Church membership 51,839; population of Utah Territory 11,380; population of United States 23,192,000.
31st A Hard snow storm I went to Boston And
Attended the funeral of a child of Brother Edward
Cook No 2 Bartlet Street Boston I wrote 3 letters
to J G Hardy C. E. Brown, & Wm H Wilson
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The following speach was deliverd by Mr Copway or Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bow
the chief of the Ojewa Nation before a large audiance in New York City
on the eve of Dec 15 1849
Ladies, Gentlemen, American citizens. Of necessity my address this
evening must be short. Yet I will touch upon a few prominent items
which I consider important to the subject in which I feel deeply interested
There are certain events which stand forth in bold relief of deep
interest in the history of evry nation under heaven. Therefore the
History of the Indians or there present condition has also a deep interest
an interest of greater importance than at first presents itself to the mind
of the American People Although it may appear to them as coverd with
A cloud or buried deep from their view yet it none the less exhists.
Then listen to me. I have deeply studied the situation & interest of my
brethren the Red men for years and I have resolved to call aloud upon the
white maen of this Nation to give ear to my petitons. If you do not see
the Indian Orator in your midst making a displey of oratory like the
white man it is not because he has not talent but because he has not
a chance to exercise it
1st My object in visiting the United States is to present A petition to
this Government that they may assist me in concentrating the Indians
together that they may live & not die I want Congress to grant them
a portion of Territory that they can call their own and be concentrated
upon it that they not be driven from it any more. They once were
the owners & occupiers of the whole soil of all North America. The white
man came & removed the Indians and continually driven them
untill they can see no hope but the grave before them. I now ask in theire
behalf a Territory to settle them upon that they may have a permanent
home forever and come under the United States Government
let them have some form of Government & become part and
parcel of the United States. In this matter I have studied the
interest of all both the white & red men
1st Give them a Territory that they can call their own where
the children can point to the graves of their fathers & say we can
now live in peace and be driven no more. we can visit the graves of
our fathers with none to drive us from them and they will be inspired
to engage in evry laudable undertaking that now marks the course of
the white man
2nd You can then esstablish schools among them
that will be of benefit to them. they would obtain knowledge and
would make a good use of it. The gospel could then be introducd
among them and they would be far more ready to recieve it
when they find the white man is consistant & willing to do them
good. but when the white man offers the gospel to the Indian
one year & the next comes d& drives him from hims home & the grave
of his Fathers He has no faith or confidence in either the white
man or his gospel
3rd You can then introduce agriculture
among them and they will recieve it for they would then see of
necessity they must cultivate the land or die they could not depend upo[n]
game for support and they would turn therir attention to cultivating
the soil make improvements and take delight in the same dway as the white
man
4th They would then be in a position whare they would be
deliverd from the Ill consequences of constant removing which has continu[ally]
followed them for many years. And The Ill consequences of removing
have been multiplied & vary great. This has been one main reason
why schools have been unproductive of good among them. This is
also whone reason why Missionaries have done no more good among them
The Indians are fast decreasing and Passing away what is the
cause of all this. There are various causes Their constant remov-
ing is one cause. Disease which has been introduced among them
By white men in the capacity of traders, missionaries, and emigrants
Also the introduction of Alchoohol have had a tendency to waste them
away. Also wars among themseves & wars with white men all of
which have continually wasted away the Indain tribes
I will here remark that in the origin of the wars with the whites
the conducting of those wars and in the treaties of peace made And
broaken the Indians have been badly treated and abused by the
whites. For instance some ruffian or trader visites the Indians
introduces wild fire or Alcohol among them & will get the Indians
drunk & pehaps drunk himself and will cheat them in any way
he can And perhaps kill some of them and in his career he gets
killed himself. then the cry goes forth that the savage Indians
are killings & murdering the inhabitants of the country. it is proclaim-
ed in all the public Journals of the Union. Yes one side of the
story is proclaimed as with peals of thunder throughout the earth
But no voice is raised in behalf of the poor Indian. their story
is not told the world hear it not they do not enquire or ask for
it. But as soon as the story of the white man is told & proclaimed
to the world, the armies of war must be prepared & soldiers
sent forth to drive and Kill the Indians and burn their home
and in this way the most desolating and expensive wars have been
carried on for many years untill we feel it is time for the white
man to take a different course with the Indians.
