[LDS] The same folks assailing the character of just men and alleging that church history has been suppressed never emphasize tactfully undwelt-upon details like this, which make my blood boil on behalf of the Saints so that I could only have been restrained from their persecutors by death: Parley P. Pratt (DHC3:428): While under these circumstances, our ears were continually shocked with the relation of the horrid deeds they had committed and which they boasted of. They related the circumstance in detail of having, the previous day, disarmed a certain man in his own house, and took him prisoner, and afterwards beat out his brains with his own gun, in presence of their officers. They told of other individuals lying here and there in the brush, whom they had shot down without resistance, and who were lying unburied for the hogs to feed upon. They also named one or two individual females of our society, whom they had forcibly bound, and twenty or thirty of them, one after another, committed rape upon them. One of these females was a daughter of a respectable family with whom I have been long acquainted, and with whom I have since conversed and learned that it was truly the case. Delicacy at present forbids my mentioning the names. Sidney Rigdon (DHC3:464): I heard a party of them, one night, telling about some female whose person they had violated; and this language was used by one of them: The d--- b---, how she yelled! Who this person was, I did not know; but before I got out of prison I heard that a widow, whose husband had died some few months before, with consumption, had been brutally violated by a gang of them, and died in their hands, leaving three little children, in whose presence the scene of brutality took place. After I got out of prison and had arrived in Quincy, Illinois, I met a strange man in the street who inquired of me respecting the circumstance of this kind, saying that he had heard of it, and was on his way going to Missouri to get the children if he could find them. He said the woman thus murdered was his sister, or his wifes sister, I am not positive which. The man was in great agitation. What success he had, I know not.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 04:42:46 +0000
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