Show ji HISTORY IS T OP or BR BRIGHAM YOUNG 1844 january IG 16 attended city council 20 met blet with the huou ml heber C kimball and his wife vilate received their second anointing f 21 1 sunday I 1 met in the assembly Room with the quorum and administered to parle parie parley P pratt his second anointing 22 I 1 met with the quor the twelve at my house for prayer and conversation 25 the quorum met at my house orson hyde received his second anointing 26 the 1 welve twelve met at amy my house orson pratt received his second anointing 27 we met at the assembly room willard richards and his bis w wife ife jenetta tenetta were sealed and received their second anoint anointing ill lil 28 the the quorum met in th the assembly room wilford woodruff dand fand and abd his wife phebe W were sealed and received their second anointing A 3 30 0 the quorum M met et at my house john and leonora Taylor tay lor were sealed and anointed 31 1 I triet met with the quorum at my house george A and bathsheba VV smith wre were anointed having been sealed on the dinst feb fob 41 4 I 1 preached prea clied elied at bro chamberlains a little north of tb the e city my nty broth brothers ers joseph phinehas 11 and lorenzo D and john pack were present 6 partook of supper at bro john lohn tay ors ora with joseph hyrum sidney and the twelve and their wives the twelve discussed the propriety of establishing a moot congress for the purpose of investigating and informing ourselves on the rules of national intercourse domestic policy and political economy joseph joheph advised us not to do it lest econom we might j excite ite the jealousy of our ener enemies nies 10 attended prayer meeting 0 in the assembly room 1 Vie returned turned from bear creek where I 1 had been preaching for a few days and had spent a pleasant time 15 visited father Mile flah fiah luce 18 I 1 met in the evening in assembly the Aa room bro joseph and the twelve were present 20 the presidency and twelve the subject of lyman preaching g to the indians indiana in in wisconsin was discussed t the g e matter was left to bro Wig lits own owin judgment 21 1 I met in council bro joseph directed the twelve to select an exploring company to go to california to select select a location for the settlement of the saints jonathan dunham david Fi fullmer dimer phinehas H young and david D yeardly volunteered to go and alphonzo young james Emmett Geo D watt and daniel spencer were selected to go 23 I 1 met with the presidency and twelve in relation to the rocky mountain expedition eight more volunteers gave gavern in their names bro joseph gave instructions in relation to the fit buo ouo needed it wa was s agreed that the company should number twenty five 24 went to knowlton settlement on bear creek and preached twice my bro i phinehas binetas II 11 accompanied me roe information was received concerning the death of ex governor joshua duncan of illinois and reynolds of mo alo who shot himself through the thle head bead they ahey were two of th the e most inveterate enemies of the saints 1 march 2 I 1 visited macedonia led iid ild by my brother lorenzo D and preached i on sunday 3rd ard 5 1 I attended city council 7 attended a general meeting at the stano there was a large assembly present bros joge jode joseph ph aha and hyrum spoke at length and I 1 followed them and said 1 I wish to speak upon the duty of lae lai lawyers as they have baire been bein spoken of this morning they were first among the children of israel to explain the laws of moses closes to the common people I 1 class myself ag as a lawyer in israel my bu business is to make pe peace ce among the people and when any mah who calls balls himself a law 3 ear takes a course to break peace instead of making it he is of the line of hla hia duty A lawyers duty is iw to read the law well himself ae 11 the then tell the people what it is and alid let the them act capon upon it and kee keep peace and andret let them receive pay like any laboring man itis it is desirable esi esl rable rabie for justices of the peace vb en men call for writs to enquire into the merits ci of the case and tell the parties how to settle it and thus put down lawsuits to cure lawing ino ing e let lef us pay attention to 0 our ur own business when we hear a story never tell it again and anti it will be a perfect cure if your brother mistreats you ou let him alone if your enemy cheats you let him go cease to deal deai with men who abuse abose you it all men had taken the straightforward straight forward course that some have we should not have such disorderly men in our midst I 1 have hava no objection to any man coming here but I 1 will hae have to do with hen mea men who NN will lii ill abuse me at midnight and at noon day our cliffie illies and persecutions have always arisen from men right in our midst it is the lust of individuals to rob us of everything ery thing and to take advantage of divisions that may arise among us to build themselves up I 1 feel that I 1 want every man should stai stay and lift up holy hands bands v without dubiety arat wrath or doubting to the mentho mn who own land here I 1 would say do not nut think you can sell your lands here and then go off and spend it somewhere else in in abusing the mormons cormons I 1 tel you nay for know it ye pe people pie ale