1856-11-20-New York Tribune-Book of Sterling Interest
From New York City LDS History
A Book of Sterling Interest!
- New York Tribune, 20 November 1856, p. 2
- "Belle Brittan" has read the book—read what she says:
- "I have before me a fresh volume, entitled "Mormon Wives—A Narrative of Facts"—by Metta Victoria Fuller, in which I have been enough interested to read it through at a sitting, and that, too, on the eve of a Presidential election. This story bears internal evidence of being based, at least, upon actual occurrences. It is vigorously and poetically told; and the effect can hardly fail to excite in the public heart a feeling of irrepressible indignation against the fanatical fools who have suffered themselves to be deluded and swindled by the saintly rascals who 'lord it over God's heritage' in Utah. * * * *
- "But Miss Fuller, in her narrative of "Mormon Wives," does not go abroad for her victims. She finds them in a pleasant New England village, two young girls, the heroines of her story, who are led astray, like errant lambs from the fold—the one by a wicked husband, the other by a reckless heart; and both are wrecked and stranded upon the Golgotha of Mormondom. The story is told with great dramatic force,and contains the elements for a far more effective exhibition on the stage than Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom," or the poor abortion which followed it."
- BELLE BRITTAN.
- "To no part of this Continent are the eyes of the far-seeing statesman looking with greater anxiety, than toward the wonderful, but formidable Community in the Valley of Utah. The startling and monstrous doctrines set forth by the expounders of Mormonism, are arresting the attention of every good citizen, whose earnest endeavors are enlisted for its overthrow. To this end, the reliable but exciting facts embraced in Miss Fuller's book, are put forth. They are narrated with clear and telling force, and form a volume of all-absorbing interest. May its mission of good be fourfold, as it finds its way into the hand of every man whose desire for the well-being of his country is such as to prompt to a correct understanding of the doctrines and principles of a sect which is spreading its baleful influence over so large and valuable a tract of country, already suffering under the moral pestilence of these most unchristian fanatics."
- [Christian Advocate.
- "To no part of this Continent are the eyes of the far-seeing statesman looking with greater anxiety, than toward the wonderful, but formidable Community in the Valley of Utah. The startling and monstrous doctrines set forth by the expounders of Mormonism, are arresting the attention of every good citizen, whose earnest endeavors are enlisted for its overthrow. To this end, the reliable but exciting facts embraced in Miss Fuller's book, are put forth. They are narrated with clear and telling force, and form a volume of all-absorbing interest. May its mission of good be fourfold, as it finds its way into the hand of every man whose desire for the well-being of his country is such as to prompt to a correct understanding of the doctrines and principles of a sect which is spreading its baleful influence over so large and valuable a tract of country, already suffering under the moral pestilence of these most unchristian fanatics."
- DERBY & JACKSON, Publishers, New-York.
- Copies sent by mail, post paid, on receipt of price.
