HadJohn C. Bennett been editor of theNauvoo Expositorinstead of William Law and Sylvester Emmons, it would have been a lurid sheet. But Law was no cheap scandalmonger and had a profound pity for the plural wives in Nauvoo. He vowed that nothing “carnal” should creep into theExpositor, and the first issue, which appeared on June 7, 1844, was therefore — considering the facts at the editor’s disposal — an extraordinarily restrained document.
