| Show 1 T 1 i innoo TO Tim I I GREAT SALT liAl Designation of the Rocl y Mountains as a Place for the Lat tor day SaITItsExodus frorr Illinois Pioroar Journey to Utah Locating In Salt Lal o Valley I I CHOOSING A HOME IN THE WEST I E IIAVE come here according I to the direction and counsel of Brother Joseph before his deit h said resident I Brie J ham Young tot to-t It e assembled Pioneers 1 is I I they were i gathered for the tit time on tIe I prefint site of the Temple llloek i m Salt Iake I City then 1 barren dCb0IatC 1tC with not n hou c Ir tree or pi int of human cultivation in bight It I was a solemn occasion here I were a few wagons mil tents mil animals the property of the Pioneer 1 band 1 of the Camp of Irwl 1 lint band hal just ct m leud < 1 a long and wearisome journey of more than a thousand miles in a compiritivd unknown countr a valley to the I litinan eye uninviting and in repula Hoi among the few trappers nl ho I had visited inhopitaLle foi civil icd habit ition had been icnched the master pint of the camp in i whom Ins l title rccogmml mi Apostle of the blessed Redeemer through hom came the voice of God to this lattelay Isrjcl I had I declared this to be I their promised I mil I of rest till they should become mighty t people and his message hall been received ulliout doubt or hesitation IOn I-On that momentous evening the asi muline lad voted nj on the lo cition nnd plan of their first city in the new land and in the solemn jrandcur of their position is instill i in i g a new dispensation of civilization civiliza-tion amid the everlasting lulls hid 1 spoken with one oiccnot a dissent dis-sent or a murmur nnd under the solemn inspiration of that hour they listened I to the declaration that what they had done ms in obedience to the instruction of their beloved imrt r Prophet nnd the responded thereto null a hearty amen lor they realized the truth of what had r e j M IR Y IIYRUM SMITH THE PATRIARCH been Slid They also gale went to the irlhcr remark of their leader J recorded in the journal of resident 1 Wilford oodiulToi July S iSa i Joseph nould still hive been line if the Inclvc had been ill N ui voo when he repressed the liver t from Montrose The 1 statement of President Young I lltllt tr was the reiteration i of a fact well known to his hearers The 1 location of the Mormon people Oil the west era loi e of the Rocky Mountains had been lid eited to them by the first I resident and Prophet 1 of the Church of Jesus Chi 1st of I titter day Sums Joseph Smith whose unsullied life with tint of his fnlli fill brother II I > rum wat sacrificed 1 to the hatred of a i ruthless mob it Cartilage Car-tilage Illinois at the very time when the Prophet was contemplating leading the S nuts to the West there lo become a great people ns he had decl red years bcfoie the bhould be in these valleys To Joseph Smith belongs the responsibility re-sponsibility and honor ns sueh maybe may-be to man for tin I niter day Saints locating in Utah The great man on whom dexoUctl the actual task of leading the Cimp of Israel over a trackless deseit to these vales did not fill to give pionn nuice to that fact Further 1 he fell In the depths of his boul lint if the Church quorum oxer which he pre tided had not been scattered it distant dis-tant points float N moo when Joseph anl I I llium Smith rtllrned t rom the western j Irlltvr jouitive they had started pn nlr < 111 the tragedy of Cartilage would have averted and those who knew I the I itor nnd determination of Brig hlm Young mil his intense love for the great Prophet of the latterday dibpenatioll had no reason to doubt I his I bertioll But it watt not to be II the Twelve 1 were not in Xaucoo Joseph and I Ih rum were unitred I and the Pioneer company of Latter I 1 i tion for by his inspiration as a Prophet he knew it must come that the house of the Lord I must be established ill the lops ol the moun I Mini and ill nation should flow unto it as a part of Ihe walk of the Gospel I Gos-pel di pens ilion committed to him b y the Ionl I The subject of we tern t-ern removal was rclened to frequently fre-quently m Nuivoo Congress hid been me nori ilied for legislation regarding re-garding it the removal of the Mormons Mor-mons was discussed between the Prophet Joseph J rut Senator Stephen A Doughs File I latter thought they should locate ill Oregon heard 