CHAPTER XIII.. Mormon Superstition.

MORMON SUPERSTITION.

Account of the golden plates found by Joseph Smith.--Their translation and publication in a volume.--Peculiar style of the writings.--Attempt at imitation.--Mormon preachers speaking with new tongues.--Increase of the doctrine, and why.--Mormon cities not to be identified.--Strong indications of fabrication.-- Fluency and earnestness of their preachers.--Traits of the Cochranites.--Effects produced upon their hearers.--An account of the real origin of the Mormon Bible, and its author.--Of Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormon prophet.--His early characteristics. --Exposure of the indecent ceremonies at Nauvoo; as established by Smith and others. 96