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Show .-OlT OK TI1K UNITED STATUS .ntuonisms became more intense and actual conflicts be-h be-h Mormons and their opponents more frequent, Brigham : wan definite plans to fulfill the prophecy of Joseph Smith l 4inf woulli yet bec0lue a "gl'eat and mighty people in the ' ",i,e Rocky Mountains." In the fall and winter of 1S45-46 ,n. arrangements were made for the great trek. Not only 'beW careful study of all reports of the west, but action was ;;,..n t0 accomplish the greirt design. : t-neral council of the Church was called on September 9 Vrtich it was resolved to select a committee of fifteen hundred Salt Lake valley about which they had already learned bo ;'lTlliSlexican area W3S certainly becoming an appealing objected, objec-ted, for the present at least, they must leave the country .;';d-a country whose constitution they revered as divine and :"3iTlum elsewhere. And so such expressions as the following :(en vent to "All things are in preparation for a cemmence-itiie cemmence-itiie great move of the Gaints out of the United States " "it to a solemn reality that the rights and property of us all as '.'e common religious beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of 'y Saints cannot be protected in the realms of the United Tijd ot course, from one to two hundred thousand souls must ii freedom among free men and go where the land, the ele-s cd the worship of God are free." Again, "May God continue nt of feeing from false freedom and false dignity till every '' removed to where he can sit under his own vine and. fig tree having to molest or make afraid." ::;?hira Young hismelf said in regard to a proposition one Mil-;ie Mil-;ie ior the Saints to go to the Nueces strip in Texas "I told him r. sere visionary. We should go to the Great .Basin where : ::d gain a nucleus of power to cope with mobs." From apostle -iriorthis: "We owe the United States nothing, we go out as torn freedom." And Orson Pratt speaks of being exiles of a1 union. In a letter by John Bennion to his parents in Liver-15:2nd. Liver-15:2nd. December 27, 1845 the following interesting comments A: "This place (Nauvoo) was a wilderness a short time ago : about five years there has been about twenty thousnd settled aantry. This people have been at work to build up this place Minify were going to stay here generation after! generation ,-ier of two of our best men, the "taking away of the city : the soldiering and burnings have gone up before the judge of -earth who will do right. We now consider it best to leave ; :ied country." h :ihe face of the persecutions, mobbings and drivings the Saints litis no wonder that some such extravagant statements should ! The consequence of all this to follow, iriiith of Dr. Wm. J. Snow's articles will appear next week.) |