from memory; a faithful narrative of such hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, as any woman placed in such circumstances must necessarily feel. The success of that venture emboldens me to send another barque in the same track, though this time it is the experience and adventures of another-of a man. Of course he takes a somewhat different view, but his account corroborates my testimony. He presents a philosophical view of the Mormons, with their moral and social condition as a community; but that neither softens nor modifies the nature of the facts which came beneath his observation. It was not from ambition or the love of gold, but a sense of duty to my country and the world, that the other book was written. The impostors are still * "Female Life among the Mormons." |