As an example of the bad effects of continually removing the
Indians I would refer you to the Cherokee Nation. That people
were fast imprioving following rapidly in the footsteps of the white
man had extensive farms & good dwellings and continuallyed
rapidly advancing in improvements untill they were suddenly
brought to a stand in theire course by being cruelly called upon
by the state of Georgia to give up their lands and go away from the
graves of their fathers into the willderness and thus it was that
the mighty Nation instead of recieving that support encouragement
& comfort from the Nation that He ought to recieve was forced By
the cruel hand of oppression to bow their heads in sorrow and
dispair as they wend their way to their so called home in the
wilderness whare they can find no other hope ownly to pass a few
more years in sorrow untill they shall be called to pass through the
same ordeal again to remove and remove untill they are anhilated
from off the face of the Earth. O ye white man what incour-
agement do you give the Indian to plant, to build, to learn, to
cultivate the earth, or to recieve a Religion that professes love
mercy kindness and truth while those who profess to enjoy it
deals out such deeds of oppression & cruelty upon the heads of the
red men that it drives them to madness and Despair. Let the
American Nation stay their hand from this time forth in their oppression
& drivings of the Indians lest they drive thiem beyound a point which
the Indian will endure and return a Blow upon the head of the
white man which will fill many a habitation with death. Once give
the Indians A Territory A home whare they can have a full assurance
that thereir ears or those of their children will no more be
saluted with a call to remove from their lands then if they
do not show forth a spirit of improvement then cast them
off as not worthy of your support or attention but untill then
you are not justifyed yur garments are not clear
The spirit of the age & times demands that Congress should take
immediate action upon theis matter.
1st The Indians cannot retain
their lands. Emigration of the white men are already surround-
ing them & in their midst and the richness & fertility of the
Indians lands are a temptation to the white man and invite
him to settle thereon.
2nd The Indians have two much land
more than what they need to till and cultivate for their support
Let there be a Territory set off on the North west of Ioway North
of Council Bluffs on the Missouri on which there is now no
white settlement And let the Indians east of the Rocky moun-
tains and in the United States be gatherd upon it. Then let other
Territories in the west be appropriated And let all the Indians on
the North American continant be collected together & learned
to cultivate the earth. They will soon associate themselves
together, and cease their wors among themselves also with
the white man. If there is not sumthing of this kind done
the vast emigration through all the Indians lands will soon
destroy the game & then want & starvation will ensue & this
will bring on war between the white & Red men.
If my Proposition is excepted by the American government
And they will carry it out it will be of vast benefit both to
the Indians And the people of the United States
1st The Benefit to the Indians will be it will give them a perman[en]t
home, whare schools can be esstablished among them and
their children taught the English language. Farms can also be
opened among them and when they see they have a permanent
home for themselves and their children and they have no game
to depend upon for food they will immediately go to work & cultivate
the earth like white men. The gospel can then be introduced
among them to a good effect and they will recieve it with
Thankfulness when they can be made to believe that that
the hand that deals out the gospel to them is not laying a plan
to take the advantage of them and preparing a way to drive them
from their home & country. It will also unite not ownly their
interest & attachment towards each other but their regard & interest
with that of the United States
The benefit to the Government is less expenses
1st Buying theire lands and paying them yearly annuities whis
is costing the Government immens sums of money
2nd The contiunual transporting of Indians from place to place
there has already been 96000 indians removed by the govern-
ment
3rd The keeping of many Indian Agents at great
expens to Government could then be dispensed with
4th Fortifications have now to be erected ion the borders of all India[n]
tribes with the Intention of keeping the Indians in subjection
these would not be needed of [if] the Indians were in a Territory
of their own for by having their trail clear & no encroachments of
the white man upon their borders there would be no cause of war
or fortifications.