1 of as being at the extreme western limit of the continent But the Prophet ad 1 no the Rock Mountains was the place here the Saints should assemble mil become powerful Hi it district m then known as Upper Up-per California mid I as a result of Joseph teachings five years before the death of I the Prophet I and Patriarch Pa-triarch the 1It 1 President John Talor I celebrated in I I Mormon verse In l iptr calfforna r oh thats the land for met II 1 I h eteen the niountains apt II 10 GrVit t IOfic ba The lecrossmg from Montrosc referred to in the quotation final President I Brigham Young occurred in June 1841 I The Piophct Joseph Smith hall 1 directed the organization in FebmllY 1 of that YIIIof pioneer lompinvto cross the great plans There 1 were about twenty live memo I her I in the oiemi7at oil 01 these I I lAdet i Samuel 1 W iMchards of Salt I I ike City is nw living 1 On the night ol lime 22 iSo the Prophet I I and his brother 11 rum with WU lard Richards and John Taylor of the Apostles ind others crossed the MISSIS ippi river to Montrose Iowa on the start for the Rocky MountUna Some of those dwelling in Nnuvoo kno ing ofthe Prophet movements and 1 purpose faltered nnd upbraided him with abandoning them At this he returned with the result tint followed nt Cartilage I I IS The in less linn a neck thereafter very thing the murmurcrs thought to prevent had occurred Joseph I was liken from them One result was that the pioneer i western journey was relegated to a liter period to be attended with greater hardships lor the t people 1 Yet the design had 1 been set forth clearly the I Prophet Joseph J Smith had I unfolded lull I y the plan for the Mormon people to be established in 7 N 44 1 kit it W 75 MIA MIAa MJ I ooo JOSEPH SMITH THE PROPHET diy Saints made its journey to the West three years later than the PlOphet hal intended The we stwnrd migration of the body of members of the Church of Jesus j Christ of I alter day Saints to the Rocky Mountain region was a theme frequently considered by the Prophet I ami others before the formers for-mers death He named it to intimate inti-mate tcs m the das of Kirl land I nnd in the liter years ol his life 1 it received his particular atten I the mountains The bullets of assassins as-sassins interfered to prevent his being be-ing the founder of Utah but he pointed the wlY and the Pirmeers followed Ins direction ind counsel herefore I the Prophet Joseph J Stilath J1Jn stands ns eI leader I guide nnd instruc tor ol the Pioneers of Utah m dGfi nitely md determinedly setting their ficca and pointing their steps toward this western Land of Promise I II I THE EXODUS FROM IlliNOIS Although the Prophet oph had pnssed beond the reach of his enc miei the achievement he hndprc dicted remained to be nccomphshed It Nvas the work of God nnd while permitting the grcn lendei or the litter eh dispensation to be removed re-moved from the scene of mortal action ac-tion lie provided a one who WIS equal to the Insk lo be performed who stands ithout a superior among men is a colonizer a Moses to lead latter day Israel from mobocrntic bondnge one whom He I I hid placed I under the presidency of Joseph Smith at the held of the Twelve Apostles of the 10rd I in this dispensation dispen-sation his name Brigham Younl Through the deilh of President I Joseph Smith the presidency of the Church devolved upon the Iwelve I Apostles null resident I Voting at their head The sacred mantIc of the Prophet Joseph fell upon the shoulders of the Prophet Brigham The commotion consequent on the martyrdom at Carthage began to sub ule and the Iwelve entered upon the active duties of the Church presuleiiC Elder Wilford Woodruff Wood-ruff waS sent to preside over the I uropein mission and EllIe I oilier V 1 limit was given > charge ol Church affair in the 1 nstern States The iniiiiijrilioii of the Sums continued to Nuivoo President Young had reeled personally the exodus of the Saints from Missouri mid knew I wlnt it was to transfer an cnlirc people from place to place while beset be-set null ruthless mobocrils The imminence of the depnilure from Niuvoo was iccognized but it was held to he 1 neccssir to complete the beautiful Temple there before taking up the cross of the painful pilgrimage pilgrim-age to the mount ns fifteen hundred hun-dred miles distant So the work on the Temple nns crowded