The History of the Saints: Or, an Expose’ of Joe Smith and Moronism

Calling Joseph Smith “one of the grossest and most infamous impostors that ever appeared upon the face of the earth,” John Cook Bennett exposes a viper’s nest of bitterness and corruption in his inflammatory “History of the Saints”, which appeared in 1842. Issuing dire warnings of a Mormon conspiracy to overthrow the government, Bennett catalogs the “Mormon Monster’s career of imposture, iniquity, and treason” while presenting testimonies to his own unsullied character. Castigating the church and everyone associated with it, he describes the elaborate “seraglio” – the hierarchy of females at the disposal of men of power

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