I am going to Washington soon to lay my Petition
before the Congress of the United States and urgede them
to grant my Prayer for the benefit of both the white
and Red men. I want your aid. I want you to sign my
petition that the voice of thousands may be bheard in
behalf of this petiontion. I want the names of Legeslators
Governors and American citizens in General that my prayer
may be heard & answerd. Give the North American Indians
A home, a place whare the soles of their feet can rest in peace
then you will do your duty towards them, & place them in a
situations whare you can teach them Literature, Agriculture,
& Commerce. give them the chance the white man has, And I
prophesy in the name of the Lord that there will ere long be
found among them their Philosophers, Franklins, & Washing-
tons, who would do honor to any civillized or Christian
Nation on the globe. But let this Nation turn a deaf ear to
my petitions and the petitions of the Indians, continue
to oppress them and drive them to desperation, and the
hour is near when the campfire will be seen upon many a
hill. The war hoop will reache from one end of the Rocky
Mountains to the other. The Indian will then sell his life
as dear as possible and deal out death whareever an opportunit[y]
offers. when this blow is struk It will be Terrible to all
May God forbid that shch such a blow should fall at all, that the
scenes of Bloody Brook should any more be enacted.
American citizens it is to ward of this blow that I now stand
before you, That I now call upon this Nation bearing a petition
unto them. Will you hear my prayer. Will you give the
Indian his rights. Will you help bury the hate hat forever
or will you make a grave to bury your dead I leave you to DECIDE
The following is A true copy of the Petition
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives
The memorial of the undersigned citizens and Residence of the United
States Most Respectfully showeth
That the present state of the Indian Tribes within the jusrisdiction
of the United States and the continant of North America is
a subject worthy of the consideration of evry Christian and
philanthropist in this union. That if by any practical method
these Aboriginal and Primitive owners of the soil can be civillized
and incorporated into the body politic as enlightend and useful
citizens no time should be lost in making the attempt.
The rapid advancing spirit of the age presents this subject before
Congress as indispensible to be acted upon now. With this subject in
view and with earnest prayer to Almighty God to enlighten your councils
on this momentous subject we the under signed present the cause
of the Indians to the earnest consideration of your Honorable Body
praying that such means may be spedily adopted that will give to the
Red Man a permanent home and all the Arts conveniences and com-
forts of civillized life. To this end we pray that A sufficent portion of the
great North Western Territory may be appropriated to this use for the
reception & consentration of such of the Indian Tribes as may Be willing to become agricult-
urist and recieve from the hands of the white man a sound ysystem of moral & intellectual
training. The land so appropriated to be erected into an Indian District subject to such form of
goverment & such laws as Congress may deem consistant with the constitution & laws of the United States
Mr Copway remarked to W. Woodruff in personal conversation
That He had long contemplated the situation of the poor Indians and
he well knew their position and feelings and if the United States
did not soon take a different course and scease their persecutions
and oppressions and driving the Indians to such extremities as they
were doing that the Indians would soon rise up in their wrath
unite together and seek revenge and strike a Blow unto death And
it was in consequence of a knowledge of this fact that had inspired
him to go through the United States call meetings and lecture
before the people and strive to call the attention of the white man
to use his influence to assist in staying this spirit of oppression against
the Indian. But I meet with but little success the Christians of
this day manifest but little sympathy with me. I was a while with
