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Nov 2008
Prisons Large Enough (1870)
Posted in Striving For Respect (1870-1877) by D Marriott at 8:37 pm |
Tired of being judged as subservient partners to husbands, a mass meeting of Church women was held in the tabernacle in 1870 to protest anti-Mormon legislation penning in Congress. Speaking for the five thousand women present, Phoebe Woodruff said, “if the rulers of our nation will so far depart from the spirit and the letter of our glorious Constitution as to deprive our (husbands) of citizenship, and imprison them for obeying this law, (Cragin and Cullom bills) let them grant us this our last request, to make their prisons large enough to hold their wives, for where they go we will go also.” What affect this meeting had on Cognress is difficult to judge but neither bill was enacted into law.
CHC 5:232-233.
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