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Show , " 4 THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, 0 'MIK IP, AUGUST 37, 1940 Chlirch Department Captett.n Stallsbt,try:s Joitrrtal - hastily and at much sacrifice, exchanging such property as they could dispose of for animals, wagons, and breadstuffs; and in the beginning of (Following is the second of special aeries quoting from the journal of Capt. Howard Stansbury. Captain Stansbury was sent out in by the Federal s;overn- anent to surto y the Great Salt Lake Basin and his jour el was published by Congress on his Feu is in 1853. Captain Ettaisbury took an intelligent interest, in learning the Saints and his truth about the Latter-dawritings present a highly interesting contrait to the popular lies about the Mormons thick were currently . circulating at the . ' a t ' ) of this new religious sect In our country Is well known, -end therefore it will be necessary to advert to it very briefly. It was first organized in 1830, under the auspices of Joseph Smith, the founder; and, after a temporary residence in Kirtland, Ohio, was removed to Jackson County, Missouri, where by divine revelation 'the, saints' were directed to build a magnificent temple, the pattern of which was to be revealed from on high. The cornerstone of this edifice' wet 'laid, but the, builders were eventually driven from4he state by an armed mob. They next removed ; to Illinois, where, upon the bank, of :the Mississippi, they built a flourish- . Ing' city, which' they called Native. They lived here until 1844, when they became obnoxious to the inhabitants of that state also, and were finally .attacked by an enraged multitude, and their prophet, Joseph Smith, and his brother, Hyrum, murdered in the jail of Carthage. During the year of 7,1845 these persecutions continued; and threats of greater outrages being .held out, the Mormons found their - situation no longer tolerable within the boundaries of that state, and at length, in a solemn council, determined to abandon their homes in their city of Nauvoo, and to seek, in the wilds of the western wilderness, a , spot remote from the habitations of men, where, secure from lawless they might worship according to the rites of the new religion they had introduced. "In the particular case which led to the expOlsion of the Mormons from Missouri and Illinois it is not the province of this report to inquire but the results of the persecutions to which :they were subjected have been as curious as they were wholly'un- THE origin -- , , , vie-:knee, - e - -- sun-drie- d d looked for "The Mormons having ,resolved to e. emigrate, preparations for the jourhey were immediately commenced, by . e forty-thre- 7 , grain,-.melons- During this winter, owing to the great privations incident to such a life, and to the want, in many instances, of the most common necessaries, great numbers sickened and died; their cattle, too, were stolen by the Indians or perished by starvation. "In the succeeding spring of 1847, the people were again organized or their journey; and on the 8th of April, a pioneer company, consisting of one hundred and men, seventy ; - ' bled them. - 40. e February, 1846, a large proportion the community 'crossed the Mississiprenpi from Nauvoo: and formed a dezvous near Montrose, in Iowa. Here they remained, xposed to intense cold and deep snows, until March, when, being joined by several hundred wagons and a large number of women and children, they organized their company under the guidance of Brigham Young, President of the Churchs,oand successor to Joseph Smith, thele founder and seer. In their progress westward, through the northern part of Missouri, they were again driven from that state by violent threats, into the southern borders oF Iowa, whence, after much hardship and suffering, they reached, in the course of the summer, the banks of the Missouri, beyond the limit of the states. Here they enclosed land and planted crops, leaving some of their number to reap the fruits, .which were to be applied to the sustenance of other coinpanies, that were to follow as soon as they should be able to provide the means. They were about crossing the river to pursue their journey westward, when an 'officer of the United States Government presented himself, with a requisition for five hundred men to serve in the war with Mexico. This demand, though sudden and unexpected, was promptly and patriotically complied with; but in consequence, the expedition was broken up for a season. Those that remained, being principally old men, women and children, prepared to pass the winter in, the wilds of an Indian country, by cutting hay and erecting log and sod huts, and digging as many caves as time allowed and their strength ena- y time.----Ed.- and pne hundred and River , a bold, cle stream which' breaks through the Wahsatch moun- of horses, mules and head seventy-fivtains, forty miles noIflI of the city, oxen, with rations for six months, agricultural implements and seed grain, and discharges its waters into the Salt Lake. . manfully set out in search,- of a home Creek, an affluent of Ogden "Upon beyond the Rocky Mountains. has since (1850) the Weber, .a city 'Pursuing their route up the left bank of the Platte, crossing at Fort been laid out, anu called Ogden City, and is already surrodnded by, a flourLaramie, and passing over the mounishing agricuitural population. advance tains at the South Pass, the "In the autumn, another large imof reached at the valley, guard length the Great Salt Lake on the 21st of migration arrived under the president, July. On the 24th, the presidency :Brigham Young, which materially the strength of the colony. all the main body arrived. A piece added to and of ground was selected, consecrated Building agriculture were prosecuted with renewed vigour. ,Numerby prayer, broken up, and planted; and thus, in 1847, was formed the ous settlements continued to be made nucleus of what, in 1850, was ad-- , wherever water- could be found for mated as a Territory of the Union, irrigation. A handsome council-housand which bids fair ere- long to prewas commenced, to be built of Jed sent itself at the door of the national sandstone procured frcini..)the neighlegislature for admission as one of the boring mountain, an twogrist mills States of the confederacy. 1 and three sawmills, vtltred. to those "In a short time after the arrival ready in Operation. The winter of of the Pioneer, company, ground was this year was much more severe than surveyed ad laid out into streets and the preceding one, and snow fell on squares for a large city; a fort or enthe plain to the depth of ten inches. closure was erected of houses made, Jn theollowing spring (1849) a of logs and brick, opening was commenced, 'and a settlement into a large square, the entrance to small near the,mouth of the built fort which Was defended bygates,-anor Provaux, an affluent limpanogas formed a tolerably secure fortificaof Lake Utah, about fifty miles south tion against Indian attacks. In Octoof the city. During the summer, large ber following, an addition of between crops of potatoes, and made to was thousand three and four their number, by the emigration of corn were raised; and two more sawmills erected. such as had been left behind, and the The colony had now become firmfort was necessarily enlarged for their accommodation. Agricultural labors ly established, and all fear of its abilwere now retsumed ivith renewed ity to sustain itself were, from the spirit; ploughing and planting continoverflowing abundance of the harvest, ued throughout the whole winter and set at 'rest. Nothing could be more until the July following, by which natural than that the people should time a line of fence had been conturn their attention to the formation structed, enclosing upwards of six of a system of civil government. Hiththousand acres of land; laid down in erto they had been under the guid- crops, besides a large tract of pasture ance of their ecclesiastical leaders land. During the winter and spring, and justice had been administerthe inhabitants were muchstraitened only, ed on principles of equity simply, enfor food; and game being very scarce forced by the government of the in the country, they were reduced to church alone. This would answer of the necessity diggingrooLsja.tbe very well while the 'community reground, and living upon the hides of animals which they had previously mained small, and consisted only of those who acknowledged the binding made use of for roofing their cabins, whi'ch were now torn off for food. force of spiritual rule ih matters purebut ly .temporal also. But, as the colony But this distress only continued until increased, it was not to be expected the harvest, since which time proviit would continue to consist solethat sions of all kinds have been abundant. of members of the church, willing ly' "This year (1848), a small grist to submit to such a jurisdiction, withmill was erected, and two sawmills out the sanctions of an organized civnearly completed. The following winil government. ter and spring, a settlement was commenced on the banks of the Weber (Continued on rage Seven) two wagons, .... : 7'.7'-',r-'''' I: ....? :. ,, ....:......,... ' ,:. 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