the Methodist and If I would confine myself with there doctrines they
would help me but the moment that I wanted my liberty to bee free
and act independantly they would forsake me but I am tired of such
bigotry I am resolved to do all in my power to call upon the people and
Government that my garments may be clear in trying to ward off the
blow which I know will come if the people of the United States
do not scease their oppressions And when it does come I had rather
not be alive than to see what will follow. But if they will not harken
to my petition nor to the cry of the Indians I am as ready to die at
the cannons mouth as any whare els I will go before Congress and
talk plain before them And tell them that I want them to do sumthing
with me for the Indians that we have bourn affliction & oppression
from the hand of the people of the United States all the day long
and it is time it was stoped. The world have accused us of being
connected with the Mormons to overthrow the Government I shall
tell them it is false there has been no such combination at all
but I shall tell them the Indians have treated the India white
men well. And so have the Mormons thereated the Indians
well And the People of the United States And even have fed
their enemies And helped them while in distress in the willder
ness. The Mormons have never given the waIndians any council
to go to war with the whites or with themselves but always have coun
cilled them to make peace. This principle I shall declare upon the
floor of the Halls of Congress. But says this Lamanite Chief
If this Nation does not hear us, does not help us does not cease therir
oppression still we have hope for the Great SPIRIT will at
last both Hear Help and Deliver us For as A people we shall not
die. for If the Lord has to raise us up help out of the Rocky Mountains
that Help will arrise which will both save us and do us GOOD
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Views of Col. Thomas L. Kane on a Government for Deseret
Nov 26th 1849 In company with Dr J. M. Bernhisel I called upon
Col Kane to have an interview with him In Relation to petitioning Congress
for the reception of the State of Deseret into the Union
The following is a synopsis of the conversation of Col Kane
You must not commit yourselves to any party but keep a close
mouth with all parties and the utmost discreet and wise course must
be pursued in order to do any thing at all. I will do what I can
with the free soil party. My Father and Mr Dallest with the Democ-
rats. It will be the most critical Congress ever held. "I Applyed
according to the wish of President Young for a Territorial Gove-
rnment I had my last sad and Painful interview with Presi-
dent Polk I found He did not feel disposed to favor your
people and had his men of his own stamp picked out to serve
as Govornor & other officers who would have oppressed You
or injured you in any way to fill their own Pockets He would not
appoint men from among yourselves. And I saw it absolutely
necessary that you should have officers of your own people to govern
you or you were better without any Government I had to use my
own discretion and I withdrew the Petition I am fully decided
upon that point that you must have officers of yourselves &
not military Polititcians who are struting around in your midst
usurping Authority over you. It will not do for you to take the
slavery opquestion or Antislavery or any other side but the nutral.
Atchinson of Missouri with the Mormon opposing party will still be
your enemies Thomas Benton has been an inveterate enemy and
still may be. And all the Parties with the whole of Congress is a mass
of corruption & abomination they are all governed by party manage-
ment without any regard to principle & if we do any thing upon
this subject we shall have to enter into wise Management we
may have to favor the South some though they are your enemies
and I hate to do it. Parties are all breaking up and New ones
forming and no man can tel what a day will bring forth.
Thomas Benton was at the Head of your being driven from
Winter Quarters the Indian country and Polk favored it and
I could not turn them from their purpose I told Mr Polk we
should not present any Petition while He dictated matters.
Benton is still your enemy at heart.
