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Date: November 08, 2010 03:20PM
William Law, who published the Nauvoo Expositor, said this many years later...
http://mrm.org/topics/documents-speeches/interview-william-law>"Did Emma, the elect lady, come to your house and complain about Joseph?"
>"No. She never came to my house for that purpose. But I met her sometimes on the street and then she used to complain, especially because of the girls whom Joseph kept in the house, devoting his attention to them. You have overrated her, she was dishonest."
>"Do you mean to say that she was so outside of the influence Joseph had over her?"
>"Yes, that is exactly what I mean. Let me tell you a case that will be full proof to you. Soon after my arrive in Nauvoo the two L[awrence] girls came to the holy city, two very young girls, 15 to 17 years of age. They had been converted in Canada, were orphans and worth about $8000 in English gold. Joseph got to be appointed their Guardian, probably with the help of Dr. Bennett. He naturally put the gold in his pocket and had the Girls sealed to him. He asked me to go on his bond as a guardian, as Sidney Rigdon had done. "It is only a formality," he said. Foolishly enough, and not yet suspecting anything, I put my name on the paper. Emma complained about Joseph's living with the L[awrence] girls, but not very violently. It is my conviction that she was his full accomplice, that she was not a bit better than he. When I saw how things went I should have taken steps to be released of that bond, but I never thought of it. After Joseph's death, A. W. Babbitt became guardian of the two girls. He asked Emma for a settlement about the $8000. Emma said she had nothing to do with her husband's debts. Now Babbitt asked for the books and she gave them to him. Babbitt found that Joseph had counted an expense of about $3000 for board and clothing of the girls. Now Babbitt wanted the $5000 that was to be paid Babbitt, who was a straight, good, honest, sincere man, set about to find out property to pay the $5000 with. He could find none. Two splendid farms near Nauvoo, a big brick house, worth from $3000 to $4000, the hotel kept by Joe, a mass of vacant town lots, all were in Emma's name, not transferred later, but transferred from the beginning. She always looked out for her part. When I saw how things stood I wrote to Babbitt to take hold of all the property left by me in Nauvoo and of all claims held by me again in people in Nauvoo. And so the debt was paid by me--Emma didn't pay a cent."
And here's a story that has me shaking my head... It's from a certain apologist, clearly suffering from late stage "Nibley's Disease" wherein the sufferer, faced with overwhelming evidence the church is true, opts to go crazy rather than acknowledge the simple truth that the LDS church is a fraud. This one was first identified by Nibley's daughter, Martha...
Anyway, elsewhere on the web, this apologist, an attorney who's defended the LDS Church in sex abuse lawsuits, expresses his personal view that William Law and Emma were having an affair, and that was what motivated Law to publish the "Expositor."
I kid you not; I can't make this stuff up...
And a Cabbie note to "OlMan," I hope you were spoofing us, but if you were, Richard Packham--who's also an old man, but one of the sharpest individuals I've ever met--has requested posts be marked as spoofs if they might be unclear...
And if you weren't spoofing, you've just give me so more stuff to talk about next time I pick up tourists from the JS Building...
"Did you watch the movie about Emma Smith? You did? You want the rest of the story? Okay, we've got time..."