The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite. John Doyle Lee

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       Alfred Henry Lewis, John Doyle Lee

      The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664583598

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       INTRODUCTION By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS

       1905

       INTRODUCTION

       THE MORMON PURPOSE

       THE MORMON MENACE OR, THE CONFESSIONS OF JOHN DOYLE LEE

       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

       THE END.

INTRODUCTION By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS

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      New York: Home Protection Publishing Co.

      1905

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INTRODUCTION

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THE MORMON PURPOSE

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      Almost a half century ago, being 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 Meadows 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 those long prison weeks which fell in between his arrest and execution, Lee wrote his life, giving 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, down to those murders for which he, Lee, was executed. Lee's confessions, so to call them, were published within a few months following his death. The disclosures were such that the Mormon Church became alarmed; the book might mean its downfall. In the name of Mormon safety Brigham Young, by money and other agencies, succeeded in the book's suppression. What copies had been sold were, as much as might be, bought up and destroyed, together with the plates and forms from which they had been printed.

      In the destruction of this literature, so perilous to Mormons, at least two volumes escaped. These have been placed in my hands by certain patriotic influences, and