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Show 38 These comments Utah .th a t probably triggered by were polygamy was being practiced by substance when the church publicly the practice from coming the Mormons, d the a vo we rumors given rumors on August 29, 1852.1 In the minds of tion to Utah and it is at no seeing Mo r rn on s means wonder that the so according to the world by ants. ,,2 but were n on+ many one a The of their of had who asserted that against the converted to its avowed and a by "Celestial an a s y s te rn a emigra- e d i to r , of d e s c en d- and derided the practice laws in which, , "renovation of rapid multiplication its Scottish "is a_/nd "little humbled" a prpose anti-polygamy plural marriage Pratt, should feel -Scotsman attacked the answered in the Millennial Star larson as activities wives for the Mormon elders Presbyterians multitude of wives, "Ladies' Memorial" missionary supplying countrymen Scotsman, Edinburgh , 1875, David essential article of Marriage," August 29, to be McKenzie, our 185, faith. 113 Journal History of Utah, 1 1869, edited and annotated by Leland H. Creer (Sa It Lake City, De s e r e t News Press, 1940), 558-63; Report of the Glasgow Conference July 3, 1853 (original in Utah State Historical Society); Gibson Candie notes in his journal that at Council Bluffs he met a Scottish Mormon, of Discourses, I, 53-66; Andrew Love Neff, ... David Muir, August, who "had 2 wives, a Se e Condie, Journal, 1851. 2William Being all Scotch." , Robertson and W. F. Robertson, Our American Tour, Run of Ten'Thousand Miles from the Atlantic to the Golden in the Autumnof 1869 (Edinburgh, W. Burness, 1871), pp. 76-7. Gte 3Editorial, February 28, 1876, "The Scotsman and the Ladies' Memorial," Miltennial Star, XXXVIII, 136-8. By the manifesto of |