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Day in the Life

Jan 16, 1856

Journal Entry

January 16, 1856 ~ Wednesday

16th I spent the day in Joint session which was the last days
business in the Legislature we done a great deal of business it continued
untill in the night. we had a speech delivered in the Afternoon
[FIGURE] from Canosh the Chief of the Parvan[t]s the following are sum
of the remarks which He made.


I am just begining to get my eyes open I [k]now that President Youngs
talk is good what He says is so. He tells us more good I am like the sun
just rising in the East & so with my people we have been in the night
I have had Eyes but I could not see, & ears but I could not hear
& this has been the case with my people our hearts could not understand
but now our eyes see, our hears hear, & our hearts understand, all that
Brigham & Heber has said is strait. But when I talked to Col
Steptoe & his men their talk was not strait. I could not believe for
a tenth part of their talk is not true & so with the spanyards & all
white people till I saw the mormons they are the first to tell me the
truth. You are here to make laws I hope you will make good
laws to punish the guilty & spare the innocent. I wish to do right
& have my people do right. I do not want them to steal nor kill
I want to plant & raise wheat & learn to plough & it isdo as the white
people do this I am going to do in the spring. I want to learn to
read & right & have my children so we can understand what you say
to us that is good

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
On the in the afternoon K^a^nosh delivered to us a speech The following are some of his remarks "I am just beginning to get my eyes open I know that President Young's talk is good. What he says is so. He tells us more good. I am like the sun just rising in the East and so with my people. We have been in the night. I have had eyes but I could not see and ears but I could not hear; and this has been the case with
Letter from Ilus Fabyan Carter, 16 January 1856
Portland Dear Brother & Sister Really after so long a time I recd a letter from brother Wilford today via California, a long route and a long time coming. I was very glad to hear from you and that you are all so well. If for the best, hope your crops may be better another year, should they fail you are a long ways from a market. How pleasant it must be for you to have such fine fruit as you raise there, and you must know how to appreciate having been deprived of it so long. I should like very much to have a few of your fine Peaches and Grapes when ripe. The crops with us the past season were very abundant, probably never more than two thirds as much ever raised in one year as there was the last year and still provisions one high, owing in part to the trouble in Europe, which continues, but we hope there is some prospect of peace. If the money that has been expended to destroy people there had been used for the purchase of Bibles to distribute with the destitute, there would be less human misery than there now is, no doubt. The end is not yet England and France may get into a quarrel, and if so, the result will be disastrous. the pride of those nations are ^is^ so great, that neither of them would be willing to yield.

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1856 - 1861
Wilford serves on Board of Directors of Deseret Agriculture and Manufacturing Society.

Jan 16, 1856