Douglass is going down
with a certain class connected with him. The time was when
He could have done your People much good by merely bearing
his Testimony of your good character while He was as Judge in
Illinoise and He would not do it (Let this be remembered)
Col Kane remarked that from the acquaintance I have had with Mr
B [blank] I Apprehend entertain serious apprehentions that He will by his
course at Washington injure your cause. He was formerly a small
politition but a rough one of the Missouri stamp and this in my view
to some extent would disqualify him for the business Besides He expressed
a want of confidence in his wisdom prudence and discretion to
manage this affair and that He would associate with an inferior
class of men in the lower House which would also exhert a prejudi-
cal effect upon our cause
The following remarks were made By Col Kane to W Woodruff Dec 4th 1849
Col Kane remarked You are better without any Government from
the hands of Congress than a Territorial Goverment. The Political
intreagues of Government officers will be against you. You can govern
yourselves better than they can govern you. I would prefer to
see you withdraw the Bill than to have a Territorial Government
for if you are defeated in the State Government you can fall
upon it again at another session if you are not a Territorial
Government but if you are you cannot apply for a state Government
for a number of years. I insist upon it you do not want
corurupt Political men from Washington strutting around
you with military epilets & dress, who will speclate out of you
all they can. They will also control the Indian Agency land
Agency and will conflict with your calculation in a great
measure. You do not want two Governments with you you have
a Government now which is firm & Powerful and You are
under no obligations to the United States You owe them
nothing but kicks cuffs and the treatments of wicked dogs
for that is the ownly treatment you have recieved from their
hands since you have been a People. ("And the golden rule is what
measure men meet out shall be measured to them again") [Matthew 7:2]
Brigham Young should be your Govornor. His head is not
filled with Law Books and Lawyieers tactics but he has power to
see through men & things And all councillors Elders & agents abroad
should be made to know their place, sustain the head man & work
for the general good in all things and not act from selfish motives
or to get some petty office or a little salary. He said if we you did make
up our minds to ask for a Territory we should use evry exhertion
in our power to get the assureance of the President that our
choice should be granted us in a Govornor & other offices say
Brigham Young for Govornor &c But if we could not get
this assurance not to ask for it at all but wait the result
He said If we were a state, there might be ever so many
men come along and say I am Judge, I am Col, I am Gen
You can whistle and ask no odds of them. But while a Territory
You cannot do it. And then their is always so many intrigues
to make political parties among you. the first thing you know
A strong political party is rising up in your midst who are selfish
and against your interest.
Col Kane requested me to remember
what He had said to me as He might not have hea[l]th to do for us
what he was now doing And He wished his views to be known
to the Presidency in the valley. I remarked to him that I would
do so and pray for his success in our behalf also for his hea[l]th strength
& prosperity. He thanked me & said He should prize our prayers
Highly.
I felt impressed that Col Kane was endowed with much wisdom
in his course in our be half and I think that He had right views
of things in General
Signs of the times and remarks upon the year AD. 1849
The narrative of the year 1849 forms A remarkable chapter in the History
of the world. perhaps no single year has embraced a greater number
of important events or involved so great & lasting consequences in such
a variety of relations. The overthrow of the Sikhs the esstablishment of
the British Power on the ruins of the Sikh dynasty the deposition of the pope
the declaration of the Roman Republic and its early extintion by the French
intervention & the struggles in sardinia, the movements of the people in Jerm-
any; the contest between the Danes and Jermans; the intervention of Russia
in Hungaryian affairs; the fall of Hundgary; the overthrow of Venice and
the movements in the national mind of France on social question are all
pregnant with vast Results Also the passing of the Bill in the British Parliament
on the 23rd of Feb granting to Jews the right to seats in the Parliament of Great
Britiain is one strong omien of the redemption of that peculiar people. These
in connexion with storms, whirlwinds, earthquakes, fires and the most desola
ting pestilence & Plagues which has swept over Europe & eastern world shows
clearly to the reflecting mind who has any portion of the Testimony of Jesus Christ
that the Great God has commenced his controversy with all Nations and that
Great Babylon is coming in Rememberance befor God. And when we turn our
attention to the western Hemisphere the United States of America, any
true seer might Justly say that notwithstanding thy Nation O Land
like the Antedeluvian world & Sodom & Gomorrow boast of their union strength
goodness greatness & glory. Yet it is here that I behold the signs of the
times big with events. it is here that I behold the clouds thicken the
Heavens gather Blackness, And the wrath of God ready to fall upon they head
for thou aret worthy. Notwithstanding O America thou art blowing aloud
thy trumpet of fame & honor to all the world in sympathizing with Cossuth
and other Brave Hungarians and offering a Home to the oppressed of
All nations. Still thou art the man who dare commit the blackest
deeds of the Earth. It is here the God of Heaven has commenced to set
