Show ti DISCOURSE delou m cd by pres geo A 4 shiy SMI sui i I 1 inthe n ae new yew Taberna tabet Taber nao et salt laira lak ua wf aug 22 I 1 f f rt BY DAVID IV V EVANS lam tidd alid remarks of elder J it Claw sort sori are calculated to forcibly impress upon our minds tho the importance of fulfilling a our covenant which has been so iso often renewed anci ancl anti which ivas iras was first mado within the walls wails I 1 I 1 I 1 orbe amplo at nauvoo that aliat wo we would exercise 0 ur influence ird anil property and 1 I 1 use 0 our r utmost po powers to gather tho the saints rpm oa jonda bonda t to a bli bil shelter hll ter tor in the thelt rocky qa Moua moun ata tami inq ing this his covenant was made in building which had cost us so labor labon F J and t to build when our roalfe ana 7 and patriarch had been murdered hundreds of our houses burned the life of vw I 1 avely faithful elder cider jeopardized and when ino stilo forces surrounded us on oa every hand yot yet though phoui we are now surrounded by cir clr so very different in their char erand act e enand r J and peradventure we can not see woj 1 birg urgent necessity for gathering tho the saints that necessity nevertheless still exists had we ought to remember our cove 1 we e ha bato bavo 0 done much yet much remains t to bo be dodie done and I 1 hope holic that the elders in who have havo been privileged to go on riis nu asiong 1 S lonson i and ana d those who ilio have not will all remember and ana contribute liberally af of their lhoir mean until all who havo have proved I 1 them salui faithful and true among tho the nations lab baw shall hah bo irell relieved evea eved from bonda bouda bondage e and gathered to inherit tho the blessin blessings 3 of freedom in this laiad ahad t the tha word that isaiah and jerusalem and it shall shail come to pm pats in the last lays flays val vat the mountain of the lord isorda t house shall ba be established la in the top ol 01 the mountain sand phallie shall ba exalted above lne the bills and all ua na ashall rdo fro flow unto it and many madr people peoples hall shail go and say ray con coc acye ye go up to tae mountain of the lord to of the trie god of jacob and end b be e will 1 I teri terl teach NV wylys and d wo a win wirl walk in la lits his paths an ipg coition hall shall go forth the law and the t a lord lott from jerusalem time the tho cov cot covenant cotenant enaut I 1 have referred 0 0 to eliop filp ilip one oric another to gather to tho the rt wa vm made wo vero d by veny xeny singular and linforth nate aate circumstances ve we were ois I 1 alfree C tate I 1 an and d under a constitution that 1 guaranteed gua granteed us freedom of naith faith and thought thou lit I 1 and in in fact every liberty that could coula be dc do sired ibs iby those who wished to do right we war w erean broan industrious and law pie being on pu all matters of thi thiis character cher acter above suspicion ivo vvo wo ino were the most indus rious st and persevering citi citizens zons on the mississippi licausi p 1 pi river as our works plainly showed show pd to the passerby passer by out of a swamp and a wilderness we had erected a beautiful city crowned by a magnificent temple and ana turned a wild country into gardens orchards farm farr riis ilIg and pleasure grounds in an incredibly short space of tim tira ana aua il aad M id under very voy adverse circum tta aces religious pelig ious lous intolerance ha had d murdered our prophet and patriarch and E lighted arlania af a iania flamo that haa had wd consumed hundreds 1 1 of our dwellings to ashes many mandof of ouri olin barns grain min stacks and fences had also 1 bee iven I 1 a prey to the P element a andu anat andt gim great groat number of our iiii people peole scattered arounds in n that region had to fleo flee into the cli CIL city yegor gor for protection leaving their cheh property to tb tho mercy of their persecutors A convention v C n ion ton of do legatos delegates from niue nine counties hanham had haa framed od a decree decro and formed a resolution that the ho latter day saints must leave tha ate ato buhain on pain of extermination trem them thomas I 1 ford tho the governor governor through h general jolma hardin and lion ron stephen A 4 douglass informed ilg ils bilat it was impossible imi I 1 for asto us to bo be protected in the tho state under the tho circumstances we wd had haa pre sent petitions to tho the governor anor of ofa oft otery VV gry pry state slate in lr jahe union upion cx governor of missouri also to the president Eros ident of the tho united stater states asking ashing an asylum and ra jerlon from and ancl that our people paig might ht bo be permitted to reside in their states and on joy the common rights guaranteed to ta amer i b by the constitution only ono deigned to send usan us an answer ianswer that was arkansas governor drew of or that state ad ili iii io ea 19 9 to ore oregon an a arrangement ara n c ment was va i en entered tercel into with the ie leaders adea ozithe mob in ia illinois that on condit condition foil that thatis all ail vexatious F x at lawsuit suid suld shou should be stopped and mob i 0 b violence and nd house housea burning cehe we wa would uld learo lc rc the doing I 1 so we v would ouid at whatever cost finish the temple tempie one