As I understand that some of my appreciations can wake up certain resistance story, and that can be gotten to think that the things that I mention they can respond to a personal desire to discredit to him by means of the calumny and the distortion of the facts that I mention, I reiterate to them that I have loved husband and I have respected to him during all our life of marriage. the circumstances that I mention are part of my experience of life, that all woman who has shared a conjugal relation, can understand surely it, which we lived in private on our home, only know we it, and only can evaluate we it in their right dimension it is not certain? Made this explanation and to avoid to hurt the susceptibility of some of you who can feel like victims by my expressions, I will try to endorse my sayings, with the corresponding documentation and making reference to prestigious historians who despite sharing the same faith and principles taught by my husband, have not closed their eyes before the evidence of the facts. When we married with Joseph, we lived in the middle of tremendous economic shortages, because in the year previous to our marriage, that is to say in 1826, Joseph had been condemned by justice and had to be made position of the costs of the judgment to avoid to be sent to the jail. There am the story of the sentence against my husband here: the town of the State of New York against Joseph Smith. Emitted judicial order under oath of Peter G. Bridgman, who informed that Joseph Smith, of Bainbridge acted against the law and was cheating..
