When an anonymous article advocating polygamy as a means of ending prostitution and spinsterhood appeared on February 4,1837 in theCleveland Liberalist, a paper widely read in Kirt- land, the gossips buzzed again, and the priesthood was stirred to new action. The Quorum of the Seventies passed a resolution denying fellowship to any member guilty of polygamy, and the Elders’ Quorum brought to trial at least one member, Solomon Freeman, for “living with another woman” though he had a wife in Massachusetts. Freeman nonplused the elders by vowing he would not “cross the room” to get a writ of
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