to Ihe fun h Meantime mobocratic fury had become be-come intensified In western Ili nois i there was a motley population of the more ndvnlutous mil nn s rupulous clenienl commmjjed with religious bigots and sehcimrs Whenever a crime was coinmiiud i they charged it against the for inons and sought to invoke violence upon the latter His c ncnl nrilers among the jnli Mormo of 111 nos 1 admit in their accounts tint the procedure pro-cedure against the Mormons was lit tcrly unjiHtuiable condemned by every consideration looking to good I government acts which had for their object and which finally result I cd in the expulsion of the Mormon people In illustration of occurrences I occur-rences that neie frequent even Thomas lord the cf llh I t governor Flak i testifies At 1 mi i and 1 Green I plains the mil Mormons appointed persons to fire II I few irmlev shots it their own meeting house where seice ere ill progre whereupon where-upon the conspirators and their I dupes rode all over the country and sprc ul dire alarm As a result a mob arose and burnt one hundicd mil scvent five houses and huts belonging to the Mormon who lied for their lives in utter destilu tion in the middle of the sickly season Such was the treatment the Mormons Mor-mons received for their religions sake in the stale of Illinois In january 1845 the state legislature repelled the Nuuoo charter and the State attorney general vviote to President Inehnm Young saying that the enemies of the Saints uere prompted by political < mil religious prejud ces and In a desire for plun del lml 1 blood md he added Hy the repeal of your charter and hr l refusing nil amendments and modification modi-fication our letislnlure has gh en a kind of sanction to the barbarous manner m which ou have been treated Thus the tate of Illinois assumed 1 the responsibility for the mur lerous work carried on On the Sin of April 1845 Cover d8tl J It Tesident nor Iord I m a letter to President Young advised him to mig 1te with his people to California But the new Mormon President wns following follow-ing the counsel of the Prophet Joseph He was looking to the Rocky Mountains and with his brethren was acquiring available Information thereto from the meagre accounts within reach April 24 in appeal for protection was made by the Church to the President of the United States but it was unheeded In May of that fear some of the murderers of the Prophet and PAtrnrch Nyera tried nnd acquitted Governor Ford says nrmcel hands were lelmtttcxl to court to biov belt and Overawe the nil I ministration of justice hence tile crowd had overvihmg their 6wrj way Colonel John lIay I I for yen I I vaylhe state department nt ajh ington and now United States minister min-ister to Great Britain ill nn article reii nwlcnt of lhc martyrdom at Carthage Car-thage and the trial of the assassins says there was not a man on the jury ill the court in the count that did not know the defendants hal done the murder There were some non Iormonc who like Sherilr lIaekenst of Hancock Han-cock count dmpproved ol the out rages upon the Mormons nnd sought to prevent them but were success lut only in a limited degree and by October r 1 1845 n foreed agree ment w is entered into fjrthe Latter I I di ty Saints to leave Illinois the exodus I exo-dus to begin in the spring 1h demand for this came from the rep rcscnlnlives of nine counties of Illinois assembled at Lirtlnee General J J Ilnrdn and Senator Stephen A Douglas neie among those who appeared for Governor Ford and the null Mormons in the negotiations President Doling informed in-formed the repiesenlalifes of the null Mormon clement tluj the Mormons Mor-mons had 1 begun arrnngcflicnls fir icmoval previous to the recent disturbances I dis-turbances he accepted ftlie conditions condi-tions of the demand and Ihe Mormons Mor-mons were to be alloned depart m peace ind as early as f practicable under the circumstances t On the 4th February iSG the exodus Mormons from Illinois began be-gan The companies crossed l the Mississippi on the ire to the Iowa shore and bv the 1511 aMhou t nd people had 1 started on tlR journey The first camp was mule nt Sugar Creek nine miles westward on I eb ruar 5th The snow ias deep and the ember bitterly I cold That night nine children were born in CUIIlilll1i Oil fal Ihru 7 < Y r = = NAUVOO ILLINOIS FROM THE IOWA SIDE |
