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In preparing this volume for publication, I have not followed any established system of
arrangement.
The incidents are most of them transcripts from original letters, written in the
familiar style of friendly correspondence.
The description of a journey from Great Salt Lake City to San Bernandino, is an exact
copy from my journal, written after many days of wearisome travel.
The Mormon Episodes, I have tendered almost verbatim from personal relations by the
parties themselves, said not from "hearsay."
While the Latter-day Saints publicly adopt every opportunity to openly avow and
zealously propagate the System of Polygamy--in direct opposition to the established and
acknowledged code of morality, as practised by all civilized nations--I but exercise my
prerogative in exposing some of its abuses, which I consider destructive to morality,
female delicacy, and the sanctity of marriage.
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