up his kingdom and offered thee the gospel of Jesus Christ to save
the from the wrath of God. It is here whare that kingdom & gospel has
been rejected first. It is here whare Presidents Govornors Judges
and rulers of the Land with thousands of the people have brocken the
laws & Constitution of the United States and the several states by turning
mob And persecuting many of their own citizens who were the Saints
of God, have deprived them of the rigths of citizenship, burned their
goods & dwellings taken some of them proisiooners held mock trials over
them by a mob Jury who were their Jury by Day & guard by night who
would pour whiskey down each others throats And then God Dam
God, And Jesus Christ the Holy Ghost, And evry religious sect they could
think of & close their songs twith the words God Dam the God dDam Mormons
then would imprision the saints in chains and feed them on Human
flesh, And finally murdered many of the Saints with the Phrophets
whom God hath sent unto them to call them to repentance And when those
persecuted American cities pled at the feet of the Presidents Govornors
and Judges of the Nation, they have been rejected & ridiculed while at the
same time they have in some instances been informed that there cause was
Just. And even down to the present day evry Petition presented by the
Saints of God who have been driven into the wilderness by the cruel hand
hand of oppression is rejected in evry possible way Because of these
things the Lord hath said that He will arise out of his Hiding place
and in his fury He will vex the Nation And in his Hot displeasure
will cut off those wicked and unjust stewards and Appoint them
Portion with Hypocrites & unbelievers. One glance at the signs of
1849 in the United States will show that the Lord has commenced
to fulfill his promise And He will not scease untill it is finished
There has never been A year since the esstablishment of the Usnited
States Government, when there has been so great a loss of property
& life by fire & Pestilence, or such an increase of mobs or confusion
and Perplexity in the Government as in 1849. Among the most desolat-
ing fires may be named the burning of Watertown on Sunday the 13th of
April $121,000 worth of property destroyed. five days after on the 18 of April
the tremendious conflagration at St Louis more than half the business part
of the city was burned $6000000 worth of property destroyed. The
Plague also in the form of the cholera visited the same city soon after
the fire and in few weeks laid in the grave 8000 of its inhabitants the
cholera ahas also swept many thousand into the grave in various parts of
the United States. it has raged through most parts of the land during the
past season. Mobs have also increased to an alarming degree in the United
States, in New York, Philedelphia, & Portland. they have been very consp-
icuous. The desolution of the American Union also seems to be fast
ripening during the past year. the slavery question seems to be the great
Hinge upon which the Nation will split At the meeting of Congress
the House spent 18 days in organizing the House & electing the speaker
which cost the Goverment near $100000. And it continues to be one
of the most exciting Congresses ever met in the United States And
if the war spirit now visible in the midst of Congress continues
to increase It is quite probable that the union may be dissolved before
the close of this session. Although many editors of the public Journals
have ridiculed for several years the Idea of the Dividing of the American
Uninson but this year thisey feel vary serious upon the subject And all the
signs of the times in this government indicate that the hand writing
upon the wall is begining to be visibly seen concerning the fate of
this Nation.
When we turn our eyes towards Zion during the year 1849 we can
behold the hand of the Lord also visible in her behalf The Lord hath
promised great Blessings concerning Zion And the faithful Saints are watching
all signs appertaining to her with feelings of the deepest interest. for years past
Zion has been oppressed and as a captive removeing to and fromo but she has
finally found a resting place in the rich valleys of Ephraim in the great Bason
between the High Mountains & everlasting Hills of North America And during
the year 1849 she has organized herself unto an Indipendant sovreign state
And appointed her Governor & Nobles of themselves, so that Her Nobles are
of themselves & her Govornor has proceded out of the midst of Ephraim [Jeremiah 30:21]
in Zion She has prospered more than during any year since her
organization She is rapidly building up a city in peace, has good crops, universal
Health, has made Arangements to lay of three New cities. Has re-organized her
marshal Legion of mighty men. 100 families have gone 200 miles south to
form A settlement under the Presidency of Bishop Morley in the sand
Pitch valley. The Church during this years haves laid the foundation for
a fund called the perpetual fund the object of which is to gather
unto Zion all the poor Saints who cannot gather themselves from
Council Bluffs, the United States And from all the world expect-
ing it to increase yearly untill all Israel is gatherd this fund is esstablished
by voluntary contributions of the Saints $5,500 was collected in the valley
in this way in one month And Bishop Edward Hunter was sent to
Council Bluffs with the money to buy oxen to take up the poor from
there to the valley the coming spring. The Elders of Israel are also
determined to send the gospel to all the world as soon as possible
All of the Apostles who were in the valley have had missions
assigned them. Brigham Young, Heber C kimball, & Willard Richards
compose the first Presidency. Orson Hyde the President of the Twelve
the following are the full quorum of the present Twelve, Orson Hyde
Parley P. Pratt Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George A.