that tha t I 1 israel S rael is h here ere and they are the nead bead and not the tail and the people must learn it all those who have gone froin us have gone from the head to the tail the grand object before us is to build the temple this season we have babe heard the effects of slander and ane we w e want w ant a cure and balm and I 1 carrione car carry one with me all we the while and I 1 want adlof all ail of you to do the same I 1 will tell you what it is is it is to mind our own business and let others alone and buffer suffer wrong rather than do wrong if any one takes yoila your property away let them alone and have nothing to do with i ith them A spirit has been manifest to divide the saints it was manifest in the last election it was said if they did not look 0 out tit the saints on the flat would beat the saints on the hill great god godt how such a thing looks that the saints should be afraid of beating one another in iii the ejection or being beat I 1 would ask who built up this city would steamboats have landed here if th the saints bad had not comee come or could you you even the speculators have sold your lands for anything any thins here if the khints had not come comee they might have sold for a L few bear and wolf skins akins but not for money if it any of you wish to know how to have hare your y our bread fall butter batter side up butter it t on both sides and then it will fall butter side up oppose this work and it will roll over you yon when did this work ever stop since it began never the only thing the saints now want to know is w what hat does the lord want of us and ure ute ve are ready to do it well then build the temple tempie of the lord keep the law of god ye e saints and the hypocrite and scoundrel will flee out of your midst and tremble for the fire of god will be too hot for them 1 I expect the saints are so anxious to work and so ready to do right that god has whispered ered to the prophet build the temple and iet fet let iet the nancoo house alone at pr present sent 5 1 1 I would woula rov not hofere sue bre a man if he owed me dive five hundred bundred or a thousand dollars should be he come to me and say he would not pay me 8 Pv evening evening ening met in council with the presidency and the twelve 9 attended city council 11 joseph commenced the organization of a council for the purpose of taking into consideration I 1 the necessary steps to obtain redress for the wron wrongs s which abic b had bad been inflicted upon us ayour by our persecutors and also the best beat manner to settle our people in some distant and unoccupied t territory errit ory where we could enjoy our civil and religious rights nights without being subject to constan constant t oppression and under the protection of our own laws subject to the constitution the council was composed of about fifty members several of whom were not members of the church we prepared several memorials to confess congress for redress of vie gie grievances vances and used every adall available means to inform ourselves of the unoccupied territory open to settlers we held a number of sessions and investigated the principles upon which our national government is 13 founded and the true foundation and principles of all governments joseph smith was appointed chairman william clayton clerk and arid willard richards bi historian storian of the cb council uncil 1213 and 14 attended special c councils ciunci ls 17 sunday attended prayer meet meeting hg 19 1 I attended the council of fifty 21 I 1 met I 1 in council in the assembly I 1 room 22 attended prayer player meeting uee Rie eting with ith the prophet and the twelve in in my house 24 sunday r I 1 attended meeting at the stand and heard prest joseh joseph p smith del dei deliver ivr an address concerning a conspiracy entered into iko by chauncey L higbee dr robert D foster mr joseph 11 lickson jackson 1 william and wilson law and others for the purpose of ta taking I 1 his is life 26 6 spent the ibe day in council april 4 1 I attended council 51 5 I 1 attended the dedication of the masonic H hall hali all ali 6 73 7 8 and 91 gi 91 9 I 1 atlen atten attended did a special conference in nauvoo chestana the tha stand stand stana was occupied by the presidency the twelve and others among whom were eleven chiefs and braves it was estimated there were about per lons bons present the conference was addressed by presidents jeseph hyrum and sidney myself and elders H C kimball john ta taylor and anil A lyman the prophet declared that all north and south america was the land jana of zion at the close of the conference elders volunteered to go on mission missions 10 1 I attended council with the twelve arranging appointments for conferences the ensuing season through the united states 11 spent the day in in the council of fifty we had an interesting time and closed the council with shouts of hosannah sannah bo 15 12 met with the twelve apostles in council 13 attended city council 15 with the twelve prepared the appointments point ments for the conference conferences s throughout the states for publication 16 I 1 attended council with the twelve 17 spent the tiie day dav in in council william and wilson law and robert 1 D foster poster were w ere cutoff cut off from the church I 1 20 20 bro woodruff accompanied me to