of eions of this agreement was that the I 1 leaders of the mob should aid us in ill disposing C olour of our immense property notwithstanding this it was but bub a short time before murder and the gre gro firebrand brand were azain again again resorted to by the mob against a st us and the venerable elder edmund duroe durfee Q was slain others wera wena fired upon and their thein the buildings and stacks burned I 1 yd m order that they might carry out their agreement to leave the state the people of nauvoo oo 00 organized into companies of 0 a hundred hundri d each and every hundred and I 1 may say every fifty established a wagon wab wag oil shop and almost every overy nian man in the town who know anything 0 about butchering 0 wood commenced 1 the business of wagon making makings ma kingi green timber just AS it was cut in the woods was boiled in brine and converted into wagons and thousands of wag ons were built in the fall fali and winter of 6 the mississippi river was closed dosed up rendering 4 impossible to get all tho the iron that w was as needed in t their heir construction st strut tion all the iron that could be got in the tho towns of ortho neighborhood along the river had been bought and used and the residue of tile the wagons made mado at that time instead of hay hav haying baying I 1 i ng mhd necessary iron work wark were fixed up with withes and ever every overy y other simple invention haven tion that could possibly an answer sw erthe the tho purpose many wagons 0 made tho the whole journey from the mississippi to this valley without iron tires tie tle s on the tho ath of IS 18 tg 10 the tho exodus of tho the saint from illinois commenced comparatively no property had been sold men Mon gathered up what teams they could bould oxen were cheap and nearly all tho the old wagons in tho the country around had been purchased furniture was as left ili in the tho vacated house housea and much property which it had tah tak taken on years to accumulate As many as could took a fow few of their best articles others only that which was wag considered indispensable about two thousand wagons crossed the mississippi river niver a large portion pf af them theny on the lec ice I 1 remember clearly the feelings feelings I 1 that thrilled through gir gli my breast breatt when I 1 turned iny my littie little family fe eblo in lil health out of doors into a bor rowed wagon to commence the journey to the rocky mountains in tho the he midst of an inclement winter such feelings as wo we then tbell experienced it i Is s impossible to imagine agine enz cor of describe tilo the circumstances circum stan ces ees must bo be passed through to under understand tana fana them we passed over tho the river to the opposite bluey bluffy and took tool a farewell view of our beautiful city it was liko 1110 liko ilko o a city of retired i 1 country seats there were hundreds of beautiful 1 gardens and land magnificent buildings the centre centro crowned wah a majestic temple radiant radi radl ant with all th tho the 0 beauty ora of architectural r taste and skill and which had cost us noar near nearly lya isa a million dollars wo bade dade farewell td all abd abad pursued ohr our our journey about nifty fifty afif miles nilles took us beyond tho last settlement into tho the wilderness wild ernes portion of iowa without roads or bridges a journey of unknown nevii length before ii us and apparently no possibility of br obtaining olita 1 the necessaries of we ife during durin the spring which seemed to bo be the most rainy stormy I 1 ever knew know the of the tha gamp camp camp were ere intense we husti sustained bcd our animals anid anit nals with I 1 grain that wo carried with us and nd with w ith the bruh brub that we could could coula obtain alonz along on the brearn tre aras aias occasionally f anally wo we ment sent down 6 to the tiler settlements of missouri andoe and aud ob idiocy small supplies in thi this is way we traveled irav cled slowly along making bilaki n 0 t fh he road roads as wo we went along 1 think we budged bridged about thirty streams stream among them tho ho forks rocks of or the grand river the locust tile mlle he madison Madis dil the atun hundred d red andt and T to i ro thio the adaway and the tho which re to laired consul co erabio labor our teams were ia so weak that wo we were frequently compelled to io double a ab lle ile that is i 41 wo took tool afew a few new wagons two tiyo or thre with double teams when unhitching hitching un them thorn we would return for a fcc more atil and so continued until all were in in c camp nl in this manner wo worked our way through the wilderness portion of iowa until we ie reached council bluffs s which was about tile the lat last of juno pr or early in july when we reached the missouri river at the place where the city of omaha now s stands bands we built sc 9 fe ferry rry try boband had ferried taver javer over a few re hundred wagons when we were captain james allen alien a united state states officer ith a requisition upon us for five hundred men to maintain our country s flag in the war against mexico they were required to march as infantry by way of santa F fe c these men were mustered into service on tle the irth of july ani and mar marched hed to leavenworth a distance of about ISO miles