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A publication concerning the "Mysteries of Mormonism"...
A publication concerning the "Mysteries of Mormonism"...
Item # 724477
October 29, 1870
THE CORRECTOR, Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, Oct. 29, 1870
* Anti-Mormons - Mormonism book advertisement
The back page has an advertisement for the publication of: "LIFE IN UTAH or the MYSTERIES OF MORMONISM" with some text noting its "...unprecedented success, one reports 186 subscribers in four days, another 71 subscribers in two days."
The book is described as: "An Expose of the Secret Rites and Ceremonies of the Latter-Day Saints, with a Full and Authentic History of Polygamy and the Mormon Sect from Its Origin to the Present Time."
An early newspaper from this once-famous whaling town near the eastern end of Long Island, now more famous as a playground for the rich & famous who frequent the neighboring Hamptons.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed with wide margins, nice condition.
background: J.H. Beadle’s Life in Utah stands as a quintessential piece of 19th-century sensationalist journalism, meticulously designed to cast the LDS Church as a "theocratic despotism" that threatened the moral fabric of the American Republic. Writing with the sharp, often vitriolic pen of a seasoned frontier reporter, Beadle weaves together historical accounts of the movement's migration with lurid, second-hand "exposés" of polygamous households and "secret" temple rituals that were intended to scandalize the Victorian sensibilities of his Eastern readers. The book was particularly effective in its time because it framed the "Mormon Question" not merely as a religious dispute, but as a criminal conspiracy, leveraging the horrific details of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the absolute authority of Brigham Young to argue for federal intervention. While modern historians treat its claims with caution due to Beadle’s clear bias and penchant for the dramatic, the work remains a vital primary source for understanding the intense cultural and political animosity that defined the Utah Territory’s relationship with the United States in the decades following the Civil War.
Category: Post-Civil War
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