lima staid with father morley 21 sunday I 1 preached in in the forenoon elder woodruff in the afternoon I 1 followed him and called for volunteers to go out in in the vineyard to preach 26 volunteered 22 rainy morning in the afternoon we harnessed lip up our horses and rode on lo 10 the city plot piot bro woodruff fand and I 1 bought a lot ea chand started for home but on reaching bro william drapers had to fake rake shelter for the night in consequence of a tremendous storm of hail and rain 23 returned to nauvoo and attended a political meeting 25 23 spent the day in in general council elder J al grant and william smith m were ere present 28 attended a meeting ai at the stand in in the forenoon prest hyrum smith preached I 1 followed foil fall owed him afternoon I 1 met with the twelve and seventies in their halli haili hall hail evening attended prayer meeting 29 attended special session of the city council 30 1 4 I met with til tse e prophet and hyrum clark dark at my house pertain pertaining ili ill to the business affairs of th the e church in ID england may 5 wrote wro a long communication to elder reuben bedlock oil on the subject of emi emigration 6 attended general council all day br J M grant was added to the council 81 8 I 1 was called upon as a witness in in the case of francis M higbee vs joseph smith and alid gave in in my testimony 12 2 sunday burday I 1 attended meeting in in the forenoon fore br joseph preached three PM p m attended prayer pra er meeting in in the council doom room 21 I 1 started on my mission to the east in in company with elders ff C kimbal kimball and lind L wight on board the steamer osprey captain anderson And erson ereon on our way to st louisar louls louis br br wight preached 22 we arrived m in in st louis I 1 preached in in the evening 0 the branch numbered about members 23 we left st louis an on board the loum louy f phillippe capt J J worman woman with about I 1 two hundred passenger passengers many of them were from the osprey I 1 was called upon to deliver a lecture on the principles of the church which allayed some prejudice which had been manifested against the elders on board 24 william smith preached the passengers treated us respectfully g good captain and mate 26 we wo reached cincinnati br kimball and I 1 went on shore and visited the bret biet brethren hren bren and held a meeting with the elders on the at eight am at ten am a m proceeded on our way to pittsburgh br ayman lyman L man wight preached on board arrived al six pm p m on the june ibra I 1 bra kimball and wight having proceeded to washington agton I 1 attended conference in in pittsburgh with elder john C E page 2 sunday I 1 preached in in the morning afternoon aft ernon partook of the sacrament evening evening 0 lester brocks preached 3 went to ola oll britain and preached in the evening to an all attentive attend ve congre congregation gatlon 41 4 I 1 left onboard inboard on board the packet erie on the pennsylvania and ohio canal for kirtlen 1 in company with bra irs F P D richards and L brooks 5 arrived in in warren and took on a large company going to akron to an abolition convention some of whom manifested a spirit to to put down everybody but themselves 6 ars F D richards L brooks and I 1 found br salmon gees family in ville they desired us to remain with the them mover moyer over night which we did and addressed the people in in the town house bouse in the evening on joseph smiths views of the powers and policy of the government 1 7 lawyers and rind doctors called to tb converse ve rs be with us and obtain coi coples copies es of general smiths View P richards I 1 went to mantua where we in niel e br lorenzo snow and others we proceeded to hiram and held heid a meeting in sight of the house where joseph and sidney were dragged out by the heels eels and tarred and feathered arrived armed in in kirtland on the ath found my TO biot brother hier fier john young and my sister nancy kent well t 9 sabbath I 1 preached in in the temple tempie in the morning and br F P D ric Rie richards hards bards in the afternoon 1 I lectured in in the evening on the subject of the location of or nauvoo the saints were ivere dead and cold to the things of god loi 10 1 in n company wi with my brother john and alid franklin I 1 went to chester er and visited sister bister nancy kent and family had an excellent visit spent the night at br butlers 12 proceeded to fairport and look took steamer for buffalo where we arrived oa ola the morning of the and went by rail cars to alb aib albany and from thence by steamboat to new york and proceeded to boston where I 1 arrived on the morning of sunday 18 1 I went to salem and saw my daughter vilate 22 went to lowell 23 sunday I 1 preached in in lowell returned to boston 27 21 S spent nt the day in boston with br wa woodruff 0 druff y avo who accompanied me to the railway station as I 1 was about to take cars for salem in the evening while sitting in the tha depot waiting 1 I felt a heavy depression of spirit and so melancholy I 1 could not converse with ith iab alyde any degree of pleasure not knowing anything concerning the tragedy enacting at this time in in carthage jal I 1 could not assign any reasons for my peculiar pecullar feelings n g s 29 and 3 30 0 attended conference in boston july juli |