there they received the arms a and aud nd in ments ants of infantry and so soon on after continued their journey before doing so however all who were not considered in every way competent for tho the journey were sent back tho the battalion continued their journey over a route of about irm ism 1850 miles through an unknown 1 desert to san diego I 1 presume that the history of nations might bo be searched in va vain in for a parallel to this march of in infantry fan fau under such alverso circumstances these men were sometimes on oil half rations and sometimes on quarter rations and occasionally casio nally without any and ind tilo the blessings of tho the almighty were as a apparent P to many nan y of them in their preservation and as is wonderful as the preservation of the children of israel by b y showers of nf manna mantia when i in the wilderness on their joli joll journey jollene rne from egypt to the noly holy lande I 1 up to the period that this battalion lent left it had been the intention i nten tion fion to push fori rori forward dorward vird ta to tho the rocky mountains a company having been sent gent across the river for that purpose butas but as it was then late lato ili in tho the deaso and tho the camp was badly crippled by A the loss of so many eil oil efficient lelent mon men men mou it was wali considered absolutely necessary td remain on od the missouri during that winder winter t A town site was surveyed which wo called winter quarters now known adf a florenee florence Pl orence orenee nebraska there seven hundred lo 10 log t cabins were erected and one hundred and fifty dug doutsas we called them were made that is a calin cabin half under ground on the tho opposite sido side odthe of the river camp were formed in probably Y twenty different localities on the tho tamio tamie lands tho the settlements thou formed having since grow grown nto to bo be tho the towns and villages of the present day great quantities of prairie hay were but most of the tho animals driven up the missouri river and wintered on the tho rush bottoms with some loss the people were under the necessity of obtaining their supplies from missouri exchanging for them their trinkets jewelry bedding and the most valuable articles they had brought with them from nauvoo als 11 missouri AIs at that timo tima was about as s interesting to our people as egypt was wag anciently anciently to jacob thera hero was cor eor corn iland liand and pork in missouri many of tho the teams were engaged through the winter wintering win terIn in supplying the tho camp with provisions which had been rendered tendered very destitute by the jou riley odthe spring and summer A thousand acres of land had been put under cul tiya tiva tion at two points where settlements had bad been formed to sustain them through the tho winter one of these places was called garden grove andaas and was on them thel cast fork of grand giand river the tho other on the west fork of the tho same river was called pisgah when we reached tho the missouri Misso url uri river it was too late to do anything 0 in tho the way of cultivation wo we had barely got our cabins finished d in winter quarters when a very important personage claiming to bo be an officer of the tho united states came into our camp and ordered us all to for leave telling us that wo we were on the indian lands and we must get out of tile tiie way we told him efm of tho the requisition tho the war department had made upon ug which wo we had answered and that in a consequence it was impossible for us to proceed edon on our journey he dut put on a very mt shift shirt collar and t threatened reat ened us with troops the tho department at washington it seems beems thought better of it for wo w were ere ene permitted to remain for that season E arly early in the spring arrangements were madd made for tho tile prosecution of our dur fournoy journey westward west isard ivard ili in the mean meantime time I 1 believe tho the in iowa had sold hold their lands landa to the tho government hence our camps which had been formed in that country were wore allowed to remain As many as were able fitted thein selves lip as well as 1 wo we continued our journey westward va As s early as t the e of april a on beford before a grass grew in that thab that tou country tho the pioneer camp consisting 0 of f president brigham young oung and one hundred and forty three thre men and three women started forward slowly up the tho platte liatto river ilver our animals subsisting on the tho buds and bark ot tho cottonwood trees and tho the grain that wo we carried along with us wo took a route that had never been traveled before the oregon emigrants and the mountain trappers ha had d always traveled the south s side sido do of tho the platte river but wo made a road on the north side for upwards of six hundred miles until we reached tamamie pa Ta ramie then wd crossed over to the south side ortho of tho north fonk pork and traveled for three or four hundred miles oli on tho the old trapp trappers drs trail mending gand and improving tho the same where necessary as we went along the plains for hundreds of miles were covered with buffalo and so numerous were these animals that wo we often had a difficulty in keeping our animals from running off in their herds we were |