Smith, Amasa Lyman, Charles Ezra T. Benson Charles C Rich
Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, & Franklin D Richards. Orson
Hyde is publishing the Guardian & presiding at Council Bluffs
Parley P. Pratt is Appointed to preside over the Pacific Islands
Orson Pratt is doing a great work in England some ten or
twelve thousand have been baptized under his Presidency
During 1849. Wilford Woodruff has been presiding over the
Eastern States & Canidas & has travelled over 5000 miles among
the churches And is now called upon to gather the remnants
to Zion George A. Smith And Ezra T. Benson has led a camp of
the Saints from the Bluffs to the valley through many dangers
Amasa Lyman & Charles C Rich Are at San Francisco
presiding over western Calafornia. John Taylor Lorenzo
Snow, Erastus Snow, & Franklin D. Richards with about 20
Elders have arived in the States from the valley on mission
to England, France Italy Denmark & Sweden so evry thing
is prospering in the Church & kingdom of God And All the
signs of the Times bespeak the comping of the Lord Jesus Christ
What 1850 will bring to pass time must determin but it
is certain it will be full of the events of the times. The History
of each year is important now Plagues, war, fire & Pestilence &
famine will lay many low in death: who will live. I am expecting
to start in April to lead A company to the Bluffs & on to the valley
the dangers are many I shall have to go through. But I pray
my Heavenly Father to protect & sustain me & those who shal
go with me that we may reach in safety. I Also pray to the Lord
to preserve & bless the Twelve And all the Elders of Israel who
go on foreign missions. And Bless the Presidency with the power
of God, & cause Zion to arise And put on her beautiful garments [Doctrine and Covenants 82:14]
I pray that the oppressions of Zion may scease that her inhabita-
nts may have power to build Houses & inhabit them plant
vineyards and eat the fruit thereof. I Pray that her land may
be like the Garden of the Lord that she may have the early &
latter rain that the Land may bring forth ofin her stregngth.
O, Lord order our cause aright which is before the Congress of
this Nation may all things work together for the good of thisy
Saints, preserve us all from evil of evry kind and help us to do
thy will in all things on the Earth. O Lord Hasten the gathering of
Israel, who are cast out And the dispersed of Judagh may the
Lamanites soon blossom like the rose. [Doctrine and Covenants 49:24] May the Zion of God who has risen
and gone up into the mountains be clothed upon with wrighteousness
And the power of God. May the Church become prepared like a
bride prepared for the coming of the Bridegoroom And myay they
people not ownly have cause to rejoice in the Holy oOne of Israel
during the AD 1850 But through all time And All eternity
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| I Travelled through eleven of the United States and New Brunswick Miramichi, and Prince Edwards Island During the year 1849 Total distance Travelled | 5040 | Miles |
| I held public meetings | 92 | Meetings |
| I Baptized | 11 | persons |
| I confirmed | 21 | persons |
| | ||
| I ordained Ezra Carter my Father in Law | 1 | patriarch |
| Elders | 4 | Elders |
| High Priest | 1 | High Priest |
| Blest | 11 | children |
| Administered unto sick persons | 47 | Persons |
| I Wrote | 202 | Letters |
| I Received | 156 | Letters |
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